Bike movies? Or Movies with bikes?

[pritch]

The Motorcycle Diaries is supposed to be worth watching, can anyone recommend its viewing?

Yeah, I watched and enjoyed it. I wouldn't have thought of it particularly as a motorcycle movie but at least there is a bike in it. For a while anyway.

It's really about the experiences that influenced Che Guevara to take the path that he did politically.

Definitely worth a look

[TLDV8]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073709/

http://sepnet.com/rcramer/biker.htm

http://motorcycles.about.com/cs/vend...ssicvideos.htm

[Krayy]

Fled:
Dumb ass bike chase where a pair of Duc 916s can't outrun a cadillac

Charlies Angels -Full Throttle:
Dumb ass MX race scene

The World is Not Enough:
Dumb ass hong kong rooftop chase with Beemer vs Helicopter (actually this isnt so much dumb ass as un-freakin-believable)

xXx:
DUMB ass MX chase through a columbian drugs factory

[Wolf]

In Tomb Raider there's the scene in her gargre and a brief scene out on the road involving a bike.

Think it might be "Never Say Never Again" Bond movie where he has a Q-Branch motorcycle...

[APPLE]

4 me?''no limits''1935 classic''shuttleworth snap''george formby TT racer?so funny man?

[dawnrazor]

Never understood why they bother having mics on their gear when filming if the foley artists are going to dub over the sounds later. They did a similar thing in Spiderman when "Flash" Thompson turned up in his new wheels and took MJ for a spin - the engine noise is from a completely different car.

Fair enough if the vehicle is the Batmobile and they want it to sound like some weird prototype or they've set it in the future and they want the cars to sound like they're electirc but for contemporary movies WTF is wrong with just getting some bugger to drive up in the appropriate vehicle for the image they want to convey and drive off? Why does Hollywood have to fuck everything around? "Erm, it's a trail bike, it's supposed to make this sort of noise, fix it up."

Due to the restraints of sound mixing and sound design, certain pitches and sounds just don't work, I can imagine a shitty 2 stroke at full tilt is one of those, also in the scenes where the kids are in close up, the bike is on a low rider trailer being pulled behind a truck, so the engine wouldn't even be on, the other takes are stunt people, and location sound probably wasn't recorded as it wouldn't be a main camera unit and unlikely to have a sound recordist. As for replacing the engine sound, you need something that won't compete with the dialogue or music, and the sounds of cars, bikes etc are low on the list of things we need to keep real! Most films are trying to tell a story after all, and if you get distracted by a horrible sound, you lose the audience, its that simple. Take it from one that knows these things

[Wolf]

ooooh, but doesn't it drive you nuts when the kids xr in Term 2 makes two smoke noises!

On the XT225 forum, some observant bugger noticed that in "Deep Impact", the bike on which young Elijah Wood flees the cometary destruction is an XT225.

I have the movie on VHS but the kids destroyed the VHS player so I bought it on DVD (it was already on my "Must buy on DVD" list and it was in the cheap bin so I'm not totally mad) and checked it out - sure 'nuff, it's an XT225.

Being mindful of larriken's post, I paid especial attention to the sound effects and was pleased to hear the sound of a 4-stroke single - at least one movie got it right!

Also good to see that young Mr Wood was actually riding the thing through the traffic jam - clearly visible and identifiable. Sure, they would have switched to stunt riders for other, gnarlier, bits of it but at least Elijah was willing to ride it through the easier bits rather than have closeups on him against a bluescreen interspersed with distance shots of a stunt double.

[McJim]

Black Rain's got a bit of bike action in it - street/dockyard race at the beginning and a bike chase through mud at the end. Blade 2 has one bike scene.

The Island where Euan MacGreggor is asked "what was that?" when a bike drives past and he says "I don't know.....but I want one."

[Wolf]

The Island where Euan MacGreggor is asked "what was that?" when a bike drives past and he says "I don't know.....but I want one."

You'd think he'd know, considering he rode one from the UK to New York...

[Shadows]

A big dredge.

I was reminded the other night about a movie with Charlie Sheen in it called Fixing The Shadow, or Beyond The Law (depending on what part of the world you are in).
Typical "undercover cop infiltrates gang but becomes their friend and finds it hard to go through with the bust but it is his job so he has no choice" scenario.
Not too bad a movie though.