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Quicksilver (1986)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
9/11
9/11:
Quicksilver is so bad that it's a waste of Kevin Bacon's acting talent.
I'm sure, like Footloose, he must have uttered to himself upon seeing the screenplay, "You
have to be shitting me," and then proceeds with it by putting on a straight face as hard as possible.
Some have classified Quicksilver as part of the stock market genre. Well, there's so little of it that the film hardly
qualifies. If I look at the locale harder, the setting is actually San Francisco when it's supposed to be New York City,
hence my confused viewing experience.
Meanwhile, Kevin Bacon has to work with some of the worst thespians to come out of the 80's: the blatantly lame Paul
Rodriguez, the obscenely mannequin Jami Gertz, and the astronomically corpulent Louie Anderson. Given Jami Gertz's looks, there's
no way that she's reduced to a bike messenger. Please do better in realism for next time. Hm, the story of
Quicksilver is...I don't rightly know. It's all random to me, but throw in the typical cheesiness of that decade and
you've got the perfect 80's flick.
The bikes used are Raleigh models which are, in my experience, heavy as fuck. Now, why do you think they're able to
spin the bike around at the front? It's because there are no brake wires attached to the handlebars.
All in all, if you want to see a great bicycle picture for the hell of it, ditch Quicksilver and go with either
Breaking Away or American Flyers.