i'm watching duel now. it's all right, pretty cool. dirty mary crazy larry is better though. though very different.

aw, shoulda got that radiator hose, dude! lol.

you can really really see the influence this movie had on "the car" and "the hitcher," much later. you know, the whole creepy anonymous psycho on the road thing. but "the car" is also cooler, by a nose.

VANISHING POINT is an awesome movie as is DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY .But SMOKEY and THE BANDIT is my Favorite .Me and my kid watch it and its great .Jackie Gleason has some of the funnyest lines on film (You sonofabitches couldnt close an umbrella)  The Cannonball Run movies are good too but they might be 80s

I'll give Vanishing Point the nod for one reason.  1970 Dodge Challenger

Hey, didn't French Connection have a good car chase, or a subway chase, or both? :-\\ It was a kickass 70's movie, all those beautiful shades of brown...

hey stranger!

french connection did have a rockin' car chase, yeah, i forgot that. i think it was under an elevated subway, yeah?

you know what other movie has a car chase under an elevated subway? return from witch mountain. s'right.

it's, um, not very good though.

The James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever had an excellent car chase around Las Vegas in it.

American Graffitti...especially John Milner's hot-rod...

American Graffitti...especially John Milner's hot-rod...
You take that yellow hot rod and I'll take Harrison Fords black 55 Chevy even though he loses it and wrecks. I had one and am partial to it. That yellow roadster did kick butt, what a great car to cruise town in.

Duel was cool.....

I love Smokey and the Bandit, which I voted for.
I love many; but my heart belongs to Mark Hamill and Annie Potts in Corvette Summer.
They really didnt drive that much, seems to me.

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started watching vanishing point last night. couldn't get through it, just because i was so tired, but man, it's pretty rockin'. not as good as dirty mary crazy larry but much more subtextual and philosophical and political, while still managing to be stuffed to the gills with constant bangin' car chases! in this one the "hero" has to get a souped up 1970 dodge challenger (i didn't even know there was such a make and model, i just knew about the charger) across the US in 15 hours while hopped up on bennies.

I'll give Vanishing Point the nod for one reason.  1970 Dodge Challenger


that thing does kick a.

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in this one the "hero" has to get a souped up 1970 dodge challenger (i didn't even know there was such a make and model, i just knew about the charger) across the US in 15 hours while hopped up on bennies.


You really didn't know Doge made the Challenger? I'm terribly dissapointed here. LOL The Dodge Challenger was basically a larger, more refined version of Plymouth's 'Cuda. Much like the Mercury Cougar was a larger, more refined version of Ford's Mustang. In any case, with the available options of the early 70's, any four of the previously mentioned could kick some serious booty. That is, until the insurance companies came along and ruined everything. (much like the France family is ruining racing  ;) )

i didn't! i just knew about the charger.

it's funny, i was looking at lots of chargers online and the '69 is the only one i like. it looks EVIL with the black grill with no headlights. that's the dirty harry car and the dukes of hazzard car too, i believe. it's still my favorite. i love how in dirty harry they dared to make it that goofy off-yellow color.

that challenger was bad too though. they brought back the charger, i didn't even know. i don't really care much for the new ones, though. i don't really care for any new sportscars.

okay, just sucked down "corvette summer."

pretty retarded, and yet somehow i kept watching it. three things would have fixed this movie:

1. the souped-up corvette that sorta looks like a tiger shark is HIDEOUS. a stock 73 corvette is obviously a beautiful car to begin with, and there's a million things you could do to make it look even better, and they did none of them and instead put flames and a ridiculous pseudoblower and cheesy headlights on it.

http://i.cnn.net/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i32/CorvetteSummer_FF_300x225_060620051530.gif

gawd. eyesore. get rid of that, use a real corvette. something cool.

2. trade in whatsherface, the wannabe prostitute love interest, for an actual actress.

and 3. um, i forgot what three was, actually. but i woulda fixed it.

the bad guys had a real nice black camaro, though. which just ended up making you root for the bad guys. and mark hamill was quite dreamy a year after doing "Star wars", if you like that sort of thing, which i don't, because i'm not gay. a couple of times they're doing crowd shots in las vegas casinos or wherever and i swear it seems like you can see one of the extras in the background do a double-take, like, holy schiesse, that's luke skywalker! he was pretty much more popular than jesus in 1978. sorry, harmonica.

okay, just sucked down "corvette summer."

pretty retarded, and yet somehow i kept watching it. three things would have fixed this movie:

1. the souped-up corvette that sorta looks like a tiger shark is HIDEOUS.

gawd. eyesore. get rid of that, use a real corvette. something cool.

