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Everything Else => Entertainment, Games & Computers => Topic started by: Wizzo on October 25, 2006, 08:31:49 AM
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What's your favorite car movie?
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Without a 2nd thought Grand Prix.Racing scenes
are great,especally Monaco and the banking at
Monsa :yahoo:
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Is that the 1966 film with James Garner??
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Yes it is,if you haven't seen it you need to.Story
is kinda slow but the racing scenes make up for it.
Graham Hill has a part in it,and if you look you can
see other drivers of the day like Bandini.See it you
won't be dissapointed.
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I have seen this but don't remember much about it, I love the 'old style' racing so in a fit of madness I have asked Santa for a copy!
Did anyone ever see the F1 film with Sylvester Stallone? I never got round to it, I'm afraid I pre-judged it.
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I think your talking about Driven with Stallone.It's
about Champ Car not F1.Please don't waste your
time,couldn't watch entire movie.Lousey plot and
computer graphics racing scenes.
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Ahhh my pre-judgment was right. I assumed it was about F1 because I remember Stallone wandering around an F1 grid...er...trying to pick up pointers I think??? :DntKnw:
I suppose you could always go for Days of Thunder :sick:
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Speed Channel showed Grand Prix again
Sat nite first 20 minutes are racing at it's
best.You need to be good Wizard and maybe
Santa will bring you one this year :good:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhU5NuqXA_I
little clip from Grand Prix at Monsa
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I can't name a car movie that is my fav, as there are aspects of all of them that lose points whether it's the crappy cg effects, or bad plot, or terrible acting, or the outrageous stunts they try to make you believe.....having said that, if i was to name a movie with pretty good driving and all the other aspects lining up....surprisingly it would be either Ronin (skipp suduths driving) or the bourne identity. As both movies had people look into making the driving scenes as realistic as possible.
As for Grand Prix Wizard, i have seen the first scenes but after that, it lost me.....too slow....but too right about the racing, it was great.
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Romephius I agree the acting and storyline
in Grand Prix lack a lot,you've gotta love
those old f1 cars :D
The Monsa scenes show just how hard the
banking was on the suspensions.Not 100%
sure but I believe Jackie Stewart did the
driving for Brian Bedford,that's why his
charactor always wears full face coverage
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I saw 'Two Lane Blacktop' with James Taylor and Dennis Wilson the other day. Really liked it, made in the early 70's about racing each other along Route 66, the prize being the other person's car.
The film is in the same vain as Vanishing Point and Easy Rider so gets a huge :good: from me!
Neil.P
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Hopefully if I've been a good boy then Santa will bring me a copy of Grand Prix in the morning - can't wait!
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Oh come on you lot, I know it's not f1 but surely the best car sequence has got to be in Bullet, whooaaaar
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Grand Prix. Far and away the best ever.
2nd- LeMans, with Steve McQueen. No noticible plot, but lots of good racing footage. John Frankenheimer wanted McQueen for the lead in Grand Prix, but McQueen wanted to make his own racing movie.
3rd-the 1950's movie The Fast and the Furious. (No relation to the new one) John Ireland stars. Lots of classic sports cars- T series MGs, Jag XK 120s and 150s, TR2s and even a Jowett Jupiter and Nash Healey.
The all time worst is Stalone's "Driven". It was supposed to be an F1 movie, but Bernie said no way. (Even Bernie can be right every so often) That's why Burt is in the wheelchair - He's supposed to be Sir Frank. Gee, I wonder who the German fellow was supposed to be?
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Have to agree Cosworth on Driven,not only
one of the worse car movies ever made,but
one of the worse movies ever made.
Winning with Paul Newman is fairly good
with some excellent race footage.
Still waiting for a Wizard review of Grand Prix :yahoo:
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I haven't got round to watching it yet :( I cheated and watched the first 15 minutes or so which made it worse and now I REALLY want to watch it.
