Posted on: 2005-07-01 13:40:07
Time to turn in your learner's permit. Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed -- that's kid stuff. When you're talking car chases, Crazy Mary, Dirty Larry is the real thing.
The last computer game that even approached the 1970s car-chase genre was Interstate 76. The current fast-and-furious crop of driving games just doesn’t measure up. Grand Theft Auto and its ilk completely miss the point with their hip-hop, gangsta dystopia. Car-chase movies are about rebellion, not crime.
Now this classic 1974 cult film has been reissued in a special collector's edition. Get ready to boogie, man.
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