Comments on: Bike Date Goes to the Movies: Premium Rush

By: Cowgirls & LadyCats: A New Face for Bike Couriers | One woman. Many bicycles.

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:08:40 +0000

[…] around the city on brakeless fixies, hopping curbs and running red lights. You know, like in Premium Rush. But now I have a friend Cain who has launched a new kind of bike delivery service earlier this […]

By: Lizabeth West

Lizabeth West — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:55:25 +0000

Bike tolerance on the road will grow with more cyclists on the road. We have a car culture and it will take a long time to get drivers use to sharing with cyclists. There is virtually no education explaining that cyclists have a legal right to the road or how to deal with cyclists in a safe manner. To get more numbers on the road, there needs to be more bike infrastructure and a law enforcement that is willing to take dangerous driver action toward cyclists seriously.

By: Lizabeth West

Lizabeth West — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:50:32 +0000

You missed a very exciting movie. Bike courriers have a high risk job. It isn’t the normal cycling. It’s interesting to get a look at some of the obstacles in this job and see an exciting plot develop with it. There were some actual courriers in the movie, as well as stunt riders.

By: ladyfleur

ladyfleur — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:37:59 +0000

Dan, I think the people who actually see the movie will be OK with it. The ones who would be offended wouldn’t show up. We went to a matinee in a less popular cinema, so I didn’t get a good sample size, but there were families with kids and they seemed to enjoy it. No groaning or tsk tsking.

By: ladyfleur

ladyfleur — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:35:40 +0000

I think the problem is that the general public lumps cyclists together and wants to hold us accountable as a group. So we cringe when we see bad behavior. The “lumping in one group” is probably true for motorcyclists, but not true for drivers.

What bugs me most is seeing the car ads on TV where they show the cars speeding and sliding around city streets to show how cool their car is. While I don’t see cars sliding down the street, these ads encourage drivers to speed and to accelerate and stop quickly, which is not just a danger to them, but to everyone else on the street. And I rarely see speed limits enforced or cars pulled over for aggressive driving.

By: djconnel

djconnel — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:32:14 +0000

Funny how if you do a moving of people engaged in close urban combat, or having unprotected sex, or reckless car chases on open public roads, no problem. Yet this film will no doubt drive people into a mouth-frothing frenzy of hate. As a film it was a total failure, but as a movie it wasn’t too bad.

By: Rachel Unger

Rachel Unger — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:04:49 +0000

I can’t bring myself to watch Premium Rush. I think 2 hours of people riding like jerks would just frustrate me. :/ If I want excitement, there are enough other action movies available right now.
I will admit – the motorbike chase scene in Bourne Legacy didn’t hit any of those buttons. Maybe that’s because I don’t regularly see people doing stuff like that on city streets? Or if they did, there would be consequences?