Friday, September 15, 2017

A few musclecars in movies that I missed...

After the last post some people told me about a few musclecars and movies they appeared in that i missed. #1. 1963-65 Buick Riviera. Patrick Swayze drove two of these in "Road House" a red one and a white one-because he didn't want his 380SEC Mercedes trashed. It's kind of a running joke through the film. Nicholas Cage drove a primer black one in the opening of "Drive Angry".  #2. 1967-68 Mercury Cougar. Mickey Rourke and friends drove one of these in "Desparate Hours"-a stinker about a hostage situation. The high point of the film is Rourke's escape from the courthouse when his attorney / lover-the smokin' hot Kelly Lynch-with her hands hancuffed behind her back loses her fur coat and gets her blouse ripped-exposing her awesome breasts on the courthouse lawn. Except for a brief scene of a barefoot Mimi Rogers in a skimpy bathrobe-the rest of the movie sucks. The action is tepid and dialogue overlong as they try to show what an evil genius Rourke is, and how equally smart Anthony Hopkins ( Rogers' estranged husband ) is. Ho-Hum. And they drove the nice Cougar into the lake.  George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino drove one in "From Dusk til Dawn". An action / horror flick about prison escapees who run into a coven of vampires on their way to mexico. Tarantino's buddy Robert Rodriguez- "Desparado" "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" directed-but you definitely see QT's influence. Over the top action, laugh out loud one-liners and a bikini-clad Salma Hayek "forcing" QT to drink tequila off her bare foot are some of the highlights. Great fun for a mindless action / horror / black comedy. # 3. 1969 Ford Torino. Aaron Paul-the worst actor on the planet-I don't know how he got his breakout gig on "Breaking Bad"-plays an auto customizer / race car driver who goes to prison when someone dies in an illegal street race-and he WASN'T driving the car!!!  One of many plot holes that you can drive a semi through in "Need for Speed". Anyhow in an early 4-way street race with other musclecars he drives a nice '69 Torino Cobra. The movie sucks ass-and his totally wooden performance doesn't help. He shows more emotion running on the treadmill in the ads he does for "Vitamin Water". Seriously.  Jason Statham drives one in "Wildcard" a stinker-about a professional bodyguard who goes on a rampage of vengenance after gangsters rape and nearly kill his hooker friend. It's a stinker because it's a remake of "Heat" which was made in 1986 and starred Burt Reynolds as the bodyguard, and it was a stinker. The Torino GT is cool however.  # 4. 1969 Nova. Kurt Russel drove one in "Death Proof". ( The early part of the film; the '69 Charger came later ). I can't remember the actor's name-but a gorgeous black '69 Nova SS gets wrecked in "Final Destination". Or Final Destination 2. One of the horror flicks about teens who get off a plane that crashes and then die gruesomely in later accidents. The Nova and the smokin' hot Ali Larter are the highlights. # 5. 1973 Charger. Ray Liotta drives one in "Unlawful Entry" a stupid stalker flick about a cop who gets obsessed with a married woman. Madeline Stowe is definitely worth obsessing over-but the plot is stupid, and the usually reliable Kurt Russel-this is Snake Plissken-from "Escape from New York" and "Cash" from "Tango&Cash", and Wyatt Fucking Earp for god's sake- "Tombstone" remember-is awful as her pussy husband-who provokes Liotta's psycho cop unnecessarily to set the whole mess off.  The Charger is cool though. It's a TV show-but USA Network's spy series "Burn Notice" has Jeffrey Donovan driving a black '73 Charger with Cragar S/S mags on it.  Thanks to the people who pointed these out and send more if you think of them. Mastermind

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