Best Car Chase

[rucky]

Poll question: Best Car Chase

[DS1]

1. Any given Ronin chase was better than those listed above

In My Rarely Humble Opinion :evilgrin:

[Kellanved]

3. I have to agree

Ronin ruled; the chases on the French RNs were incredible.

[GregW]

18. Another vote for Ronin

I drive a turbo Audi A6 - after seeing Ronin I wanted to trade it for one of those bad boy A8's!

That, and a LAWS rocket launcher.

[SOteric]

29. Definitely Agree.

That's a fookin' awesome car chase flick, and you're rarely humble.

[NoPasaran]

2. The Bank Dick

"The resale value of this car is going to be nil."

[terrya]

4. I voted for "The Spy Who Loved Me"

One of the favorite things of the Bond movies, IMO, were the cars with all of the gadgets. In "Spy", it was a Lotus Esprit that could turn into a submarine! And the chase in the film was way cool! :-)

Terry

[Terwilliger]

5. other

The Blues Brothers

[blondeatlast]

11. Agreed. Even this "chick" enjoyed those.

[lefty_mcduff]

6. Other(s)

The Seven Ups was cool as was Diamonds are Forever (James Bond) - filmed before a real audience on the sidewalks of Las Vegas.

[Chief]

7. "To Live and Die in L.A."

Great chase scene... including a train.

[GOPisEvil]

10. Seconded!

Up the on ramp against the flow of traffic too. :thumbsup:

[ret5hd]

12. Thirded

[kmla]

21. Loved that one, too.

Worth the rental price just for that scene.

A pre-CSI William Petersen, and Willem Dafoe. Great flick. (and if you look really close, you see an uncredited Jane Leeves in a non-speaking role...)

[WoodrowFan]

8. Two "Other"

Most Clever: "Diamonds are Forever", Bond escapes from a squad of police cars in a small parking lot.


Funniest: "What's Up Doc" "There's not much to see really, we're inside a Chinese dragon."

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. "Police Squad" Opening Credits

Cracks me up every time...

[Catch22Dem]

13. The Italian Job - Original Version

The chase with the minis was great. Actually, the mini chase in the remake of that movie was pretty good too.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

14. The Blues Brothers!

Car chase through the mall was hilarious!

[KG]

15. except for the ubiquitous VW, Bullit would be #1

[GOPisEvil]

16. That, and no Dodge Charger came equipped with 6 hubcaps!

:7

[11 Bravo]

17. The reason I enjoyed the Bullitt chase so much

was the knowledge that Steve McQueen did his own driving.

[frylock]

19. i voted for bullitt cuz my dad had a '69 charger r/t when i was a kid..

but the movie Vanishing Point had some cool sequences as well.

[Whitacre D_WI]

20. Enough of the amateurs, already.

"Bullitt" featured the single best car chase in cinematic history. Get over it.

[CanuckAmok]

22. Bullitt is great, but...

Cinematographically speaking, it's not the best. It is flawlessly paced and choreographed, and the relative geography (the ability to convey to the audience the position of each vehicle relative to one another and the surroundings), is amazing. BUT...there are some glaring inconsistencies and continuity errors, and an unfortunate use of ramped camera speed (fast motion), which looks a little dated (I'm referring to Bullitt 'ditching' his car and snapping the front suspension after the Charger explodes). Some continuity errors:

1) several times, a VW Beetle appears in the 'wrong' place, relative to its position in the previous shot.

2) the Charger loses too many hubcaps, and in some shots, hubcaps we've seen fly off are back on the car

3) There were two Mustangs used to shoot the sequence. Both were '68 Fastbacks, but one was a GT, and one was a base model with a 390. While the front grille area was screened with both cars, so the foglights of the GT wouldn't be visible, nobody bothered to match the rear valances. One car sports a GT rear end, and the other doesn't.



That said, for sheer spills and chills, plus technocal excellence, CanuckAmok's Best Car Chase Ever award goes to...

The final chase in George Miller's "The Road Warrior", in which the barbarians are trying to capture the tanker full of "juice".

First runner-up is a four-way tie between Ronin's 7-Series BMW (wrong way on the freeway), and the Countach/Hummer chase from "The Rock", the chase from Bullitt, and the original Blues Brothers Mall scene.

Get over THAT!

Note: honourable mention for a boat chase goes to John Woo's "Face/Off" and the James Bond film, "Live and Let Die"

On edit: more honourable mentions:

Helicopter vs. train, goes to Mission Impossible I.

Hovercraft vs. Lamborghini goes to Jackie Chan's "Rumble in the Bronx.

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. That's the best part!

2) the Charger loses too many hubcaps, and in some shots, hubcaps we've seen fly off are back on the car

Seriously, CA, that's what makes this the best chase!

[Spirochete]

23. The Road Warrior

was my favorite. My favorite actually on the list was Ronin.

[CanuckAmok]

25. Seriously, who didn't lose it the first time they saw the scene when...

...the blood-covered Wez leapt up and grabbed the Feral Kid 's wrist on the hood of the truck?!

Best... fright... ever!

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Similar to Jaws and Carrie

That was so cool. First time, you had to figure he was dead, BUT NO!!
The Professor

[Snow]

24. Are you kidding? Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli chasing the Uruk-hai!

[Crunchy Frog]

27. The Blues Brothers

[Superfly]

28. The Great Escape...

OK, so it was a Motorcycle chase...