Comments on: Skid Marxists

By: unimpressed

unimpressed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:37:42 +0000

I’ve always suspected that Hollywood puts very hard rubber tires on the cars in the chase scenes since harder rubber doesn’t grip as well laterally and make a lot more smoke once they break traction. Dubbing is always an option because how else will tires squeal on grass and gravel?

They also dub in engine noises. How else would one be able to listen to a V8 growl from a vehicle that never had one as an option? How else would you be able to hear an upshift from a standard transmission from a car you -know- is an automatic from the in-car camera shot during the shift?

I do know that one has to suspend disbelief, but come on. TRY to be realistic.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:35:20 +0000

It was fun. My Mom was always fun. She could have been Cyndi Lauper’s inspiration.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:18:08 +0000

That surely was something to see, simply because street racers in that era would have been mortified to have been so neatly dispatched by any female whatsoever, let alone someone’s mom.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:01:18 +0000

My mother showed me how to “lay rubber” in a 1968 Lincoln. She was annoyed at some teenagers showing off at a series of stop lights, and decided to surprise them.

She threatened my life if I told my father (who probably wouldn’t have minded all that much, though she’d have gotten a word or two about the cost of tires) or my brother, who’d recently got a ticket for drag-racing.

She used the braking technique. I miss her.