Favourite car chases scenes

Jesus.

I'm not on this Board an awfully long time so this has probably been done before. If so, MODS feel free to close/merge it!

I was watching the film "The 51st State" last night and it had a pretty good chase scene in it. The "villains" were in a lovely Jag XJ6 III and were being pursued by a Cop in a Vauxhall Omega.

That got me wondering, what's my favourite movie car chases?

The chases in "Ronin" were classic but my favourite would still have to be the closing scene in Mad Max 2 with the Mack Tanker being pursued by all manner of vehicles.

So, what's yours?

MuppetCheck

Bullet, but I'm a biased McQueen fan.

Howard Juneau

Bullitt is correct. /thread

dgt

Ronin.....

Jesus.

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Bullet, but I'm a biased McQueen fan.

I knew that one would crop up alright Muppet.

Pure classic.

toastedpickles

The one I seen on abbey street one night last year :pac:

Scortho

Gone in 60 seconds...the original.


The remake was also my favourite movie with Nicholas cage in it. Not many to choose from in that list anyway.

Both car chases were good but that 40 minute off car chase in the first one always has me on the edge of my seat.

Dartz

The Seven Up's

Gunsmith Cats

French Connection

power pants

French connection was v good

Lurching

This was how they shot the dialogue during the car chase at the start of JB Skyfall. Thats the old Stig on top doing the driving.



Pretty cool. Uprated power, widened stance to allow for the higher COG. Stiffened.

tossy

This chase scene is fairly underrated..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aPIiX6tRc

(i prefer the original,the edit/scratching on this one is poor )

Henry Ford III

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xks5pf_blues-brothers-mall-chase-scene_shortfilms

tempnam

Henry Ford III wrote: »

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xks5pf_blues-brothers-mall-chase-scene_shortfilms

"This place has got everything..." Love how they just casually just point out the shops with no worries about the cops chasing them!

Ronin has good car chases too.

I prefer the ones that have 'ordinary' cars.... Makes you feel like it could happen to anyone!

kupus

love all the movies including the new one.

Jesus.

The Bond one with the Aston Martin and the Alfa's was a good one too.

bop1977

The second or third matrix. The one where they built a 6 mile motorway just to get what they wanted. Great chase crap film.

Jesus.

tempnam wrote: »

I prefer the ones that have 'ordinary' cars.... Makes you feel like it could happen to anyone!

As opposed to the huge old Yank Tanks?

I hear ye bro!

holdmybeer

The Italian Job original
The Blues Brothers

biko

Bourne/Italian Job - anything with Minis flying around really

Chris Dolmeth

bop1977 wrote: »

The second or third matrix. The one where they built a 6 mile motorway just to get what they wanted. Great chase crap film.

They didn't build it, they rented it from the Australian govt before it was opened to the public.

Even Hollywood isn't that stupid.

Matt Simis

Jack Reacher had an unexpected chase scene in it between a Camaro SS and Audi A6 3.2. Was quite good IMO, night time, very noisy, lots of tyre smoke.

07Lapierre

Any episode of "worlds wildest police chases" ?

Stinicker

There was a James Bond car chase in Thailand in some movie back years ago thought it was good.

Voodoomelon

Matt Simis wrote: »

Jack Reacher had an unexpected chase scene in it between a Camaro SS and Audi A6 3.2. Was quite good IMO, night time, very noisy, lots of tyre smoke.

Unexpected is right, came out of the blue. Very well done too.

pajor

+1 original Italian Job.

And it's a God awful film, but there's a couple of good chases/races and cars in general in Tokyo Drift

kavanada

Bad boys 2:-

The chase from the multi-storey car park...... 'Man, your badge? He has a gun! Shoot him!!'

holdmybeer

kavanada wrote: »

Bad boys 2:-

The chase from the multi-storey car park...... 'Man, you're badge? He has a gun! Shoot him!!'

Sh*t just got serious

Isotonik

There's a cracking film called Robbery from 1967 which is loosely based on the Great Train Robbery. The first 15 minutes have by far and away one of the best car chases I've ever seen. Interestingly this film was directed by Peter Yates who the following year went on to direct Bullitt.

Everyone forgets this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4qIeQcIKLM

ba_barabus

2 of my favourites

Alfa Romeo GTV6 in Octopussy

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

Some amazing scenes in this but I can't find any decent clips


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzFoECu--g

gammygils

Loved the car chase I'm the movie
"What’s Up Doc?" Comedy with Ryan O’Neal & Barbara Streisand.5 or 6 cars
involved.
They even managed to flatten A VW van.

HeidiHeidi

The Blues Brothers.

Best EVER.

Original Italian job wouldn't be far behind tho.....

