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Author Topic: What's your favorite Car movie?  (Read 103494 times)

Offline Scott

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #30 on: January 04, 2008, 08:15:25 AM »
Best through traffic race ever - Against All Odds.  I can't remember the stunt drivers names, but one guy was over 60 and the other was 18 or 19.  An amazing team.  They didn't wreck a car and it is about 8 minutes on film.  Precision driving like I've never seen - ok, the Driver was pretty good too, but this scene is much longer.  Anyone else remember it?  Rachel Ward ain't half bad to look at either.
The Honey Badger doesn't give a...

Offline Willy

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #31 on: April 25, 2008, 08:28:09 PM »
The James Garner version of "Grand Prix" was great for the racing but I had a hard time with the new version where they interject interviews and show parts of "The Making Of" within the movie. Show that stuff at the end for those really interested.

The chase sequence in Bullet was very well done as it was in "The Seven-Ups" with Roy Scheider. This was not a very well known movie. Check it out and watch for the scene where a car tears off a parked car door at speed.

For fun "The Gumball Rally" is not a bad car movie as the scenes of the Ferrarri and AC Cobra racing are great.

Days of Thunder bored the hell out of me. Turn left, and again, again etc.

I won't be able to comment on "Driven" as I will not watch anything with that piece of wood, Sylvester Stallone.

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #32 on: April 26, 2008, 01:24:10 AM »
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Offline Steven Roy

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #33 on: April 26, 2008, 11:24:07 AM »
The best fun car scenes have to be from the Blues Brothers.  They must have wrecked more cars than any other ten movies.

Offline cosworth151

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #34 on: April 26, 2008, 03:04:58 PM »
The DVD set of "Grand Prix" does have the extras in a seperate section at the end. Some of them are quite good.
“You can search the world over for the finer things, but you won't find a match for the American road and the creatures that live on it.”
― Bob Dylan

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #35 on: April 26, 2008, 03:12:11 PM »
The DVD set of "Grand Prix" does have the extras in a seperate section at the end. Some of them are quite good.



Does the dvd version play better in surround sound than
the vhs version
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Offline cosworth151

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #36 on: April 26, 2008, 03:16:12 PM »
Much better. WB did it right. Completely re-mastered the film. One of the extras is a very good documentery about F1 in the 60's.
“You can search the world over for the finer things, but you won't find a match for the American road and the creatures that live on it.”
― Bob Dylan

Offline romephius

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2008, 03:31:46 PM »
I actually downloaded a video that was included as an extra on the Grand Prix dvd..... I just have to find it on dvd now

Rom

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #38 on: May 09, 2008, 12:44:21 PM »
Turner Classic Movies showed The Green Helmet last night.Made
in the early 60's it came off pretty good and it even had a
cameo by Jack Brabham.

You catch it Cos
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Offline cosworth151

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #39 on: May 09, 2008, 01:15:45 PM »
That I did, Dare, and thanks again for cluing me in that it would be on. Did it look to you like most of the "Sebring" shots were actually Silverstone?

Was the main car they were using a Lister-Jag? I thought so, any way.
“You can search the world over for the finer things, but you won't find a match for the American road and the creatures that live on it.”
― Bob Dylan

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #40 on: May 09, 2008, 01:42:34 PM »
It did Cos.Green Helmet proved another point like
G Hill in Grand Prix.Great race drivers like Brabham
usually make  horrible actors
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #41 on: May 14, 2008, 05:25:43 PM »
I bet Cos can answer this.In the start of Grand Prix
when the driver in the red helmet is putting on his
goggles with the sound of the heartbeat,who is
the driver in the red helmet?

And another question,do you know why  Lotus
wasn't one of the featured teams in the movie and
why Jim Clark wasn't one of the drivers hired for the film
Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Offline cosworth151

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #42 on: May 15, 2008, 03:03:22 PM »
I think the driver you mean is Mike Spence. You can see him a few moments before that in asix-way shot during the opening of the film. He was driving a Lotus 25 witha BRM engine that day. Sadly, Spence was killed at Indy two years later testing a Lotus 56 Turbine car.

I don't know why they didn't use Clark or Lotus. I've always wondered about that myself.
“You can search the world over for the finer things, but you won't find a match for the American road and the creatures that live on it.”
― Bob Dylan

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #43 on: October 17, 2008, 03:29:46 AM »
short clip from the movie LeMans
On the right if you look they show
the whole movie in parts

Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

Online Dare

Re: What's your favorite Car movie?
« Reply #44 on: October 28, 2008, 12:00:39 AM »
Watched LeMans yesterday,here's the start
good racing action ,if you haven't seen it give it a try

Mark Twain once opined, "it's easier to con someone than to convince them they've been conned."

 


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