OK so I'm watching Oscar winning movie Crash at the moment and to tell you the truth I'm not liking it. Me and Oscar movies generally don't get on very well (I didn't like, among others, Gladiator, Shakespeare in Love, Braveheart, and I didn't have to see Chicago to hate it, obviously), but I really had high hopes for this one. However, in my opinion, it's a bit of a stinker. Script, awful. Story, laid down with a spade. Acting...
...Stop. This isn't a film review.
No. Recently I bought a new car so I could get to my new job. It seemed important. Whilst watching the film Crash I decided to read the manual for my car (I found it that bad). The manual advises you how to save fuel. One of their tips is to carry around less weight. For every 220lb, the car uses 1.75gallons more every 1000 miles. This got me thinking. What if everyone lost half a stone? How much fuel could we, as a slimmer, healthier nation save?
Well, after a few oh-so predictable "plot" twists in't the movie, I reckoned that the UK could save over half a million gallons of fuel (556818 gallons to be exact) per million car users, per year. Just think how much fuel the Americans could save. More car users, more weight to shed.
I think that's enough. Have I Got News For You has started. This is why I'll never watch Titanic.
1 comment:
surely watching a film called crash just after you bought a new car is just a bad idea? i assume it is the new one, not the ballard one.
ive not seen it, but then, you know my attitude to films in general...
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