Overall this movie's pretty good, but my friends and I laughed out loud at the part where the threshing combine chews up the car. Besides the absurdity of the whole set-up (Mary Ann just happened to have an evil combine driver stationed in the field in case someone escaped to there? Why ram the combine when just shooting the driver would have done the job?) the car-eating looks very fake. Is it even remotely possible? How strong are those things?
shareThe film is a cartoon. In such universes you stay aloft with your legs churning after you run off a cliff -- it is only when you look down that you fall. So the answer is yes, in the cartoon universe of this movie, wheat threshers can digest luxury automobiles.
shareWell, it was a little conveneient having that harvester on hand but as to the driver being up for chasing them - maybe the locals were working for Mary Anne? Maybe the cornfield belonged to Mary Anne and the driver was one of his gang?
At the country fair even the cop sits back and watches the shotgun-armed farmboys chase Devlin and Poppy.
The harvester chewing up the car is a little too cute - I doubt they are able to chew through (and bundle) an engine block! But it is a memorable scene.
...now I do it just to watch their f----n' expression change.
It was the best scene, but I couldn't help wondering why the driver wasn't at the fair since everyone else was. What a strange film.
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?
That was the stupidest scene I have ever seen in a movie! First off folks, its called a combine, threshers haven't been around since horses. And no, there is NO way it could do that to a car. Maybe scratch the paint or ding the bumper but do no real damage. And as for the bales coming out the back, sorry, they don't do that, thats a whole seperate machine (baler). Whoever thought that one up for the movie was an idiot!
sharereal combines don't have teeth like that.
Funny seeing the car parts sh i t out with the bale.
Dictated, but not read.
It is neither Combine nor Thresher. It's a Reaper. Can it really eat a car? No more than than things that take place in a galaxy far, far away. It's a metaphor, folks.
shareI'm not a farmer and don't really know anything about combines, but I don't think that a combine bales hay or straw, a baler does that, and I would guess that the head used on that combine in the movie with all those teeth was not a production unit, but just a movie prop. I'm sure it would have jammed up when running into the car, not chew it up, especially the engine. Any farmers out there can tell us?
But it is a cool scene nonetheless. It's very entertainng, another unique way to bump someone off, like a James Bond movie or something.
It IS called a combine, because it combines the functions of a reaper & a thresher. I grew up in wheat country & never heard one called a reaper. Nomenclature aside, nothing in this scene is remotely realistic.
shareEven the credits say "Reaper driver". So it is a reaper, which spits out bales and car parts.
Paul Walker, Philip Seymour Hoffman RIP
That scene is hysterical, I love this film. Even on the off chance the thresher made it through the tail end of the car (which I can't conceive of as a possibility), there's no way it could cut through the engine block, and it would have been incapacitated at some point.
shareWe know gore movies where body parts fly through the air. This movie has Car-Gore! That's the way to look at it. I loved it.
shareThe real question is "Why hasn't Tarantino stolen this scene?'
shareRidiculous in real life...but a great scene...I'd say Sissy looked good enough to eat in this film, but that would only be something that a male chauvinist Pig would say
Both Steed's are gone now...RIP