What's your favorite car movie?

[zdcol71]

Someone else can start another thread on this, but what's your favourite line from your favorite car movie??
"You can shut the gate on this one Maxy, it's the ducks guts"!!

[dsyfer]

Anyone remember the movie "Freedom"?

Filmed in Adelaide, starring a silver 911 Turbo, early Scott Hicks film.

Lame movie, but I wanted a porsche so bad after that, I think I was about 10 at the time.

Looks like it has been re-released, might have to chase it down

http://www.memorabletv.com/reviews/freedom.html

[Biggav]

running on empty
mad max 1
blues brothers
cannon ball run 1 & 2
original itallian job

and... spaceballs, man a movie that has a flying winneabago in it must be cool! lol

[290GTP]

Originally Posted by zdcol71

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Nicholas Cage ruined every piece of cinema he has been in!!
Mad Max, Deathproof,Duel, and not so much the movie, but the book Fear and Loathing...evokes everything good about a road trip in a big car!

Damn straight it does! Not so much a car book but a great read & an awesome movie.
Also i cant believe that The Gumball Rally only got one mention. Seriously good movie with great cars (original 427 AC Cobra anyone??), proper driving & no CGI .

[Fev]

I watched In The Red a couple of nights ago - gawwwd that was a bad Aussie movie. Well it was alright but it was so D-grade. The driving was kinda cool but there wasn't much of it. Lots of burnouts though

[Fireblade]

The momo ute is pretty tuff in In The Red

[SVR73]

The Car (in widescreen not P&S)
Pitstop (B&W 1968 or 69 film about figure 8 and other types of racing)
Midnite Spares

[Riksta]

Smokey & The Bandit has totally inspired me to try get myself a Trans Am!

[XRQTR]

Running on Empty, the best aussie car movie (pre Mad Max 1, the rest were yank crud) and Wraith, the second was a C grade I think back in the late 80's early 90's, featured a Chrysler/Dodge concept car, wasn't much for dialogue and the plot was pretty bleh but all in all it was good for what it was, no doubt very low budget, you could tell by the tiny bikinis the girls were forced to wear due to budget cuts

As for the quote how about, "ye well you tell Mick I got mi flares and I'm ready to race anytime"

Actually I might just find the DVD and watch it now, seeya

[Falcman0o7]

home and away

[Hords]

How about the 1976 short film C'était un rendez-vous?

Some band has it as their clip and you see it occassionally on Rage.

The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning (05:30hrs), accompanied by sounds of a high-reving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch. Well-known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, center lines are crossed, the car drives on the sidewalk to avoid a garbage truck. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper (judging from the relative positions of other cars, the visible headlight beam and the final shot when the car is parked in front of a curb on Montmartre, with the famous Cathedral Sacré Cœur behind, and out of shot). Here, the driver gets out and embraces a young blonde woman as bells ring in the background, with the famous backdrop of Paris.

[edit]: In 2007 part of the movie was used for Snow Patrol's Open Your Eyes music video.

[Fireblade]

That was a short film done by a producer of some other movie which he had left over film so he decided to do a run through paris in his ferrari. It was the very first time this was done and inspired such vids as the Getaway in Stockholm series which then inspired the Ghostrider series.

[XR6_190]

Originally Posted by Hords

How about the 1976 short film C'était un rendez-vous?

Some band has it as their clip and you see it occassionally on Rage.

The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning (05:30hrs), accompanied by sounds of a high-reving engine, gear changes and squealing tires.

Great flick this, The car actually driven was a Mercedes Benz 450 SEL 6.9, and the soundtrack was ripped off from a Ferrari Daytona.

Really hairy stuff!

[qwiksix]

Similar to that is Climb Dance; puegot turbo going up pikes peak. This short film won a few awards.

Seriously scary.

qs

[Wally]

Not so much a favourite car movie, but a memorable moment when Harrison Ford turns up wearing a menancing '55 Chev.

[xbcool]

one not mentioned by some of our older members.

two lane blacktop (james taylor)

[cakes]

Bullit, and Mad MAx

[cakes]

And the old fave 'the gumball rally' with a lot of cool cars especially the sweet ferrari

[Riksta]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!!

Edit: Image!!!

[Trendseeker]

Mad Max
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Bullitt car chase segment
Terminator movie car chase segments
Bourne Identify and sequels car chases
+1 for Two Lane Blacktop

[RIPGMH2009]

ronin running on empty

[GTP 290]

The joshua tree

[chrisfpv]

Gone in 60 seconds.

[Thornie]

Originally Posted by GTP 290

The joshua tree

Oh man, i had totally forgot about that movie!

[Dauphin]

Originally Posted by XRQTR

Wraith, the second was a C grade I think back in the late 80's early 90's, featured a Chrysler/Dodge concept car, wasn't much for dialogue and the plot was pretty bleh but all in all it was good for what it was, no doubt very low budget, you could tell by the tiny bikinis the girls were forced to wear due to budget cuts

This is a great little film. A mate and I used to rent it on VHS and get a pizza to watch it in the '80s. Then I picked it up brand new for a few dollars when EzyDVD shut down.

[High_Octane]

The cars that ate Paris.

[greens_tuf]

The big steal

[RPO83]

Originally Posted by F6 FOON

That was a short film done by a producer of some other movie which he had left over film so he decided to do a run through paris in his ferrari. It was the very first time this was done and inspired such vids as the Getaway in Stockholm series which then inspired the Ghostrider series.

He filmed it from his Mercedes 450SEL 6.9, and I know I'd be the only one out there who would have rathered listened to the real car than the screaming dubbed soundtrack.

[max_torq]

its a weird weird weird world - its a just a big 60's road movie.

[Falcman0o7]

Originally Posted by Dauphin

This is a great little film. A mate and I used to rent it on VHS and get a pizza to watch it in the '80s. Then I picked it up brand new for a few dollars when EzyDVD shut down.

Oh yeh the wraith was pretty cool i have it on DVD as well. loved it as a kid, The cop really is a tripper! And what about skank? lol! always drinking some leathal contraption! " stop drinking that before it turns you into a mushroom " LMAO!