Favorite kar flick?
#76
Originally Posted by RCristiano
And if you've got the sense of humor to laugh at a movie that takes itself WAY too seriously and doesn't pull off ANY of the dialogue, RENT TORQUE!!! Right now it's my #2 movie of all time for being the most awesomely bad movie *ever*. The opening scene is a motorcycle blowing the doors off two rice rockets at like 160 MPH
#77
Some movie makers understood cars so well that they employed certain models to underscore their stories. Alfred Hitchcock and Steve McQueen were among the best.
A movie with an unexpectedly exotic car was Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" wherein Tippi Hedron drives from San Francisco to Bodega Bay with a gift of birds in her Aston Martin convertible. "To Catch a Thief" featured an amusing chase scene with Grace Kelly scaring Cary Grant with her fast driving in a post-war Talbot and, earlier, with Cary Grant's maid misleading the French police by driving his elegant pre-war convertible which I could not identify (could it have been a Talbot also?). To make Kim Novak seem even more mysterious to Jimmy Stewart Alfred Hitchcock has her driving a stately and distinctive Jaguar sedan in the thriller "Vertigo".
Steve McQueen was speed crazy. He knew how to drive his cars as well as display them in movies. In "Bullitt" he created the most intense chase scene to date with icons of American muscle while he chose a pale yellow Porsche cabriolet for Bullitt's lover Jacqueline Bisset, the British-accented landscape architect who could not comprehend his dual existence. In "The Thomas Crown Affair" he contrasted the deceptive heroine in her Ferrari NART Spider to the elusive hero in his sedate Rolls coupe, but they shared their best moments together in his highly modified dune buggy. In "Le Mans" he turned a racing movie into grand opera.
And I prefer the original "Italian Job" to the remake.
A movie with an unexpectedly exotic car was Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" wherein Tippi Hedron drives from San Francisco to Bodega Bay with a gift of birds in her Aston Martin convertible. "To Catch a Thief" featured an amusing chase scene with Grace Kelly scaring Cary Grant with her fast driving in a post-war Talbot and, earlier, with Cary Grant's maid misleading the French police by driving his elegant pre-war convertible which I could not identify (could it have been a Talbot also?). To make Kim Novak seem even more mysterious to Jimmy Stewart Alfred Hitchcock has her driving a stately and distinctive Jaguar sedan in the thriller "Vertigo".
Steve McQueen was speed crazy. He knew how to drive his cars as well as display them in movies. In "Bullitt" he created the most intense chase scene to date with icons of American muscle while he chose a pale yellow Porsche cabriolet for Bullitt's lover Jacqueline Bisset, the British-accented landscape architect who could not comprehend his dual existence. In "The Thomas Crown Affair" he contrasted the deceptive heroine in her Ferrari NART Spider to the elusive hero in his sedate Rolls coupe, but they shared their best moments together in his highly modified dune buggy. In "Le Mans" he turned a racing movie into grand opera.
And I prefer the original "Italian Job" to the remake.
#78
I'm kind of partial to The French Connection because I've driven on most of the roads that were featured in the chase. It's also just about one of the best chases filmed.
I don't think anyone's mentioned The Seven Ups, but that's also one of my all time favorite chase sequences. I guess having driven the streets where these chases took place makes them all that much more real and exciting to me.
Zip
I don't think anyone's mentioned The Seven Ups, but that's also one of my all time favorite chase sequences. I guess having driven the streets where these chases took place makes them all that much more real and exciting to me.
Zip
#79
Originally Posted by erickvonzipper
I'm kind of partial to The French Connection because I've driven on most of the roads that were featured in the chase. It's also just about one of the best chases filmed.
I don't think anyone's mentioned The Seven Ups, but that's also one of my all time favorite chase sequences. I guess having driven the streets where these chases took place makes them all that much more real and exciting to me.
Zip
I don't think anyone's mentioned The Seven Ups, but that's also one of my all time favorite chase sequences. I guess having driven the streets where these chases took place makes them all that much more real and exciting to me.
Zip
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My newbie input...
Originally Posted by rafthos
...Gum Ball Rally
The movie that made me fall in love with the AC Cobra.
original Canonball Run
gotta second the Mad Max and add The Road Warrior
The movie that made me fall in love with the AC Cobra.
original Canonball Run
gotta second the Mad Max and add The Road Warrior
Some of Gum Ball was filmed in Prescott. When the City has old movie night, sometimes Gum Ball is shown. Hey....idea....MINI rally for the next one?
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#85
Originally Posted by koolmini
i'm still trying to find this movie on DVD (American tittle: Fast Lane Fever)
can anyone help me?
can anyone help me?
heres a link to a vhs copy....
[FONT=Arial]http://cgi.ebay.com/Fast-Lane-Fever-...QQcmdZViewItem[/FONT]
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Gone in 60 seconds (remake)... Italian Job (remake) ... the Road Warrior is a classic action flick. I haven't seen Death Race 2000 in years... I loved the part where they roll out all the geriatric patients only to have all the hospital personnel get run over . My wife is an RN and didn't find that very humorous
#91
Originally Posted by koolmini
^^^^^i'm still waiting for "Gum Ball Rally" to become available on DVD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...240056?ie=UTF8
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