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ouwasp
11/26/2013, 10:33 PM
watching Bullitt with good ol' Steve McQueen on TCM right now...what an epic car chase, seen it many times. Son and I got to talking about other cool movie car chases.

I say To Live and Die in LA... he offered up Deathproof.

What are some others?
yermom
11/26/2013, 10:50 PM
i keep meaning to see Vanishing Point after seeing Death Proof

The Duel comes to mind, and wasn't The French Connection the one with all the hills in SF?
okiewaker
11/27/2013, 07:53 AM
My favorite is Vanishing Point (original movie). Saw it when I was real young,,always wanted a 70 or 71 Challenger because of it. Haven't got it yet tho.
C&CDean
11/27/2013, 09:59 AM
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
stoops the eternal pimp
11/27/2013, 10:03 AM
#1 Blues Brothers.
KantoSooner
11/27/2013, 10:40 AM
i keep meaning to see Vanishing Point after seeing Death Proof

The Duel comes to mind, and wasn't The French Connection the one with all the hills in SF?

FC had the chase through the elevated train track pillars. I think in NYC, but it might have been Chicago. It's been a long time.
lexsooner
11/27/2013, 11:57 AM
There's also the chase scene at the beginning of the French Connection where Doyle (Hackman) wearing a heavy Santa outfit ran down a young, lean African American guy. A few years ago Gene Hackman was in Lexington for a book reading and signing and I thought about asking him about this scene, but decided against it.
rock on sooner
11/27/2013, 01:34 PM
Anyone ever see Ronin? Some really crazy driving in that movie...
ouwasp
11/27/2013, 03:42 PM
Hey! Just thought of another...not a car chase, but a classic chase nonetheless: The chariot race in Ben Hur... Heard it took weeks to film.
rock on sooner
11/27/2013, 05:25 PM
Hey! Just thought of another...not a car chase, but a classic chase nonetheless: The chariot race in Ben Hur... Heard it took weeks to film.

There was a fatality in that race....
SicEmBaylor
11/27/2013, 06:11 PM
I hate car chase scenes and usually fast forward through them if I'm watching at home. They're all EXACTLY the same, usually end the EXACT same way, and are overly contrived.
lexsooner
11/27/2013, 06:37 PM
There was a fatality in that race....

Woman done got cut in half by a chariot wheel spike. Wait, that was Gladiator.
Turd_Ferguson
11/27/2013, 06:47 PM
Benny Hill - Wheelchair race
GDC
11/27/2013, 09:40 PM
Mad Max, Road Warrior, Matrix Reloaded, and Italian Job
Salt City Sooner
11/28/2013, 01:34 AM
https://d2nh4f9cbhlobh.cloudfront.net/_uploads/galleries/3902/smokey_and_the_bandit_movie.jpeg

You heard about the legend of Jesse James,
And John Henry just to mention some names,
Well there's a truck driving legend in the south today,
A man called Bandit from Atlanta, GA.............:D
yermom
11/28/2013, 08:16 AM
FC had the chase through the elevated train track pillars. I think in NYC, but it might have been Chicago. It's been a long time.

lots of stuff here. guess i had Bullitt and French Connection confused. had no idea it was the same guy that made them...

http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/11/hold-on-tight-movie-car-chases-eric-beetner-film-new-york-city-detective-police-procedural
Jacie
12/1/2013, 12:22 AM
I experienced vertigo during the car chase in Bullitt when I watched it at the theater and it was not like any of the others cited.

Though not strictly a car chase, the opening sequence of Casino Royale is very good.
KantoSooner
12/2/2013, 09:50 AM
I once went to a buyer's retirement party. I'd worked with him for more than ten years and he was a consumate pro. One of the few who understood win/win and actually put processes in place to make things work that way. Found out at the party that he'd had a 'side job' as a Hollywood stunt driver for thirty year and had broken virtually every bone in his body at one time or another. Did it weekends and vacations. Kind of makes you think about what you don't know about the people in your life.
sooneron
12/2/2013, 03:02 PM
FC had the chase through the elevated train track pillars. I think in NYC, but it might have been Chicago. It's been a long time.

? Srsly, Chicago? FC is the quintessential NYC film.

I liked Ronin, but FC and Bullitt were awesome.
KantoSooner
12/2/2013, 03:18 PM
That's what I thought first then the El pillars got me to thinking. I don't remember them from NYC. Where are they, Lower Manhattan? (like Hell's Kitchen or Alphabet City?, I must admit that, in the late 1980's, I didn't spend much time in those neighborhoods.)
sooneron
12/2/2013, 03:24 PM
That's what I thought first then the El pillars got me to thinking. I don't remember them from NYC. Where are they, Lower Manhattan? (like Hell's Kitchen or Alphabet City?, I must admit that, in the late 1980's, I didn't spend much time in those neighborhoods.)
Queens and Brooklyn. Oh yeah, the Bronx, too...
SoonerInFortSmith
12/2/2013, 06:15 PM
I hate car chase scenes and usually fast forward through them if I'm watching at home. They're all EXACTLY the same, usually end the EXACT same way, and are overly contrived.

Do you ever like anything? Seriously, put on a smile and say something positive once in a while. :(
GDC
12/2/2013, 07:55 PM
Drive has some good sequences.
GDC
12/2/2013, 08:23 PM
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KantoSooner
12/3/2013, 10:15 AM
Queens and Brooklyn. Oh yeah, the Bronx, too...

That'd be why then. I spent most of my time working in MidTown and when not, lived in Mt. Vernon (exactly one block North of the Bronx). Partied a bit in Soho or China Town or Harlem. Thus my confusion.
Breadburner
12/3/2013, 11:20 AM
Gator....!!!
jkjsooner
12/5/2013, 10:31 AM
I hate car chase scenes and usually fast forward through them if I'm watching at home. They're all EXACTLY the same, usually end the EXACT same way, and are overly contrived.

Oh my gosh, I agree 100% with Baylor. Ugh!

For me they get really boring after a minute or so. At some point I think, "I get it now when will it end?"

Of course a well timed/short chase that actually works well with or enhances the plot of the movie is fine.