I was reading the thread about F&F 3, and i was asking to me what are the best scenes about car chase in movies.
i want to do this on strictly technical and crediblity basis.
My choices are:
1)BULLITT (san francisco chase w/ mustang and dodge s/c Mc queen and the other driver are awesome)
2)RONIN (spy story in France with De Niro in). Car chase between Nice historical streets, the Audi s8 do fantastic things.

post yours please!

One in Ronin was the best I've ever seen.

The one in the Italian Job was cool. I also liked the Transporter car chases. My favorite will be the first movie that has an RX-8 in a chase.

Hi Knerk, what's up?
What movie is "Transporter", explain me

The French Connection made in 1971 has one of the greatest car chases ever.

Umm .. It has the guy from the movie "Snatch" in it. - check it out on imdb.com The guy in it drives a black BMW


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293662/

Cool! IMDB.com says they are making a sequel!

Originally posted by RX-GR8
The French Connection made in 1971 has one of the greatest car chases ever.
In that movie was maybe starring Gene Hackman? I dont' remember the car chase scene..

There is a cheap B movie called "The Big Sweat" the whole movie is a car chase.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Knerk
[B]Umm .. It has the guy from the movie "Snatch" in it. - check it out on imdb.com The guy in it drives a black BMW


Jason Statham, i dont think that movie is distribuited in Italy.....
Luc Besson is a director who love car chases (taxxi, subway)...he made a short with Mazda Atenza for japanese market (car/bike chase too)

Originally posted by Matteo
In that movie was maybe starring Gene Hackman? I dont' remember the car chase scene..

yep he was in it.

Originally posted by RX-GR8
yep he was in it.

Cool movie ...great actors...very violent for that times...still have a hole on the car chase (need to rent it on weekend..)

I liked the chase in the Transporter too, Matteo. I thought the film was pretty reasonable overall, nearer the end it seemed a bit rushed.

Transporter
Ronin
Matrix Reloaded (sort of)
Bourne Identity

Mazda man, you own a skyline GTR??
Are you japanese or english?

Originally posted by Matteo
Cool movie ...great actors...very violent for that times...still have a hole on the car chase (need to rent it on weekend..) French Connection was more of a train chase - Hackman driving the car, chasing the elevated train. ;)

My favourites:

The Gumball Rally, #1. One big chase, coast to coast. This was based on the real Cannonball Run, but came out before the cheesy Burt Reynolds movies and was far more accurate (which still isn't saying much) (and who can not be tempted by the Cobra 427 vs. Ferrari Daytona Spyder scenes?)

2. - Grand Prix. Incredible cinematography, directed by John Frankenheimer, who later did Ronin.

3. LeMans. Steve McQueen, LeMans Porsches and Ferraris, more great stuff. Yes, they are chasing each other in these two - just no guns etc. ;) No healing hubcaps flying around like in Bullit, etc.!

4. Ronin.

5. Bullit

6. The Italian Job (1969 original)

Regards,
Gordon

Edit - I must note - I'm as much a car nut as anyone, but (more like, because of that), I will NEVER stoop to watch drivel like Fast'n'Furious. Neither 1, 2 nor 3 if one is made. I've never seen a F'n'F movie, and I won't. Complete crap fiction by Hollywood that has nothing to do with reality or real cars. Much like Stallone's Drivel, er, Driven, and Days of Thunder - they are embarrassments to enthusiasts and racing fans.

Originally posted by pelucidor
Transporter
Ronin
Matrix Reloaded (sort of)
Bourne Identity

Yes Bourne Identity had a credible chase

Originally posted by Gord96BRG




Edit - I must note - I'm as much a car nut as anyone, but (more like, because of that), I will NEVER stoop to watch drivel like Fast'n'Furious. Neither 1, 2 nor 3 if one is made. I've never seen a F'n'F movie, and I won't. Complete crap fiction by Hollywood that has nothing to do with reality or real cars. Much like Stallone's Drivel, er, Driven, and Days of Thunder - they are embarrassments to enthusiasts and racing fans.

