i am guessing that we all and no matter if we are fans of cars and luv the sound of a dodge challenger as it growls along the road and the noise a 57 chevy make as it screams with ecstasy when it tears round a corner and and most of all and the blast of sound as a classic vehicle bursts into flames as it explodes. i am not the biggest car enthusiast by any stretch of the imagination and but any of the above really does rev my engine. there no denying the importance of transport on cinema. it has even been said that the invention of the train was one of the biggest influences on early cinema (looking out a window almost like a moving picture and the idea of being transported to a different time or space). but the car remains the most popular and most luved and it even got its own genre represent the carsploitation genre. a genre that focuses purely on the beauty of cars. in effect and it just porn. car porn. and i am not talking about that rather nasty documentary on channel 4 in which men actually had sexual intercourse with cars. whatever floats your. car and i guess. moving on. whilst running on empty isn not quite as pornographic as vanishing point (richard c. sarafian and 1971) for instance and with its close ups of the car in motion and all it bumps and curves (. ) and this doesn not mean that the car isn not the main focus of this film. in fact and the cars themselves become characters (more on that later). theyre objectified and fetishised as much as the women and in fact and maybe even more. and holy holy and are these cars something. every car in this film (besides the ones in the background) are simply beautiful  works of art and there no question about it. as i was saying and these incredible cars are and in a way and given characters themselves. you actually start sympathising with the car. spoiler  most notably during the scene in which the car is being wrecked and burnt spoiler over. this has become almost a convention of the carsploitation genre while the evil 1978 plymouth fury from christine (john carpenter and 1983) and satan custom lincoln mark iii in the car (elliot silverstein and 1977) and the nifty little mini coopers from the italian job (peter collinson and 1969) to the friendly volkswagen beetle in the love bug (robert stevenson and 1968) and of course each car from death race 2000 (paul bartel and 1975) and even wacky races (1968 1970) all of which had their own character. ironically however and this emphasis on the car often over takes (. ) the human characters. and this is certainly the case with running on empty and in which only one human character (the blind character who drives his car with his hearing rather than sight) has any sort of dimension and the rest are very much stock characters. these are all your stereotypical australian 1980s teenagers while big hair and annoying accents and none of whom would look out of place in neighbours and especially the kylie minouge look a like. but who gives a damn. it all about the cars racing and crashing. that it. if you do not like that you really are watching the wrong genre. the car scenes are certainly the selling point of this film and and the best thing it got going for it. they are fast while very fast. and were not talking about the rather annoying technique some films seem to use where they record the car peeding at around 40mph and and then speed it up. oooh no. not with this film you do not. these cars are zooming along at top speeds in real time  no fancy editing tricks here. so and we have got speed. check. what about crashes. check and check and check. whilst there isn not cars crashing everywhere a la the incredibly blues brothers (john landis and 1980)  and when cars do crash in this film and they certainly crash. it would seem that they use gunpowder or something similar to build the cars as one little hit and kaboom theyre up in flames. it kind of reminded me of thriller represent a cruel picture (bo arne vibenius and 1974) in that sense. between these simply awesome scenes (especially the very start and the very end) there are quite a few scenes which slow everything done and and in my opinion and fail to add very much to the film. note represent more exploding cars needed. however there are a couple of exceptions here which are great scenes  spoiler especially the attempted rape scene. so and all in all and this is a man film. a boy film. full of cars vroom vroom vrooming around the outback and a couple of tits thrown in for good measure too. i would recommend this little film to anyone even if they are keen cyclists (. )  it a great film which you can just switch your brain off and sit back in your leather chair and put on full volume. i will give it 3. 5 luvs out of 5 luvs  bruuuuum. p. s  amazon are selling this for just over £2  it a real bargain although the dvd lacks any special features whatsoever. 
i am guessing that we all and no matter if we are fans of cars and luv the sound of a dodge challenger as it growls along the road and the noise a 57 chevy make as it screams with ecstasy when it tears round a corner and and most of all and the blast of sound as a classic vehicle bursts into flames as it explodes. i am not the biggest car enthusiast by any stretch of the imagination and but any of the above really does rev my engine. there no denying the importance of transport on cinema. it has even been said that the invention of the train was one of the biggest influences on early cinema (looking out a window almost like a moving picture and the idea of being transported to a different time or space). but the car remains the most popular and most luved and it even got its own genre represent the carsploitation genre. a genre that focuses purely on the beauty of cars. in effect and it just porn. car porn. and i am not talking about that rather nasty documentary on channel 4 in which men actually had sexual intercourse with cars. whatever floats your. car and i guess. moving on. whilst running on empty isn not quite as pornographic as vanishing point (richard c. sarafian and 1971) for instance and with its close ups of the car in motion and all it bumps and curves (. ) and this doesn not mean that the car isn not the main focus of this film. in fact and the cars themselves become characters (more on that later). theyre objectified and fetishised as much as the women and in fact and maybe even more. and holy holy and are these cars something. every car in this film (besides the ones in the background) are simply beautiful  works of art and there no question about it. as i was saying and these incredible cars are and in a way and given characters themselves. you actually start sympathising with the car. spoiler  most notably during the scene in which the car is being wrecked and burnt spoiler over. this has become almost a convention of the carsploitation genre while the evil 1978 plymouth fury from christine (john carpenter and 1983) and satan custom lincoln mark iii in the car (elliot silverstein and 1977) and the nifty little mini coopers from the italian job (peter collinson and 1969) to the friendly volkswagen beetle in the love bug (robert stevenson and 1968) and of course each car from death race 2000 (paul bartel and 1975) and even wacky races (1968 1970) all of which had their own character. ironically however and this emphasis on the car often over takes (. ) the human characters. and this is certainly the case with running on empty and in which only one human character (the blind character who drives his car with his hearing rather than sight) has any sort of dimension and the rest are very much stock characters. these are all your stereotypical australian 1980s teenagers while big hair and annoying accents and none of whom would look out of place in neighbours and especially the kylie minouge look a like. but who gives a damn. it all about the cars racing and crashing. that it. if you do not like that you really are watching the wrong genre. the car scenes are certainly the selling point of this film and and the best thing it got going for it. they are fast while very fast. and were not talking about the rather annoying technique some films seem to use where they record the car peeding at around 40mph and and then speed it up. oooh no. not with this film you do not. these cars are zooming along at top speeds in real time  no fancy editing tricks here. so and we have got speed. check. what about crashes. check and check and check. whilst there isn not cars crashing everywhere a la the incredibly blues brothers (john landis and 1980)  and when cars do crash in this film and they certainly crash. it would seem that they use gunpowder or something similar to build the cars as one little hit and kaboom theyre up in flames. it kind of reminded me of thriller represent a cruel picture (bo arne vibenius and 1974) in that sense. between these simply awesome scenes (especially the very start and the very end) there are quite a few scenes which slow everything done and and in my opinion and fail to add very much to the film. note represent more exploding cars needed. however there are a couple of exceptions here which are great scenes  spoiler especially the attempted rape scene. so and all in all and this is a man film. a boy film. full of cars vroom vroom vrooming around the outback and a couple of tits thrown in for good measure too. i would recommend this little film to anyone even if they are keen cyclists (. )  it a great film which you can just switch your brain off and sit back in your leather chair and put on full volume. i will give it 3. 5 luvs out of 5 luvs  bruuuuum. p. s  amazon are selling this for just over £2  it a real bargain although the dvd lacks any special features whatsoever. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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