>>>>>>Don't you guys over in the USA fear for your very lives every time you drive? On all the US movies it seems that as soon as a US car hits anything else it immediately bursts into flames.
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>>>>>>This even extends to non motor vehicles. In an episode of the Simpsons once, during a street go-cart race with Bart, one of the carts crashed and burst into flames, even though there were no combustibles on board.
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>>>>>Right before our cars burst into flames we run over a fruit cart, sending pedestrians scattering.
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>>>>>And whenever we witness something upsetting we throw up.
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>>>>Don't forget we only drive mini coopers so we can prepare for our next bank robbery... :o)
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>>>I loved that movie. Supposedly the original of "The Italian Job" was even better but I liked the modern just fine. The line I can't forget was spoken by Donald Sutherland to Mark Wahlberg: "Find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with and never let them go."
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>>>Charlize Theron hauling a** in her Mini like Danica Patrick did strain credibility, but I didn't mind ;-)
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>>>Have you seen "Ocean's 11"? Kind of similar.
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>>Both good movies. The Ocean's movies after '11' were not quite as good.
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>No, not even close. 12 was particularly weak, as even George Clooney conceded.
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>The ones I suspect I will rewatch again and again are the Bourne movies.

They've become the benchmark for tough, gritty, realistic, violent, edge-of-your-seat movies. The later Bonds have tried to emulate.

Just as the gruelling, harrowing beach assault scenes in "Private Ryan" have become the benchmark for realistic war movies. They all feature bullets whizzing past your ears, the sound of spent shells tinkling to the ground, shaky newsreel like footage, etc.

Incidentally, the death of Bourne's GF in the 2nd was such a disappointment to me, after all they'd been through. I had a similar feeling after the little girl was aliened in Alien 3.