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Eager to produce a car that would embody all manner of advanced technology and safety measures from a rear engine to seat belts, Tucker's mind and spirit far outpaced the abilities of his engineers and backers to keep up with him.
As the movie went on, I was drawn into the drama of the girls being kidnapped... but the moment that Laura pulled up to her house, saw the infamous black car moving toward her daughter, and I suddenly remembered the mechanic at the beginning of the movie mentioning that all he had to repair the bus with was a racing engine and transmission, I was glued to my seat.
On the way to San Francisco, their plane develops engine trouble and goes down in a field near Finleyville.
For one thing, I much prefer the live action cutscenes in JK1 to the ones rendered with the game engine in JK2.
When the mother bear begins to stalk them, they start doing the dumbest things - (1) two of them head off in different directions - alone! - to look for water for their overheated vehicle engine (2) with one guy already killed by the bear, a second guy goes wacky inside the car and causes the driver to go over an embankment!
I argued that there is no way this was based on a real serial killer (never heard of him before or after....do a look for William Allen Grone on your fav search engine) and there is NO real snuff footage on it.
The engine problem was never accurately portrayed and even a trainee on twin engine aircraft would have known to feather the prop so it would not be windmilling and creating more drag.
That leaves the cold and calculating Tilda Swinton as the only person in the film who is theoretically a non-moron, but she has herself been reduced to a parody of an intelligent person who, in order to cope with the welter of idiocy surrounding her, has entirely lost her humanity and become an engine of devouring and despairing egotism.
The graphics weren't up to say Episode1 standards, but were convincing enough (and I loved the raspy engine noise for the Rapiers).
Oh and why the Ivor the engine train scene with St.Paul's in the background :)
There seems to be a total engine crew of six people.
When the engine room supervisor (unsure of his precise title), finds a worker murdered and kills the perp, he doesn't immediately report to an officer -- he just seems to hang out in the engine room till the writer wants him again.
On take off it is towed by a 4 engine Short Stirling, then its being towed by a twin engined DC3 Dakota (C47).
The humble growling of the 455 engine.
In the movie's infamous beginning scene, a cyborg Nazi mad scientist operates a monstrous "death rape machine" for a bizarre Satanic ritual in which naked women are hooked up to a gigantic engine and systematically raped with metallic dildos over and over again until they climax in a final orgasm of death - to summon a demon from another dimension called the Evil King to Earth! Years later that scenario is replayed again, but conducted by the late scientist's now grown son who has become an evil sorcerer.
The gameplay is a bit simple and the graphics by today's standards are horrid, but what can you expect from an 8 bit engine?
It uses the same game engine almost exactly.
Instead of Russia's borders draining his country's economy, he envisions Russia as a transit point between east and west, and also as an engine of growth for countries in search of the heavy industrial equipment Russia makes.
To be an engine of change in Europe, France must undergo a deep structural transformation, which, as student protests at Sciences Po and railway strikes across France show, will be very difficult.
In a non-oil economy, labor is the main engine of wealth.
The nations of WANA missed the first industrial revolution based on coal and the steam engine, and then the second industrial revolution based on oil and the internal combustion engine.
In contrast to the United States, however, the boost in consumer demand has not become an engine of growth.
How can Japan restore optimism and jump-start its economic engine with no macroeconomic tools left to use?
New ICT technologies, the “techno-pessimists” claim, simply do not bring the kind of economy-wide benefits that were brought by, say, the internal combustion engine and electrification.
Oil, the main engine of growth, is privately controlled.
Fifteen years ago, the consensus was that America's Social Security System was in huge trouble, that it needed the equivalent of an engine rebuild.
A leading fashion industry executive argues that a key engine driving the economic boom has been the influx of women into the workforce, particularly in the manufacturing zones of the south.
Now, the potential of megacities as an engine of dynamism and increased prosperity is finally getting the high-level attention it deserves.
In response, China turned to the domestic growth engine of credit-financed investment in infrastructure and real estate.
Later, while he was in a ferocious confrontation with Thomas Edison, who was threatening Rockefeller’s business with the electric bulb, unrelated technological developments led to the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine and to the idea of putting it on wheels.
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