On Sep 19, 1:08 pm, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" wrote:
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> Dave in Toronto wrote:
> > On Sep 19, 11:55 am, Undecided wrote:
> >> Studemania wrote:
> >>> Did you see the car crash into anything to cause the explosion
> >>> at the end of the chase? Try slow monton and tell me what.
> >>> Nothing hit the fuel tanks!
> >> It always looked to me like one of those low-bid projects, like in scifi
> >> flicks where we see a helicopter drop behind a hill and then there's
> >> dust kicked up and an explosion and the camera shakes and then the
> >> survivor staggers into view. We see the bad guys approach the pumps,
> >> then the screen is filled with fire. Cheap.
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> > Best gas station explosion. Hitchcock's "The Birds" from a bird's eye
> > view yet.
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> Since I intensely dislike _The Birds_ and refuse to watch it ever again,
> I'll have to take your word for it.
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> My personal favorite does not involve a chase. It does involve W.C.
> Fields and a cigarette lighter (_The Big Broadcast of 1938_).
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> Frank in Seattle
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"The Birds" isn't one of my favorites either but as in most Hitchcock
films, even the poor ones, some scenes work.
I liked the car bomb scenes in the first "The Italian Job" --- "you
were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
Dave in Toronto
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