Torque - The Movie

[Hillbilly]

Anyone seen it? My flatmate got it out on DVD. It's produced by the same guys who made XXX and The Fast and The Furious.

Got some amazing stunt riding in it too! The best part was the Aprilia RSV 1000 being chased by the Triumph Daytona 955i. (You could tell what they were courtesy of the multitude of closeups of the bike graphics, and the "gangland" characters wearing matching branded race leathers) Anyway, they get to jump these two superbikes onto a moving passenger train that has aluminium skinned carriages, racing across the roofs jumping from carriage to carriage.

Then there's the "carbon fibre" bike that's "powered by a helicopter engine" and "goes from 0-200km/hr in 10 seconds". :laugh:

[Smorg]

Stupid movie..................really stupid movie. I prefer biker boyz

[car]

Stupid movie..................really stupid movie. I prefer biker boyz

Both terrible, terrible, give me back the two hours of my life you've just stolen movies.

[Storm]

Then there's the "carbon fibre" bike that's "powered by a helicopter engine" and "goes from 0-200km/hr in 10 seconds". :laugh:

I'm not quite sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but that bike does actually exist. Its the Y2K made by an outfit in the states. Comes with a 400km/h guarrantee- no one has claimed the money back!! Jay Leno has one, and I believe theres a couple of threads on it round here somewhere

PS I quite liked the movie- of course its not real life, what'd be the point of hollywooding it up then? You dont go to the flicks to watch some guys boring life story do ya now?

[Fishy]

The only part of that movie thats any good is where Martin Henderson embarrasses those clowns racing their cars. The rest of the movie was a load of crap.

[Cookie]

The blond chick was hot.

The some of the riding scenes through the winding desert roads were cool.

Mostly I just liked the blond chick.

[carver]

that movie was so full of shit, that dude that directed that needs to get a physics degree.
I mean going down crowded streets at 200+, swerving around vehicles...
how about the fight scene with those 2 girls on their bikes..

[unhingedlizard]

The blond chick was hot.

The some of the riding scenes through the winding desert roads were cool.

Mostly I just liked the blond chick.


I only got this far twice then had to go for a ride.

I like the bit with the geeky harley rider too. That was funny.

[Damon]

That is one bull shit movie, the only part i liked was the begining when their riding through the hills, then the crap flows thick and fast!

[willy_01]

yep i agree - it was really shocking:( its worse than Fastest and Furious’s’est run of movie's - honest!

[Street Gerbil]

Hmmmm... Not a bad movie (assuming you have enough beer).

[Buster]

Tragic movie but good for a laugh. It would have been better if the blonde chick took her top off.

:2thumbsup

[Deano]

The duelling bikes was just a little toooo much.

[Bend-it]

Hey, it's hollywood... best taken with a barrel of salt... great entertinment though!! It's part of what got me on bikes!

Mostly the car scene and canyon scenes at teh start though...

[Hillbilly]

I'm not quite sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but that bike does actually exist. Its the Y2K made by an outfit in the states. Comes with a 400km/h guarrantee- no one has claimed the money back!! Jay Leno has one, and I believe theres a couple of threads on it round here somewhere




I believe the bike exists, it's just the way thet were talking about it. What got to me was the animated right angle turn the "hero" did. Looked like something out of Batman. The movie was entertaining in it's own right, but I expected it to be better especially after the opening chase scene.

[Postie]

The duelling bikes was just a little toooo much.

that was gonna be my point.
Frankly I was ashamed that I watched the whole movie. I'm surprised that anyone could actually rate the movie, specially anyone who knows anything about bikes, physics or what makes a good movie, biker boy's wasn't much better but it wasn't as bad as Torque. The people who made that or had anything to do with it, should focus their time on new episodes of Barney.

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

I enjoyed biker boyz!! can anyone suggest any good motorbike movies?

[LilSel]

*agrees with BMW*...
Biker Boyz is primo, I bought it just the other week from the video store for $5 lol... :D

[Postie]

I enjoyed biker boyz!! can anyone suggest any good motorbike movies?

Worlds Fastest Indian

[Zed]

Despite what the critics in here say, I quite enjoyed the movie. Yep it was a load of baloney but most movies are these days!

