Car chases can also be enhanced by the miracle of the Automobile Radio, which can be turned on by the Bad Guys as the exact instant when news of their exploit is being broadcast to a terror-stricken city. (If, just once, they would have to sit through three minutes of commercials first . . .)
For a variation, we have Back to the Future, in which the car radio is turned on at the exact instant when a particular sports score is being announced.
What about motorcycle gangs? Nude, zombie, motorcycle gangs, with Quint as the rebellious leader, who falls in love with an Asian librarian girl with glasses whose grandfather is a ninja mob boss in a Godzilla-ravaged Tokyo.
It sounds good, but where’s the leather-clad badass girl?
Maybe this isn’t the best thing for movies in general, but robots provided employment opportunities for mediocre actors of all shapes and sizes.
I vote for foley. Any movie scene is immediately improved with the following:
Tire squeal
Bullet ricochet
“Meatslap” fist punch
Include those in Schindler’s List, and you wouldn’t even need Nazis.
Polarity: the duct tape of science fiction. Got a technological problem? Throw 'er in reverse!
Yes, can you imagine:
“Dammit! My car won’t start!”
“Why don’t you switch the positive and negative terminals?”
“Good thinking!”
Vrooooooooom
And the Nazis.
Amon Goeth was just as nasty in real life as he was in the movie. In fact, he was nastier in real life. The movie toned him down.
He was portrayed as entirely insane, and therefore not responsible for his own actions. If that’s toned down, whatever.
What, specifically, makes you think he’s portrayed as “insane”, as in “not legally responsible for his actions”?
I’d love to discuss this movie, but maybe in its own thread. In any case, I don’t expect to talk anyone into hating a universally loved movie; I’m only sharing my own opinion of it.
Jeffrey Dahmer acted in a manner that most of us would consider crazy (if killing 17 people, cannibalizing and doing weird sexual stuff with the bodies isn’t what a crazy person would do, then I don’t know what is). But the court rejected his insanity defense.
Similarly, Amon Goeth as portrayed in Schindler’s list acted really fucking crazy, but I never got the sense that he was unable to understand his actions.
Kroenen from Hellboy was the greatest thing ever to happen to movies: frankly, what film wouldn’t be improved by an undead Nazi clockwork cyborg ninja assassin?
Plastic surgery.
No one has mentioned cowboys, vampires, apocalyptic scenarios, the"gay", wizards or magic, exotic locales so far…
Gay cowboy zombies ride dinosaurs ina battle with vampire nazis on robots in a chase scene filled with exploding ninja driven hovercrafts (no one has ever had a multiple hovercraft chase scene, I think!), through a post apocalyptic, exotic Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. They are fighting to control the cybernetic brain that is actually controlling the reality they experience. Only a nerdy hot asian woman wizard (Lu Ci, in disguise with glasses)knows the access code…
Does anyone else smell OSCAR?
Thought I caught a whiff of it there…
FML
Hovercraft are boring. What you need are radio-controlled helicopter models. Now that’s high-tech goodness.
Also, I think I mentioned earlier that without a leather-clad buttkickin’ girl, you’ve got nothin’. 