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His Wife's Ridiculous Car Chase Scene


was the car scene with his wife the most ridiculous car chase scene since the blues brothers or what?

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Pretty bad... I tried to find a way to make it work so I'm saying she was freaked out at first and then was delerious from the CO2 fumes.

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It was laugh-out-loud funny, and intentionally so. I loved it.

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One of the best scenes in the movie...hysterical.

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Does anybody know exactly where the car crash scene was filmed? It looked like a small town, but I'm sure today the area is full of tract homes, strip malls, and chain restaurants.

And as hilarious as the scene was, I think it distracted from the rest of the movie, which is supposed to be about Billy's time travels and this was the one scene he wasn't in.

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A distraught woman, half-mad with grief and shock at hearing that her father is dead and her husband is clinging to life after a plane crash, jumps into her Caddie and tears around trying to find the hospital. Ahh, yes, the stuff great comedy is made of......if you're a sadist.

To me, it was the ONLY realistic scene in the whole movie.


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And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

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As you can see from this thread, others also thought it was funny. It's called dark comedy. Naturally you can interpret the scene in any way you like, but I think the intention of the director was to make the audience laugh.

The most obvious "clue" for this is probably the point where the man says something like "oh my god, there she comes again", which you can't possibly take seriously.

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Not to be anal but, I believe you mean CO gas which is Carbon Monoxide and not CO2 which is Carbon Dioxide

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That´s some inspired, wonderfully unhinged stuff right there. All the more admirable how G.R.Hill effectively slotted something very funny in the middle of an essentially sad passage in the film and hit all the right notes so that both these emotions fit together smoothly. In fact, the director is in total control of his stuff throughout the movie, hardly ever making a false move. Things work.



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