Saw a really stupid movie today, but it had some cool cars in it

[Junkman]

"In Time"

The movie has one of the weakest scripts ever. In fact, it is so bad that it borders being good, actually.

In a 'Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes' kind of way.

But all cars in it are really cool mild customs.

The cops drive customized 197x Challengers, and late Seventies - early Eighties Ramchargers/Traildusters.

There is a fleet of customized black 1961-65 Continentals, most (but not all) of which Lehmann-Peterson Limousines (I have spotted examples of each year mentioned).

Among them a sole silver metallic 1968 Imperial Limousine.

Some ghetto crooks drive a copper Bustleback Seville.

And when the main protagonist (played by Justin Timberlake) runs into some loot, he buys himself a silver customized Jag E-Type roadster.

Note the other cars at this used car lot.

All those cars would make superb TV/Movie model subjects.

[62rebel]

Gattaca used a few off-beat cars to good effect.... Citroen DS19's and a Rover, i think.

at least In Time dosn't have convicts building armored race cars. i'm sure lots of hallucinogenics went into THAT trash.

[jeffs396]

Looks like they spent more on the cars than the actors...COOL!

Here's my favorite "cheesy movie" vehicle, starring the infamous Rowdy Roddy Piper

Neat site for searching movie vehicles: http://www.imcdb.org/

Edited March 15, 2012 by jeffs396

[Junkman]

Here's my favorite "cheesy movie" vehicle, starring the infamous Rowdy Roddy Piper

Which movie?

[hotrod59f100]

I'm liking those Lincoln's..

[jeffs396]

Which movie?

This site's controls won't allow the title, just Google Rowdy Roddy Piper Frogtown

[Junkman]

This site's controls won't allow the title, just Google Rowdy Roddy Piper Frogtown

Cheers!

Apparently a deffo must see.

[RodneyBad]

Actually I thought In Time was a good movie with a good cast of Characters and Cars...

H___ comes to Frog Town. Gonna have to get that one..

They Live Was a Good movie with Rowdy Roddy Pipper (local guy too, Well, when he was here)

[Junkman]

I'm liking those Lincoln's..

Any early Sixties Lincoln sedan would be high up on my reissues want list, lemme tellya.

I have an entire fleet of customs in mind.

I'm sick and tired of that 65 ragtop they keep reissuing with stoic perseverance and strangely

no resin caster bothers to make a sedan body for it.

Well, it's the model kit industry, so what else would one expect?

[Junkman]

Actually I thought In Time was a good movie with a good cast of Characters and Cars...

It could have been good. In fact, the cast had the potential to make it outstanding.

But it has such severe weak spots that the overall result is mediocre at best.

The Timekeeper Antagonist character's death is remarkably out of character and it is just one example

of the horridly weak script and story structure.

If he's supposed to be this tough time cop who grew up in the ghetto and had to fight and claw

to stay alive for an extra 50 years, how could he forget to top up his time TWICE?

This is a textbook example of a writer using a horribly cheap Deus Ex Machina to make the protagonist

defeat the antagonist.

It's the equivalent of Darth Vader losing to Luke because he forgot to tie up his shoes. It's bloody weak.

More importantly, if the time cop was as tough as the movie projects him to be, do you think there's

any way that his superiors would ever let him forget to top up? He's an asset. A very good one (supposedly).

They're not about to let him just die off especially while he is on this job.

Also very annoying is that there is no explanation whatsoever why the rich are rich and how they became rich.

Then, what is Sylvia Weis' motive to switch sides? And why does she and Will continue to be criminals after the

system has been overthrown?

When Will and Sylvia rob the rich woman in the limousine, why do they leave her stranded so stripped for time

that she doesn't stand a chance to survive, while on the other hand they are portrayed as the philanthropists

that help out everybody else, even their worst enemy? Why don't they rob and kill other rich people when they

have the chance? Why only her?

Why are the crooks with the Seville portrayed so incredibly stupid? They shoot people to die with time left.

Gimme a break!

Where is the middle class from all the time zones between the Ghetto and New Greenwich? Whom would it

have sided with during the uprising of the Ghetto? Why is it omitted from the script altogether?

These are just textbook examples of poor writing and any attempt to justify the writing by coming up with

ridiculous reasons as to "why this" or "why that" is just as weak. Remember, when the script and writing are

solid, you don't have to make excuses for them.

[Chuck Most]

Is this that movie with Justin Timberlake? If so, THAT is the reason I did not go out to see it. That, and the plot sounded completely idiotic. And now there's Hunger Games... really scraping bottom for movie plots these days, aren't we?

But... might just have to check it out simply for those Lincoln Continentals!

[Junkman]

Is this that movie with Justin Timberlake? If so, THAT is the reason I did not go out to see it. That, and the plot sounded completely idiotic. And now there's Hunger Games... really scraping bottom for movie plots these days, aren't we?

But... might just have to check it out simply for those Lincoln Continentals!

The cars are the only reason I went to watch it. It's worthwhile watching it just for the cars. Too bad that despite they had the chance for some

superb V8 bass-line, they opted to dub it over with some stupid whirring, like the cars are electrically powered. No idea what they want to

brainwash us into, but I don't like it and it doesn't work on me.

Gosh are you right about the movie plots. But it's not so much the shallow plots that annoy me, even the best movies

can have plots far away from being intellectually stimulating. It's the scripts that suck into the middle of next week nowadays.

Edited March 15, 2012 by Junkman

[deja-view]

Yeah, those flat-azz Sevilles were really great to chase with. All that 4.1 power, ya know. Oops. melted it.

[Junkman]

Yeah, those flat-azz Sevilles were really great to chase with. All that 4.1 power, ya know. Oops. melted it.

Mine was a 6.0 and went like stink.

[deja-view]

Mine was a 6.0 and went like stink.

Ah yes. That screaming 145 hp pulling 4000(?) lbs. Whew.

I had a '78 Fleetwood Brougham with the 425 for a few years. Nice ride, and the 195 hp wasn't much but the 320+ TQ helped move it along. Compared to all the slugs of that era I guess it was moderately "fast". Um hummm.

Edited March 15, 2012 by deja-view

[Junkman]

Ah yes. That screaming 145 hp pulling 4000(?) lbs. Whew.

I had a '78 Fleetwood Brougham with the 425 for a few years. Nice ride, and the 195 hp wasn't much but the 320+ TQ helped move it along. Compared to all the slugs of that era I guess it was moderately "fast". Um hummm.

What do you want to compare it with? It was fast enough to pull away from a (contemporary) 560 Benz on a German Autobahn. For me, this is sufficient. OK, that bloody Jag XJ12 left me in its tyre smoke, but it cost literally 100 times more to buy.

[deja-view]

What do you want to compare it with? It was fast enough to pull away from a (contemporary) 560 Benz on a German Autobahn. For me, this is sufficient. OK, that bloody Jag XJ12 left me in its tyre smoke, but it cost literally 100 times more to buy.

LOL. You must have pulled the cats and all the excess weight (dead bodies in the trunk) out to beat a 560. Well, 6.0 is about 368 inches compared to the Benz 350, but with the OHC engine I would have thought the Benz would be faster. Was that a Caddy engine or the Olds?

[Wayne's World]

Gattaca used a few off-beat cars to good effect.... Citroen DS19's and a Rover, i think.

at least In Time dosn't have convicts building armored race cars. i'm sure lots of hallucinogenics went into THAT trash.

But, they were such cool armored race cars. (Better, IMHO, the the buggies in DR2000).