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Old 04-23-2014, 03:38 PM
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This movie came out last year and appears to have been a bomb. The website never listed more than a few theatres showing it and it never came closer than 100 miles from Tucson, to my knowledge. I assume NHRA lost big-time on any involvement they had in producing it.

All that said, however, we got it from Netflix yesterday (it became available April 8th), both watched it and both really liked it (four stars out of five in the Netflix rating system). Being old and being a drag race fan helps, of course, but the acting and storyline were both much better than I expected. The vintage TV and film footage of the actual events were well woven into the narrative. There were a lot of great pictures of vintage drag race machinery, both in the original footage and in the scenes shot when the movie was made.

If you get DVD's from Netflix, I recommend seeing this film. It wasn't as good as "The World's Fastest Indian" (that movie had Anthony Hopkins), but it was well worth an evening spent watching it.

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Bought the Blu Ray DVD last week watched it a couple days later on MY 60" LED , cranked the Surround Sound up......GOOD MOVIE.


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Bought the Blu Ray DVD last week watched it a couple days later on MY 60" LED , cranked the Surround Sound up......GOOD MOVIE.


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But headed for the 70's.

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I also thought it was awesome and underrated. lots of nitro crackle. the film footage and all the old drag race vehicles in the movie were pretty cool. two thums up.

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Now that's FUNNY!



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Went to the premier release here in Indy great movie all of the heavy hitters were there when i went Force and his girls,Dixon! Snake and mongoose were there also. I think it will get around eventually

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Thanks for the info, guys. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Anything objectionable, if I watch it with my daughters (or especially religious wife)?

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Thanks for the info, guys. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Anything objectionable, if I watch it with my daughters (or especially religious wife)?

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I'm probably not the one to ask, but there is smoking (cigarettes) and there is some implied infidelity. It's rated PG-13, I think. Oh, and Jungle Pam and Linda Vaughn make brief appearances in the old footage.

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Is Jungle Pam in her fishnet top?

Nope, just a couple of quick shots! She looked good though!




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Bwahahahahahahahaha. That was a spit your Coke all over your computer line.

I bet that went over a few heads. LOL.

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You guys are so FUNNY..........everyone is a COMEDIAN!


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Only thing I saw was a very brief shot of a snot nosed kid feeling up his Girl friend under the bleachers. I would have no issues taking the family. Here is the IMDB listing for it. Rated PG-13 for smoking throught & some language.

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We checked on it last night (my daughter has all the Netflix, Zulu, Amazon, etc.) She said it was like $15 to rent it over one of those services! How much is the DVD??

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Rented on Redbox yesterday. I liked it.

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We checked on it last night (my daughter has all the Netflix, Zulu, Amazon, etc.) She said it was like $15 to rent it over one of those services! How much is the DVD??
You can buy the DVD at Wally World for $10 I think. I rented it from Redbox for $1.30.

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Thanks. I'll check Redbox!

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