Wednesday, September 07, 2005
World of Make-Believe
Angrybob commented on his blog entry entitled Ugh: Torque, The Movie:
“I have spent the last several nights in a hotel which leaves me with HBO as my in-room entertainment when there is no internet access. I’m not a big TV guy, but its been quite a long time since I’ve gone to the movies now that I have kids. I had the misfortune to tune into Torque, the movie the other morning while I was packing up, etc.
As an Aprilia Mille R owner, I am embarrassed…truly ashamed. Within seconds, the movie identified itself as complete bullshit. It was the wheelie that was initiated at 160mph that that did it…in the opening scene! I know a guy back in
Now that the Aprilia brand has been soiled, there’s more…much more. This was like a bad car accident - you know you shouldn’t look but you simply have to watch as you go by. I simply had to look while I was packing up my suitcase (so much so that I was late for breakfast).
I’ve been off road with my Caponord and it wasn’t really that fun. I climbed a gravel hill and even that bike the way it is has limits off-road. To take sport bikes in the desert sand and have not even one token crash, I just shook my head, grabbed the remote, and killed it. And yes, I know this is for entertainment. There still should be boundaries between fiction and complete stupidity.
I have no idea what happened from there and don’t care. This was a dumb-ass movie that did nothing for sport bikers…even the already dumb-ass street ’stuntas’. I want to have the Aprilia
Truly, movies can sometimes be exaggerated and unreal this is why it is called the world of make-believe. However, those can only be true if they are dealing with fiction. If non-fiction are concerned I think it will be better to stick to the truth so as not to mislead the viewing public.
