9.16.2011

blockbuster bikes

It was bound to happen - bikes are everywhere now, and have made it back to the big screen and Hollywood.


Enter Premium Rush - The Matrix meets The Messenger. Here's the synopsis:

“A New York bike messenger is given an envelope by a young woman at an uptown Manhattan college and is told he has 90 minutes to deliver it to an address in Chinatown. Complications ensue when an undercover police office appears and demands the envelope on special grounds. The truth, hidden motivations, and the life-and-death stakes on all sides are revealed through a series of flashbacks as the cop and the messenger engage in a length-of-Manhattan chase, racing against time after the messenger discovers the precious nature of the envelope’s slender contents."

Not my breed of cycling, and definitely not a film that will give cyclists a good name, nor inspire a non-cyclist to get back on a bike. But kinda badass nonetheless.

So when the "cycle chic" film comes out, will it be more like "Sex and the City?"

4 comments:

Larry said...

This movie would be ten times better if it was just cute girls like you riding bikes to the ballpark

Pangolin said...

"So when the "cycle chic" film comes out, will it be more like "Sex and the City?" "

Yeah, except the bodies will be worth looking at.

kfg said...

"definitely not a film that will give cyclists a good name"

Ya mean like Bullitt and The French Connection did for drivers?

Kristin Tieche said...

@Larry - LOL! Maybe my next film project!

@kfg - Totally agree! Great butts and legs!