Deathproof? Not Quite

[TripleBlackGator]

Tarantino obviously respects old Mopars or they wouldn't the stars of the show.

It's official folks. We have all wondered into an insane asylum. Go ahead and try, just try to defend that comment. It can not be done.

Defend it or explain it? If you can't understand what I'm saying (because the point seems pretty obvious to me) I can' t help you. I left out the word 'be,' is that why you're confused? I'm wondering why you "wondered" into an insane asylum instead of "wandered."

Obvious to you and only you. I WANDER what your reply will be.

[chgr500]

About 5 years ago I was offered some pretty decent money for my car.....a movie guy...wanted to smash up my car for a movie..I said NO!

[Charger1973]

About 5 years ago I was offered some pretty decent money for my car.....a movie guy...wanted to smash up my car for a movie..I said NO!

Which movie? 

[wetfeetmi]

Oh my God, PEOPLE... Here is what you should do! If you like Tarantino and want to see classic Mopars smashed to bits, go see the movie. If you don't care for what Tarantino has done, don't see the movie. If the movie falls flat, he won't do it again. The public shall speak. Will history repeat itself? I don't know.  I feel Tarantino has lost his edge and I predict this will bomb.

[chgr500]

About 5 years ago I was offered some pretty decent money for my car.....a movie guy...wanted to smash up my car for a movie..I said NO!

Which movie?

He didn't say nor did I ask...I work at a dealership and we have alot of movie fella's buying vehicles..I brought my car to work one day and he spotted it..He kept offering in $1000 increments...was getting hard to keep saying no......Would have been a movie out of Vancouver B.C. Canada...Hollywood north

[bull]

Tarantino obviously respects old Mopars or they wouldn't the stars of the show.

It's official folks. We have all wondered into an insane asylum. Go ahead and try, just try to defend that comment. It can not be done.

Defend it or explain it? If you can't understand what I'm saying (because the point seems pretty obvious to me) I can' t help you. I left out the word 'be,' is that why you're confused? I'm wondering why you "wondered" into an insane asylum instead of "wandered."

Obvious to you and only you. I WANDER what your reply will be.

You seem to be the only one confused but I'll try to put it a different way since I'm not sure if you're actually not getting it or just trying to be a PITA.

If you were trying to make a cool, action-filled slasher movie that focused primarily on women and cars, would you cast fat, homely women driving beat up Pintos and Matadors around or would you maybe try to fill it with sexy women and sexy cars? I guess it depends on whether you wanted people to buy tickets. I don't know how to put this any simpler.

[bull]

About 5 years ago I was offered some pretty decent money for my car.....a movie guy...wanted to smash up my car for a movie..I said NO!

Which movie?

He didn't say nor did I ask...I work at a dealership and we have alot of movie fella's buying vehicles..I brought my car to work one day and he spotted it..He kept offering in $1000 increments...was getting hard to keep saying no......Would have been a movie out of Vancouver B.C. Canada...Hollywood north

Good point. If people weren't willing to sacrifice their classic Mopars at the box office altar we wouldn't be having this conversation. Maybe the real question needs to be, who is selling these cars to Hollywood and why?

[69bronzeT5]

About 5 years ago I was offered some pretty decent money for my car.....a movie guy...wanted to smash up my car for a movie..I said NO!

SAME! Except my car was sitting in the driveway and it was 3/4 primered black and a movie guy wanted to buy it because he wanted to smash it up in a movie also. He also wanted my dad's old triple black 1980 Monte Carlo. My dad told him to screw off. A few years later, my dads friend gave us the back tires and wheels that are on my 69 right now and amazingly enough, it came off a car out of that movie!!!

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

the lead singer(Trevor Guthrie) of soul decision wants to use our 68 for a music video, he is good friend of ours that my dad babysat as a kid (the tall one with longer shaggy blonde hair)

[The70RT]

the lead singer(Trevor Guthrie) of soul decision wants to use our 68 for a music video, he is good friend of ours that my dad babysat as a kid (the tall one with longer shaggy blonde hair)

Now that would be cool as long as it came back unscathed.

[68chrgrwife]

Look they have been killing Mopars from the beginning..I just watched a 1973 Movie called The Last American Hero with Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty and Gary Busey. They mess up a few mopars in there.....and that was when they were new.......So what do you expect?  Yeah we all know it would be nice if they would choose another car to play with (maybe even the new charger),but as for a bad ass muscle car they are going with a mopar...and who can blame them...they are the best looking cars in the world!!!!!!

