April 11, 2007
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NASCAR…..pfui!
This weekend is the Samsung 500, a NASCAR race held at the Texas Motor Speedway.
Now there’s a “sport” deserving of quotation marks, as it strikes me as being a “sport” on a par with ice dancing.
Except ice dancing is vastly more entertaining. I’ve never seen the point of auto racing, unless one is one of the drivers. A bunch of cars zooming madly around a track hundreds of times? Where’s the interest factor in that?
Yet people have been arriving at TMS since last weekend, anxiously awaiting this week’s festivities.
Comments (10)
Oh, it THAT why you haven’t seen Cars yet? I promise you, they don’t show whole entire races in the movie, just the very very few laps where Something Important happens. The rest of it is about the characters and their relationships.
Actually, I did see Cars a few weeks ago.
You know what it is?
An animated, kid-suitable version of “Doc Hollywood”…the one with Michael Fox as a newly-minted plastic surgeon on his way to Hollywood, only he has an accident in a small town and has to stay to fix the mess he made.
Really, the similarity was startling.
Heh. Yeah, we noticed that, but then the whole family can watch Cars.
BTW, I remember when we saw Sweet Home Alabama people kept saying that it was another Doc Hollywood remake, but I completely disagreed. SHA was a Philadelphia Story remake, don’t you think?
Haven’t seen that one, I fear.
A movie that was a near-total knock-off of an author’s series was “Aragon”; I cannot imagine why Anne McCaffery hasn’t filed suit for plagarism.
And you know what’s so sad is that “Doc Hollywood” ought to have been alright for family viewing. There’s quite a bit of it I remember, such as him reading the letters to the illiterate couple, and receiving the pig as payment, and the Squash festival with the mayor trying to entice him to remain there as the town’s physician, then rushing off to help a citizen with her barbeque.
It’s a pity how many otherwise acceptable movies are deliberately junked up to get the coveted PG-13 or R rating.
They should have some of the death row inmates dash across the track. Award points to the driver for either hitting or not hitting. Might spice things up a bit.
TIM!
That’s just awful. =8^o
Amusing, mind, but awful.
Why do people (my husband, sons, in-laws, etc) watch? They want to see a CRASH! They’re also slightly interested in who wins. But the anticipation of seeing a crash is why they’re there! IMHO
The idea about the death-row dash is pretty good!
I daresay you’re right, Jeanne…it’s sort of ice hockey on wheels.