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What's that MacGyver episode doing in there? I thought this was film car chases!
posted by ckape at 1:22 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ckape at 1:22 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
It was the perfect touch, using Bourne Identity clips as bookends. And I was very happy to see Frankenheimer's French Connection and Ronin in there. He loved a good car chase.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:22 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:22 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
That was a looooooot of scenes from The Blues Brothers stitched together with inferior car-chase movies.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 1:24 PM on July 24, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 1:24 PM on July 24, 2015 [11 favorites]
The first French Connection was Friedkin.
posted by teponaztli at 1:25 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by teponaztli at 1:25 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
You're right! Sorry.
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:26 PM on July 24, 2015
posted by a lungful of dragon at 1:26 PM on July 24, 2015
This reminds me of an old sketch from On the Television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfY9m2y790
posted by jefeweiss at 1:28 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfY9m2y790
posted by jefeweiss at 1:28 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
huh it's funny because I was just teaching cummings's poem "she being/Brand new" which is all about how having hot sex was like driving a fast car really fast
and I watched this and was like 'I'm thinking about sex. What's wrong me. Oh yeah right.'
posted by angrycat at 1:39 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
and I watched this and was like 'I'm thinking about sex. What's wrong me. Oh yeah right.'
posted by angrycat at 1:39 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
My dad showed me Bullitt when I was 12 and I decided that I would make a really great stunt car driver when I got older. It did not come to pass.
I wish I were a stunt car driver.
posted by teponaztli at 1:45 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
I wish I were a stunt car driver.
posted by teponaztli at 1:45 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
Needed more Mad Max (Road Warrior and Fury Road) and Ronin, but other than that, that was fantastic. (How do you leave out a car chase going against traffic?)
posted by Hactar at 1:58 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by Hactar at 1:58 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
Thank you briank. Came here to say just those 2 words!
posted by ShawnString at 1:59 PM on July 24, 2015
posted by ShawnString at 1:59 PM on July 24, 2015
I noticed some continuity issues.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 2:02 PM on July 24, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 2:02 PM on July 24, 2015 [6 favorites]
Sadly missing one of my faves - John Frankenheimer's 52 Pick Up car chase scene. Well at least there's some Ronin in there. Glad to see a snippet of The Raid Two, too. The Internet Movie Car database is a good resource for a lot of this kind of stuff - http://www.imcdb.org/.
posted by mctsonic at 2:37 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by mctsonic at 2:37 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm not able to watch Vimeo videos on my work computer, does it include any of the chase scene from What's Up, Doc? (second half)
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:44 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:44 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Surprisingly little James Bond in there -- just the reboot, for some reason -- and no Transporter. And even worse, no Cannonball Run or It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!
posted by me3dia at 2:46 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by me3dia at 2:46 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
That split second of spinning cop car like a top... Ha ha! COP.
posted by uraniumwilly at 2:47 PM on July 24, 2015
posted by uraniumwilly at 2:47 PM on July 24, 2015
Surprisingly little James Bond in there -- just the reboot, for some reason
No, there was the red AMC midair twist from one of the Roger Moore films that I'm blanking on right now. Aaaagh! Ok, internet confirms, The Man with the Golden Gun.
posted by RedOrGreen at 3:02 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
No, there was the red AMC midair twist from one of the Roger Moore films that I'm blanking on right now. Aaaagh! Ok, internet confirms, The Man with the Golden Gun.
posted by RedOrGreen at 3:02 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Nothing from What's Up, Doc, and oddly nothing from Speed (I was expecting the baby carriage scene). But it did have Blues Brothers, Indiana Jones, and Beverley Hills Cop.
(There is a list of movies sampled at the end credits)
posted by GhostintheMachine at 3:06 PM on July 24, 2015
(There is a list of movies sampled at the end credits)
posted by GhostintheMachine at 3:06 PM on July 24, 2015
Is it just me or is this missing To Live and Die in L.A.?
posted by ob1quixote at 3:08 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ob1quixote at 3:08 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
That was way more fun than I thought it would be... While telling a more coherent and complex story than Transformers.
I kind of wish they'd added the current movie as a subtitle or something though. Also, not to nag (On metafilter? Perish the thought) but c'était un rendez-vous, while awesome, is not about a car chase.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 3:08 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
I kind of wish they'd added the current movie as a subtitle or something though. Also, not to nag (On metafilter? Perish the thought) but c'était un rendez-vous, while awesome, is not about a car chase.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 3:08 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Is it just me or is this missing To Live and Die in L.A. ?
I think it is just you. Around 1:48, the bit in the storm drains ("Hang on, Johnny!")
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:25 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
I think it is just you. Around 1:48, the bit in the storm drains ("Hang on, Johnny!")
posted by ricochet biscuit at 3:25 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
What's that MacGyver episode doing in there? I thought this was film car chases!
It was edited in using nothing more than a paper clip, some duct tape, and the moon's gravitational pull.
