Originally posted by rallygirl
I'm not even going to say what I thought of The Fast & The Furious 
I watched about 5 minutes and that was it!!!
While doing some shopping last night I spotted a boxed set of DVDs with "A Collection of 10 Classic Movies" for $Aus9.99. A dollar per movie. Even I could afford that! Especially as one of them was "The Fast and The Furious", one motor racing movie that I had never seen. I had to have it.
Storyline: Unbelievably bad, REALLY unbelievably bad!
Cast: Well below average.
Acting: Atrocious.
Driving: Pitiful.
It's the sort of thing a bunch of motor racing enthusiasts could sit and watch together after having had a few beers and laugh themselves silly.
However... there are some interesting cars. Jaguar XK120s are thick on the ground, that of the villain who turns out to be the hero having only an aero screen instead of the full windscreen, and knock-off wire wheels.
There also is an Austin-Healey 100/4, Nash-Healey, Jowett Jupiter, Triumph TR2 - all of which dice together all the way (???) in a race that appears to be from California to Mexico.
At one point, after two XK120s dice wheel to wheel and side by side for what seems like forever, one of them is delayed for a considerable time, then catches up again in minutes. That would be impressive, except it is overshadowed by the heroine, who gives both of them a 10 or 20 minutes start, borrows an Allard J2, and catches up - driving in a dress and without a helmet!
I didn't actually sit down and watch the movie, I was packing for a trip while it was on, so missed large lumps. But there was a Concours d'Elegance at what appears to be Pebble Beach - possibly filmed at the real event, or a fairly reasonable imitation thereof. Quite a few interesting cars to spot. There also is some real driving (though probably set up) of a whole bunch of cars not in the race to Mexico, around a tree-lined road circuit. There's even the odd Italian etceterini in there, C-type Jaguar (maybe two) etc. More good car spotting to be done in those scenes.
And where was Hans Etzrodt when I needed him? There also was a race for... I am trying to think of the term they used, they treated it as a joke, but there were 10 or 12 pre-WW I grand prix type cars that looked like the real deal.
What a shame you can't do fast forward, fast reverse, slow motion etc on DVDs. To hell with the plot, there would be hours of fun identifying cars in this movie.
I got more than $1 worth of value out of it already. It's in black and white, by the way, and the movie appears to have been copied from a copy from a... and the villain/hero's (actually the lady's) Jag is white, so it occasionally "disappears" into white backgrounds.
Now, to see if I get $1 value each out of "Carnival Story" (Anne Baxter); three Sherlock Holmes movies, "The Road to Bali", "Penny Serenade", Abbott and Costello do "Jack and the Beanstalk", Alfred Hitchcock's "Blackmail", and Edward G Robinson in "Scarlett Street".
My bet is they were/are all duds. But what do you expect for a dollar each?
Starring David Carradine as "Dr. Frankenstein", Sylvester Stallone 
