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Old 12-24-02, 03:33 AM
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1st Gens in the Movies -

Ok, this may be kinda lame, but I am a movie buff, and ever since I got my 1st Gen I have noticed them in the backgrounds of movies, like in the kick *** movie pulp fiction (one of my favorites) When they take the "dirty" car that the black kid marvin got shot in to Monster Joes Truck and Tow, there is a blue 1st gen on a car trailer in the background when they are standing out front. I also noticed one in the severely corny 80's movie with arnold shwazanegger - Commando. It is in the parking garage when they leave the airport and in the parking garage at the mall, both are silver and are probably the same car.... and garage for that matter, (hollywood corner-cutting). I know I know, get a life, you have too much time on your hands, etc, I just notice **** in the backgrounds of my favorite movies is all. Let me know if you guys have spotted 1st gens in the movies.
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IN the origonal gone in 60 sec they ran into a mazda dealership full of rx3's I see 1st gens in movies all the time... especially old movies... I look in he back ground alot to... **** **** **** STOP THE TAPE THERE WAS A 1st gen back there
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Lost boys at the very beginning has a very very close up of one driving by
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i cant for the life of me remember the name, but it was some "detective" movie we watched in history of my freshman year, the lady detective's car was a first gen, it was everywhere.
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Yep, if I'm watching a movie and there's an rx7 in it, I'll see it.
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didn't we have this topic a month or so ago? I remember pointing out the 1st gen (81-85) in Highlander
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yea, this same topic was here a couple months ago, i remember someone saying something about the cable guy with jim carey
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I think there is a really crappy white rx4 in One Hour Photo infront of Robin Willams' apartment. Can anyone conform this? Its a really quick shot and i couldnt tell for sure.
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I see more 2nd gens than 1st gens, but the Geico commercial where the chick is trying to pic up here kid and doesn't have a car (only an air horn) has a FC in it.

Also, in "Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood" has a FC in it.
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there is a red fd in office space. they show it a couple times. its in the parking spot right next to the boss guy. good movie

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I would have to watch it again but I think there is a brown 1st gen in spiderman when that kids uncle gets shot... the car infront of his... I THINK...
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Originally posted by Project84
I see more 2nd gens than 1st gens, but the Geico commercial where the chick is trying to pic up here kid and doesn't have a car (only an air horn) has a FC in it.

Also, in "Don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood" has a FC in it.
Bad Influence has a 88 vert in it, just like mine
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3 Strikes has a sunrise red w/black interior, series 2 in it. Stock alloys, and a sunroof, you can only see parts of it for a second or two at a time, i must have paused the dvd a dozen or more times to see it.
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there is a first gen in one of the lethal weapon movies, i think it is brown, it shows a chick get out of it and she gets attacked or somethin i think.
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kinda off topic..when im looking for car care/parts i always see 2nd gen..i never noticed till i owned one..kinda funny how that is

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omg lol im one of those people too who always is watchin the background for stuff , and now that i got into rx-7s i have watched tons of older 80's movies and there everywhere, now if i can just remember the names hehehe, i saw one in a cop show and it was black in mint beutiful condition witha chrom/sillver targa band, god lol, i jumped up and i yelled 1st gen 1st gen 1st gen !!! my family looks at me... it was funny.... lol

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I rented "Ballistic" last evening. There was a nice metallic blue 1st generation in the early scene. It was a shooting scene and it was rather painful to see it got shot to the *****. BTW, the movie sucked!
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I was watchin' "You Gotta See This" and they were doin a segment on in car cameras, and they showed a road race that was nothing but 1st gens. Anyways, they showed about 4 of them piling up from an inboard camera and i was like LAter
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I hate when movies trash cool cars, just get a bunch of old cavaliers and blow them up if you must.
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yeah its like once you buy one you notice them all the time,
I can spot one from miles away, or even for a split second,

I proved this one day when my g/f and I where watching a van dam movie, i think it was called double take maybe?
its the one where there is two of him,
one bad one good, the good is a clone.

well anyway there is one for a split second in a fast parking garage chase scene,

its real quick glimps, there going around in one of those circular style parking garages, and for about a total of two frames there is an rx7.

look real hard and you will see,
my g/f didnt believe me that i seen one so I rewound the dvd and did frame by frame, we found it in two frames and one was blured.

maybe its cause i have owned so many?
or its because thats all i owned since I was 18?

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just saw one in gremlins 2, when the guy gets out of prison when they think hes crazy
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Any one here got the .mpg of the guy in the FB trying to outrun the cops.. That was some funny ****, the dude talking was saying 'this guy is pushing that turbo rotary etc etc' turbo my *** LOL
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I know there is an FB in one of the Howling movies with the Werewolves and all. It's silver I think and this guy rescues this chick from all the werewolves and he hauls *** with it. Slams on the brakes and kind of drifts. The car gets blown up and like destroyed by werewolves later on. It was cool and tragic. I don't know which Howling movie it was..might be the first or second one.
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I know this thread got pushed back, but I just felt I needed to bring it back up, I was just watching Ransom with Mel Gibson and thought I would share that I saw a 2nd Gen in a scene towards the end of the movie.
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