"Premium Rush" (bike messenger thriller movie) opens August 24

[PotomacCyclist]

I have no idea if it will be any good. Hopefully it won’t be too cheesy or mind-numbing. But it’s a bike messenger movie with (exaggerated) urban bike action scenes. That has to provide some interest for cycling enthusiasts, even those of us who aren’t bike messengers.

http://www.premiumrush.com/

I’ll probably wait for some reviews before checking it out.

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A Nats connection, sort of?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is pictured in this photo (with his new wife, a co-founder of Fellow Robots, a robotics company in Silicon Valley) wearing a Montreal Expos cap. In case you aren’t a baseball fan, the Montreal Expos franchise moved to D.C. a decade ago, to become what is now the Washington Nationals.

JGL is not Canadian, nor has he ever lived there. As far as I can tell, neither has his wife. So I don’t know why he is an Expos fan. I hope he still roots for the Expos/Nats franchise, because that would make him a smart man. He didn’t wear the cap in the movie.

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http://www.people.com/article/joseph-gordon-levitt-married-tasha-mccauley

P.S. The DVD is now on sale at Amazon for just $5. (Yes, I know Amazon is Jeff Bezos’s company and he also owns the W. Post, employer of the infamous Courtland “I Dream of Running Over Cyclists” Milloy. But $5 is a good deal.)

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Showing on the FX channel now, and repeating from 10 pm to midnight.

It seems to be entering the regular rotation on FX, so they will probably start showing it every other week, the way they do with “Star Trek”. It airs next Sunday evening too, at 6.

I think JGL is turning into Keanu Reeves.

[PotomacCyclist]

@Brendan von Buckingham 99889 wrote:

I liked how they showed what’s his name visualize paths through intersections in split second real time. I thought that was actually spot on in terms of how I analyze for preferred lines, bail outs, etc. when I ride in traffic.

Someone called it “alternate scenario cam” on IMDb.

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Hey, People magazine named it “best dumb movie of 2012.” I concur!

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20666232,00.html

[PotomacCyclist]

For fans of the older “Quicksilver” (1986) with Kevin Bacon, the DVD is on sale at Amazon for $6.61.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CPTUMX4/

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