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

Look they have been killing Mopars from the beginning..I just watched a 1973 Movie called The Last American Hero with Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty and Gary Busey. They mess up a few mopars in there.....and that was when they were new.......So what do you expect?  Yeah we all know it would be nice if they would choose another car to play with (maybe even the new charger),but as for a bad ass muscle car they are going with a mopar...and who can blame them...they are the best looking cars in the world!!!!!!

exactly would you have rather seen a black fairlane chasing Mcqueen in his mustang or that badass 68 charger smashin the shit out of it and gettin big air

[Ghoste]

If it meant that movie producers wouldn't be all gung ho to destroy classic Mopars today for the sake of a few more stinking dimes in their pockets, then Hell, yes!  I would much rather have seen them use a stupid Fairlane.

[Brock Samson]

 
this ought'a give the first week's numbers a bump.

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/articles/_a/steamy-love-triangle-on-grindhouse-set/20070403085009990002

[69bronzeT5]

If it meant that movie producers wouldn't be all gung ho to destroy classic Mopars today for the sake of a few more stinking dimes in their pockets, then Hell, yes!  I would much rather have seen them use a stupid Fairlane.

[TripleBlackGator]

If it meant that movie producers wouldn't be all gung ho to destroy classic Mopars today for the sake of a few more stinking dimes in their pockets, then Hell, yes!  I would much rather have seen them use a stupid Fairlane.

I agree 100% but then I'm a Dodge Charger fan. I just thought everyone else here was too. My mistake.

[Shakey]

I guess it was OK when they smashed up cars in some of the most popular movies mentioned on this site like Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Bullit, Gone in 60 Seconds and Vanishing Point.   

[bull]

If it meant that movie producers wouldn't be all gung ho to destroy classic Mopars today for the sake of a few more stinking dimes in their pockets, then Hell, yes!  I would much rather have seen them use a stupid Fairlane.

I agree 100% but then I'm a Dodge Charger fan. I just thought everyone else here was too. My mistake.

You're the only real Charger fan.

[Ghoste]

What can I say?  When they did it 30 years ago, the cars were cheap and plentiful.  When they become cheap and plentiful again, I'll happily plug for all the Charger destruction Hollywood can bring on.

[bull]

I guess it was OK when they smashed up cars in some of the most popular movies mentioned on this site like Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Bullit, Gone in 60 Seconds and Vanishing Point.   

It's ok to smash a Charger in a movie if you're young and seeing it was a pivotal point in your life when you decided the car was cool and you had to have one. But later, after you get one or are trying to then it's not ok.

As far as cheap and plentiful. These cars were never plentiful but the ones they use as stunt car typically are cheap because they are falling apart. However they are cool and I like to see them in movies just as much as the guys making the movies like to see them. Again, blame the sellers. Even so, the cars they used would just sit out in Billy Bob's cow pasture for another 30 years if Tarantino hadn't bought them. Which is worse?

[Ghoste]

I understand what you're saying Bull but if you told someone in 1973 that someday that car would be worth 60,000 dollars (or even 12,000), you'd have been locked away and in for some shock therapy.  I know it's hypocritical, but it seems strange to me to read the discussions about the value of these investments and commodities in the Mopar business and then watch them purposely destroyed for laughs.  And yes, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is my favorite movie. 

[bull]

I understand what you're saying Bull but if you told someone in 1973 that someday that car would be worth 60,000 dollars (or even 12,000), you'd have been locked away and in for some shock therapy.  I know it's hypocritical, but it seems strange to me to read the discussions about the value of these investments and commodities in the Mopar business and then watch them purposely destroyed for laughs.  And yes, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry is my favorite movie. 

See above for part of my retort. What I'm saying is that the cars used by Hollywood are not the $12k-$60k cars, they are the $1k-$5 rusted hlpag wannabe cars that some chump finally let loose of because a Hollywood prop guy offered him eight times his weight in Schlitz money for a something he'll never restore or sell to one of us.

[69bronzeT5]

I guess it was OK when they smashed up cars in some of the most popular movies mentioned on this site like Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Bullit, Gone in 60 Seconds and Vanishing Point.   

In the original Vanishing Point, they didnt really wreck Challengers. They beat them up but technically didnt wreck them like most of the other movies. And if you all remember, the final crash scene...they used a 67 Camaro for that

[Ghoste]

I know they're using the cheap ones Bull, but I still find it wrong.  Sorry, but this is one where I don't think we'll find common ground. 
I wonder if Hardcore Racing would have destroyed that RT last summer if they didn't think they'd be able to make money off the stunt?  25 years ago, I'd have paid to watch it myself but today it just makes me want to puke.

[Shakey]

I guess the directors of these movies see people like us spending money on DVD's of the old movies that they wrecked the cool cars in and figure we would like it.  Hell, everytime one of these movies comes on TV a thread is started and the discussion begins as to how great these movies were.

I think the best comment was Bull's where he stated that he'd rather see a movie with hot chicks and cool cars than a movie with fat broads and Pintos.