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 3:27 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
It was edited in using nothing more than a paper clip, some duct tape, and the moon's gravitational pull.
posted by obscure simpsons reference at 3:27 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
And even worse, no Cannonball Run
Well, during the half that I watched, I saw two Cannonball Run clips. One was the cop car spinning like a top after Roger Moore lays oil on the road; the other was Mad Dog jumping his GMC over the train.
Not the clips I would've chose, but there they were.
And I'm mildly embarrassed that I've seen Cannonball Run enough that I instantly knew those clips and not necessarily all the others.
posted by Ickster at 3:35 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
Well, during the half that I watched, I saw two Cannonball Run clips. One was the cop car spinning like a top after Roger Moore lays oil on the road; the other was Mad Dog jumping his GMC over the train.
Not the clips I would've chose, but there they were.
And I'm mildly embarrassed that I've seen Cannonball Run enough that I instantly knew those clips and not necessarily all the others.
posted by Ickster at 3:35 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
So that we may have informed discussions on which of your preferred chase scenes are missing here are the movies as listed in the credits. Could have used a touch of the Nightrider scene from Mad Max but it's a minor quibble.
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Drive (2011)
The Driver (1978)
The Raid 2 (2014)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Duel (1971)
Vanishing Point (1971)
The Rock (1996)
Bullitt (1968)
Nightcrawler (2014)
The Transporter (2007)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Taxi (1998)
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Transformers (2007)
Now You See Me (2013)
Casino Royale (2006)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Death Proof (2007)
The French Connection (1971)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Star Trek (2009)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Sabotage (2014)
The Italian Job (1969)
C'etait un rendez-vous (1976)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Convoy (1978)
Smoke and the Bandit (1977)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Ronin (1998)
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Bad Boys II (2003)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Car (1977)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
posted by N-stoff at 3:38 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Drive (2011)
The Driver (1978)
The Raid 2 (2014)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Duel (1971)
Vanishing Point (1971)
The Rock (1996)
Bullitt (1968)
Nightcrawler (2014)
The Transporter (2007)
Jack Reacher (2012)
Taxi (1998)
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Transformers (2007)
Now You See Me (2013)
Casino Royale (2006)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
Death Proof (2007)
The French Connection (1971)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Star Trek (2009)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Sabotage (2014)
The Italian Job (1969)
C'etait un rendez-vous (1976)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Convoy (1978)
Smoke and the Bandit (1977)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Ronin (1998)
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Bad Boys II (2003)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Car (1977)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
posted by N-stoff at 3:38 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
uraniumwilly: "That split second of spinning cop car like a top... Ha ha! COP."
Cops flip over, glide, then spin.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 4:27 PM on July 24, 2015
Cops flip over, glide, then spin.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 4:27 PM on July 24, 2015
[watches]
[bet they won't have Convoy. Nobody loves Convoy]
[nope]
[nope]
[... many nopes pass...]
[no...ah, hold on, was that Convoy?]
[watches credits]
[forgiven]
But no Harold and Maude cop-taunting.
Also, should be a TV version. With Hill Street Blues, The Sweeney and the Dukes.
Otherwise, pure joy.
posted by Devonian at 4:29 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
[bet they won't have Convoy. Nobody loves Convoy]
[nope]
[nope]
[... many nopes pass...]
[no...ah, hold on, was that Convoy?]
[watches credits]
[forgiven]
But no Harold and Maude cop-taunting.
Also, should be a TV version. With Hill Street Blues, The Sweeney and the Dukes.
Otherwise, pure joy.
posted by Devonian at 4:29 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
[bet they won't have Convoy. Nobody loves Convoy]
It might not have been Peckinpah at his best but it had the most awesome poster.
posted by octothorpe at 4:36 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
It might not have been Peckinpah at his best but it had the most awesome poster.
posted by octothorpe at 4:36 PM on July 24, 2015 [4 favorites]
Naw, the TV version is just all Rockford all the time.
posted by ckape at 4:48 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ckape at 4:48 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
ob1quixote: “Is it just me or is this missing To Live and Die in L.A. ?”
ricochet biscuit: “I think it is just you. Around 1:48, the bit in the storm drains ("Hang on, Johnny!")”Ah, I see it now. I also shouldn't have skipped the credits.
Stil, It's just a blip, and for whatever reason I thought the following horn honking went with it. That's a very small amount of one of the best car chases ever committed to film, which was the last thing shot for the movie and still took six weeks to shoot, from Friedkin's under-appreciated classic.
posted by ob1quixote at 4:52 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
The title of this post, "FRUIT CART!" is something of an in-joke in my family, to be shouted whenever a chase scene starts--- I thought it was just something one of us started saying, but now I'm wondering-- is it a line from somewhere?? WHERE IS IT FROM?
posted by The otter lady at 5:03 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by The otter lady at 5:03 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
It has "The Driver". I'm happy.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:30 PM on July 24, 2015
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 5:30 PM on July 24, 2015
Also, should be a TV version. With Hill Street Blues, The Sweeney and the Dukes.