Yes, damn right

There is an anime` movie called Riding Bean - it is noteworthy

You guys got my nods for French Connection, and Transporter. I really like transporter until the end. I watched it alone first and loved it, then with the g/f and she vetoed it. She didn't like fear & loathing either, but she hasn't seen those bats yet. What's the score here?

to me i'd think one of the best car chase scenes would have to be the original 60's gone in 60 seconds with a hour and a half car chase scene with 93 wrecked cars.

I like all the above mentioned movies like Ronin, Italian Job, and Transporter. But the one that actually sparked my interest in sports cars was the chase scene between a Skyline GT-R R33 and the Mitsubishi FTO in Jackie Chan's "Thunderbolt".

The original Smokey and the Bandit (god I loved that old Trans Am), Vanishing Point, and Thunder Road (classic) had some great chase scenes. There was a pretty good chase in the Blues Brothers as well, and it's a damn funny movie besides that.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gord96BRG
[B]French Connection was more of a train chase - Hackman driving the car, chasing the elevated train. ;)

it involves a car and there is a chase ergo it's a car chasing something. most people would classify this movie as having a car chase and what a chase it is. :)

the transporter was 10 TIMES better than stupid crappy fake xXx

The best chase scence, and largest chase scene ever filmed "The Blues Brothers"

My favorites are Gumball Rally, Bullitt, Ronin and the original Italian Job (haven't seen the new one yet).

In a much smaller way, I really enjoy the BMW films short movies-anyone seen these? I think they've been available on the web for a while, but I picked up a couple DVD copies of "The Hire" when I bought my RX-8 (they're a combo BMW & Mazda dealer and are handing them out for free). Some pretty nifty driving in the Z4 and other assorted Bimmer vehicles.

-Sean

Does The Raith or the Wraith or however it's spelled qualify as a movie selection for this thread? That movie freaked me out back in the day. Now I live it. hahahahhaha

hands down.."chitty chitty bang" bang

for the driving and direction itself, Frankenheimer's "Ronin" (the precision with which that Saab spun on its roof in the tunnel makes the whole movie for me).

Transporter is... meh. very very cheap stuff, with tons of short, shaky shots. very very well concieved, just extremely fake, and full of cheats. what i really REALLY love about that movie is that it's an exciting, ALMOST witty spy movie until the gratuitous sex scene (omfg, every time i see what's-her-name in those panties, all i can think of is my 2nd exgf Heidy... carbon copy), whereafter it becomes a hilariously bad HK kung-fu movie.

French Connection, meh.

Le Mans, definitely it as far as performances go, as McQueen did the driving of the GT40 himself, and the CRASHES that were orchestrated (yes, designed and actually driven to happen that way) are just incredible... it's all just computer graphic bullshit these days.

the old Italian job was neat, 'cuase it has all the lil' Minis in it, and the nicest thing about it is that the style of the time requires long shots, and thus you really get to see pure unadulterated stunt driving... which is exactly what you don't get in Transporter (as i said before).

in the very end, my vote has to go to that amateur bootleg classic, "something" in Stockholm... ;) just kiddin', kiddies. Ronin is it.

Originally posted by Knerk
The one in the Italian Job was cool. I also liked the Transporter car chases. My favorite will be the first movie that has an RX-8 in a chase.

that would be cool, but you'd have to stop for gas every 2-3 miles:D

Originally posted by downshift
I like all the above mentioned movies like Ronin, Italian Job, and Transporter. But the one that actually sparked my interest in sports cars was the chase scene between a Skyline GT-R R33 and the Mitsubishi FTO in Jackie Chan's "Thunderbolt".

Thanks. i was gonna mention that Jackie Chan movie but i forgot the name. All the above mentioned were good. I jsut saw Bad Boys 2 and i thought they has some pretty cool car chases. Great freeway driving. Gone in 60 was sweet.

FAST AND THE FURIOUS!!! Sorry no1 said it yet!! hehe

just jking..

seriously i liked Swordfish, its not a car chase but MI2 Bike scene was awesome.

Driven was soooo bad I had to keep stopping the DVD to recover in places - made Days of Thunder look good. I never finished F&F II at all...

I like to see really crap cars driven in a heroic manner - hence Bourne Identity and some Bond movie with a 2CV going down a hill. And of course I love Jackie Chan in his trademark Mitsubishi chases (not a crap car of course).

