What's your favourite Car Film?

BrianD3

Just following on from the best driving music thread I was wondering what are people's favourite films which have a car or bike theme eg
-films about racing
-road movies
-films with great chases
-films with great cars/bikes in them

Lots of films have been made over the years that fit these criteria. One of my faves is Mad Max which I saw for the umpteenth time on TV the other night. What a great car film. V8 Aussie muscle cars, crashes, mad bikers, violence, revenge. Excellent

RotalicaV

If anyone says either of the fast and furious films, the new italian job or torque..

I'll personally hunt you down and tell you how bad they are...

Days of thunder!

byte

Hmm, a tough one

As mentioned, Days of Thunder, or even better, The Italian Job!

Seth Brundle

Ronin!


edit: while Im on - RotalicaV, can you change your sig from " It's not rape.. its suprise sex!"?

Squirrel

Ronin for the car chase.

kermit_ie

Thelma and Louise!

nxbyveromdwjpg

back to the future!

unkel

Ronin! Incredible chase

bazz26

Bullit or Gone in 60 seconds (Original).

mike65

So many themes - so many films!

Okay best chase is nearly impossible to decide on, one of the best is in The Mackintosh Man, (which most won't know), obviously Mad Max 2 has to get a mention for the last 20 mins, Ronin likeswise 2 or 3 great chases.

Walter Hills The Driver is a terrific movie, the chases are cool too. At the silly end of the spectrum "Freebie and the Bean" gets a mention for planting a car into a skyscraper from an elevated freeway.

Mike.

bazz26

Remember that film about the guy being chased across the desert by a nut case truck driver, it was called "Duel" was directed by Spielberg in the 1970s I think. Wasn't the best road movie in the world but was amusing.

qz

DUEL!

Then the original Italian Job or the new Gone In 60 Seconds.

bp_me

- Gone in 60 seconds
- Vanishing point (the '97 remake though.....much better than the original IMHO)
- Ronin for the car chase

There's a few good chases in Bad Boys II too.

Fabritzo

I was watching the Blues brothers from 1980 the other night, it has a couple of good car chases.

Hagar

Herbie, Herbie goes bananas.


Runs like phuque.

stratos

bazz you read my mind bullit or gone in 60 seconds the original one of course !

drdre

defo fast and furious films or gone in 60 seconds:D

BrianD3

A few more that haven't been mentioned
Le Mans (the best racing film IMO)
Race with the Devil (Peter Fonda and Warren Oates in a motorhome being chased by satanists)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(another Peter Fonda one with a yellow Dodge Charger being chased by a helicopter)
Badlands (very little car action but I like the bit that's in it)
Never Say Never Again (like the chase with the mid engined Renault 5 turbo)
Death Race 2000 (bizarre)

Always loved Convoy and the Smokey and the Bandit films too

Anyone ever see the film "Rendezvous". Haven't seen it myself but apparently it consists of a Ferrrari being driven at high speed around Paris on public roads.

Have never heard of Mackintosh Man but from the desciption on IMDB it sounds like a great chase.

Films with cool cars in them:
Dazed and Confused
American Graffiti

kluivert

Fast and the Furious.

Brillant films, people catch get past the thought of loving a good film. Or they ll be seen as a fag.

Gerry

The Bourne Identity has an excellent car chase, basically a mini going crazy around paris.

Lord Nikon

Gerry wrote:

The Bourne Identity has an excellent car chase, basically a mini going crazy around paris.

That was a cool chase with the Mini,
Ronin for the car chase with the S8

ando

Duel, excellent movie

mike65

mike65 wrote:

At the silly end of the spectrum "Freebie and the Bean" gets a mention for planting a car into a skyscraper from an elevated freeway.

RTE 1 are showing "Freebie..." tonight.

Mike.

RicardoSmith

Grand Prix - 1966 - John Frankenheimer ....James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and Toshiro Mifune.

Le Mans

ds20prefecture

The Goddess of 1967 - try that for obscure.

The French Connection.

Ronin
Bullitt

causal

Bikes:....Faster
Cars:.....Ronin
Trucks:..Convoy (legend song & got us all into CB radio too)
Trains:...Thomas The Tank Engine
Planes:..TopGun, ConAir
Misc:....Terminator 1/2/3 - all had excellent vehicular scenes

causal

neilCC

One of my favourite movies of all-time and possibly the greatest road movie ever made:
Two-Lane Blacktop - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067893/

Tagline: You can never go fast enough...

Plot Outline: Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey 55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver.

James Taylor .... The Driver
Warren Oates .... G.T.O
Dennis Wilson .... The Mechanic

Directed by Monte Hellman

neilCC

The Goddess of 1967 - a vacuous Art House movie? Doesn't sound so good on IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database):


The Goddess of 1967 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255195/


Visually stylish but vacuous road movie.
The Goddess of the title is a Citroen DS which a young Japanese Man agrees to buy over the internet. When he arrives in Australia to get it, the owner is dead and he embarks on a journey into the outback with a blind girl for a reason which is never clear, even when it is made apparent at the end. The result is probably best described as contemporary Art House. The film substitutes a vacuous but street smart style for content, and bizarre quirkiness for characterisation. Its flashbacks into the deprived and abused past of the blind girl are bleak, but otherwise there is little story and the two main characters appear almost lost in the vast landscapes they are travelling through. Could Australian movies please get over their current pretentious pre-occupation with mad and irrational characters and meaningless storylines?

The votes on this site, and some press reviews, suggest that some people enjoyed this film. I suspect they are the same people who enjoyed performance art during the 1990s and Andy Warhol movies in the 1980s. Clara Law succeeds in striking a style, but tells us nothing we want to know. Even the Australian outback, which dominates the film, gets a raw deal: the locations appear random, the colour in the outdoor scenes is fashionably bleached, and the whole thing was shot during the wettest summer for years.

Dades

Ferris Bueler's Day Off

What a car - what an ending!

Or Miami Vice (the movie) with Crockett's Daytona.

AlienGav

Gav's all time top five:

5. Bullet - Timeless classic!!
4. Fast & The Furious (Even tho it spawned some of the most horrible looking skanger bangers known to man!)
3. Mad Max 1 - The Road warrior... lOl!!! :rolleyes:
2. Bourne Identity - Made me wanna go out and buy a mini !
1. Ronin - Simply brilliant!!

delly

Taxi - The French version.