What's your favourite Car Film?

BrianD3

Just following on from the best driving music thread I was wondering what are people's favourite films which have a car or bike theme eg
-films about racing
-road movies
-films with great chases
-films with great cars/bikes in them

Lots of films have been made over the years that fit these criteria. One of my faves is Mad Max which I saw for the umpteenth time on TV the other night. What a great car film. V8 Aussie muscle cars, crashes, mad bikers, violence, revenge. Excellent

RotalicaV

If anyone says either of the fast and furious films, the new italian job or torque..

I'll personally hunt you down and tell you how bad they are...

Days of thunder!

byte

Hmm, a tough one

As mentioned, Days of Thunder, or even better, The Italian Job!

Seth Brundle

Ronin!


edit: while Im on - RotalicaV, can you change your sig from " It's not rape.. its suprise sex!"?

Squirrel

Ronin for the car chase.

kermit_ie

Thelma and Louise!

nxbyveromdwjpg

back to the future!

unkel

Ronin! Incredible chase

bazz26

Bullit or Gone in 60 seconds (Original).

mike65

So many themes - so many films!

Okay best chase is nearly impossible to decide on, one of the best is in The Mackintosh Man, (which most won't know), obviously Mad Max 2 has to get a mention for the last 20 mins, Ronin likeswise 2 or 3 great chases.

Walter Hills The Driver is a terrific movie, the chases are cool too. At the silly end of the spectrum "Freebie and the Bean" gets a mention for planting a car into a skyscraper from an elevated freeway.

Mike.

bazz26

Remember that film about the guy being chased across the desert by a nut case truck driver, it was called "Duel" was directed by Spielberg in the 1970s I think. Wasn't the best road movie in the world but was amusing.

qz

DUEL!

Then the original Italian Job or the new Gone In 60 Seconds.

bp_me

- Gone in 60 seconds
- Vanishing point (the '97 remake though.....much better than the original IMHO)
- Ronin for the car chase

There's a few good chases in Bad Boys II too.

Fabritzo

I was watching the Blues brothers from 1980 the other night, it has a couple of good car chases.

Hagar

Herbie, Herbie goes bananas.


Runs like phuque.

stratos

bazz you read my mind bullit or gone in 60 seconds the original one of course !

drdre

defo fast and furious films or gone in 60 seconds:D

BrianD3

A few more that haven't been mentioned
Le Mans (the best racing film IMO)
Race with the Devil (Peter Fonda and Warren Oates in a motorhome being chased by satanists)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(another Peter Fonda one with a yellow Dodge Charger being chased by a helicopter)
Badlands (very little car action but I like the bit that's in it)
Never Say Never Again (like the chase with the mid engined Renault 5 turbo)
Death Race 2000 (bizarre)

Always loved Convoy and the Smokey and the Bandit films too

Anyone ever see the film "Rendezvous". Haven't seen it myself but apparently it consists of a Ferrrari being driven at high speed around Paris on public roads.

Have never heard of Mackintosh Man but from the desciption on IMDB it sounds like a great chase.

Films with cool cars in them:
Dazed and Confused
American Graffiti

kluivert

Fast and the Furious.

Brillant films, people catch get past the thought of loving a good film. Or they ll be seen as a fag.

Gerry

The Bourne Identity has an excellent car chase, basically a mini going crazy around paris.

Lord Nikon

Gerry wrote:

The Bourne Identity has an excellent car chase, basically a mini going crazy around paris.

That was a cool chase with the Mini,
Ronin for the car chase with the S8

ando

Duel, excellent movie

mike65

mike65 wrote:

At the silly end of the spectrum "Freebie and the Bean" gets a mention for planting a car into a skyscraper from an elevated freeway.

RTE 1 are showing "Freebie..." tonight.

Mike.

RicardoSmith

Grand Prix - 1966 - John Frankenheimer ....James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and Toshiro Mifune.

Le Mans

ds20prefecture

The Goddess of 1967 - try that for obscure.

The French Connection.