Hands down Ronin is the best I have seen. A sleeper with a surprise ending was "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry " with Peter Fonda. Old school detroit muscle with some very good driving. Nothing earthshattering but I liked it and it hasn't been mentioned.

Am I the only one on this post that has seen Thunder Road? I really thought it would get more mentions.

Originally posted by IkeWRX
Am I the only one on this post that has seen Thunder Road? I really thought it would get more mentions.

sorry i have not seen it but i have heard Bruce play it in concert.

The Blues Brothers. I don't know if this still holds true, but at the time I believe it had the largest chase scene based on number of cars.

Luc Besson, the guy who made "The Transporter" also made "Taxi Taxi". There's a great start in "Taxi 3". About as good as "The Transporter".

The chase starts with rollerbladers chasing Stallone on mountain bike, he escapes and gets in a cab (modified Peugeot 405).. chased by the cops.

In "The Transporter", it's a black Mercedes (or was it a BMW?)

These movies didn't make it big in the USA, but I got them here on my shelf :-)

it was a BMW.

Originally posted by IkeWRX
Am I the only one on this post that has seen Thunder Road? I really thought it would get more mentions.
"Thunder was his engine, white lightning was his load."
Olde Fart signing on here. Yes on Thunder Road. "Good food, good meat, gettin' late, let's eat".
No one has mentioned "Rendezvous" by Claude Lelouch from 1977. He is also the director of "A Man and A Woman" which had one of the best driving in the rain sequences.
Otherwise I agree entirely with Ike and Gordon. The Fast and Furious series pull a total vacuum, Driven and Days of Blunder both suck. There was a Ryan O'Neal flick callled "The Driver" which is the only movie I've walked out on.

There's a cool chase in "Target" with Gene Hackman.
Bond movies tend to have good car chases like Goldfinger. Lately they have become too "unrealistic".

T3 with a 60 ton crane, Fire Engine, Toyota Pickup, two Police Cars and an Ambulance.

Originally posted by desmo996
Bond movies tend to have good car chases like Goldfinger. Lately they have become too "unrealistic".

that, in my mind, is what's so wrong with so many movies (and the chase in The Transporter)... showing something amazing happening is what it's all about, but not a fake/unrealistic kind of amazing (such as a huge crash in every race in Driven)...

Have you guys ever heard the cult movie 'Rendezvous'?

To make this 9-minute film, renowned French director Claude Lelouch first mounted a camera on the nose of a Ferrari, then drove flat out through the streets of Paris at dawn. The streets weren't blocked off, the truck drivers and street sweepers having the bejeezus scared out of them are real Parisians, and the guy driving the car isn't a stunt man.

Rendezvous is sort mini-Cannonball done with a French of taste and scale. Lelouch truns lights, uses pedestrians as apexes, and generally has a wonderful time. The sound of the screaming engine is stirring enough, but the sight of Paris rushing by as Lelouch tops out the car on the Champs Elysees makes this a must see piece of auto cinema

http://www.autoxcam.com/rendezvous.mov

I couldn't get the clip to play video. Audio only. See what you guys get.


OOps. I posted before I read the whole thing. Apparently DC knows what I'm talking about.

Yes, you beat me to it.

There is only 1 (one, uno, eins, etc) and it only involves 1 car:

Rendezvous.

If you see the whole thing, you will know that the others are mere pretenders.

Originally posted by racerdave
Yes, you beat me to it.

There is only 1 (one, uno, eins, etc) and it only involves 1 car:

Rendezvous.

If you see the whole thing, you will know that the others are mere pretenders.

I read an extremely interesting article about Rendezvous just this week - a group took the very latest detailed satellite mapping of Paris, and spent a lot of time correlating the movie to the sat mapping to determine the actual route followed. They then compared the elapsed times in the movie to the elapsed distances from the mapping. It turns out that the average speed driven during the whole of Rendezvous is only something like 50 mph!! :eek: I've just spent half an hour searching for that article, and damned if I can't find it. Whatever, it is definitely among the most dramatic and exciting 7 minutes of auto action ever filmed!

