Car Chase

[wheelinround]

Whats the best Car Chase scene you enjoy in a movie

Is it Mini's through streets in The Italian Job
Dukes Of Hazard jumpin ditches
maybe even Smokey & The Bandit 1

many others just can't recall them all

[pawnhead]

You can't go past the Blues Bros.

The Blues Brothers (final chase)

[markharrison]

Ronin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/)has one of the best car chases ever!

[Christopha]

Blues Bros, Bullit, the original Gone in Sixty Seconds and the Itaian job.... the best four but not necessarily in that order. I am sorry but Dorks of Hazzard would not not rate anywhere on a car chase list of mine...

[joe greiner]

"The Man with the Golden Gun" (James Bond)

Had a chase over a canal from and to rickety bridge remnants, with a midair barrel roll by Bond. IIRC, the credits included computer programmers for the stunt.

Joe

[Cruzi]

Ronin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/)has one of the best car chases ever!

Agreed

French Connection has another good car chase, Transporter has a good one as well




"The Man with the Golden Gun" (James Bond)

Had a chase over a canal from and to rickety bridge remnants, with a midair barrel roll by Bond. IIRC, the credits included computer programmers for the stunt.



Made well before CGI was invented I'm afraid.

Edited to add, not exactly before it was invented but it was still to crude to be used in films, IIRC if you look at the shot just after the car lands on the other side, they did something wrong in continuity that required them to reverse the film, so if you can catch it, the writing on all the signs is backwards for one shot.

[martrix]

yeah, another vote for Bullitt. Just watched it again.:cool:

A 68 GT Mustang and a 68 Dodge Charger racing through the streets of San Francisco, old skool. Doesn't get much better than that for me.:smoke1:

[Cliff Rogers]

Bullitt :2tsup:

[Master Splinter]

I'm surprised that no-one has as yet mentioned the 14 minute long freeway chase from The Matrix Reloaded. They custom built a freeway to film it on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8lEXT9AbM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8lEXT9AbM)

Cars, motorbikes, ghosts, semi-trailers, samurai swords and a hot chick - what more do you want in a chase?

(looks/sounds much better on DVD with a good sound system...)

[joe greiner]

Made well before CGI was invented I'm afraid.

Edited to add, not exactly before it was invented but it was still to crude to be used in films, IIRC if you look at the shot just after the car lands on the other side, they did something wrong in continuity that required them to reverse the film, so if you can catch it, the writing on all the signs is backwards for one shot.

Wasn't CG. The computer programming was used to define the optimum shape of the bridge "remnants" to impart the proper twist and allow landing on the far side; also to establish the proper speed of the car. The programmers could have been moonlighting rocket scientists. Haven't seen it for years, so I can't remember any continuity problems. Might be listed in "movie blunders" or some such web site name.

Joe

[Cruzi]

Ronin x 2


YouTube - Ronin Car Chase

YouTube - Ronin Car Chase

[ss_11000]

casino royale ( not really that much of a car chase ) only cos of the fact there were ashton martins:D

[Harry72]

Mad Max.... I am the Knight Rider!

[wheelinround]

Not into Drugs of Hazard just one that I could recall

of course there are many motorbike ones also

best motor bike scene start of STONE.

Just located this site http://www.varaces.com/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=feature.php?mode=view&id=5

[les88]

Bullit :oo::2tsup:
les

[Christopha]

I am sorry but any car/bike chase that uses GGI just isn't a car chase really......

[Buzza]

Of course it all started with "Keystone Cops" didn't it? :D

[pawnhead]

Of course it all started with "Keystone Cops" didn't it? :DAh yes!

And what a classic

The Keystone Kops

:D

[prozac]

S'gotta be Steve McQueen in "Bullit", or is it "Bullet".

[triden]

Any one remember Vanishing Point ?

[Gra]

There was only one..

YouTube - ferrari in paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLPIT-geTshttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/oWLPIT-geTs%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22wmode%22%20value=%22transparent%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/oWLPIT-geTs%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20wmode=%22transparent%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E

Made with left over film stock and using the directors own car, all the traffic is real. No closed roads.

[wheelinround]

There was only one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLPIT-geTs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWLPIT-geTs

Made with left over film stock and using the directors own car, all the traffic is real. No closed roads.

How do you embed a youtube vid?

me thinks you got a problem there Gra

ok now

[pawnhead]

That wasn't a Ferrari Gra. It was a Mercedes saloon, and the sound was dubbed.

[Gra]

That wasn't a Ferrari. It was a Mercedes, and the sound was dubbed.

There is some argument over what car it was. The director certainly owned a Ferrari and a Merc at the time. Me, I dont care what the car is, just love the footage. It was an underground film for quite some time for obvious reasons. It was finally released on DVD about 3 or 4 years ago. Before that it was secretly passed around car circles. The director did get into some trouble for it, but not a huge amount as they couldn't prove he was going that fast at the time (70's).

I guess technically it isn't a car chase as there isn't anyone following, but its a great piece of film:U

[pawnhead]

I was going to post it earlier until I saw a picture of the director with the camera mounted to his Mercedes. I'll try to dig it up.

[pawnhead]

From the directors (Claude Lelouch) website. http://www.lesfilms13.com/dea_a_z/news/news87.htm

http://www.lesfilms13.com/dea_a_z/envrac/images/rendezvous.jpg

It's a Mercedes 450SEL

Here's a mash up using Google maps where you can view the route he takes whilst watching the video:
http://bhendrix.com/wall/Gmaps_GVideo_Mashup_Rendezvous.html

[Christopha]

Sorry Gra but compared to BullIt or "the Italian Job" your merccarri or whayever is boring as batshat.... IMHO.

[Chris Parks]

Vanishing Point, the whole movie. Drugs + Dodge Challenger = ...... well you just have to see it.

[prozac]

Was it "The French Connection" where in the middle of a car chase up a mountain dirt road there was a little car forplay when the yellow Porsche 911 did forward and reverse fkick turns in front of the Alfa MonteCarlo whilst still moving in the same direction? Not putting this chase in for a prize, but it was a nice interlude in the midst of mayhem.