Ronin
Bullitt

causal

Bikes:....Faster
Cars:.....Ronin
Trucks:..Convoy (legend song & got us all into CB radio too)
Trains:...Thomas The Tank Engine
Planes:..TopGun, ConAir
Misc:....Terminator 1/2/3 - all had excellent vehicular scenes

causal

neilCC

One of my favourite movies of all-time and possibly the greatest road movie ever made:
Two-Lane Blacktop - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/

Tagline: You can never go fast enough...

Plot Outline: Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey 55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver.

James Taylor .... The Driver
Warren Oates .... G.T.O
Dennis Wilson .... The Mechanic

Directed by Monte Hellman

neilCC

The Goddess of 1967 - a vacuous Art House movie? Doesn't sound so good on IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database):


The Goddess of 1967 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255195/


Visually stylish but vacuous road movie.
The Goddess of the title is a Citroen DS which a young Japanese Man agrees to buy over the internet. When he arrives in Australia to get it, the owner is dead and he embarks on a journey into the outback with a blind girl for a reason which is never clear, even when it is made apparent at the end. The result is probably best described as contemporary Art House. The film substitutes a vacuous but street smart style for content, and bizarre quirkiness for characterisation. Its flashbacks into the deprived and abused past of the blind girl are bleak, but otherwise there is little story and the two main characters appear almost lost in the vast landscapes they are travelling through. Could Australian movies please get over their current pretentious pre-occupation with mad and irrational characters and meaningless storylines?

The votes on this site, and some press reviews, suggest that some people enjoyed this film. I suspect they are the same people who enjoyed performance art during the 1990s and Andy Warhol movies in the 1980s. Clara Law succeeds in striking a style, but tells us nothing we want to know. Even the Australian outback, which dominates the film, gets a raw deal: the locations appear random, the colour in the outdoor scenes is fashionably bleached, and the whole thing was shot during the wettest summer for years.

Dades

Ferris Bueler's Day Off

What a car - what an ending!

Or Miami Vice (the movie) with Crockett's Daytona.

AlienGav

Gav's all time top five:

5. Bullet - Timeless classic!!
4. Fast & The Furious (Even tho it spawned some of the most horrible looking skanger bangers known to man!)
3. Mad Max 1 - The Road warrior... lOl!!! :rolleyes:
2. Bourne Identity - Made me wanna go out and buy a mini !
1. Ronin - Simply brilliant!!

delly

Taxi - The French version.

Villain

delly wrote:

Taxi - The French version.

Spot on delly, great film, the merc's are awesome, pitty it's only subtitled though.

neilCC

irish1 wrote:

Spot on delly, great film, the merc's are awesome, pitty it's only subtitled though.

What? You'd prefer a dubbed version instead of the original language?

There have been a few good films listed here, I like Bullitt and that Taxi (French) was a very enjoyable movie.

The Fast and the Furious - I don't like this movie.
Sure, it featured some nice cars, but that is the only good thing it has going for it. The plot was poor, the characters were poor and the movie generally was poor. I really dislike the super fast editing style that involves switching the shots every second or faster. I find that I can't enjoy the action, the whole thing is designed to keep you on edge and excited. During those racing scenes in particular, there are just too many shots and you can't see the race unfold, instead you're treated to many shots of Vin looking tough while changing gear for the 20th time down one street. It would be more appropriate in a music video on MTV than in the cinema.


If you enjoy road movies, get that Two-Lane Blacktop. A classic road movie if ever there was one.

ds20prefecture

neilCC wrote:

The Goddess of 1967 - a vacuous Art House movie? Doesn't sound so good on IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database)

I'm a bit weird in that I form my own opinion of a movie after watching it rather than reading what my opinion should be on the internet. I did get the recommendation to watch it through a discussion forum though

The movie works for me because of the car - I can relate to the main character's obsession.

neilCC

ds20prefecture wrote:

I'm a bit weird in that I form my own opinion of a movie after watching it rather than reading what my opinion should be on the internet.

I don't see why posting some info from a website suggests to you that I'm an idiot who can't form an opinion by myself?

