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I know this is a little 'welcome to yesterday' - but I saw this for the first time on the weekend...

The stupid UK presenters make Ellis, Donnon and co sound like the Discovery Channel. I mean a car-magazine calling it a 'Skyliner' and noting an SR20DET powered S14 has an 8-valve engine? Hmmm.

Plus that disrespectful UK-only soccer holigan style humour is best kept in the UK and should never be shown to anyone, ever.

These things aside - the footage of Nagata san doing a 328km/h Wangan run in an R33-GTR all but makes up for everything else on the DVD. The other highlights are a very 'drifty' corner taken on a busy, rainy, city street - and the S13 doing a burnout that all-but melts the road.

BenHPI - if you read this: The HPI DVDs are vastly superior in nearly every way. Keep up the good work - but try and get some crazy Shutoko/Wangan footage in - absolutely sensational.

Oh - there's another 'movie' on the same DVD about the UK car scene... I'm so happy we (Australia) followed the Japanese culture and not the Brits. Front-wheel burnouts in Barinas surrounded by pale, toothless poms... Blimey :)

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Oh - and while I'm reviewing... also saw Final Destination 2.

My one-word review: Harsh.

Slightly more extended version: Very harsh. I see now that Hollywood is using the power of CGI for evil rather than good. Kinda like George Lucas (Greedo shooting first - bah! I liked Han Solo better as a scoundrel).

I have never seen people killed in such grotesque, graphic and imaginative ways. I felt pretty harrowed by the whole experience. Cool (and bloody) car-crash at the start though. Always new Chevy Suburbans exploded on impact :)

Nice cameo from the Candyman. See it if you like blood and guts and seeing people squashed by glass.

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I only saw Final Dest2 the other week.. nice accident scene but rest was a bit overdone.. the 1st was good at the time though.

For a nice slash over the top kill fest see Kill Bill.. saw that last night, good for mindless hacking in Tarrantino style.

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Yeah i though final destination 2 was harsh too... i think i remember enjoying the 1st one more than i did the 2nd, although that smash scene in 2 was pretty amazing. I played the glass fall bit in slomode a few time too heheh.

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Originally posted by rrrage

Oh, and whilst on the topic of movies - Orgazmo is on tonight :)  

10:45 SBS (monday)

( movie done by the makers of south park... youll piss youself laughing ;) )

stop reinforcing teen stereotypes sam!!!

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