The trouble I have is finding a couple of hours on my own! ::)
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After this bit of advice it will be clear to the world why i am still single......Wizard, mate you gotta send the little missus out shopping for groceries and let her shop for a new pair of shoes, by my estimation that should get you at least 2-3 hours..........that's just for the shoes :P
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The bad news is she can't drive so I have to accompany her on every shopping trip :'( oh my god, my life's such a mess! ::)
The funny thing is, she suggested watching a film at the weekend. I suggest what about Grand Prix that you bought me for Christmas? :)
You've watched it she replies
WHAT!? :o I watched 15 minutes of it before you dragged me away to do some odd job. >:(
Oh, well we don't want to watch that now, what else is there.
So I made her watch Snakes on a Plane - bad film but she hates snakes - so it's not all bad. :D
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A new movie for this list..........Talledega Nights..........I just love that movie........ :DD
Rom
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If you're like me Rom and you like Futurerama and the Simpsons Rom then you must love comedy films.
Seen any good ones lately?
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Mate I own the entire series of Futurama, all available episodes of Family Guy, all available episodes of Scrubs and several other comedies, but I actually have more espionage thrillers than comedy.......
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I have only just got into 'Family Guy' It is shown late at night here in the UK and I have only been watching it for a few weeks but I love it! Its laugh out loud and the wife loves it too!
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Ronin. although its about the the CIA and the Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE - French Secret Service) taking on Irish terrorism its got some of the best car chase scenes i've ever seen. :good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igbaHBQjHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDmRtxnVJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQa-RSSRrVM
different film, but these brothers are on a mission from god
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPP9A9o7dQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etMjjdxDyAw
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Thunder Road,I bet Cos is the only person to have seen this
movie.I;ve seen bits of it but not the whole flick all the'way thru
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Thunder Road is my all-time favorite movie. It's the most true to life moonshine running movie ever made. It's Appalachian settings remind me of where I grew up. I've got it on both tape and dvd. Besides the cars, its got Keely Smith :D.
A bit of trivia about the film. Robert Mitchum's younger brother in the film is played by his real life son, James Mitchum. He was a last minute choice. Mitchum wanted Elvis to play the part, and Elvis wanted to do it. Mitchum just could never come to terms with Elvis's long time manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
One of the best car records of all time is Robert Mitchum's "The Ballad of Thunder Road." Oddly, his version isn't used in the film. They use Keely Smith's much slower version.
Ronin has some great car stuff, too. It was director John Frankenheimer's final film. He did a pretty good car film earlier in his life - Grand Prix.
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Mad Max. You gotta love the vehicles in that movie: cobbled-together bits of this and that, heavily armored, jump tanks stuck on wherever they'll fit, and helter-skelter chase scenes with lots of shooting and parts flying off and.. and...
Mel in black leather.
Yeah.
Claw_grrl
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060472/trivia
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The Ford GT camera car that was used in making the film, and towed not only Montand and Bedford, but also Antonio Sabato, was driven by former WDC Phil Hill. Hill also played driver Tim Randolph.
Voice over artist Paul Frees was best know for another voice he did. So if Izo Yamura sometimes sounds like Rocky & Bullwinkle's nemesis Boris Badenov, now you know why.
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I'ts not a car movie but I was impressed with a film called Hell Drivers made in the 50's and shown a few years ago on TV. Cowboy truckers working against the clock have a rough and accident prone life but the driving seqences are first class considering the vehicles and the era in which it was made. I think it is a British made film.
Has anyone else seen it?
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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.
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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.
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Seven Ups
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hg4QtYizPKM
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The best fun car scenes have to be from the Blues Brothers. They must have wrecked more cars than any other ten movies.
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The DVD set of "Grand Prix" does have the extras in a seperate section at the end. Some of them are quite good.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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It did Cos.Green Helmet proved another point like
G Hill in Grand Prix.Great race drivers like Brabham
usually make horrible actors
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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
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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.