Note the cool bike on the right in the attached pic! :cool:

[SARGE]

that movie was so full of shit, that dude that directed that needs to get a physics degree.
I mean going down crowded streets at 200+, swerving around vehicles...




yea .. someone should point that out to GhostRider.. :Pokey:

[SimJen]

Biker boys/Torque are up their with the worst movies ever made. They give the general public a twisted fucked up view of biking with sub standard plots and ridiculous special effects that seem to replace far too much dialog.
The same way that Fast & the F...Gay, did for cars.
All shit, I'd never pay to see any of em, hence why I downloaded Torque and promptly realised i'd wasted my bandwidth.
Incidentally why would you call a bike movie "Torque"? Perhaps a topfuel dragster or tractor pulling movie, but bikes aren't exactly known for mountains of it, no matter how modified, especially compared to cars.....

[carver]

yea .. someone should point that out to GhostRider.. :Pokey:

you seen the areforementioned movie?
Even I cant ride like that! :whistle:

[SARGE]

you seen the areforementioned movie?
Even I cant ride like that! :whistle:

yea ,, ive seen both movies .. they both sucked so bad i wanted to gouge out my good eye with a stick

last good bike movie was Easy Rider


point i was making is that splitting traffic at 200+ kph is possible and has been proven by GR

[carver]

yea ,, ive seen both movies .. they both sucked so bad i wanted to gouge out my good eye with a stick

last good bike movie was Easy Rider


point i was making is that splitting traffic at 200+ kph is possible and has been proven by GR

but the splitting is more like doing queen st at 5pm at 200kph..ya know...the Y2k scene...
lane splitting aint that hard, if its in a reasonably straight line

[SARGE]

but the splitting is more like doing queen st at 5pm at 200kph..ya know...the Y2k scene...
lane splitting aint that hard, if its in a reasonably straight line

yea .. i forgot about that part ... i was blocking it from memory ..

[carver]

yea .. i forgot about that part ... i was blocking it from memory ..

i probably should do the same,in all his movies the actors have huge ego's, everything to prove, which is always settled by racing or fights, and there are always a endless supply of skanky ho's ready to be picked up and show cleavage wherever possible...

[onearmedbandit]

Some say it gives the general public a bad view of biking. Let me make this clear, no member of the general (meaning in this context 'non-motorcyclists') public know of these movies let alone saw them.

[scumdog]

Some say it gives the general public a bad view of biking. Let me make this clear, no member of the general (meaning in this context 'non-motorcyclists') public know of these movies let alone saw them.

And if it was not for KB I wouldn't have heard of most movies of that ilk.

H-D and the Marlboro Man was a nice light-hearted bike movie that's not been mentioned yet (well not on the last page which is the only one iI've looked at.)

[carver]

And if it was not for KB I wouldn't have heard of most movies of that ilk.

H-D and the Marlboro Man was a nice light-hearted bike movie that's not been mentioned yet (well not on the last page which is the only one iI've looked at.)

right on, that was a good movie...
in torque the lead "bad guy" rides a yamaha roadstar warrior...in one part they call it a Hog!
and it chases the Y2k down city streets at 200+ kph with ape hangers!
he musta had the upper body strength of a Gorrilla!

[DingDong]

Shit movie... dirt bikes pretending to be road bikes, imposible stunts and pussy gangsters.

Biker boyz is OK, still not great... hollywood needs to get real when it comes to bike movies...

Fastest Indian is the best I've seen... given I've done alot of beach racing it was extra extra extra extra extra good for me:cool:

[SimJen]

Best bike movie is Faster, the doco about the last year of the 500's in GP Racing. Awesome and insightful, with lots of cool interviews with some of the greatest riders of all time.
A new one coming out soon by the same guy, a doco on the USGP with Edwards, Rossi and Hayden.
But yeah fastest indian was a goodie and home grown makes it better. Definately shows the madness of bikers in a good light and would sum up a lot of KBers too :)

[Coyote]

Despite what the critics in here say, I quite enjoyed the movie. Yep it was a load of baloney but most movies are these days!

Note the cool bike on the right in the attached pic! :cool:
That photo has convinced me to watch it. At least only to drool over my top 3 dream bikes. The RSV us even in my favourite colour :D:D:

[Zed]

That photo has convinced me to watch it. At least only to drool over my top 3 dream bikes. The RSV us even in my favourite colour :D:D:Alrighty then, Martin Henderson in the middle is the main character and those other two guys are his sidekicks. One of my favourite scenes is near the beginning where all 3 of them take off from the roadside diner on those bikes stunting and cutting up the highway...:cool:

[mouldy]

Torque was crap ,only mildly worse then " Biker boyz " Why did it take a 400k bike so long to catch up to a Harley ? and when I go fast round corners my bike leans over . Does anyone remember "Stone"?:beer:

[Genesismatrix]

What fast and the furious does for cars and speed does for bus'es torque does for bikes.... Cant take the movie too seriousally its just bike porn after all.

And the Y2K kicks ass!