Slaughterhouse 5

[DaviDC.]

I watched it last night on Netflix for the 1st time ever. I read the book years ago & can't believe I never saw the movie. I remember seeing the trailer for it & hearing the radio ads when I was in high school.

It's held up pretty well, considering it was released 38 years ago.

One thing that stuck with me was the cop cars during the scene with Mrs. Pilgrim trying to get to the hospital to see Billy. They were probably 1968 or 69 Dodge Coronets or Plymouth Belvederes & from the angle they were filmed, it was so obvious that they wallowed all over the road. Yes, there was LOTS of swaying from side to side going on above those skinny tires. Automobile suspension technology has come a long way in 40 years!

[M>B>]

I saw it in a theater when it first came out and have seen it a couple of times since then. As a matter of fact I just received a Netflix copy and will view it again in a few days.

It is on my top ten best ever list!

[Raydog]

Classic novel.

Classic film.

[MGS_forgot_password]

Classic car?

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .being remade. . .maybe. . .directed by Peter Jackson. . .maybe. . .

[davester]

DaviDC. wrote: They were probably 1968 or 69 Dodge Coronets or Plymouth Belvederes & from the angle they were filmed, it was so obvious that they wallowed all over the road. Yes, there was LOTS of swaying from side to side going on above those skinny tires. Automobile suspension technology has come a long way in 40 years!

Not so much. More like a matter of priorities. US car suspensions were pretty much cheapo POS coal cart type designs at the time because the concept of handling was foreign to the US. For the most part nobody really gave a damn if a car could go around a corner. On the other hand, the reason european cars of that vintage became so popular (Jaguars, Alfa Romeos, BMWs Mercedes, etc, etc) were that they had far superior suspension systems and handled far better than the "yank tanks" of yore.

[DeusxMac]

DaviDC wrote:
One thing that stuck with me was the cop cars during the scene... They were probably 1968 or 69 Dodge Coronets or Plymouth Belvederes & from the angle they were filmed, it was so obvious that they wallowed all over the road. Yes, there was LOTS of swaying from side to side going on above those skinny tires. Automobile suspension technology has come a long way in 40 years!

This was a MOVIE! Those weren't real cop cars. They're called "props."

Movies are expensive enough to make, they don't go out and buy real cop cars if they don't need to.

Sorry, a lot of the other stuff you see on the screen is fake too. 8-)

[davester]

So what? Dodge Coronets/Plymouth Belvederes were extremely common cop cars back then.