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short clip from the movie LeMans
On the right if you look they show
the whole movie in parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwy7GoMQNk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gwy7GoMQNk)
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Watched LeMans yesterday,here's the start
good racing action ,if you haven't seen it give it a try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Hg7oYMtpQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Hg7oYMtpQ)
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Here's a good car movie for Halloween. Spirits of the Dead. Made in 1969, it's based on three Edgar Allen Poe stories. Each is done by a different director: Loius Malle, Roger Vadim and Frederico Fellini. The cast includes Vincent Price, Brigitte Bardot, Jane and Peter Fonda and Terence Stamp. this is Stamp as Tony Dammit in the Fellini segment "Never Bet the Devil Your Head."
Turn the sound up! :yahoo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8FDcV9MD4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8FDcV9MD4&feature=related)
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I saw this back in the 70's Cos,its was on TCM last
night and as usual I forgot to tape it on my trusty VCR.
First time I've ever seen it playing on tv too,oh well
Plus anything with Bridget Bardot can't be all bad or
with any Bridget as far as that goes
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Bridget the midget's best, she's lovely to dance with. :P
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Bridget the midget's best, she's lovely to dance with. :P
hey watch it amigo
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not exactly a car chase but close enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmlHo_oWdLE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmlHo_oWdLE)
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Too bad - it's been removed.
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Lotus cars were used in Grand Prix, but they were called Yamuras. Chapman was probably the only one who would repaint his cars if you paid him enough. Clark had a reputation for extreme shyness, and disliked being distracted by anything when he raced, so he probably just refused.
Lonny
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I vote for the many James Bond movies with great car chases. The bit in Golden Eye when he's chasing the ferrari and of course casino royal (2nd one) and just the sound of the DBS is enough to make a fella re-wind and listen again.
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Italian Job. The Original One. Michael Caine=Amazing Actor
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Too Fast Too Furious, what a car movie that is!!! Makes you wish you had a mean machine with a fresh paint job that you could drive flat out round a large city without a thought for other road users. NOT :DD
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Haha your all going to hate me but I love the fats and furious movies! For other reasons as well but in general they are great! Me loves them ;)
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Cars (by Pixar) is soo cute! :D i have that dvd and also Driven that is mentioned in this section.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMc2RdFuOxI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMc2RdFuOxI)
Without a shadow of a doubt...it's Steve Mcqueen's Bullitt.......
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Best chase scene ever! (Even if the Charger does loose 8 hubcaps during the chase! ;) )
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#1 - The Blues Brothers
Elwood: It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?
[a brief thinking pause while Jake attempts to light a cigarette]
Jake: Fix the cigarette lighter
#2 - The Italian Job - the original, not that remake Hollywood barfed out a few years ago!
#3 - Goodbye Pork Pie (beacuse I love a good mini!)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082464/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082464/)
#4 - GUILTY PLEASURE CHOICE!!!!!..... Days Of Thunder
Harry Hogge: Cole, you're wandering all over the track!
Cole Trickle: Yeah, well this son of a b**** just slammed into me.
Harry Hogge: No, no, he didn't slam you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you... he *rubbed* you. And rubbin, son, is racin'.
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Another vote for the original Italian job from me as well!
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I am a bit surprised that No body mentioned about :
Taxi 1/2/3 (the French Version)
Transporter 1/3
Most probably all of the above are Luc Basson Movies..
The Driver (short film endorsed by BMW)
I Like the Tokyo Drift of Fast and Furious, a lot less CG..
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I have seen bad and good car movies. ;) My favourite is Cars (by Pixar) because those cars are funny, one of the cars remind of Ferrari and the animation in the series is perfect.
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Well gato your timing is perfect. I've just come back from watching Rush at the cinema and here's a resurrected thread about car movies. I haven't seen Pixar's Cars so can't comment on that, but I was more than pleasantly surprised by Rush.
After all the hype and good reviews, I was expecting something rather 'obvious', and to start with I felt the film was a bit lightweight and predictable. In hindsight though I think this was partly a reaction to watching it with my wife Anita, who does not go in for clichéd one-liners and macho sports films. But, she loved it from the start - the tale of two different men, the story of their relationship, and the sound of the cars didn't annoy her for once!
