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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:29 PM

And by that I mean in the movies rather than what you got up to last Saturday night...

Personally I'd vote for the one in the Blues Brothers or original Italian Job.

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:43 PM

The Bourne film ...with the mini chase...and the other Bourne one he was in the Taxi...amazing films

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:49 PM

The one where 'Lightning' McQueen finally wins the Piston Cup ;D :lol:

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:51 PM

Bullitt..... with Steve McQueen doing the driving scenes himself

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 02:57 PM

Not a car chase but i liked the film Duel

http://en.wikipedia....uel_(1971_film)

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 03:09 PM

The seven ups, the "sequel" chase to Bullit, designed by the same driver as the Bullit car chase scene

quote from wakipedia below



The film was produced by Philip D'Antoni, who also took on his sole-directing credit as director of this film: in addition, he was responsible for producing other gritty cop films as Bullitt and The French Connection. Several people who worked on The French Connection were also involved in this film, such as Scheider, screenwriter and police technical advisor Sonny Grosso, and composer Don Ellis.

As in Bullitt and The French Connection, Philip D'Antoni again utilized the work of stunt driver Bill Hickman (who also has a small role in the film) to create the chase sequence for this film. Filmed in and around Upper Manhattan, New York City, the sequence was edited by Jerry Greenberg who also has a producer credit here and who won an Academy Award for his editing work on The French Connection.
The chase sequence is located near the middle of the film: in it, Hickman's car being chased by Scheider. The chase itself lends heavily to the Bullitt chase, with the two cars bouncing down the gradients of uptown New York (like the cars on San Francisco's steep hills in the earlier film) with Hickman's 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville sedan pursued by Scheider's 1973 Pontiac Ventura Sprint coupe. While Scheider did some of his own driving, most of it was done by Hollywood stunt man Jerry Summers.
Location shooting was done in upper Manhattan on the George Washington Bridge, and on New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Parkway and New York's Taconic State Parkway.
In the accompanying behind-the-scenes featurette of the 2006 DVD release of the film, Hickman can be seen co-ordinating the chase from the street where we see a stuntman in a parked car opens his door as Hickman's vehicle takes it off its hinges. The end of the chase was Hickman's 'homage' to the death of Jayne Mansfield, where Scheider's car (driven by Summers) smashes into the back of a parked tractor-trailer, peeling off the car's roof.

Edited by cliche, 24 January 2012 - 03:22 PM.


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Posted 24 January 2012 - 03:23 PM

Final chase scene in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof. Hands down my favourite.

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 03:37 PM

Bullitt..... with Steve McQueen doing the driving scenes himself


Agreed..

Or Vanishing Point (the original)

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 03:49 PM

^That was quality watching those american cars bounce around like that :D Thanks for posting

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 03:57 PM



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Posted 24 January 2012 - 04:35 PM

^That was quality watching those american cars bounce around like that :D Thanks for posting


you're welcome

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 09:49 PM



I've always wanted to try and evade the law in my Mini.

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 09:54 PM

Not a car chase but i liked the film Duel

http://en.wikipedia....%281971_film%29



LOVE that film!! :thumbsup:

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 11:30 PM

It's not on Sky anytime :blink: :( :o :o :o

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 11:34 PM

How about the original "gone in 60 seconds?"



The worst would be "Jade", awful awful!!



I think the jade clip may contain some naughty words?




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