Best car chase in a movie ever ?

[2R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVaNBrYLvFg&feature=fvst

[Nightshiftzombie]

Here would be my pick. (The first bit of it anyway.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzWF_VmEu8

[Truckpilot]

Here's mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMc2RdFu ... re=related

[iflyforpie]

This is mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmf-HCCZYOg

[dashx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_ ... 1971_film)

Both movies are car chases. Each one a classic in each own's way.

Then you have classics like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gumball_Rally

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit

Again car chases throughout the movies ....The car chases are the movie...

But i suppose if you are going to have a classic car chase then this I suppose might bring back memories for some of you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsOAyt3iyns

This is, after all, an aviation site is it not?

[. ._]

That first clip was from Ronin. On the director's commentary from the DVD they said they didn't speed up any of the film to make it look like they were going faster. They were actually speeding down the streets at breakneck speed. Also some of their stunt drivers were F1 drivers.

Very cool!

[Hedley]

they didn't speed up any of the film to make it look like they were going faster

it looks really phony when they do that.

This isn't really a car chase, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DzWNmCXmEg

[Just another canuck]

I'll probably get made fun of for this... but Gone in Sixty Seconds, the second Matrix car scene and all the Fast and the Furious flicks were pretty cool.

P.S. My internet sucks here so I can't open youtube, thus have no idea what anyone else is suggesting.

[2R]

The Maule aircraft is the only airplane that they sing about in church.Every sunday you can hear them sing "bless a maule,bless a maule"or something that sounds like that

[iflyforpie]

they didn't speed up any of the film to make it look like they were going faster

it looks really phony when they do that.

Yeah, some of the scenes in the Road Warrior are sped up, but still a cool movie.

I'd forgot all about Ronin, the only thing I remember was the car chase and that Robert DeNiro was in it. The M5 was always one of my favourite cars. Dull, unassuming, plenty of room, but enough power to blow just about any contemporary car off the line..

[Brewguy]

Those are some good chase scenes, at least as far as serious (action) films go ... but don't discount some of the great chase scenes from the the world of comedy films. Try this one on for size:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuNjC16r4YI

From approx. the 1 min - 4 min mark. The sound is crap on this particular YouTube video, but I'm not having a lot of luck finding a better clip of it.

[Nark]

[200hr Wonder]

The one the only Steve McQueen in Bullitt. Classic! Listen with the sound cranked to hear the engines purrrrr.



It even has its own Wikipedia Article! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt

[Moose47]

Speaking of Steve McQueen, although not a car, nevertheless a great chase scene with him riding a German motorcycle in the 'Great Escape'.

[OceansEdge]

The Turin Factory Roof scene from the original Italian Job



Or any of the car scenes from that film

[Mostly Harmless]

I notice a nice common theme… none of the best car chase scenes have any CGI in them. All the new movies suck that way.

Bill Murray and The Man Who Knew To Little. Awesome choice.

I like them all, but this one needs to be added to the mix. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYLjlpP0NY

[ScudRunner]

The Blues Brothers.

[Mihai]

The Island. 'nuff said

[. ._]

MacGyver beats them all! It was so good, The Italian Job stole footage!

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

-istp

[200hr Wonder]

I notice a nice common theme… none of the best car chase scenes have any CGI in them. All the new movies suck that way.

That is because the stuff they pull off in movies now is so far fetched an unrealistic they have to use CGI for it! Sure back in the day they might wreck a cars suspension having it catch air, but that car actually caught air. Now it is SO far fetched it makes it impossible to believe something like this could ever happen. At least back in the day it maybe happened if you where lucky enough not to destroy the suspension...

Hey Moose47 the guy who lays the motor bike down in "Bullitt" and drove the Dodge is in fact the same stunt man who jumps the motorbike over the barbed wire for Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape". Steve McQueen in both movies did quite a bit of the stunt driving, however there where somethings the studio would not allow him to do.

[OceansEdge]

MacGyver beats them all! It was so good, The Italian Job stole footage!

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

-istp

ROFLMAO!!

[niss]

[North Shore]

I always liked this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ_39lxlDAg

William Petersen, very much pre-CSI.

[Rowdy]

Not the best clip.. but it is aviation related and from a movie with another dodge being chased.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKx8KUUF5E

dirty Marry crazy larry

Theres "the driver" as well.. Gotta like how they fling that chevy step side around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNh3G8qo ... =1&index=1

I'm also seriously amazed no one has mentioned the french connection...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu3GmRQ-U9k

anyone remember two lane blacktop? Another classic. couldnt find the best clip I was lookin for... but heres the start

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZez1NS7 ... re=related

And obviously.. vanishing point was so amazing.. even audioslave had to steal scenes for it's music video.. show me how to live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXIK1xC ... 1&index=23

Chris cornell isnt nearly as cool as barry newman...

What can I say.. I'm a bit of a car geek....

[Hedley]

It is unfair to judge these movies by current standards. You have to take them in their context.

For example, when Vanishing Point came out in 1971, it was incredibly cool. Now, it's just another forgotten movie. The world has changed in the last 40 years!

PS the remake sucked.