| Author | Message | ||
     Firstbuell |
this from the Laguna Seca eletter: ".....Tom Cruise is set to star in the film adaptation of "Go Like Hell", a book written by Playboy auto columnist, A.J. Baime, and will play the late Carroll Shelby....." | ||
| Oldog |
Kewl! might be worth watching..... | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Come on Goose - Talk to me. | ||
| Bads1 |
No it no good its no good. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
What's he gonna do? wear lots of padding & walk on stilts? Caroll Shelby was a BIG man & Tom Cruise... well you can call him a lot of things but big isn't one of them. I suppose they could cast a load of dwarves (oops sorry can't say that), or vertically challenged actors as the supporting cast & use 3/4 scale models. | ||
| D_adams |
Same thing with Reacher. I will not watch it because of cruise. Loved all 16 or 17 Jack Reacher books, but cruise is just too dammm little to play a 6'5" 250 lb a$$ kicker. | ||
| Rick_a |
Uh, that's classified. | ||
| Teeps |
It's amazing what can be done with camera angles and CGI... | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
True, my imagination has it's limits though. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
What do you know about muscle cars....? Well I have seen them on Speed TV; you can learn alot from the coverage..... | ||
| Aaron_thomas |
@ D adams I am also a fan of the Jack Reacher books. I watched the flick with tom Cruise. Was severly disappointed. Not that true to the stories and of course the obvious size thing. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
The Jack Reacher film was on a flight I took earlier this year, I gave up on it about half way in & flipped to something else, it was that crap. Have to confess I've not read any of the books though. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
There were a couple of scenes in the Reacher film that are very appropriate to the malaise that we are currently under. 'We take what we take, because it is there for the taking - it is what we do. " that should be on damn near every politicians re-election poster.... 'They are like a disease, always surrounded in corruption, they build bridges that nobody wants, highways that nobody needs' again see the above. 'Look at them, how many of them would do what they do know - knowing what I do - do you see any of them living 'freedom'? they are strapped to their desks, tied to their lives by mortgages, bills, and debt - unable to walk away' (that last one is paraphrased, but it is when the Audi is outside the office and Cruise is peering into the adjacent office) pointed stuff. if you see the game for what it is.... you won't play it. (the movie was cheesy- but it led me to read the book) | ||
| Coxster |
In defense of Mr Cruise: he once held an amateur record at a road course in one of Paul Newman's Nissans. He also plays Jack Reacher who is over 6' and blond in the books : ) on a distantly related note - I often tell my friends the tuber Buells are the 2-wheel versions of a Shelby Cobra | ||
| Whisperstealth |
I read most of the Reacher books and resolved not to watch the movie because of Tom Cruise NOT being anywhere near Reacher proportions. - Then went ahead and watched the movie anyway just for the hell of it. If you separate the movie from the books, it wasn't that bad a movie. Probably be the same for the Shelby move... | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Personally I find I can suspend disbelief for fictional characters or even historical ones, but Carroll Shelby is a well documented filmed & photographed contemporary person. I just couldn't watch it without it annoying the **** out of me. I have the same problem with tv & movies here in France, I can't watch stuff made in English & then dubbed in French as I know they don't sound like that. |
