Greatest Movie Car Chases!

[Fletty's EL]

Ronin - Gimme an Audi S8 anyday

[xytoolbox]

Mother Juggs and Speed.Had everything including a really quick ending.with a train.

[Firefox7]

Originally Posted by SpoolMan

For just pure Car Chase has to be Blues Brothers went on for ever distroyed a real shopping centre..

Blues brothers is Number 1 IMO...never seen anything like it since. :


Cheers

[Morpheus]

Originally Posted by creampuff

Ronin,ronin,ronin And Ronin

YES!!! :

[vino3o2]

Originally Posted by 347_XR8

Bullit....nuff said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z-sj3SzZkM
Watch and enjoy :

[Dauphin]

I watched To Live and Die in L.A. again and I now think it's one of the best films ever made. I just love its style and the car chase is so easy to watch repeated times.

[BPXR6T]

Can't beat mad max 1. I know the opening 5 minutes word for word. The original gone in 60 seconds is a classic too.

[FPV8U]

Bullet is great, I havn't seen the original Gone in 60 seconds but the chase in the new one was quite good aswell.

[Dauphin]

The Seven Ups (1973)

I read about this film in a car chase book and it's not available in Australia so I imported a DVD from the US and while it was a little slow, the car chase made up for it!

This is typical of a film that was made by the producer of The French Connection and Bullit, while the driving is done by Bill Hickey, the same stuntdriver who drove the Charger in Bullit.

The bad guys are driving a huge black and chromey Pontiac Grandville saloon and Roy Scheider is driving a grey Pontiac Ventura sort-of musclecar. It starts off looking slow but winds up with them driving very fast through city traffic and out onto a outer-suburban highway where the most unexpected ending occurs.

The chase goes for 8 minutes.

[mcnews]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

Bullet is great, I havn't seen the original Gone in 60 seconds but the chase in the new one was quite good aswell.

Yeah Bullitt was great. The Charger survived all the punishment but they destroyed a few Stangs that fell to bits :->

Vanishing Point is a good one too.

[DBourne]

Originally Posted by ziggee

sweet..... now I'll be hiring some of these....
for those that mentioned getaway in stockholm, and think its insane driving, hope you've checked out all the ghostrider stuff too.. thats un-believeable..

yeah i had all of the getaway in stockholms AND ghostriders then my pc crashed :(

[FORD3V]

The new gone in 60 seconds car chase is the best iv seen,some of the car chases in mad max 1 and 2 are awesome aswell.

[uranium_death]

Originally Posted by Cabbage351

Matrix Reloaded

First thing I thought when I saw the title.
Legendary car chase.

[Ringo]

Originally Posted by slipper

Metal Skin Totally crap movie, but great car chase at the end - Blown Charger V Nascar. Great sound, plenty of blower whine and screaming small blocks.

I was waiting for someone to mention this obscure, budget, c grade car movie. Nadine Garner was in it (Ex Henderson Kids)

Seen it once but loved it to bits....

The opening sequence was shot in Cambellfield near FoMoCo.

There is a drag race b/w our hero in a crap cap and a baddie who is driving the most drop dead stunning Torana (yes I can't believe I am saying that either) bright red, worked engine, with a number plate that read "s.e.x"

I love movie with nutters in them who crack and take it out on people that have ****ed them off.....

[shakes]

Has anyone said the Dukes of Hazard. Has to win, hands down

[shakes]

Dont know if anyone knows it, pretty old, but what about Thunder Road, in the days before special effects

[blackwood]

A few people have mentioned Midnite Spares (Yes, the movie's title is spelt midNITE not midNIGHT).
This movie is now avaliable on DVD. I bought it about 6 months ago at my local VIDEO EZY for $10.

Features some great early eighties Sprintcar footage shot at Parramatta City Raceway.
Actors include Bruce Spence (before he appeared in MM2 AFAIK) and a young Jonno Coleman!

