Timeless car action scenes

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Wed 14 Sep 2016 21:02
Timeless car action scenes - Bilboman
Bullitt and The (original) Italian Job are most likely the greatest car movies of all time, but there are countless car chase/crash scenes which will always be remembered. Any thoughts for a top ten?
For utter hair raising madness, the car - train chase in French Connection is an all time classic. Much of the shooting was apparently done with no permits and one near-miss was actually unscripted. How did they get away with that?
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond controlling his BMW from a smartphone (?) whilst slumped in the back seat was amazing for its day but the spread of parking-assistance and driverless cars makes this look dated.
There are countless lunatic chases in episodes of The Sweeney and The Professionals (at least Regan and Carter's driver used a siren most of the time!) but my all time favourite is the opening scene of The Professionals, where for a reason never explained in any of the episodes, a Mk 1 Granada is driven straight through a plate glass window. The six year old boy inside me would have loved to have done the stunt driving for that scene!


Edited by Bilboman on 14/09/2016 at 21:03

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Wed 14 Sep 2016 21:20
Timeless car action scenes - SLO76
Don't forget to add Ronin to that list
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Wed 14 Sep 2016 21:28
Timeless car action scenes - Metropolis.

Blues brothers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz81ZO0qfvI

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God!"

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Wed 14 Sep 2016 22:15
Timeless car action scenes - galileo

The three Bourne films also include some good driving sequences.

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Wed 14 Sep 2016 22:47
Timeless car action scenes - alan1302
Don't forget to add Ronin to that list

That's one of my faves - awesome chase sequence and with it being set in France the cars are very different fromyour usual blcokbuster style chase

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Wed 14 Sep 2016 23:10
Timeless car action scenes - Metropolis.

Somehow forgot Vanishing point. Epic film.

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Wed 14 Sep 2016 23:21
Timeless car action scenes - Bilboman
Excellent choices so far!
Not sure whether Basil Fawlty giving his Austin Countryman a 'damn good thrashing' counts as 'action' and for sheer psychological drama the early Steven Spielberg film 'Duel' was a corker in its time.
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