I must say, the film certainly picks up, the last half is pure drama, great entertainment, even if you know the whole story. Highly recommended, great fun.
I too enjoyed Grand Prix but preferred Le Mans. Grand Prix is too staged with all those wooden cameo parts played by drivers at the time. But Rush is in a different league. I can't make comparisons with the documentary Senna - being such a different genre. It's brilliant too.
Go see Rush!
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Looking forward to it...but I'll have to wait until I can sneak away to the city. It is coming here, but dubbed into German only. >:(
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Looking forward to it...but I'll have to wait until I can sneak away to the city. It is coming here, but dubbed into German only. >:(
Sie haben nicht gelernt, Deutsch zu sprechen noch?
P.S Google translate ist genial
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Not fast enough for the theatre, and besides people will yell at me if I use my phone. ;)
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Not fast enough for the theatre, and besides people will yell at me if I use my phone. ;)
They will yell, but as you don't understand German, you can make a sad face, and then they might let you watch it like that ;)
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I can understand German well enough, but can't bring myself to sit through a movie with James Hunt speaking in German. :crazy: :crazy:
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Maybe they should have gotten Lauda to dub himself in the German version.
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I can understand German well enough, but can't bring myself to sit through a movie with James Hunt speaking in German. :crazy: :crazy:
:DD :DD :DD :DD :DD :DD
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Here's a favorite I've been looking for a good print of for a long time. Henri Verneuil's sadly overlooked 1971 film The Burglars. Jean-Paul Belmondo as the burglar in a Fiat 128 & Omar Sharif as a police detective in an Opel Rekord. A great car chase with a twist ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad7fFZCZarg
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I guess saying the entire Fast and Furious collection is too stereotypical, but....meh.
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Nothing wrong with that, Joe. Welcome aboard! good to have you here.
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I guess saying the entire Fast and Furious collection is too stereotypical, but....meh.
There are few movies that show as much love for cars as the Fast and Furious movies. There are plenty of movies that feature cars getting trashed, but how many that feature cars being built up and restored (and then trashed)?
And welcome aboard!
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I guess saying the entire Fast and Furious collection is too stereotypical, but....meh.
As Cossie said, absolutely nothing wrong about it. I consider myself as a pilgrim of this franchise, so nice to have someone like you.
Hope your presence will enrich this forum, so welcome abroad !!
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I guess saying the entire Fast and Furious collection is too stereotypical, but....meh.
There are few movies that show as much love for cars as the Fast and Furious movies. There are plenty of movies that feature cars getting trashed, but how many that feature cars being built up and restored (and then trashed)?
And welcome aboard!
Yeah Yeah, don't forget Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ;)
Welcome to the fun Joe
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Thanks guys. I'm feeling the love. :good:
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I am a bit surprised that No body mentioned about :
Taxi 1/2/3 (the French Version)
I think i will be borrowing the first two from your list. They sound pretty darn good. Thanks for the share!
Transporter 1/3
Most probably all of the above are Luc Basson Movies..
The Driver (short film endorsed by BMW)
I Like the Tokyo Drift of Fast and Furious, a lot less CG..
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Good ones! I'm a Luc Basson fan myself.
There was a short lived TV series here in the States based on Besson's Taxi films. It was called Taxi Brooklyn. It features a tweeked Crown Vic in place of the films' Peugeot 904. Sadly, it only lasted a few months.
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I liked that show too.
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I guess saying the entire Fast and Furious collection is too stereotypical, but....meh.
There are few movies that show as much love for cars as the Fast and Furious movies. There are plenty of movies that feature cars getting trashed, but how many that feature cars being built up and restored (and then trashed)?
And welcome aboard!
Yeah Yeah, don't forget Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ;)
Welcome to the fun Joe
"Keep running the fast cars, you will be never out of girls" your slogan is fire! :-*
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A good few car movies in my head, but I think I could justify placing "Christine" close to the top!
All the best,
Cal :)