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Post by bancroft on May 12, 2023 20:59:48 GMT
I've see a few and like this recent movie with a stunt driver trying to help a neighbour buy himself out of the Mafia with unfortunate consequences. Has a Brit connection with Carey Mulligan in it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIAg4-ysBL4&t=14s |
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Post by Pacifico on May 12, 2023 21:34:19 GMT
I was watching that and thinking how crap it would be with the sound of two electric cars...
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Post by Steve on May 12, 2023 22:00:35 GMT
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Post by bancroft on May 12, 2023 22:23:52 GMT
Is that the one where Gene Hackman character chases the train? If so they upset the French police as they really knocked over shop stalls and had a few prangs with the locals. |
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Post by walterpaisley on May 12, 2023 22:36:40 GMT
I've been a fan of the car chase since u can remember.
Bill Hickman's work in "The French Connection" is certainly terrific, but some of my favourites are in lesser-known movies..
A decade later, Billy Friedkin made an even better thriller - "To Live and Die in L.A" - with a chase that edges it out. Except this time he had the budget to involve more cars, and didn't have to resort to undercranking to make shots appear faster.
Sort of related to "Connection" - by dint of its star, director, and Hickman once again designing the stunt work - is "The 7-Ups". The director, Philip D'Antoni, had earlier produced both "Connection" and "Bullitt" - and it blows that one out of the water: Aside from a great car chase, it's a far superior thriller (people tend to forget that the McQueen film is rather bloated, dull, and the "twist" is telegraphed a mile off..).
Finally, worth searching for is an Italian actioner which may be found under either its original title of "La Mala Ordina", or any number of foreign names ("Manhunt in Milan" / "Hired to Kill" / "The Italian Connection" / etc, etc). Not a bad movie (stars the late - hugely underrated - Henry Silva and Woody Strode), and the car chase will knock your socks off.
(Another Italian action movie has a car chase that's a personal favourite for all the WRONG reasons. For some unfathomable reason, the makers of "Ark of the Sun God" - an ultra violent Indiana Jones rip' - chose to film their chases using miniature cars,which must've saved some money, but certainly cost in credibility..)
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Post by walterpaisley on May 12, 2023 22:43:19 GMT
If so they upset the French police as they really knocked over shop stalls and had a few prangs with the locals. Luckily for the makers, the gendarmerie weren't on duty in Brooklyn, that day. It certainly seems to be the case that some (By no means "all" - despite what Mr Friedkin has always claimed - of the shots were grabbed without city permission. |
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Post by Montegriffo on May 13, 2023 0:19:26 GMT
The Blues Brothers.
At the time it involved the destruction of more cars than any other film in history.
It is still at number 3 in the all time list.
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Post by Steve on May 13, 2023 8:09:47 GMT
If so they upset the French police as they really knocked over shop stalls and had a few prangs with the locals. Luckily for the makers, the gendarmerie weren't on duty in Brooklyn, that day. . . .  your comment may of course fly over the heads of a few people |
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Post by Dan Dare on May 13, 2023 8:21:28 GMT
The Italian Job. Mini Coopers own the Carabinieri's Alfas. No loud bangs or flashy smash-ups just pure adrenaline.
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Post by bancroft on May 13, 2023 11:42:48 GMT
The Italian Job. Mini Coopers own the Carabinieri's Alfas. No loud bangs or flashy smash-ups just pure adrenaline. I was watching on Quest TV last night the best rallying cars, and in the 60s it was the Mini Cooper though by a majority decision it went to the Audi Quattro for their success with the first rallying 4x4. |
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Post by Orac on May 13, 2023 11:58:24 GMT
I'm voting with Monte for Blues Brothers
The car chase itself is superb - but also the context it is put in is expertly delivered - ie the bizarre spectacle of the entire us police force chasing two musicians.
Normally this would hit your ludicrous circuits and fall flat, but the film makes it work. the art of cinema.
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Post by walterpaisley on May 13, 2023 12:10:11 GMT
Spielberg's first theatrical feature - "Sugarland Express" - centres around the "dozens of cops chasing two people" schtick.
Much underrated. The best performance Golie Hawn ever gave, great, luminous Vilmos Zsigmond photography, and Carey Loftin's (who also headed the driving team for "Vanishing Point") stunt work is career best.
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Post by bancroft on May 13, 2023 13:00:21 GMT
walterpaisleyI checked out the Live and Die in LA and realise I've never seen the movie though an interesting car chase. I thought most people would say Bullitt with Steve MacQueen which I thought looked a bit OTT as they crunched over those undulating slopes in San Fran just sure at that speed there would have been some momentous shock absorber failures. This good too in the movie the Raid 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqg4GkP_dI
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Post by walterpaisley on May 13, 2023 13:15:05 GMT
most people would say Bullitt with Steve MacQueen which I thought looked a bit OTT as they crunched over those undulating slopes in San Fran just sure at that speed there would have been some momentous shock absorber failures. Next time you watch it, check out the unusual number of hubcaps Hickman's Charger loses (I counted 5), the number of times they pass a green Beetle, and the crew member frantically pointing the direction as the chase leaves the city and heads for the freeway. Back in the 90s I had the pleasure of sitting with the (British) director, Peter Yates, on a flight to Toronto. It's not one of his favourite films (that would be the excellent "Breaking Away"), and he still laughs about the continuity snafus of the chase (which everyone spotted in the edit, and dismissed with the well worn phrase "ah - but who's going to notice?"). He actually got the gig on the basis of an earlier car chase he'd directed - for his Great Train Robbery movie, "Robbery". |
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Post by Bentley on May 13, 2023 20:45:04 GMT
Vanishing point .
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your comment may of course fly over the heads of a few people
