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AS I sashay into the Pub and belly up to the bar to order me self a Franzenkaner I look over at you and just to make some idle holiday conversation as we both make excuses for ordering another beer into the wee hours I open up with a simple question:
What is your favorite car movie?
As I kid I loved THE GREAT RACE with Tony Curtis...it just had that kind of appeal.. Then i remember the "Gumball Rally" and "Mother, Jugs and Speed", and how 'bout that classic "Corvette Summer".
does anyone make these kind of movies any more?
do you think "Rancho Deluxe" qualifies as a car moive... always wanted to do that to a cadilac witha shotgun
[Edited on 29/12/2005 by bernie]
[Edited on 29/12/2005 by bernie]
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I loved the French movie called Taxi.
Cannonball Run. Good but I liked Adrienne Barbeau better when she was bathing in the moive "Swamp Thing"
OMG! How could I have fogotten the De Niro moives "French Connection" and "Ronin" which almost convinced me to buy an Audi
and
Lap of the Gods........ awesome
[Edited on 29/12/2005 by Murph]
I think the first chase in Ronin is good - the second is oover done.
But the Irish dame is super hot in that film - Ger do they still make them liike that in Ireland?
and then, of curse,
altrimenti ci arrabbiamo (Watch out, we're mad) starring bud terence and terence hill:D
I was trying to remember the Sly one... ah, Driven says IMDB. Terrible.
Some great car chase scenes, especially the underground ones, but the piece d' resistance was the aerial dogfight when the coins ran out!
Good family entertainment, but see it on the big screen.
Spin
"Wings" (1927) for aerial dogfights!
I tis all real and done by former WWI fighter pilots....now those guy had some BALLS
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/
[Edited on 30/12/2005 by MinardiP1]
I have the DVD !
Btw, Rat Race is also a fun movie (Cannonball Run style humor) with Rowan Atkinson!
I also remember a terrible George Clooney movie where he drives a Mercedes through the alleys of Vienna and ends up crashing it!
[Edited on 30/12/2005 by Minardus]
After watching it once you get sucked into watching what you thought was a crap movie but two hours later your still there.
It's a story about a guy in an American Dodge/rambler/Valiant who is being followed by a guy in a truck who he can't shake off. There is one winner at the
end, but I'll tell you no more
"Christine" (Stephen King) was also not too bad but the book was a lot better.
Another quaint movie of note is "The cars that ate Paris" This Aussie movie from around 1970 had a VW Beetle with giant spikes all over it (a bit like an Echidna/Hedgehog. The story is set in a small Outback town (actually Sofalla NSW) It's centred around a mental hospital , and, everyone goes.....Mental with some good old fashioned carnage and (bad) special effects.
re: movies. Have been split between Bullitt and The French Connection for several years now. I think the latter has the edge as the chase was done without permission.
Also reminded me about "VANISHING POINT" pretty hairy movie....
and then that brings up "Gone in 60 seconds" The whole movie seems to be just one big chase scene
2) Gone in 60 seconds.
Also, I can't for the new movie "Boost" by the makers of the High Octane DVD's.
But, there's always hope with Will Ferrell's NASCAR movie, ehh? Nope, not really.
Same for the origina Gone...
"Gone in 60 seconds" was better.
Original
"italian Job" was THE BEST. Made me want to buy a mini as a kid, when I grew up my first NEW car purchase out of college was an '89 Honda Civic as it was the closest thing I could find to the Mini's in the movie!
love the song "it's a self preservation society" in that movie as they where driving through the sewers! so COOL!