The 10 best ever....

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Actually legend has it that Steve McQueen's highly modified Mustang had to be somewhat unmodified just to get it to slide in the corners.

The best chase movie ever was the original Gone In 60 Seconds. The movie was made by an amateur director and cast, and it shows it. It's about as bad as a movie can get. But the whole point was to wreck 90-plus cars in less than an hour, and there are no big explosions and no fakery - just the best darn chase sequence ever.

And these guys don't seem to know of its existence. I'd show a clip but it would have to be 45 minutes long.

There is some fakery in that movie. There is no way that Cobra survived the bridge jump scene. It is a blue screen for sure. However, there are many good chase cuts in that movie

[AVGWarhawk]

This one should have made it in:

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

There is some fakery in that movie. There is no way that Cobra survived the bridge jump scene.

H.B. Halicki compacted ten vertebrae performing the "big jump" in the Mustang at the end of the movie, which reached 30 feet high and cleared 128 feet. Fortunately the injury was not very serious, although according to director of photography Jack Vacek, Halicki never walked the same again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_in...nds_(1974_film)

Why is it that every time I try to link to a Wiki article that ends with a parenthesis the last one gets cut off and the link doesn't work?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_in...nds_(1974_film)

Why is it that every time I try to link to a Wiki article that ends with a parenthesis the last one gets cut off and the link doesn't work?

I stand corrected Steve. The blue screen I remember is of course Cage in a slow motion deal. Kind of stupid looking if you ask me.

Revealing mistakes: When Memphis lands the car from his long jump on the bridge, upon close inspection you can tell that it is a stunt man landing the car.

Revealing mistakes: The 2:1 cable pulling the cop car is visible out the back of the cop car during the "big chase" when the cop car gets hit by the bus.

Continuity: In the chase scene where Randall first notices the truckbed ramp, it is approximately 2 feet off the ground at the end. The scene changes for only a second, and when you next see the bed, it is prepped for Randall's jump. In the earlier scene, the bed was either dead stopped or moving very slow, and could not have made it to the ground during the scene gap.

[Sailor Steve]

Of course they had to use some trickery. The scene of the old lady whacking the cars with her umbrella, seen from inside the cars, couldn't have been shot at high speed without endangering her.

I looked but I can't find a listing of how many 'Eleanors' they went through.

[Oberon]

Yeah, the Italian Job should definitely be on that list. Classic scene:



And who could forget the intro to the film? Such a beautiful landscape, beautiful motor, the singing bus driver, just sets it all up:




But, going down to some TV series as well there's some awesome car scenes, the Sweeney had some I remember the most:

(watch out for the cardboard boxes, no car chase is complete without them!)

Damn, am I the only one who really misses the way cars looked in the late 70s through to the 80s, none of this streamlined muck. Proper motors.

Nurse...he's off again...

[AVGWarhawk]

Yes sir...box scenes. Don't forget the fruit stands. Flying smashed fruit always goes well in chase scenes.

Damn, am I the only one who really misses the way cars looked in the late 70s through to the 80s, none of this streamlined muck. Proper motors.

Probably not. Classic cars now. For me the cars made in the US between 1940-1959 are the cars I really love to admire. The lines are very nice.

[Oberon]

Just found a couple of other scenes from two series I love which were made in the last five years but were based in the 1970s and 80s:






And of course, a bit of a more modern take