Stupid movie reference to a Land Rover

[AbnMike]

So for some reason I decided to browse for something mind-numbing to watch last night and ended up starting First Kill on Netflix. Apparently it's a Bruce Willis bomb from 2017 (1 star on Rotten Tomatoes).

I didn't finish it. Horrible dialogue, bad cinematography, and Bruce Willis seemed like he was being forced to be in the movie, but not being forced to act.

But within the first 10 minutes or so a rich guy takes his wife and constantly-beat-up kid to the country to go on a deer hunt. Arriving at his Aunt's house where they are to stay they park the Land Rover HSE and the Aunt, in forced dialogue that had to be paid for by Honda says

"You aren't taking that are you (indicating the HSE)?"

Father: "Yes."

Aunt: "That thing ain't going to make it anywhere, you'll take the Ridgeline"
(camera pan to Honda Ridgeline parked under a tree)

That's about when I turned it off.

Now I've had a Ridgeline and the cult that surrounds that truck is pretty legendary. There are forums discussing the Ridgeline placement in that movie even but good fucking lord, I understand paid product placement but couldn't it be relevant? I mean there's no fucking way any ridgeline would go where any HSE can go, no matter who's driving the damned thing.

 

[SCSL]

Reminds me of the time in Colorado when I had to rescue a guy in a Subaru Outback on the fire road heading toward the trail, not even the trail itself. He had been watching too many Subaru commercials.

 

[DiscoPhoto]

Reminds me of how funny it is when people with 322s call for parts. "OH N ITS THE HSE MODEL"

"Alright then so you werent able to afford the supercharged I take it?"

 

[rover rob]

So for some reason I decided to browse for something mind-numbing to watch last night and ended up starting First Kill on Netflix. Apparently it's a Bruce Willis bomb from 2017 (1 star on Rotten Tomatoes).

I didn't finish it. Horrible dialogue, bad cinematography, and Bruce Willis seemed like he was being forced to be in the movie, but not being forced to act.

But within the first 10 minutes or so a rich guy takes his wife and constantly-beat-up kid to the country to go on a deer hunt. Arriving at his Aunt's house where they are to stay they park the Land Rover HSE and the Aunt, in forced dialogue that had to be paid for by Honda says

"You aren't taking that are you (indicating the HSE)?"

Father: "Yes."

Aunt: "That thing ain't going to make it anywhere, you'll take the Ridgeline"
(camera pan to Honda Ridgeline parked under a tree)

That's about when I turned it off.

Now I've had a Ridgeline and the cult that surrounds that truck is pretty legendary. There are forums discussing the Ridgeline placement in that movie even but good fucking lord, I understand paid product placement but couldn't it be relevant? I mean there's no fucking way any ridgeline would go where any HSE can go, no matter who's driving the damned thing.

i actually watched that whole thing ( drunk so I didn't care ) it never got any better.

 

[kennith]

Sounds like a reliability joke, to me. If you want to feel good about it, just imagine the original Honda Crossroad.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[Blue]

I watched Troy yesterday. Talk about a bad movie....

 

[kennith]

I watched Troy yesterday. Talk about a bad movie....

Really? Aside from the deliberate shield poking, I thought the action was pretty damned cool; seeing interpretations of what the martial arts of that time might have included, as displayed by a character meant to be extremely proficient. Javelins aren't normally depicted as being bad ass, but they're nasty fuckers in reality.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[Blue]

The action was pretty good but the acting was horrible. You could practically hear the directory yelling into his megaphone at Brad Pitt, "Look pensively to the west into the setting sun." In a few scenes (such as with the Legolas the elf dude and his older brother in the movie) they looked like they were about to crack up over the silly costumes they were wearing.

 

[kennith]

The action was pretty good but the acting was horrible. You could practically hear the directory yelling into his megaphone at Brad Pitt, "Look pensively to the west into the setting sun." In a few scenes (such as with the Legolas the elf dude and his older brother in the movie) they looked like they were about to crack up over the silly costumes they were wearing.

Huh. I'll have to watch it again, then. I was so busy being impressed by all that action I guess I just didn't notice. When they started with the javelins I just got too excited. I'd never seen that on the silver screen before.

I was just thinking about pulling out the disc before you posted that, actually. Now I'm going to.

Cheers,

Kennith