Torque (The movie)

**enigma51** · 20th June 2005, 22:01

What a load of shit!!!!!!! Thought that aaa bike movie lets watch it. Not like there was anything else on the tv but let me put it this way I rather watch paul homes for 2 hours than watch torque again

NC · 20th June 2005, 22:19

America, FUCK YEAH!

**Indiana_Jones** · 20th June 2005, 22:32

lol it's only a pop corn film. Good laugh

REAPERS!

-Indy

**Zed** · 20th June 2005, 23:13

Originally Posted by enigma51

What a load of shit!!!!!!! Thought that aaa bike movie lets watch it. Not like there was anything else on the tv but let me put it this way I rather watch paul homes for 2 hours than watch torque again

A 'proper' movie review actually explains to the readers why it was good or bad? Mr enigma, are you able to be a bit more adventurous and further explain just why you think Torque was a load of codswallop? Bad acting maybe? Bad story, script, directing, music sucked, bikes not meet your approval? :spudwhat:

Personally I was entertained by it. Gave the movie a 6/10 for originality & the fact that it was about bikes. The opening scene with the wheelie between the two boy-racers was enjoyable! Credit to another young Kiwi actor for making it to Hollywood in a lead role.

Maybe I should have started this thread?

**scumdog** · 20th June 2005, 23:51

Best part? The synchronised dismounting!!

(or was that on Biker Boyz? who cares)

**Waylander** · 20th June 2005, 23:54

If any of the stunts were even slighlty realistic then it would have been so much better. As for the acting... Only part I really cared about was when Jesse James had about 5 seconds worth of it. Pist me of when they blew up his bikes.

**placidfemme** · 21st June 2005, 07:49

Originally Posted by Waylander

If any of the stunts were even slighlty realistic then it would have been so much better. As for the acting... Only part I really cared about was when Jesse James had about 5 seconds worth of it. Pist me of when they blew up his bikes.

I agree the movie sucked! I'd rate it a 4/10 and only because it had bikes in it. The stunts where anything but realistic... sure they're possible... but not in those scenarios... In some scenes, they weren't actually even riding the bikes... they were super imposed (or whatever the actuall term is??), which I think was thr scene where they were riding in the forest part before he did that totally unrealistic jump off the train...

I thought the bikes were awesome and it was nice they had chicks on bikes too... but thats about it...

**TonyB** · 21st June 2005, 08:18

Things that pissed me off about this movie.
It reinforces the Hollywood myth that all bikers are somehow involved in criminal activity.
The bikers are freindly only with their mates, any time they meet up with another group there's aggro. Hell THAT happens all the time here eh? When we ride into Little River if we see another group of bikes there we dismount, march on into the cafe and everybody squares off against someone and the fighting begins......

They've let the CGI computer geeks loose on the thing, and as a result all the stunts are totaly unrealistic. There's no need to to that sort of crap- the general public would be pretty impressed by the stuff that bikes can actually do.
The chase scene with the Y2K and the Harley is just fucken stooooopid. Going soooo fast that backwash from the bike causes mayhem

, but the Harley stays in front

and from memory neither is wearing a helmet but despite this their faces remain normal- ever see Jeremey clarkson in the wind tunnel- now THAT was entertaining

From what I've heard Biker Boyz is even worse...
Why oh why can't someone just make a movie along the lines of Day's of Thunder/ Top Gun? Where our biker hero has to overcome his/her fear after a bad accident or whatever to go on and become champion. Show heaps of REALISTIC racing action, a bit of road riding, throw in a love intrest and a bit of tragedy and walla! A half decent movie....

**Sparky Bills** · 21st June 2005, 08:50

Originally Posted by NC

America, FUCK YEAH!

**bugjuice** · 21st June 2005, 09:03

the film is a pile-o-poo. It's a bike version of a remake of The Fast And Furious, of which just had to happen since the car version was such a hit with boy racers. They thought the bike world was just as immature. Oh well. The amount of fake crap that could just never ever happen in some of those sequences just make it even more crap.

Fav line tho - one of the guys is walking off in a huff and says: I live my life a quarter mile at a time....
And the girl replies: That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard!!
For those who don't get it, it's a direct piss-take from 'The Fast and The Furious' film

**Hitcher** · 21st June 2005, 09:04

I can't believe that I watched most of this last night. A similar fascination to watching a train wreck. I kept thinking "How bad can this get?" and the fact that it got worse and worse added to its strange compulsiveness.

Weak as piss story line, really bad dialogue, wooden acting, badly animated stunts, and a need to totally suspend any sense of reality that one may have had prior. I mean, well, really...

I am pleased that I watched it. I am also pleased that that living hell is now over. Now all I need to do is find all of the nails I drove into my head.

**Coyote** · 21st June 2005, 09:18

Originally Posted by TonyB

Things that pissed me off about this movie.
It reinforces the Hollywood myth that all bikers are somehow involved in criminal activity.

You implying that some of us aren't?

I have to see this movie for myself

**bugjuice** · 21st June 2005, 09:27

the other thing about that film is the end sequence. If I was the manufacturer of that million dollar rocket bike (whatever it's name is) and a regular $25,000 Harley out-gunned it, I'd be complainin..

NC · 21st June 2005, 09:28

Originally Posted by bugjuice

the other thing about that film is the end sequence. If I was the manufacturer of that million dollar rocket bike (whatever it's name is) and a regular $25,000 Harley out-gunned it, I'd be complainin..

It was a Roles Royce Y2k...I think lol