The chase at the end of the movie involves an XA GT coupe in yellow (can't tell which one) with deleted blackouts and a white interior.
I wonder if the whereabouts of this car are known today?

[Unco]

Bullitt, Vanishing Point (i didn't realize i had only watched the re-make, i'll have to watch the original one day), Ronin.

also, i didn't realize the game 'driver' was based on an actual movie. i'll have to get that out too.

[xygthop3]

BULLIT hjas a tough car chase...i love it..

did any1 mention GONE IN 60 SECONDS...both of them have good car chases...

[bigdave]

Originally Posted by cheese

Midnight Spares.
I heard a rumour that the chase at the end where the P76 crashes into the divider killed the actual stunt driver.
Can anyone shed any light on this?

in the dvd end credits the movie is dedicated to a stunt man killed in the production of the movie, so id say it is more than rumor

as others have said

Midnight Spares
Running on Empty
Metal Skin

three great aussie car movies that aren't very well known

[R0BD0G]

Originally Posted by xygthop3

BULLIT hjas a tough car chase...i love it..

did any1 mention GONE IN 60 SECONDS...both of them have good car chases...

definately agreeing with ya there....and in a way...fast and the furious with brian at the end chasing dom in the charger

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

Originally Posted by cheese

Midnight Spares.
I heard a rumour that the chase at the end where the P76 crashes into the divider killed the actual stunt driver.
Can anyone shed any light on this?

Google is your friend...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085939/

Trivia: Dedicated to David Brostoff, a focus puller, who was killed during the making of the film.

Google is your friend, click here

Movie trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tx4IDU5XgI

And some other good films mentioned in the comments on this page: http://blogs.drive.com.au/2006/08/is...st_car_mo.html

[sgt_doofey]

Blues Brothers for me considering it was the movie that held the record for the most number of cars crashed. That is until they made Blues Brothers 2000 and broke that record. But it was a crap movie.

[Freshwat3r]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

Blues Brothers for me considering it was the movie that held the record for the most number of cars crashed. That is until they made Blues Brothers 2000 and broke that record. But it was a crap movie.

I was thinking Blues Brothers too, just for number of cars ruined, not much real chasing at all.

[Dauphin]

The Chain Reaction (1980)
An earthquake in outback Australia causes a dangerous leak at a rural nuclear storage facility. Steve Bisley (Goose from Mad Max) plays a hotted up ute driver who goes up the country for a weekend away with his woman but it turns into a nightmare when a worker from the plant turns up, injured and warning of imminent poisoning. Meanwhile, thugs are trying to stop him from spreading the news.

Lots of car chases involving Holdens and Fords in the country.

I never knew about this film and happened to come across it at the library. Maybe you could call it a kind of prequel to the nuclear-wasted story of Mad Max!

[ltd_on20s]

either iv'e missed it or no ones posted it.....wat about DUEL? the dude gets chased around the highways by a crazed dude in a black Truck, you never get to see his face!! and the the chase in COBRA with stalllone, not the best chase but he had a mecury sled, coolest car to be in a chase

thats said DIRTY HARRY! when he's being chased by a remote control car lol

[Daymoe]

Hot Fuzz:

The part near the end where Angel and the fat guy are in a police chace with the Police chief

[DJM83]

Gone in 60 seconds (New)

[Dauphin]

Originally Posted by ltd_on20s

either iv'e missed it or no ones posted it.....wat about DUEL? the dude gets chased around the highways by a crazed dude in a black Truck, you never get to see his face!! and the the chase in COBRA with stalllone, not the best chase but he had a mecury sled, coolest car to be in a chase

thats said DIRTY HARRY! when he's being chased by a remote control car lol

I am fairly certain that all these have been mentioned somewhere in the previous pages of the thread. Great films!

[platinumXR]

Bullitt gets my vote too.

There was also a good chase in that horrible JADE movie starring David Caruso. From memory they used a 1995 Thunderbird and a Taurus? Haven't seen it since 1995 though so could be wrong.

Rubbish movie, good car chase.