Friday, July 20, 2007

Cranked up

A local video store runs a 99-cent special on all titles every Thursday.
Yesterday, I walked out with a widescreen copy of the 2006 summer actioner "Crank," co-starring a 31-year-old actress Amy Smart ("Varsity Blues," "Rat Race," the NBC miniseries "The '70s"), which is really the main reason why I rented "Crank."
But it offered a really interesting DVD feature, one that I'd never before seen on a disc I've had in my player. This special feature allowed you to change all F-bombs you'd hear in the regular version to "frickin'" or another variation.
This, a movie where the main character knocks over an IV stand that's in use while he's running down a hospital corridor. This, a movie where the same main character holds a gun to the head of a nurse for quite a while on the same hospital visit.
This, a movie where our main character assaults a convenience-store clerk (yanking the clerk front-first over a counter) before robbing cans and cans of energy drink from a store cooler.
This, a movie where our main character hijacks a police officer's motorcycle.
This, a movie where our main character snaps another character's neck ... and, a movie where our main character shoots an enemy in the corner of an alley, splattering blood over the face of one of our main character's friends who was being threatened by the enemy. And let's not forget the severed hand.
This, a movie where our main character fornicates with his girlfriend in the middle of a Chinatown public square (to the horror of some witnesses, and the humor of others).
And this, a movie where our main character drives through floor-to-ceiling glass windows in a shopping mall, leading police in a chase past clothing stores before our main character's car turns up on its side straight onto an upward escalator. (It was, to use a vulgar but relevant term, flippin' awesome to see that car ride the escalator on its side.)
Would anyone who would be encouraged to watch this film on the condition that they could remove all F-bombs from the script really want to see theft, robbery, public sex, terroristic threats and murder in the movie? (Believe it or not, the main character engaged in most of that to save his own life. It's a complicated tale.)
For what it was, I'd recommend "Crank." But if you couldn't handle the F-bombs, you couldn't handle this movie.
The disc's dialogue option was a waste of space.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

"Fornicates." Nice word.

I haven't seen Crank, and I probably won't. My movie time is rather limited, so I must be choosy.