Good movie, bad characters.


I hate Mary and Larry. Larry is just a total idiot. I can't bring myself to like him because he's such a beat off. The perfect example: rather than getting off the road and letting the cop car get some distance between them when they're in the Charger, he floors it and provokes the cop, only a moron would do that. Mary is a but-her-face hillbilly skank. I don't really need to explain that but half the time I was wishing Larry would just slam her head into the dash repeatedly until she died. I liked the movie for its car chases, Vic Morrow, the cop with the suped up cop car and the fact that Mary and Larry get smacked by a train at the end. I was so happy they got killed, but I felt bad for the alcoholic mechanic, the only one smart enough to realize they committed a major felony and had to get gone in a hurry. The fact that everything is a game to Larry and his whore just irks me. Yeah I get the movie and why the characters are the way they are, but I still don't like them.

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Low life creeps but they're fun to watch.

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I think the intention was to grow to like the characters, only to see them dashed at the end. I don't think the film really pulls this off, with the exception of Deke the mechanic - and Mary, to some extent. But Larry is hopeless.

On a side note, the script for the film describes Mary as Susan George plays her: Whorish, white trash, and not a beautiful model-type. Ms. George did a great job copying the character as written.

"It's people..."

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ahhh the seventies....



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Larry provoked the cops by speeding past them because that is what Larry does, this is his character and what the movie is about, an over the top, race car driver on the loose trying to get away with whatever he wants.

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Thuderbird351, you are totally correct in your assessment of these characters. Ebert couldn't have said it better.

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