Dec 312012
Saturday I rented Premium Rush from a nearby Red Box. That was a mistake and worse was I talked my wife and daughter into watching it with me. It is not a good movie. In fact it is the worst movie I have watched in a long time. So I will suggest some more entertaining things you should do instead of watching this movie.
- Take a nap
- Trim your toe nails
- Clean out your closet
- Organize your socks
- Clean your glasses/sun glasses
But if you need a bicycle fix you were hoping to get from the movie try these:
- Wash your bicycle(s)
- Go for a winter ride
- Plan a bike trip at Adventure Cycling
- Look at bikes online (if you need a start try Winter Bicycles)
- Watch some Danny MacAskill videos on YouTube
But save your mind and do not expose it to such a poorly written and made movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIOsL8tumMU
[...] Predominately filmed by Lucas Brunelle using a custom helmet cam rig of his own creation, the film covers alley cat races across the globe. In addition to actual race footage the film features a dramatic representation of a “shoot out” between messengers in the streets of Guatemala, a ride on the Great Wall of China, and scened from the Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco. Aside from the Guatemalan shootout fun, this is all real footage of actual events – unlike the Hollywood representation in Premium Rush (Spoiler Alert: Premium Rush kinda sucks). [...]
Couldn’t agree more Jack. I had intended to go see this in the theater and write a review about it – but two things got in my way. One was that I was just too busy, but the other was the catch phrase from the trailer:
That “Can’t stop” just irked me, and I knew I would be irritated by the inaccurate representations in this movie.
Putting that aside, I went ahead and ordered it on demand the other day. So, irritation with the bad stereotypes aside, I watched. Not only does it not come close to accurately portraying anything about cycling (they even get the city commando cyclists wrong) it is just a bad movie all the way around. The plot is terrible and flat, the characters are undeveloped, and the “finale” is completely contrived. Hollywood fodder.
there is a decent fixie culture movie on NetFlix. To live and ride in LA. (play on the 80s movie to live and die in LA) it was an interesting documentary.
David