Post by bobbyd on Jun 22, 2009 9:12:20 GMT -8
ha i love rad... what a classic... seriously did ANYTHING get you more pumped up to ride than the opening montage? I swear my buddies and I would watch the one rider riding into a cherry-picker in slow motion so we could figure out every detail of it... i don't think any of us ever got it so smooth though!!
anyways, since we always used to point out goofs and other interesting stuff as we watched it (over and over and over again), i thought it'd be fun to see if i could even remember them...
#1 - the whole movie he's riding a mongoose californian (with the stickers removed, of course); a pretty decent chromoly bike... then mr. hand offers him some piece of crap 35lb steel framed team murray and he's like "wow, the murray from your store!"...
#2 - lori loughlin: loved her, but it always hurt my eyes to see the obviously male stunt double in that scene where "she" and cru are riding through the woods after the whole "what's this #1 thing all about?" - "self explanatory" conversation... i mean, i remember being 13 and being like "sweet, i get to see her from beh... aaaaah oh no! that's a dude!"
#3 - beaten to death, but the plywood planks over the log pile... c'mon
#4 - cru totally cheated when he went out of bounds in the last qualifying heat... we used to talk about this one all the time! obviously he had to do it otherwise he loses and... movie over... but still it never sat well with my bmx buddies and I... also, the backflip shortcut during the big race; he'd have been disqualified! haha still awesome
#5 - if i'm remembering it correctly, cru (or rather, his stunt double) get's JACKED UP in that last heat when he wipes out going down the hill and then gets hammered in the head by a trailing rider
#6 - i want to punch the mayor for the way he says "mr. duke best"... it always bothered me
#7 - i swear they had a DIFFERENT VERSION of the movie, with additional scenes, that they showed on "Prism" - an old movie pay channel on cable... there was a scene where bart was all drunk and yammering on about "where are you cru? i want to race you cru!" and another where random kids from the area that we've never seen before are all pissed off and getting in fights with their parents and stuff because cru can't race, including the requisite dramatic "you just don't understand!" from one girl that, again, we've never seen before... i recorded it wayyyyy back when, i'll have to see if the tape is still at my parents house... ridiculous
#8 - several of the riders featured in the helltrack race weren't even racers, they were freestylers (i mean, obviously they raced at some point, but a few of them hadn't raced for years at the time)
#9 - bmx races don't have laps, you do one "lap" and your done; and they're not even laps, you don't end at the same point you start
#10 - they had to do it given the stunt doubles, but nobody wore full face helmets in 1985, esp. with super tinted goggles! haha but still AWESOME
#11 - Rad kicks ass!
anyways, since we always used to point out goofs and other interesting stuff as we watched it (over and over and over again), i thought it'd be fun to see if i could even remember them...
#1 - the whole movie he's riding a mongoose californian (with the stickers removed, of course); a pretty decent chromoly bike... then mr. hand offers him some piece of crap 35lb steel framed team murray and he's like "wow, the murray from your store!"...
#2 - lori loughlin: loved her, but it always hurt my eyes to see the obviously male stunt double in that scene where "she" and cru are riding through the woods after the whole "what's this #1 thing all about?" - "self explanatory" conversation... i mean, i remember being 13 and being like "sweet, i get to see her from beh... aaaaah oh no! that's a dude!"
#3 - beaten to death, but the plywood planks over the log pile... c'mon
#4 - cru totally cheated when he went out of bounds in the last qualifying heat... we used to talk about this one all the time! obviously he had to do it otherwise he loses and... movie over... but still it never sat well with my bmx buddies and I... also, the backflip shortcut during the big race; he'd have been disqualified! haha still awesome
#5 - if i'm remembering it correctly, cru (or rather, his stunt double) get's JACKED UP in that last heat when he wipes out going down the hill and then gets hammered in the head by a trailing rider
#6 - i want to punch the mayor for the way he says "mr. duke best"... it always bothered me
#7 - i swear they had a DIFFERENT VERSION of the movie, with additional scenes, that they showed on "Prism" - an old movie pay channel on cable... there was a scene where bart was all drunk and yammering on about "where are you cru? i want to race you cru!" and another where random kids from the area that we've never seen before are all pissed off and getting in fights with their parents and stuff because cru can't race, including the requisite dramatic "you just don't understand!" from one girl that, again, we've never seen before... i recorded it wayyyyy back when, i'll have to see if the tape is still at my parents house... ridiculous
#8 - several of the riders featured in the helltrack race weren't even racers, they were freestylers (i mean, obviously they raced at some point, but a few of them hadn't raced for years at the time)
#9 - bmx races don't have laps, you do one "lap" and your done; and they're not even laps, you don't end at the same point you start
#10 - they had to do it given the stunt doubles, but nobody wore full face helmets in 1985, esp. with super tinted goggles! haha but still AWESOME
#11 - Rad kicks ass!
