| Re: bikes in the movies
Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
> >I recently watched Arabesque on TCM. I was amused by
> > the implausible scene where Prof Pollock (portrayed
> > by Gregory Peck,) totally goofed on some sort of truth
> > serum and tumbled by his waylayers out of a moving vehicle
> > onto a busy freeway, finds a loose bicycle and proceeds to
> > ride it, lane-splitting and going the wrong way.
> >
> > (Sophia Loren looked like a high-maintenance hooker.)
>
> It was an appalling-bad movie, considering they rated it 3.5 stars (out of
> 4).
My movie rating system is simple.
"That was a good movie. It had three bicycles in it."
Or: "Bad movie. No bicycles."
My wife humors me on this.
Actually, it's a little more complicated. For example, I can honestly
say "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was a nearly perfect movie. If only
it had a bicycle in it...
But the 1999 movie of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Calista
Flockhart, Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer etc. was perfect. For me, it
was the best-ever presentation of Shakespeare. And ah, the music!
And having the protagonists wheeling about on antique bicycles? Well!
What more could a retro-grouch ask?
- Frank Krygowski
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