Mint Sauce

'Ronin' and The Italian Job (original)

Jesus. wrote: »

I'm not on this Board an awfully long time so this has probably been done before. If so, MODS feel free to close/merge it!

I was watching the film "The 51st State" last night and it had a pretty good chase scene in it. The "villains" were in a lovely Jag XJ6 III and were being pursued by a Cop in a Vauxhall Omega.

That got me wondering, what's my favourite movie car chases?

The chases in "Ronin" were classic but my favourite would still have to be the closing scene in Mad Max 2 with the Mack Tanker being pursued by all manner of vehicles.

So, what's yours?

The one's in the Jag were the good guys.

:P

Jesus.

Thanks for those, lads. I'd not seen them.

Looking at those cars from the 60's, they just looked so heavy didn't they? Like they were made of cast iron or something!

Mint Sauce wrote: »

The one's in the Jag were the good guys.:P

Oh right!

Jesus.

What about car programmes lads?

Top Gear is the obvious one but there's one running right now as I speak on Nat Geo called "Strippers: Cars for Cash". Very good show IMO.

There was one called "Banger Boys" that ran a couple of months ago. Not bad once you got in on it.

Mint Sauce

Jesus. wrote: »

What about car programmes lads?

Top Gear is the obvious one but there's one running right now as I speak on Nat Geo called "Strippers: Cars for Cash". Very good show IMO.

There was one called "Banger Boys" that ran a couple of months ago. Not bad once you got in on it.

But do they have car chases?

hi5

Deathproof

BohsCeltic

I love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ9hOGVbz9s

skimpydoo

Does this count a small clip of probably the greatest driving ever recorded on film.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/HC9lFTR3QZUVc

dobman88

The Blues Brothers, about 200 cop cars chasing one car and all the cops crashing everywhere. My favourite for the comedy element.

Jesus.

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Jesus.

Very good lads. What were the two cars in the Kurt Russell movie clip? One's a Challenger I think? And a Mustang???

Here's a daycent truck chase:

rizzodun

Bullitt is without a doubt one of my all time favourite movies, but there's two bits in the car chase that bug me

1. The charger crashes into the parked car pretty heavy at 2.50, but the car shows no damage
2. They pass a green VW beetle at 3.30, viewed from inside the car, then the same scene is reshot from outside the car at 4.10, after they've already turned two streets away.

Maybe I'm just hard to please

Have to go with The French Connection too, story is part of the chase scene was shot on an open street, as they did not have sufficient people or space to close off enough streets and ended up running in actual traffic (including an unrehearsed collision with a guy heading to work.)

The story with Ronin is that the stunt driver raced through Paris in a right hand drive car, with De Niro holding the dummy wheel on the left, so his faces of terror at points in that chase was more than acting!

Jesus.

rizzodun wrote: »

The story with Ronin is that the stunt driver raced through Paris in a right hand drive car, with De Niro holding the dummy wheel on the left, so his faces of terror at points in that chase was more than acting!

That's right. I heard that one too.

Good way to get the most realistic performances out of the actors!

Isotonik

^^ That Deathproof chase is epic. It breaks my heart seeing that Challenger getting beat up though.

Wibbs

skimpydoo wrote: »

Does this count a small clip of probably the greatest driving ever recorded on film.

Yea it's cool S, but in reality he wasn't going that fast(though it took balls), he was in a Merc(IIRC), not a Ferrari and the sound was dubbed later. Strap a camera that low to a car and it makes the world go by very fast indeed. If ya wanna check out truly great driving Youtube up Walter Rohrl peddling Group B rally cars back in the day. Not car chase scene I grant you, but bloody hell :eek:. Even Senna thought he was unreal.

The music in Bullit really builds the tension and is way cool with it, then the hammer goes down and it's all business and big fcuking V8's

ljpg

"mad max" and the "road warrior" all the way,i just adore the car and bike chases in those films,how the third film went so wrong i'll never know

Blue850

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1jRX3CjZs

Forget Loeb, here is the master at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad7fFZCZarg

One of the best

signinlate

Duel

Matt Simis

If we are talking car chase movies (as opposed scenes), then its got to be 70s:

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/
Worth making someone else watch it just to see their expression in those last 10seconds.

and obviously:

Vanishing Point
http://www.imdb.com/list/j0clO0JtAk8/


I want to say Two Lane Blacktop too, but need to rewatch it.

Jesus.

ljpg wrote: »

"mad max" and the "road warrior" all the way,i just adore the car and bike chases in those films,how the third film went so wrong i'll never know

Is the third one the one with Tina Turner?

The road warrior Mack truck chase at the end is the best of all time IMO.

ljpg

ye the third one "thunderdome" has tina turnip in it.:)