One article I read in the search stated that the top movies for car nuts are 1) Grand Prix, 2) LeMans, and 3) Rendezvous. Those beat out Bullit, Ronin, et al, because in those 3, the cars are the story and the stars, rather than being just aides to the plot.

Regards,
Gordon

I like the matrix reloaded car chase scene. There is always a car flipping or blowing up. I love that scene

Originally posted by Gord96BRG
I read an extremely interesting article about Rendezvous just this week - a group took the very latest detailed satellite mapping of Paris, and spent a lot of time correlating the movie to the sat mapping to determine the actual route followed. They then compared the elapsed times in the movie to the elapsed distances from the mapping. It turns out that the average speed driven during the whole of Rendezvous is only something like 50 mph!!
Regards,
Gordon

That's funny, because I remember a similar article where they used distances, rally tables and timed between landmarks and the run on the Champs-Elysees was over 120 mph.

Looks like I'll have to try and dig that one up to...

have any of you seen The Legend of Speed starring Ekin Cheng? it's a Hong Kong flick that came out about the same time as the first Fast and the Furious...it's really good if you like Hong Kong films and they race Lancers vs. Subarus as well as crotch rockets...even has a decent plot with a tragic love story to keep the ladies entertained in between races...

if you like anime, go check out Initial D...it's all about the rotaries!

To Live and Die in LA had an excellent chase scene...upon its release, it was widely proclaimed to be "the best chase scene since the French Connection." It was my personal fav until Ronin came out.

Someone else mentioned The Hire, the BMW films series of shorts. Those...especially the first years films...are outstanding. They're not all chase scenes, but they're all good.

jds

I just remembered a very special kind of movie.

Getaway in Stockholm

I only have #3. This is reality. Not some fake movie.

From what I understand, once a year in August, a team sets up a race across Stockholm. No artificial stunts, but fast driving. 2002 they picked an NSX and in the end some motorcycle stunts f*cking with the cops.

I got that one from edonkey, maybe it can be found elsewhere too. Does anyone have #1 and #2?

-Peter

========== from my site ==============
MOVIE.NAME....: Getaway In Stockholm 3
MOVIE.YEAR....: 2002
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RUNTIME.......: 41min
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We skipped the extra features with comments and music
videos with Malte X.

A classic two-seater with a midmounted engine,
a fast boat and a helicopter - all three perform
in this third documentary about a high speed pursuit
through the night of Stockholm. A Honda NSX us in
the hands of one of the most famous traffic violators.

Onces again Mr X challenges the swedish police department
in this favourite movie for speed freaks when he sets a
new record racing through Stockholm. A journey through
the city at speeds so high that even the helicopter has
a hard time catching up, he jumps into a fast boat,
everything to escape the long arm of the law.

A recent poll (quoted by 'The Sun' in the UK) of 5500 film fans came up with this top ten:

1 Bullitt (1968).
2 Gone In 60 Seconds (1974).
3 The French Connection (1971)
4 Ronin (1998) High-speed chases in Nice and Paris.
5 The Italian Job (1969).
6 Duel (1972) A juggernaut chases a salesman along desert roads.
7 Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Burt Reynolds in a Trans-Am is chased by cops.
8 Mad Max 2 (1981) Mel Gibson faces post-nuclear road tribes.
9 Goldfinger (1964) Bond’s Aston Martin DB5.
10 Die Another Day (2002) 007 in a car shoot-out on ice.

Originally posted by Gord96BRG

Edit - I must note - I'm as much a car nut as anyone, but (more like, because of that), I will NEVER stoop to watch drivel like Fast'n'Furious. Neither 1, 2 nor 3 if one is made. I've never seen a F'n'F movie, and I won't. Complete crap fiction by Hollywood that has nothing to do with reality or real cars. Much like Stallone's Drivel, er, Driven, and Days of Thunder - they are embarrassments to enthusiasts and racing fans.

Absolutely. F-n-F, & XXX were complete wastes of precious celluloid. Favorite chase scene is a tough call, though... Bullitt, French Connection, & Blues Brothers are amongst the best. However, a little trivia: the filmmakers allegedly did the French Connection chase scene without a permit!:)