Following on from a thread about MadMax last night on Ch5 I'm interested to know of any bike films I've not seen Can anyone add to the list? Easy Rider MadMax 1 Torque Biker Boyz I dont think films like MI-2 and Kill Bill 2 count just cos they had a bike in a scene BTW -- Vass ................................................ YZF-R1, CBR1100xx-x, A4 Cab http://www.naldernet.plus.com/index2.html Gamertag: RIPPPER
"Girl on a Motorcycle" http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0063013/ "Hell's Angels on Wheels" http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0061758/
"I bought a Vampire Motorcycle" - and what's that film from the early 70s where a bike gang leader is killed, buried on his bike and comes back to life?
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Vass amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom: Over rated but some of Jack Nicholson's facial expressions when he's on the back of Peter Fonda's bike are a hoot. Not as good as 2 but better than 3. Saw a trailer for this at the cinema. That was enough. Anything spelt with a 'z' for a 's' is bound to be gay in the extreme and not worthy of consideration IMO.
"Stone" : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072209/ "Aggression" : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072618/ "Stone" features Hugh Kears-Bryn who played the Toecutter in Mad Max. [1] I saw "Agression" when I was about 19 and it had quite an impact on me at the time. I'd prolly think it was crap now, mind. [1] one of the joys in watching Aussie movies and TV is that they have so few actors that you can spot people from other movies all the time. I remember watching "The Flying Doctors" and leaping from the sofa shouting "he was the pig-killer in Mad Max 3!"
In what whay is MM2 better than MM1? Apart from the opening scene, MM2 is hardly even a motorcycle movie. MM1 has loads of real bikes in it, and better, they're mostly air-cooled Kawasakis from the 70s!
Pip wrote: I was thinking of that film: Psychomania (1974) tracked down on: URL:http://sepnet.com/rcramer/biker.htm -- John SV650 Black it is and naked
Which surely raises the question: WTF were you doing watching "The Flying Doctors"? And, on a vaguely-related note: we all know who wrote the theme tune to "Neighbours", don't we? That was a shocker to find out, I can tell you.
In uk.rec.motorcycles, Champ amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom: It's more gritty - More gritty than having your lovely wife and baby run down by dirty faced motorcycling hoodlums. There's a few in the second one too. TBH, I've not seen MM1 for ages and have been known to confuse the two (MM1&MM2)
It was the 80s, and I had a bit of a "all things Australian" kick going on. Eventually got it out of my system (or at least under control" by going there. Tony Hatch - why were you shocked?
Bike films are almost exclusively a load of old shit. Why bother? It's not as if you'll find me watching guitar films, or films that extensively feature goldfish. Surely you can use better criteria to decide which films to watch than whether or not they have a lot of bikes in them.
Close : "Little Fauss and Big Halsy" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065989/ Pretty good movie, as I recall.
Gritty? I think you mean "violent". I think you have. The only motorcycles featured in MM2 are: 1. The opening scene, when Max is being chased by some of the Lord Humungous's baddies. Wes with the Mohican (and his pretty boyfriend on the back, with the arse out of his leathers) is on a much modded Z1000. After the standoff he turns round and pulls a superb wheelie until out of sight over a rise in the road. 2. An XS1100 based sidecar[1] (with an MX-style "chair" goes across the screen once or twice 3. A couple of dirtbikes do pathetic dougnuts in the dirt in the night scene where the two captured good guys are strung up. [1] Read a letter in Superbike from the owner of this XS1100 at the time. He'd moved to Australia, shipping his XS11 over. He decided to try to break into the movie business, so sold the bike to finance giving up his job, etc. He completely failed as an actor, but the bike was used in MM2 - so at least his bike got in the movies.
Features a bit of tarmac racing right at the end, too. Those were the days when to be AMA champion you had to compete in 3 disciplines - one was 'long track" (i.e. dirt oval racing), another was road racing. Can't remember the third.