Could definitely use some CHiPs flips -- those rear-enders that happen in every episode of CHiPs, where the rear car somehow gets launched over the car in front, flips over, (sometimes rolling down the side of a mountain), then immediately bursts into flame. Every. Single. Episode.
posted by Sys Rq at 5:34 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Could definitely use some CHiPs flips -- those rear-enders that happen in every episode of CHiPs, where the rear car somehow gets launched over the car in front, flips over, (sometimes rolling down the side of a mountain), then immediately bursts into flame. Every. Single. Episode.
posted by Sys Rq at 5:34 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Ah, such a fine, clear day. Well, time to move this overlarge pane of glass.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 5:52 PM on July 24, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 5:52 PM on July 24, 2015 [10 favorites]
Naw, the TV version is just all Rockford all the time.
Michael Westen would like to have a word with you.
posted by scalefree at 6:15 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
Michael Westen would like to have a word with you.
posted by scalefree at 6:15 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]
[bet they won't have Convoy. Nobody loves Convoy]
That's not true. I love Convoy.
♫ Cause we gotta little convoy rockin through the night... ♫
posted by teponaztli at 6:28 PM on July 24, 2015
That's not true. I love Convoy.
♫ Cause we gotta little convoy rockin through the night... ♫
posted by teponaztli at 6:28 PM on July 24, 2015
Sys Rq: “Could definitely use some CHiPs flips”I must have been about 10-years-old when I was in the passenger seat with my grandmother driving and a Ford LTD ran a red light and T-boned us. It was a pretty serious wreck although no one was badly injured. As soon as the car stopped moving, I undid my seat belt — mandatory use had just taken effect, thank God — and crawled out the window because I was sure the car was going to explode. Because of CHiPs. True story.
posted by ob1quixote at 7:33 PM on July 24, 2015 [5 favorites]
I always enjoyed the car chase scene from Jackie Chan's "Who Am I?" Sad to see none of it was included, especially the fruit cart parts.
posted by Apoch at 9:43 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Apoch at 9:43 PM on July 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Needs more Ronin
Whilst that second car pursuit is undeniably epic, for me the Audi A8 sequence earlier on the film somehow tops it: just the sheer skill of the driving is breathtaking. John Frankenheimer's brilliant DVD commentary really brings out his obsessive, unashamedly petrolhead detail. Such a solid director, a bit overlooked I think.
posted by specialbrew at 2:56 AM on July 25, 2015 [3 favorites]
Whilst that second car pursuit is undeniably epic, for me the Audi A8 sequence earlier on the film somehow tops it: just the sheer skill of the driving is breathtaking. John Frankenheimer's brilliant DVD commentary really brings out his obsessive, unashamedly petrolhead detail. Such a solid director, a bit overlooked I think.
posted by specialbrew at 2:56 AM on July 25, 2015 [3 favorites]
I was most pleased to see Vanishing Point there - but just a millisecond. And not being chased.
posted by arzakh at 5:51 AM on July 25, 2015
posted by arzakh at 5:51 AM on July 25, 2015
That is glorious! And now I shall spend the morning playing Burnout.
posted by mimi at 6:08 AM on July 25, 2015
posted by mimi at 6:08 AM on July 25, 2015
The 70s were truly the golden age of car chases.
How about Foul Play (although, if you winkingly intercut various offensive ethnic stereotypes with the Mikado, does it all cancel out?) or Used Cars (A car chase with a hundred student drivers! In the desert!)
posted by mubba at 9:03 AM on July 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
How about Foul Play (although, if you winkingly intercut various offensive ethnic stereotypes with the Mikado, does it all cancel out?) or Used Cars (A car chase with a hundred student drivers! In the desert!)
posted by mubba at 9:03 AM on July 25, 2015 [1 favorite]
Nice to see Duel in there, but no Killdozer?
posted by humboldt32 at 2:10 PM on July 25, 2015
posted by humboldt32 at 2:10 PM on July 25, 2015
Somebody tell me please which film it's from, starting around 3:30 - the old-style cop cars chasing the semi driven by Indiana Jones?
posted by Rash at 9:10 PM on July 25, 2015
posted by Rash at 9:10 PM on July 25, 2015
Rash:See! That's what happened to me! The truck — and the song — are from Beverly Hills Cop. Indy wasn't in that movie.Somebody tell me please which film it's from, starting around 3:30 - the old-style cop cars chasing the semi driven by Indiana Jones?
posted by ob1quixote at 2:26 AM on July 26, 2015
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My favorite part was the use of the Streets of San Francisco theme. Every time I go down a big hill (in any car) I yell "Streets of San Francisco!!!!" (just in case I catch a bit of air.)
*kidding, I drive like a grandma (but I have been accelerating a bit faster from lights than normal in this car.)
posted by vespabelle at 1:17 PM on July 24, 2015 [2 favorites]