Let's Ride!

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He said this will be great.

We will enjoy it.

Big stars!!

“YAY!” sez I.

It seems I am easy to entertain. Or foolish.

Here goes:
About a month ago I DVR’d “VIVA, Knievil”

The utter crappiness of it. The kitzchy fun. Yeah, ok.
Good times!

Picture this, 70s vibe, Huge shirt collars, . Big hair, Gremlin cars, and some I couldn’t name. Did I say huge shirt collars. Wings, I tell you. Wings!

Now. Look there are big stars in this flick.
Gene Kelly
Lauren Hutton
Red Buttons
Leslie Neilson
Dabney Coleman
Frank Gifford

Probably others.
Oh how could I forget, Evel, himself.

The movie coulda been funny.

Nope. They played it serious.
I won’t give plot away(heh).

But believe me, it was weak at best. Mostly a flop.

There were motorcycle rides and a trick or 3. A magnificent car chase at the end.
Some percieved violence.

A sweet romantic thread of a love story(I can imagine all the 13 yo boys in the 70s booing at that).

But, not done yet.
There was this creepy subplot of a young boy coming to Evels travelling garage van saying Gene Kelly was his dad. And Evel deciding he would groom the boy. “COME TO MY VAN” I swear these words were spoken.

I know, different time. But, I couldn’t NOT see or hear it.

And, of course Gene Kelly, all of 80+ yo. Rides a trick bike. Yeah, right.
Wasn’t he a dancer?

(I’m not at all sure if I’m spelling Evel Knievals name correctly, nope not looking it up)

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I sodding DID NOT!

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umm. :upside_down_face:

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He was only 75! And, yes, he was an outstanding dancer.

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I really knew he was a dancer.

I just can’t, for the life of me, figure out why he was in this sad movie.

I have to say, I enjoyed watching it. I don’t know why.

A hoot.

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My suspicion: either he needed the money, or he was friends with one of the executive producers. Or, maybe, he just liked working.

By the '70s, he wasn’t getting many movie roles any more, and was also doing a lot of TV.

And, remember, three years after Viva Knievel!, he starred in one of the biggest flops in modern movie history: Xanadu. (Though, I admit, I love that movie, for all its flaws. It’s a big lovely hunk of cheese.)

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We’ll always have Leo.

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And Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Man, we watch some Shit!

But both were better than Mean Streets.

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Your title for this thread was bad bad bad.

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I do believe Evel cried those very words out to Gene Kelly right before the spectacular car chase involving Semi, Porsche and the 2 amazing street/dirt/trick jump bikes. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

I love how it ended in a Mexican villiage and they tore the whole place up.