Well, sorry if you felt I'm trying to force an opinion (not my own) on you... however lots of people take information from as many different sources as they can before making any sort of opinion of their own and as I haven't seen that movie, I don't really have one, but I would be interested to see it. And I'm also interested to see what other people think about it, such as the user review from IMDB that I quoted.

xtrac

Good thread,

Best vehical action of all time, Ghost Rider - The Upsalla Run, 42.6 miles in 15mins in midday traffic! Its quite possibly the craziest thing i've ever seen, and i've seen a few

As for Rendevous, I've seen this a few times, and here's my opinion, /me dons flameprrof suit! a) its overdubbed b) its fairly slow

In a similar vien I thought the getaway in stockholm was fairly slow too, ballsy but slow.

I wouldn't do any of the above mentioned, and will stick up my hand and say fair balls to those who did, but tbh, they just look slow. And yes I do know how deceptive in-on/car cameras can be.

-Roy

ds20prefecture

neilCC wrote:

I don't see why posting some info from a website suggests to you that I'm an idiot who can't form an opinion by myself?

It suggests nothing of the sort, why would I think that? And why do you think I'm attacking you?

I find the appreciation of a film, like any art form, to be entirely subjective. I dislike the reviews on places like IMDB as they come out with statements like "vacuous art-house" to describe a film that is rich in plot and artfully portrayed. You may not like it (it is almost painful in it's depiction of the abuse the lead lady suffered) and yes, it might be a bit "pretentious" - let's face it, the only attraction for me was the DS. But not all films need to have a happy ending, or a non-challenging butch white guy as the lead. Yet sometimes reviewers condemn any film that does not conform as "art-house", as if that is the worst sin in the world.

Villain

neilCC wrote:

What? You'd prefer a dubbed version instead of the original language?

Nah I'd rather it was just English

the_syco

The original "Gone in 60 Seconds".

el tel

Le Mans is truely mega.
Cannonball Run 1 is not bad esp. bits with Catherine Bach in the LP400S

mike65

el tel wrote:

Cannonball Run 1 is not bad esp. bits with Catherine Bach in the LP400S

Get up the yard! You'll be telling us Smokey and the Bandit was cool next...;)

Mike.

neilCC

Another great movie: The Driver (1978).
Although this is really a Crime movie, it is all about the getaway driver.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077474/

Tagline: To break the driver, the cop was willing to break the law.

Plot Summary: "The Driver" is specialist in a rare business: he drives getaway cars in robberies. His exceptional talent prevented him from being caught yet...

Trivia: Not one character has a name in this movie, and are all addressed by their occupation; e.g. "the Driver".


My Top Car movies:
1 - Two-Lane Blacktop
2 - The Driver

dearg_doom

What was that film with the ex-cop delivering a white car to the other side of America in 18hours with the blind radio host telling him where the cops' roadblocks were? Great film.

I saw Taxi mentioned, Taxi2 is great too if ye liked the first one.

ibanez

Vanishing Point. Best car film ever.

Maxed-irl

gone in 60 seconds the original was pretty class i thought

HashSlinging

Blues brothers as its got the best sound track and there on a mission!!

el tel

how about The Gumball Rally, with Shelby 427 Cobra vs. Ferrari 365GT4 Daytona Spyder across the US? Movie might have grooved but the cars rocked.

More Shelby 427 in Bad Boys - racing the 911 Turbo down the runway

MercMad

Vanishing Point.............that was the guy from Petrocelli..............delivereing a white Dodge Challenger across the USA. It was fun but badly edited, the race with the Jag XKE was a joke..........all speeded up........then when he crashes at the end the car turns into a TranAm in the last frame before exploding upon impact with the tanker !

Bullit is pretty cool, even with all the continuity blunder, and the sound track is cool too !

I like the French Connection with Hackman dashing after the train !

Agree re the original Gone in 60 seconds.......kinda funny at the end too !

The Driver with Ryan O'Neal was good stuff alright !

Anyone seen the Dukes of Hazzard yet ?

Dades

mike65 wrote:

Get up the yard! You'll be telling us Smokey and the Bandit was cool next...;)

Nobody better be dissing Smokey & The Bandit!!

ibanez

MercMad wrote:

Vanishing Point.............that was the guy from Petrocelli..............delivereing a white Dodge Challenger across the USA. It was fun but badly edited, the race with the Jag XKE was a joke..........all speeded up........then when he crashes at the end the car turns into a TranAm in the last frame before exploding upon impact with the tanker !

Well spotted.