CH America! Tour: Oakland – Salt Lake City
Thanks for your patience, readers, as Cinema Hype’s been experiencing technical difficulties, namely the logistical nightmare of shutting down operations in one site and getting set up in another 3,000 miles to the east. The bad news here is that we’re still in the throes of our move. The good news is that you get to come along—this week is the so-called CH America! Tour, in which I’ll be touring (literally and cinematically) some of the cities and regions of this fine nation. I hope you’ll come along, and also forgive the use of a superfluous exclamation point for emphasis. I can’t help myself.
We begin with what should be our (knock on wood) hardest day of driving, but a relatively eventful cinematic landscape. To wit:
Oakland - The Matrix Reloaded: We start our trip with the (in-)famous chase scene from the second Matrix film, which takes place on a digitally altered strip of the 880 freeway, and is basically a representation of the CH America! Tour. Some people play the alphabet game; we cause mayhem and escape with our lives. (I think.)
Reno - Sister Act: I bring this up not because it’s a specimen of spectacular filmmaking, but because of a single, repeatable line uttered by the fabulous, late Mary Wickes–”Reno…and Gomorrah!” A plane full of nuns will never not be funny to me, and we at CH do like our Biblical humor. What, you don’t?
Salt Lake City - Pride and Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy: You think I’m making this up, but I absolutely am not.
A friend accidentally ended up with it after a misguided session at Amazon, and swears it’s not bad, as adaptations go. The urge to make a Mr. Darcy/polygamy joke here is just too strong to be avoided (though obviously in bad taste), so I’ll compromise and let you all make your own.
Join me for a week of trans-national fun, and feel free to chime in with your own favorite location movies, especially if they’re on I-80. We’ll see you tomorrow.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Are you going through New Jersey? If so, uh, Garden State.
Also you’ve passed this already, but Little Miss Sunshine.