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Ethan Harper
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Posts: 325
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-24-2001 10:57 AM
wwwaaazzzuuupp!!!
Yo G. dis phlick be da tight dope bomb word. it be tha phiggidy whiggidy whack bomb of the millenium. I be gettin my move on wit my honeys in dat one yo. Shout out to my peeps yall in tha house. Big Pimpin yall. It be phat collecting them stacks of plaques from tha fast cats gettin there groove on wit da madfresh Pimpin wheels on da road. It was oldskool yo. Liscence to drive be ill dog compared to this mad phat chick magnet phlick ta dao. So you best check yo self before you wreckity wreck yo self fool and get your chill on wit my main man master m.c. Cohen and kick back wit Da Phat and da Phurious. Yo It be da madcore fresh superfly jiggy wit it pimpin mutha tight dope phiggidy whiggidy whack stack full of catz mac daddy bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yay bling bling you know what I mean g fresh rollin wheelz on philm. Other rides just be a trick. Dis phlick iz 2 LEGIT 2 QUIT son! It be PHATASTIC! aigght! word peace out.
Quick shout out to Dwayne and Joe. Mad Propz to yall yo. Waaazzzuuuppp!!! ------------------
--"That's my story and i'm sticking to it!"--
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Will Kutler
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1506
From: Tucson, AZ, USA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 06-27-2001 03:00 PM
This movie brings back some memories for me! The Desert Wars scene was filmed at Norton AFB, CA, which was my first duty assignment and which I helped close. This was a C-141 base (I was a Crew-Chief). Those big hangars were our heavy maintenance docks, and about a year before closure, Lockheed purchased about half the hangar space and converted it to a civilian airliner heavy maintenance facility. About this time, PAN-AM had gone belly-up, and parts of the flightline were a storage facility for their 747s. The racing scenes were filmed on the ramp, and flightline. What is funny was during this time there was in fact a LOT OF ILLEGAL STREET RACING going on at Ontario-a few miles away off I-10. Any U.S.A.F. personnel cought at these races was subject to Courts Martial irregardless of whether or not you were racing! I guess Norton is now called San Bernardino Airport (according to the closing credits). Gosh-the stories I have about Norton! The shit that went on in the barracks would make a college frat house look like a bunch of amatures!-NO SHIT! Porkey's and Fast Times look out!San Bernardino also hosts an awsome annual Route 66 ralley and show, which is kind of like Hot August Nights in Reno, Nevada. A few years ago, they were trying to locate the cars from American Graffitti. Not that I am into cars or anything - BABY is a '65Falcon 289... The movie was soso and full of B.S.! Nothing more than an overglorified advertisement for NOS systems and foreign rice rockets!
I had a good laugh a while back when 48Hours or 60 Minutes(?) had a story about illegal street racing in Canada. One of the Dip@#%^*(,
that they featured, who thought he was a real badass, spent some major $$ on a rice rocket and went to have it dyno tested. Well, the engine blew apart on the tester and never even saw a race! Also, on the 10:00 news the other night, there was a story about a couple of illegal street racers on the east coast who crashed and burned (died).
Their race was linked to this movie.
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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 07-16-2001 11:18 AM
Sorry, Brad. This is a real summer movie.None of that highfalutin' artsy stuff -- just pure pleasure all the way through. If you sit through the end credits as I do you even get a last surprise scene a la Spy Kids. See it -- it's GREAT! BTW, I have an Oscar nomination already -- Vin Diesel for best actor!
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Charles Everett
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Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 07-19-2001 06:33 PM
"Those jokes in the post above were more entertaining than the entire film."What jokes? From the first time I saw the trailer I knew this movie would be a smash!  You can't say that about too many movies these days. It's also turned a profit on its US release alone. My take on this $100M+ hit is the same then and the same now: See it -- it's GREAT!
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Bob Ferreira
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From: Conway NH USA
Registered: Jul 1999
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posted 08-29-2001 11:23 PM
To anyone who likes cars and hot girls (like Jordana Brewster, who gets nakey for a split second) this movie is killer, but to anyone else, it really is a dud. Although it played at my theatre for roughly 3 weeks and then left, it did some phenomenal business, mostly with the teenage crowd like myself. Although i don't find muscle cars and SS's that much to mull over. The plot of the movie was so predictable i almost wanted to cry, and the acting really bites. Also, too many kids across the country getting hurt and dying because they think they are Paul Walker or Vin Diesel. What a bunch of morons. Also, the damn 1 1/2 minute thing at the end of the credits was so damn annoying, and pointless. Like we needed a reiteration of Vin saying that he "lives his life a 1/4 mile at a time"? Damn, i was so sick of that.I wish that the studio had left it with the original R rating with the nudity and violence, and that hint of the "F" word that can obviously been seen at least twice in the film dubbed over. I suppose though that the revenue would have been a lot less had it been R rated and the gaggles of 16 year old and 17 year old boys couldn't have seen it 34 times... Over all ***(3) out of *****(5)
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John Wilson
Film God
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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-30-2001 01:19 AM
>>I find it interesting that the post was directed at me when I am not the only person on this thread who thought it was crap.<<Chalk me up for Brad's team on this one too. Vin Diesel for best actor??? What's next...Best Screenplay?  Maybe the Golden rasberries but the oscars??? That would be a great big negative on that one...
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