Additionally,
much of a cop car's life is spent idling and wasting fuel; this would become mute with a Model S or any EV.
Not exact matches
NO ACTIVITY Ordered straight to series STUDIO: CBS Television Studios / Gary Sanchez / Funny or Die TEAM: Will Ferrell (ep), Adam McKay (ep), Patrick Brammall (ep), Trent O'Donnell (ep), Jason Burrows (ep), Joe Farrell (ep) LOGLINE: Set against the world
of a major drug cartel bust and celebrating the mundane, it follows follows two low - level
cops who have spent far too
much time in a
car together, two criminals who largely are kept in the dark, two dispatch workers who haven't really clicked and two Mexican tunnelers who are in way too small a space considering they've only just met.
This adaptation
of Stephen King's 2009 doorstop
of the same name features all the familiar characters: James «Big Jim» Rennie (Dean Norris), a used -
car salesman who is second selectman
of Chester's Mill and would very
much like to be first selectman; Dale «Barbie» Barbara (Mike Vogel), a former Army captain in town on some sort
of business; Deputy Linda (Natalie Martinez), the kindhearted
cop; lovely Angie (Britt Robertson) who has a regrettable fling with not - so - lovely «Junior» (Alexander Koch); intrepid newspaper reporter Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre); and so on...
Hot - head police captains, torturous and talky bad guys, drug busts, loose cannon
cops, some domestic drama, and
car chases represent the bases you'd have to touch in order to make a decent rehash, but outside
of a couple
of scenes
of Paul regurgitating famous film lines from
cop flicks of the 80s (which isn't exactly true, as he mysteriously quotes from movies of other genres and eras as well), there isn't much to Cop Out one could call a loving spo
cop flicks
of the 80s (which isn't exactly true, as he mysteriously quotes from movies
of other genres and eras as well), there isn't
much to
Cop Out one could call a loving spo
Cop Out one could call a loving spoof.
The screenplay by Robb and Mark Cullen (Manchild, New
Car Smell) puts together a mish - mash
of 1980s
cop flick clichés without generating
much humor out
of them other than the knowing references.
That the script leaves so
much unexplained works to its benefit in the final scenes, as it's a given that everyone from taxi drivers, store owners and news venders to beat
cops and police patrol
cars are given photos
of the mob fugitives and that all
of them are reporting directly to the mob.
There's so
much good in
Cop Car, it's easy to see why it became one
of the «buzziest» tickets earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
You can use a small shockwave to make someone nudging your door to lose control
of their
car, blast the back
of a
car with an electromagnetic pulse (
much like the
cops), drop land mines that also deliver a temporary debilitating blast, and more.
«It had a nice implementation
of the
car - chase elements from 70s films, which I loved,» he says, «but I was annoyed by the way it cheated on the physics — the
cop cars being
much heavier and having incredible acceleration and top speed.»
There was the lag on payments to the factory's construction company, the senior staffers jumping ship, the confusing debut
of a seemingly competing
car from the company helmed by its principal backer, the lawsuits from a supplier and a landlord who said they weren't getting paid, the work stoppage on the factory, the state officials in Nevada who said Jia didn't have as
much money as he claimed (something that Jia denied in a haters - are - my - motivators statement), and the fact that leaders in that state
copped to never really knowing
much about FF's financials before approving that incentive package.