Best Car Chase Poll - Nominations
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The chase sequence from Bullitt, and these:
...are the textbook on how to do movie car chases right. I think The Seven-Ups chase is still my favorite.
You do.
The obvious choices have already been mentioned, so I'll try and add some unconventional ones:
Dirty Harry vs. an RC Car filled with plastic explosive in The Dead Pool.
Dabney Coleman trying to die in the line of duty to collect life insurance in Short Time.
The Bandit and Stringfellow Hawk as stuntmen driving through an earthquake movie set in Hooper.
Two cars versus each other, boxes, stairs, car carriers, bridges, etc. in The Master Touch.
Stuntman Mike the serial killer messes with the wrong women in Death Proof. Part 2.
Dirty Harry vs. an RC Car filled with plastic explosive in The Dead Pool.
Dabney Coleman trying to die in the line of duty to collect life insurance in Short Time.
The Bandit and Stringfellow Hawk as stuntmen driving through an earthquake movie set in Hooper.
Two cars versus each other, boxes, stairs, car carriers, bridges, etc. in The Master Touch.
Stuntman Mike the serial killer messes with the wrong women in Death Proof. Part 2.
Even though scale cars can run that fast, back in the day I thought that chase scene was ridiculous and to this day I think it is.
IIRC, what we see was so well planned that they only had *one* shot at it, and they got it on that very take.
Ridiculously awesome.
Of course it's ridiculous, it's redoing classic San Francisco chase scenes with an explosive filled RC car that can fly over manholes and jump boxes with no ramps while its controller also expertly drives his own car. But it should get points for creativity.
That's the part of the chase where I award it a great big
Even though it's a movie, I'd like *some* bit of believability (and no, don't start with the Iron Man, Spiderman, and other sci-fi slams).
Which was sort of the whole point of the shot, seeing as Hooper was about stuntmen.
Director Hal Needham started off as a stuntman (Gary Lockwood's double in WNMHGB, for one) and later stunt coordinator specializing in car stunts, and that whole sequence was a stunt-within-a-stunt showoff piece.
That's the part of the chase where I award it a great big
Harry Callahan personally killed about 135 people in the line of duty and kept his job. Believability has no business here.
Yes, but it's the fact that for the actual movie, the entire stunt was pulled off in *one take*.
That's the part of the chase where I award it a great big
Harry Callahan personally killed about 135 people in the line of duty and kept his job. Believability has no business here.
Um, yeah. It went right over your head, but never mind. Congrats on making my ignore list.
That's the part of the chase where I award it a great big
Harry Callahan personally killed about 135 people in the line of duty and kept his job. Believability has no business here.
Um, yeah. It went right over your head, but never mind. Congrats on making my ignore list.
Are you fucking kidding me? I was making a joke about a funny segment of the film and you're putting me on ignore over it? This has to be the dumbest reason anyone has ever put someone on ignore.
What part of your comment went over my head, exactly?
Damn, I guess I'll miss all your in-depth roll-eyes commentary and sage monetary advice.
Right. I know.
That was Needham showing off that he could do it. Which was the point of doing this completely over-the-top stunt sequence.
Which was the... oh, never mind.
I think I'd go with Bullit and Blues Brothers. I vace never seen Seven ups until earlier today, and I have to tell you it made me an impression. See, no visual effects. no shitty music. only stunt drivers and the sound of engines. that was he gool ol'time !
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Realistic? The French Connection. A lot of it shot without permit or clearance, BTW.
--Ted
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Speaking of movie chases shot without a permit, the original Gone in 60 Seconds. The scenes where people are running for their lives -- well, they actually were. The one chase scene was filmed sans a permit and they're damned lucky no one was killed.
The people were CGI, but they built the looped highway and really smashed all those cars. If you look at all the cars flipping you can see that they weren't CGI since they all had their engines and gas tanks removed.
In my book, it looses points for being to..gratuitous? While fun to watch, just too over the top.
Bullit, for sure!
Vanishing Point, even though it's been a while since the last time I saw it.
The Blues Brothers: both the Can't Turn You Loose moment (Mall) and the Sweet Home Chicago chase (from the Palace Hotel Ballroom to Chicago).
And Ronin, especially for its location
Vanishing Point, even though it's been a while since the last time I saw it.
The Blues Brothers: both the Can't Turn You Loose moment (Mall) and the Sweet Home Chicago chase (from the Palace Hotel Ballroom to Chicago).
And Ronin, especially for its location
In that second clip, the BMW vs a Peugeot (where else do you get to see such a great combination of cars?) I've heard that they used a RHD car, with a fake wheel in front of De Niro and a stunt driver behind the actual steering wheel beside him. The face that De Niro makes isn't acting, it's De Niro, clutching the wheel, unable to control the car, shitting himself
For that alone it's worth watching.The fact that the chase is so completely outrageous, barrelling down those narrow streets in such bog standard cars, is of course a bonus
Except for Mad Max. For every time I've watched that film all the way through, I've watched the intro by itself about five or six times.
And one more, not a movie, not a chase, but worth watching, C'était un rendez-vous.