2. trade in whatsherface, the wannabe prostitute love interest, for an actual actress.
a couple of times they're doing crowd shots in las vegas casinos or wherever and i swear it seems like you can see one of the extras in the background do a double-take,

I love this movie. It's the apex of cheese and bad film making which, for some reason, keeps your eyes glued to the screen. It's like a bad car accident- you know you shouldnt look....
OK
1. Right. don't know tons about cars, but I suspect Mark Hammilll was the draw there.
2. They could have had Beverly D'angelo, who is always hot and in stupid comedies. Or better yet, my idol PJ Soles!  Hey! Look at the poster!
It says "Mark Hammill who you loved in Star WArs and Annie Potts who you'll never forget"  and then you went "Who?"
http://www.postersnthings.com/posters/corvette_summer.jpg

I love this movie. It's the apex of cheese and bad film making which, for some reason, keeps your eyes glued to the screen. It's like a bad car accident- you know you shouldnt look....
OK
1. Right. don't know tons about cars, but I suspect Mark Hammilll was the draw there.
2. They could have had Beverly D'angelo, who is always hot and in stupid comedies. Or better yet, my idol PJ Soles!  Hey! Look at the poster!
It says "Mark Hammill who you loved in Star WArs and Annie Potts who you'll never forget"   and then you went "Who?"
http://www.postersnthings.com/posters/corvette_summer.jpg


i remembered the third thing! the music! terrible. and in a decade known for great music. wtf?

yeah, you're dead on. it was so cheesy and bad and i really couldn't take my eyes off it. it's got some interesting cameos in it, too. Danny Bonaduce. who was that guy, remember, who runs the vette through the car wash and mark hamill ends up chasing him on a bicycle? i've seen that dude in a million things. and that guy who gave mark hamill the two-dollar bill. he's a real classic character actor, but again, offhand i can't think of the stuff he's been in.

i got this movie mixed up with another movie called "Stingray." i saw stingray with my uncle way back in the day and i kept waiting for the scene where mark hamill falls off the bridge but nope, completely different movie. it's really hard to find now, you can buy it on ebay on VHS for like forty bucks.

who was that guy, remember, who runs the vette through the car wash and mark hamill ends up chasing him on a bicycle? i've seen that dude in a million things.

You mean this guy?
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/83/45/22m.jpg

You mean this guy?
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/83/45/22m.jpg
Yeah, that's him! I see he hasn't gotten any prettier with age. I've seen that dude in a hundred trillion things. He always plays the dopey strong-arm bad guy.

One thing I liked about CS -- the villains were definitely despicable, even if it was in that wooden quasi-made-for-tv kinda way. good villains count for a LOT in a movie. The importance of a good villain is routinely undersestimated.

You mean this guy?
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/83/45/22m.jpg


ahhhh my images won't work!

ahhhh my images won't work!
i just copy em into my browser url line, follow the link adn then they work after that,

i just copy em into my browser url line, follow the link adn then they work after that,


I know...it just vanished. it was there. I hate doing it again. arg.

*sigh.*

remember valley girl?

anyway, i dusted off this thread because i just saw "bullitt" on the national mall as part of their screen on the green series and that car chase is just so amazing. (i'm still not sure it's cooler than dirty mary crazy larry though.) you really have to see it on the big screen to get the full effect and it's better when the speakers really deafen you. they just don't make em like that anymore!

was the bad guy's car a charger or a gto or what? i love how when they do the cabin shots on steve mcqueen you can hear that mustang engine going full bore but then the shots of the bad guys the engine's just kinda humming along, ho hum.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.php?image=MikeSutton/bullitt4.jpg

good review, the heavily edited way they do car chases now you really don't get a sense of the skill of the stunt drivers. it's all a big blur.

http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=57401

Other:

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

did diamonds are forever have a car chase?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqaAi9I15Pg

john hough is a god.

did diamonds are forever have a car chase?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqaAi9I15Pg

john hough is a god.
Driving around Las Vegas.