Tomb Raider voted best bike chase on film

[clint640]

NZ Herald Article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/9/...ectid=10513016

...in which they demonstrate quite a lack of knowledge about the motorcycles & movies in question.

Clint

Oops, forgot to check the news section... where's that delete button gone?

[riffer]

They obviously never saw Mission Impossible 2, although I'd mark that one down for constantly changing tyres on the motorcycles.

Still, its the movies. It's not like its reality or anything.

[Big Dave]

Worried about an anorak-ed spotty geek screaming re-post clinty?

[clint640]

Oh yeah, wracked with guilt.

I might have to watch Tomb Raider now so I can appreciate Ms Jolie's efforts on the legendary TRX80.

MI2 was bullshit. The idea that our hero can't outrun a Nissan Patrol through city streets on a 916 but can shoot at someone behind them while doing a rolling stoppie is requiring just a little bit too much of my disbelief to be suspended.

Clint

[breakaway]

The Matrix Reloaded Keanu Reeves races away from agents into oncoming traffic

Wasn't that trinity?

[Big Dave]

great escape.

magnum force. clint (other one) chases starsky around the aircraft carrier.

terminator.

[n0regret5]

i think transporter 2..or might've been hitman. the bikers were the bad guys but fuck they pulled off some awesome stuff. i'll get back to you on that one
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[MD]

Another 48 Hours. The Eddie Murphie & Nick Nolte flick.
Those were some real bad arse Bikers in that one. And they knew how to ride.

[90s]

The Matrix Reloaded Keanu Reeves races away from agents into oncoming traffic

Wasn't that trinity?

Yep, or her stunt double. There's a good bit on the special features where they show the making of this and they do cut through 1/2 the cars. The other 1/2 were added in GCI post-prod, but its still fairly exciting watching that Duc lane-split against the traffic, and pretty cool to watch them choreograph it out.

[Krayy]

Holy shit!!

I couldn't find a single correct fact in the whole article. Who the f**k is the Monkey typing out this trash in our "leading" newspaper? And presumably if it's in the motoring section, it's written by a motoring journo. God help us.

List of f**k ups:

1. Tomb Raider - Angelina Jolie's sexy heroine races to the rescue
Chase? She was in a damn garage and was not "leather-clad: as the article suggests. If she was in leather, then it would be the scene where she's riding to the auction house and not on a "heroic resuce"

2. The Great Escape - Steve McQueen's chase sequence to the Swiss border
I'll give him this one.

3. Top Gun - Tom Cruise rides to see his new love interest
She wasn't his love interest at that point, and she was chasing him. And the whole "chase" was going through 1 red light.

4. The Matrix Reloaded Keanu Reeves races away from agents into oncoming traffic
It was Trinity, numbnuts.

5. Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong are chased by a Terminator.
FFS, Furlong was being chased by Robert Patrick, and Arnie was chasing him.

[avgas]

Torque, someone opens the throttle on a Y2K and stays on the road......only in the movies eh