Just to cheer us all up,
I'll nominate Bullitt, but its not my favourite.
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My vote goes to The Italian Job!
Still, I do find the 2CV chase in For Your Eyes Only very amusing as well :~)
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This has really got me thinking - another one which I remember rewinding and watching about four times was the car chase scene in Lethal Weapon 4 where they went through an entire floor of an office building - absolutely fantastic...
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Did you know the 2CV used in this sequence was a 'sidewinder', i.e. a 2CV fitted with a Citroen GSA 1300 engine!
Andrew
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Anorak alert!!
I towed one of these cars in '82 or '83 (they used 4 in the film i think) to a Citroen Car Club meet from the owner's home in Leeds. It still ran and drove but was hardly roadworthy what with the bullet holes etc. It had big beefy shocks so the stunt drivers could get more handling out of it.
Wonder where it is now.
The towcar? Citroen DS23 Familiale semi-auto.
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That one with the Land Rover and Austin 1800 in Heartbeat last year.
David
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The car chases in Ronin are the business.
The making of (on the DVD) is pretty good too e.g. the 406 De Niro was in had two steering wheels, with the stunt driver using the right one....
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..."The French Connection", anyone?
Apparently it looks so realistic because, according to the stuntman (interviewed a few years ago), it was filmed on public roads with live traffic.....(discuss - 20 marks)
No GATSO in NYC...
rg
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My favourite too.
Also consider Freebie & The Bean where the car leaves the elevated section of motorway and flies into the side of a block of flats.
Classic.
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Its got to be, good old Del Boys plastic pig when it flew over that hill!
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Check out the site
www.bmwfilms.com
It's been commissioned by BMW north america and includes several short films (5-6 mins each) featuring various BMW models, the central theme is the driver played by Clive Owen - this is obviously intended as a advertising vehicle (excuse the pun!) but they've made a few very good chase sequences. I love the one with the 740i Sport.........
........ have to agree that Ronin has some really great action sequences.....but as a BMW fan, I can't really see a Pug 406 (even a 3.0 V6) outrunning and outhandling a well driven M5, even if it was "only" the 315 bhp 3.4 E34 version......
and the 2CV sequence in "For your Eyes Only" was very exciting and really funny at the same time.
Also see "Against all odds" (shown a few days ago on C5) it has a great race sequence between a 911 and a Ferrari on a LA highway full of traffic - not to be missed.
Chad.R
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Number One: Vanishing Point, Barry Newman 1971. Hell, the whole movie is a car chase. After that I and everyone I knew wanted a Dodge Challeneger.
Number Two: Blues Brothers (first one). A car chase inside a shopping mall and great music.
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Growler, we must have similar tastes, I said in the first post Bullitt wasn't my favourite, in fact that is Vanishing Point.
Blues Brothers has besides the fantastic music my most favourite all time film quote which usually comes out at the start of family holiday journeys.
"106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses..........HIT IT!"
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Indeed. Movies one can watch again and again.
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For my money it's got to be the ORIGINAL 'Gone in 60 seconds' (mid '80s) Full 1/2 hour car chase.
PS Where can I get that BMW Video, I need something to help with my insomnia....yawn...
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Blues Brothers? About four great chase scenes - and the silly comments made it even better!
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Have you noticed(in older tv series partic), you can often tell when a metal banging chase is imminent you only need to look at the reg. of car(s) that suddenly appear - being significantly earlier in yrs than cars used up to that point in the teleplay.( yet cosmetically in reasonable nick.)
A regular demonstration of this as I recall was in my personal fave - The Sweeney. They would drag out a baddies late sixties Jag mk. 10 and at that instant you knew there was going to be a ruck. ending with said car being totalled. Unfortunately, I don't think these 'chases' stood the test of time, and could definitely be categorised as low budget and highly predictable, save for a few.
Some of the best dialogue ever (i.e John Thaw's )was delivered 'in car '
Phil Cornwell(I think ) spoofed this well in the adverts ,a while back, for a new edition Almeira.
A quite unusual film action sequence involved a Ferrari driven by Al. Pacino ,with passenger, round the streets. The difference:- He played a Blind guy living out a fantasy. A good film , whose title unfortunately escapes me.
- Anyone remember! SEASONAL BEST WISHES - CHRIS.
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Not a great chase, but a good bit of trivia. In Schwarzenegger's _True Lies_ a truck goes over the end of a collapsed road bridge into the sea. Except, when they did the shot the truck jumped the gap by accident. Not having another truck handy they put the truck in the sea using animation.
Chris
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The Sweeney {repeated on CH4 last year} was excellent in this respect.
However many a fine MKII of S-Type came to a sad end.
Remember the days of Jaguar only banger racing - even more MKIIs and S-Types lost forever.
Tom
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some good scenes in 'get carter'.
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Get Carter - great movie!
I love the Cortina Mk2 ripping off the jag's door!
and the white sportscar (Spitfire?) being pushed into the dock, with the tart still in the boot...
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i quite like the car chase in a alfred hitchcock film, but i cant remember the name, its where cary grant is in an open top car, going along the roads of the south of france, with the police chasing him, THATS a proper car chase.
also i like bullitt, the french connection, the italian job, and i know its not a car chase, but i like north by northwest, for the plane over the cornfield shots, i think hitchcock was very good with his action sequences.
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Okay. George C. Scott in 'The Last Run'. He drives a supercharged BMW 502C cabriolet (may have got the model name slightly wrong) and the chase is against a Mk I XJ6. The BMW comes to a very sad end in a fishing village in Portugal, I think.
HJ
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Bullitt because of the noise.
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Watch for the Green VW Beetle during the Bullitt chase. They pass it a number of times.
The 'Dukes of Hazard' is pretty much the tops for car chases. The A-team has some good ones but everyone climbs out of a wrecked car, that's burst into flames, been flattened by a passing streamroller and just shakes their heads without any injuries. Gives kids the wrong impression.......
Piers
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Re: Bullit - The Dodge Charger loses 5 hubcaps!
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A film called 'Crazy Taxi' has some pretty cool scenes in it (its French but released over here).
Ronin kicks ass.
Gone in 60 seconds,
CannonBall Run!
Smokey and the Bandit
some of the bond films
many more
not seen The Fast and The Furious yet, looks a bit rude-boy
Nightrider - the best series ever with a car in it.
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Bullit - Never mind the same VW appearing all over or that the Dodge loses 5 hubcaps
Ronin - Love the Merc 450sel 6.9 spinning and that Audi really shifts (how does its headlights get repaired halfway through.) Pug Vs M5 exciting but far fetched. This movie was shot at high speeds with the actors in them
Cold Sweat - Bronson really gives an Opel Commodire some stick
Gone in 60 seconds
bmwfilms - the 740 stunts were brilliant except that I cannot figure why it upshifts 7 times on a straight road, more gears that actual ?. Madona, M5 is a scream. Ang Lees 540 is a piece of art except that it remains without a scratch after ramming a Merc W126
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