Ok, If you have read some of my posts, you know I am a little too fond of this movie. I watched it tonight just to get me motivated to work on a model of the car as it appears in about the first minute of the movie(After which the front is smashed) In my defense, I first saw this movie about two monthes after I got my drivers liscence and my first car was on par with the ones in the movie :)
If you can suspend reality for a bit, this is a really enjoyable flick. A VERY dark comedy featuring the anti-hero, Mad Max (Rockatansky). That is, the hero that is pressed into his position and only comes out as hero by contrast to the villians. With a sidekick in the form of the Gyrocaptian, who for all his appearance as a bumbler is the more competent of the two, Max manages to bring himself into the group of wasteland surviviors, help them and at the same time leave them standing. He is then almost destroyed and in this redeemed within the community as he becomes their saviour
Also one of the great car chases. In a class with the French Connection, Ronin, (original) Italian Job, and Bullit. At eleven minutes the chase is shorter than the original Gone in Sixty Seconds by about 70 minutes but much more enjoyable. A chase with plot rather than just about the crash.
A must watch for any cult movie fan and/or non pantywaist :)
don d.
06-04-04, 07:52 PM
My favorite car chase scene is the one in To Live and Die in LA. But the scenes in Ronin were very good.
Oh and I forgot the chase scene from the 2nd Matrix movie. But then, I love Ducati motorcycles.
Raiyn
06-04-04, 08:10 PM
Still the greatest car chase of all time in my humble opinion Bullitt Watch the preview for some clips (http://videodetective.com/home.asp?PublishedID=2895&VideoKbRate=100&AltID=&CustomerID=97135&WM=True&Ads=True&Play=True&Shorten=False) followed closely by the car chase in the Blues Brothers - pure vehicular CARnage
Rev.Chuck
06-04-04, 08:39 PM
I am sorry but the Matrix chase will not be allowed. It is mostly CGI. A chase needs to be real cars with real guys driving them. (It is Very cool to watch I admit)
Raiyn, watch the Italian Job chase, for that matter watch the whole movie. This is the real movie(1969), the one with the British minis, Micheal Caine and Benny Hill. Get the DVD and watch the extras. There is a (deleted) chase piece played to a waltz that is incredible. Cop cars and minis "dancing" in an aircraft hanger. Fantastic!
Raiyn
06-04-04, 11:33 PM
I am sorry but the Matrix chase will not be allowed. It is mostly CGI. A chase needs to be real cars with real guys driving them. (It is Very cool to watch I admit)
Raiyn, watch the Italian Job chase, for that matter watch the whole movie. This is the real movie(1969), the one with the British minis, Micheal Caine and Benny Hill. Get the DVD and watch the extras. There is a (deleted) chase piece played to a waltz that is incredible. Cop cars and minis "dancing" in an aircraft hanger. Fantastic!
I'll see if the local specialty video store has it. Sounds like a winner to me.
randya
06-05-04, 12:41 AM
Best car chases: Steve McQueen in Bullitt. end of story....maybe the French Connection (even though Road Warriors is one of my favorite movies, too...). :)
don d.
06-05-04, 10:00 AM
I am sorry but the Matrix chase will not be allowed. It is mostly CGI. A chase needs to be real cars with real guys driving them.
As Bill Murray would say, ".....Well.....I guess that leaves out my favorite Speed Racer chases...darn."
Hunter
06-05-04, 11:23 PM
Yes I will also cast the vote for Bullit. Especially since McQueen insisted on driving that Pony himself. The Vanishing Point also had some real cool car scenes in it but hardly anyone I know has ever seen it.
Raiyn
06-05-04, 11:38 PM
Best car chases: Steve McQueen in Bullitt. end of story....maybe the French Connection (even though Road Warriors is one of my favorite movies, too...). :)French Connection that was just an all-round good flick. One of Hackman's best
Stacey
06-06-04, 05:49 AM
Yes I will also cast the vote for Bullit. Especially since McQueen insisted on driving that Pony himself. The Vanishing Point also had some real cool car scenes in it but hardly anyone I know has ever seen it.
Bullit is A-1 primo in the car scene catagory. The ORIGINAL Vanishing Point was way cool too... with a neat behind the scenes tale to it.... I saw a show on "E!" I think it was, that detailed this.
As an honourable mention I'd like to nominate Speed... yeah I know, it's a freakin bus. But Sandra Bullock is 'muy tiempo' and flying busses are cool.
PLEASE... If this was a C/G trick Rev. don't burst my bubble :)
Rev.Chuck
06-06-04, 07:41 AM
OK, I won't say anything about the jump. But, and this is not a cgi but an old fashioined rig, when the bus takes the really hard corner and tips up on two wheels, you can clearly see the wheeled scissor jack that lifts it. I never could figure out why they didn't have it "removed" other than it is so brief a scene that only someone that has been under a bus would notice it as something that was not supposed to be there.
I also liked that the luggage cart Keanu rode under the bus had about a $1000 worth of alloy rims and Hoosier tires on it.
And Keanu was driving a first generation Bronco, one of my favorites.
don d.
06-06-04, 08:04 AM
OK, I won't say anything about the jump.
Whew, for a minute there I thought that one would be disallowed too.
Rev.Chuck
06-06-04, 08:41 AM
I am the car-chase nazi.
Allister
06-07-04, 06:02 AM
I don't know about a lot of these movies you're talking about, but Smokey and The Bandit still holds a place in my heart. I must get that out again - it must be twenty years since I saw it. I hope it holds up.
RacerX
06-07-04, 10:18 AM
I don't know about a lot of these movies you're talking about, but Smokey and The Bandit still holds a place in my heart. I must get that out again - it must be twenty years since I saw it. I hope it holds up.
That didn't hold up when it was new!
Allister
06-07-04, 05:35 PM
That didn't hold up when it was new!
I guess when you're a kid you see things differently.
RacerX
06-07-04, 05:48 PM
No way, I saw that when I was a kid and it was lame! :lol:
Actually I'm a BJ & the Bear fan. Big points to anyone who remembers that!
don d.
06-07-04, 05:51 PM
Anything wih big trucks in it is cool! Which brings us to the ultimate chase scene. Steven Spielberg's first movie with Dennis Weaver. Who remembers the name of that?
pitboss
06-07-04, 07:36 PM
D-U-E-L
(I didn't want you to bark at me for spelling incorrectly.)
don d.
06-07-04, 08:03 PM
']D-U-E-L
(I didn't want you to bark at me for spelling incorrectly.)
I thought you had me on ignore? ;) :)
Rev.Chuck
06-07-04, 09:28 PM
I liked Smokey and the Bandit, I also liked Hooper.. Hot Stuff was pretty good to, Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette(sic), and Dom Delouise(probably also sic) are under cover cops running a fence, pretty funny even without any chases. And of course there are the Cannonball run movies, the first and best having many stars and up and comers in it, including Jackie Chan. Which brings another tangent, In "Who Am I", Jackie Chan plays a para military guy who loses his memory. There is a great tiny turbo urban rally style chase in this movie. Good fights as well.