Greatest Movie Car Chase Sequence

This might sound dumb but *which* Italian Job?

Sorry...the original. The remake, while not a bad one, takes so much from the first that it is basically a remake.

I think the core to whichever one wins is the music on the soundtrack (where applicable).

Movies like Vanishing Point and Smokey & The Bandit should be discounted since they take breaks during their carchases.

the entirety of Duel?

I think Death Proof had my jaw on the floor the longest, but Bullitt, Ronin and the French Connection are hard to vote against. I have to think a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCqlKNW9rU
HOT MERGING ACTION

I want to say French Connection, but Death Proof stole my heart

Totally...am I the only one who thought the Kiwi chick was really hawt?

btw, no Sherlock Junior, no cred

HOT MERGING ACTION

Hahaha, brilliant.

am I the only one who thought the Kiwi chick was really hawt?

Hardly.

Wait.

Duel or Sherlock Junior over any of these?

You, sir, are a crack smoking curmudgen.

Voted for the Blues Brothers, for John Candy("We're in a truck!") and for the cops who get so pissed at getting into a wreck they just open fire on the receding car.

Thanks for the link there, Ned Raggett and what.

I remember when The Bourne Idenity came out and my brother called it "a stair-driving tour de force!" I wish that was the quote on the DVD box.

that poor little car

am I the only one who thought the Kiwi chick was really hawt?

hot? no. totally awesome? yes.

Had to vote for Vanishing Point - the whole damn movie is one big car chase! - but the chase scene in Bullitt is tough to beat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSSAKe4nVqo

You, sir, are a crack smoking curmudgen.

If I was, I would probably find The Blues Brothers funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xumZCCp5RGs

If I was, I would probably find The Blues Brothers funny

http://musicaememoria.altervista.org/thumbnails/tn_BLUES_BROTHERS-Carrie_Fisher.jpg

That's not funny?

Belushi had the best comedic eyebrows of his generation, so what better to do than hide em behind shades for 2-1/2 hrs?

I do kinda like Sister Kathleen Freeman slapping them around, but she's not in the chase.

WTF - Where's BLAZING MAGNUM?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7mDXfy2GLA

I stand corrected, Chris. That is a stellar car chase. I've never seen it.

NO MAD MAX NO PEACE!

Also, where's White Lightning?

Fuck, where's The Seven-Ups or The Driver

I'm picking "To Live and Die in L.A." because it's the freshest in my mind and I was blown away for the duration of the scene. It's a car chase and William Peterson is driving backwards for almost all of it!!!

French Connection ahead of Ronin, I've never really rated the one in Bullitt.

renoir's 'la nuit du carrefour'

Godard's "Weekend"

My Dinner With Andre

the blues brothers, dudes. c'mon. it had a car flipping itself over by simply REVERSING.

http://filmjournal.net/filmclub/files/2006/09/cagliostro_cover.jpg

For me it's between "The French Connection" and "Bullitt", because those chases look real and dangerous, with TFC just winning out. As much as I love "The Italian Job", "Blues Brothers", and "Smokey", the chases in those moves are more like extended set pieces rather than "OMGWTF he's gonna crash any second!!!".

ou est la cannonball run?

kung fu hustle, but no cars as such.

bullitt marred by having this one car that appears in every shot. budget.

some of the bond chases are rockin it, but maybe have too much comedy too?

ou est la cannonball run?

See, I was thinking this, but there's not that much actual car chasing per se in it.

I think it's "Easter Condor" that has Jackie escaping from like, a dozen identical mitsubishis, finally leaping onto a cargo crane as the one about to mow him down plunges into the harbor.

That was pretty cool.

Uh, EasterN Condor. The Easter Condor never got popular like the bunny did.

See, I was thinking this, but there's not that much actual car chasing per se in it.

But ned, there are many cars, and they are chasing the prize. see?

But the care sequences themselves are very boring (which is in line with the rest of the movie, let us be honest here.)

all car chases are comedy, whether you dingalings realize it or not.

http://emulsioncompulsion.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/crash.jpg

all car chases are comedy, whether you dingalings realize it or not.

"Tonight, Dr. Morbius will present his lecture: 'The Keystone Konundrum: How Jason Bourne Only Did It for the Roffles'"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4QtYizPKM

"Tonight, Dr. Morbius will present his lecture: 'The Keystone Konundrum: How Jason Bourne Only Did It for the Roffles'"

I so want tickets to that, if only for the Q&A at the end.

C'ETAIT UN RENDEZVOUS

the Q&A will be mega-Armondesque

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g7mDXfy2GLA

like, for real

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NnzSjyt1eYA

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Td8jbi9AQ

It's difficult to beat this one for sheer badassitude
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EKZkjfiIWnA

C'ETAIT UN RENDEZVOUS

-- gbx, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:53 (28 minutes ago) Link

truly awesome but not a chase

no luc besson movies? don't all of his movies hve at least one good car chase?

