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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 10:39:50 GMT -5
Closest we may ever get to seeing this Hanna Barbera classic as a live action piece...
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 21, 2020 11:10:57 GMT -5
I'm not sure there's enough plot there for a movie. But I'd like to see someone give it a good try.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2020 12:17:04 GMT -5
I'm not sure there's enough plot there for a movie. But I'd like to see someone give it a good try. Could it have less plot than Road Warrior/Fury Road which are essentially 2 hour race movies? -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 21, 2020 12:19:25 GMT -5
I'm not sure there's enough plot there for a movie. But I'd like to see someone give it a good try. Could it have less plot than Road Warrior/Fury Road which are essentially 2 hour race movies? -M That's fair. But they were really good two hour race movies. |
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Post by brutalis on Apr 21, 2020 13:05:00 GMT -5
Now that is just too cool.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 21, 2020 14:38:16 GMT -5
Closest we may ever get to seeing this Hanna Barbera classic as a live action piece... -M Finish should have had him rescue Penelope Pittstop from the railroad tracks. |
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Post by brutalis on Apr 21, 2020 16:16:49 GMT -5
Closest we may ever get to seeing this Hanna Barbera classic as a live action piece... -M Finish should have had him rescue Penelope Pittstop from the railroad tracks. That's a Dudley Do-Right thing saving ladies after Snidely Whiplash ties them to the tracks. Ol' Dick Dastardly never was so Snide or Dastardly as to be into bondage  |
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Post by The Captain on Apr 21, 2020 16:21:23 GMT -5
That was 37 flavors of awesome! Between this and the Renault commercial using the D&D cartoon as real-life characters, I'm really happy.
And for the record, Penelope Pitstop was my first crush. I'm comfortable enough with this group to admit that.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 21, 2020 17:09:04 GMT -5
Finish should have had him rescue Penelope Pittstop from the railroad tracks. That's a Dudley Do-Right thing saving ladies after Snidely Whiplash ties them to the tracks. Ol' Dick Dastardly never was so Snide or Dastardly as to be into bondage Not quite, Penelope was a regular victim of The Hooded Claw (her uncle, in disguise), in her spin-off series, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Dastardly and Muttly got spun of into Dastardly & Muttley in their Flying Machines I was just a little too young for Wacky Races; but, I do recall watching Dastardly & Muttley, which my dad also enjoyed, as a life-long aviation enthusiast. I recall when we were watching Ken Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and Terry Thomas is up to no good, my dad made a crack about Dick Dastardly and I had all but forgotten the series (I was 3 when it was on). |
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Post by dbutler69 on May 14, 2020 14:34:21 GMT -5
Plot? Come on, they could have made this Cannonball Run style.
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Post by brutalis on May 14, 2020 17:06:42 GMT -5
Plot? Come on, they could have made this Cannonball Run style. That is pretty much what the original HB cartoon was. Since Wacky Races came 1st in 1968 (with cooler concept cars) and then Cannonball Run came in 1981 that means Cannonball is a copycat! |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 14, 2020 20:25:56 GMT -5
Plot? Come on, they could have made this Cannonball Run style. That is pretty much what the original HB cartoon was. Since Wacky Races came 1st in 1968 (with cooler concept cars) and then Cannonball Run came in 1981 that means Cannonball is a copycat! Well, Gumball Rally and Cannonball both preceded Cannonball Run, so we are talking generations of copies.  Really, the whole thing started around 1965, with Blake Edwards' The Great Race and Ken Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Their success leads to Those Magnificent Men in their Jaunty Jalopies and Wacky Races, in 1969, and Cannonball and Gumball Rally, in 1976, before we get to Burt and the gang, in Cannonball Run, in 1981. I always found Gumball Rally to be the better film out of those based on the illegal road race. Little better level of acting in it, with Michael Sarrazin and Raul Julia, as well as Gary Busey, in all his glory. |
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Post by The Captain on May 14, 2020 21:34:33 GMT -5
That is pretty much what the original HB cartoon was. Since Wacky Races came 1st in 1968 (with cooler concept cars) and then Cannonball Run came in 1981 that means Cannonball is a copycat! Well, Gumball Rally and Cannonball both preceded Cannonball Run, so we are talking generations of copies. Really, the whole thing started around 1965, with Blake Edwards' The Great Race and Ken Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Their success leads to Those Magnificent Men in their Jaunty Jalopies and Wacky Races, in 1969, and Cannonball and Gumball Rally, in 1976, before we get to Burt and the gang, in Cannonball Run, in 1981. I always found Gumball Rally to be the better film out of those based on the illegal road race. Little better level of acting in it, with Michael Sarrazin and Raul Julia, as well as Gary Busey, in all his glory. "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was released in 1963, predating both of the 1965 films you mentioned, which were just variations of the former's general plot of a cross-country race. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 15, 2020 0:26:46 GMT -5
Well, Gumball Rally and Cannonball both preceded Cannonball Run, so we are talking generations of copies. Really, the whole thing started around 1965, with Blake Edwards' The Great Race and Ken Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Their success leads to Those Magnificent Men in their Jaunty Jalopies and Wacky Races, in 1969, and Cannonball and Gumball Rally, in 1976, before we get to Burt and the gang, in Cannonball Run, in 1981. I always found Gumball Rally to be the better film out of those based on the illegal road race. Little better level of acting in it, with Michael Sarrazin and Raul Julia, as well as Gary Busey, in all his glory. "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" was released in 1963, predating both of the 1965 films you mentioned, which were just variations of the former's general plot of a cross-country race. Yeah; but, if you look at specific characters, there is a definite connection to The Great Race and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machine. Dick Dastardly is very much Terry Thomas, with a bit of Jack Lemon's Professor Fate. |
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