I think the one at the beginning of Transporter is pretty good. Narrow streets are nice to have in these things. That reminds me, I think the greek hillside chase in "For Your Eyes Only" has some juice, too.

The back story on C'etait Un Rendezvous is pretty cool - shot at 5:30, with driving done by the director, and, after 30 years of analysis, it seems that the movie was shot from the bumper of a Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9, and not the Ferrari which had its engine/ transmission sounds dubbed over. He only had one observer at a blind junction, but was otherwise just driving like an absolute crazy man for nearly 10 minutes.

The driving is worse than some of my worst Grand Theft Auto escapes from the cops. Astounding that no one was hurt.

renoir's 'la nuit du carrefour'

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, December 21, 2007 10:59 AM (6 hours ago)

Wow. Been dying to see this film. Isn't it a sort of "lost" Renoir?

Back to the chase: No "Side Streets"?

lol i posted as a film snob power-move but i have seen it and it's cool. was presumably a french print (they projected subtitles on to the screen separately, kind of thing).

The Hunter, if I trust my nine-year-old self.

Oh, and Diva, if scooters count.

"Rendezvous" is why I voted for "French Connection". The observer was at the archway where that bus comes out five seconds before the driver gets there?
The Lotus/helicopter chase in "The Spy Who Loved Me" is pretty good as well.

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no "What's Up Doc?" no credibility.

having watched Bullitt again recently I would say it's a great chase scene, and prefer it to the FC chase which I fail to see why is so popular.

Some nice camera work and driving, like when the leading car drifts out too much and hits a parked car - we get a close up view.

I have to put in a word for the truck-full-of-cigarettes chase at the beginning of "Beverly Hills Cop", and the bus chase in "48HRS". "French Connection" still completely crazy though.

funniest chase = North by Northwest

We Own The Night is a pretty ropey film but it has one of the best, most terrifyingly relentless urban car chases.

And then there's The Way Of The Gun's very slow one.

I'll check them out. Bullitt's was a slow chase, I thought, which made you appreciate the driving skill more

We Own the Night's chase in the rain was really nice yeah.

One reason why the FC chase gets more love from me than the Bullitt one is that it feels far more thrilling as there are pedestrians and other cars on the street whereas the one in Bullitt seemed far more empty. Also, I really liked the idea of a car - train chase.

yeah those bonnet cams which show things closer than they are (peds running for their lives) are pretty cool.

We Own the Night's chase in the rain was really nice yeah.

just watched this, short and sweet chase. Not a bad film either.

im so glad FC won this

you fail to see why its so popular?? the concept alone is amazing, & i remember the first time i watched it there were a couple scenes so terrifying i actually rewound to see how hackman/the stunt driver/accessories had made it out alive

FC >>>> Bullit!

Pay half a second of attention to the Bullit chase and you realise it's actually quite poorly edited (if you live in San Francisco, doubl-y so.) FC is put together much tighter.

Like how they pass the same Volkswagon six times and lose five hubcabs?

Those are a couple of good examples, yes.

we own the night has a decent chase but damn, that is a bad, terrible, awful, movie

Yeah it's not good.

they pass a green VW a couple of times, but they pass it more in different cars. The time is just out thats all, okay not great editing but it was a far more impressive bit of driving than the French Connections.

And then there's The Way Of The Gun's very slow one.

i love this scene. i almost would have been tempted to vote for it.

i would have voted for FC if i was going on nostalgia, but to me car chases are one of those things that get better with technology. FC and Bullit look quaint compared to the Bourne and Ronin chases. I seem to recall The Rock having a good one involving a San Francisco trolley car, but haven't seen it in forever.

bullit, yes (but in an awesome way), FC, no. there is no fucking way 'quaint' would be in the top 1000 adjectives used to describe that chase.

FC is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I have much love for the originality of the train-car chase, as well as all the tailing by foot that goes on in the movie, but like 60% of that chase is him driving on the wrong side of the road with barely any traffic and a lot of piped in tire squealing sound effects. It only occurred to me that the scene might be a tad dated when I watched it with a friend for the first time and he was totally unimpressed by that scene. Kids these days.

I really like The French Connection a bit, but the chase is just a teensy bit underwhelming up until after he stops at the station expecting the train to stop.

But if The Blues Brothers is on its heels, I'd stuff the ballot box in favor of FC.

As much as I love the chase in Ronin, it always bothers me for very silly reasons. It is just so completely wrong on Parisian geography that it always kind of bothers me and stops me from enjoying it fully.