Favourite Car Movie
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Topic: Favourite Car Movie
Posted By: PROGMAN
Subject: Favourite Car Movie
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:16
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SORRY IF ANY ARE MISSING! THANKS FOR YOUR VOTE, MINE FAVOURITE FILM IS DUEL. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:23
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This is my favourite. Duel will be N° 2 |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:36
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Given this listing I`ll take Duel. There is an old Australian
cult film called The Cars That Eat People which was directed by Peter
Weir which we would always go see late at the repetiore theatres. My
favourite car chase was in the French Connection.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:56
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Another superb car chase was To Live And Die In L A. Duel is nothing but one gigantic car chase with an ugly truck (why did they not use Peterbilt's California Hauler) and a very average car. In that list , I would also put Carpenter's Christine (from King's novel) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Vibrationbaby wrote:Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 10:56
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California Gumball Rally is funny too. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 12:48
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The Cannonball Run films are pretty good. And if we are talking car chases, I'd have to go with Ronin, Bullitt, The Driver, and French Connection. Peace. |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 13:02
 Yeah sh*tty sh*tty Bang Bang
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Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 13:50
| Le Mans |
Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 13:53
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Herbie, The Love Bug.
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 14:04
????? using what criteria? Maani???
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Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 14:07
I'll back him up on that one. They may not be the proudest moment of cinema history, but as a cultural landmark Smokey and the Bandit films are classics. Plenty of fun, and one of the most recognizable cars in films ever. Besides Herbie, that is. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi">
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 14:13
James,you need to start dumbing up! They may be seen as classics in the good ole USA but so were Shirley Temple films and that geezer who talks with a whiny voice and is cross-eyed... -------------
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Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 14:43
The Dukes of Hazzard movie is currently in production... 
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 22:44
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And don't forget "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies."... Herbie rocks! Peace. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 22 2005 at 23:30
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What about the Love Bug? ------------- 
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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 11:26
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From the above list it has to be "The Italian Job". Despite the name, the ultimate Brit Flick. Why Hollywood imagined it would be a good idea to set the remake in the States (or indeed anywhere else for that matter) is beyond me. What next? I'm waiting for some American artist to repaint the Mona Lisa. Try doing something original for christ sake! Enough rehashing already!! (sorry, America has produced a great deal of fantastic art, but for the last 5 years it's been "homage" this, and "nostalgia trip" that. Lazy lazy lazy!!!) ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 11:51
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Hmmmm homage.................................Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 12:01
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Simpsons rule!! ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 13:54
Has anybody else seen the advert for the new series of Doctor Who? It is going to be the worst thing ever. I feel as if its cheery cheap self has been violated with an array of special effects (and an absolutely terrible actor). Granted, I would have said it was rubbish even if it'd been average, but this is godawful (I don't know why I seem to have a fascination with cheap, naff sci-fi, but I do. Buck Rogers, anyone? Space 1999? UFO? Battlestar Galactica? |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 14:08
Terrible actor? Christopher Ecclestone??? Did you know he is from Bolton. -------------
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Posted By: emdiar
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 14:34
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Christopher Ecclestone is a very accomplished actor, as was prooved in the superb BBC production, "Our Friends In The North". That said, the last convincing Doctor was Tom Baker. He and John Pertwee, thespians both, were the Doctors that sent me to the back of our sofa! ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 15:50
| I admit I'm basing that entire, rather rash argument on one film I saw him in (I can't remember what). The voice annoys me too, which doesn't help, although it does give me a rather unfair criticism of him. |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 16:00
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He was in "Let Him Have It" as Derek Bentley-maybe that's where you remember him from. -------------
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 16:06
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philistines!
Mmmmm... Cheesy! Smells like parmesan -- tastes like provolone! Atta girl, Maria -- shake hands wid it.... (Sorry, paisans -- no offence meant. I respect-a your once great culture.) Seriously. I do. I'll go away now.... Computer's broken at home (again! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Do you have to buy her new shoes every time she gives you one?
Mama!
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 16:25
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(Sorry, paisans -- no offence meant. I respect-a your once great culture.) Great Canadian Films Peter???? Share! -------------
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 18:48
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The original Italian Job - British gangsters driving classic British cars outwit the Mafia, wear sharper clothes and have better barnets than the Italians, Noel Coward is a crime boss, Benny Hill is a computer scientist and leering pervert AND England beat Italy in the football match which provides their cover. If that's not the ultimate feelgood film, I don't know what is. Which reminds me - if any of our American members have even the most tenuous links to Hollywood - GET THEM TO STOP DOING CRAP REMAKES OF CLASSIC MICHAEL CAINE FILMS IMMEDIATELY ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: March 24 2005 at 20:28
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OK, I cant resist!
took me 3 times at the Drive In to get the whole thing in, that was 1975. TWO LANE BLACK TOP HIGHWAY(available on DVD) James Taylor is The Driver, a car-obsessed racer with stringy hair and a concentration that precludes conversation. He travels the backroads of rural America with his buddy, The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys), an equally obsessed lost soul at home only in the car or under the hood. They have no names, only designations, and no life outside of their gypsy existence, riding the unending highway in their souped-up '55 Chevy from race to race. After picking up a hitchhiking Girl (Laurie Bird), whose presence breaks the tunnel-vision focus of the two men, they challenge a middle-aged hotshot, the garrulous G.T.O. (Warren Oates) to a cross-country race. Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop is the most alienated evocation of modern America ever made, an almost abstract study in dislocation and obsession set against a vague landscape of roadside diners and rest stops. Taylor and Wilson deliver appropriately blank performances, only expressing emotion when The Girl sparks jealousy between them. Oates is a glib dynamo constructing a new persona in every scene, as if trying on characters to play as he ping-pongs between the coasts. "How fast does it go?" asks The Driver, admiring G.T.O.'s car. "Fast enough," he answers. The Driver snaps, "You can never go fast enough." These are characters on the road to nowhere who can't work up enough speed to escape themselves. ---------------- weed movie 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 12:09
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Duel....but I wouldn't call it a ''car movie'' as the 'star' is a truck |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 13:36
Also 'Days of Thunder'. Yes, it's cheesy and unrealistic, but the music's great and I'm a sucker for anything NASCAR.
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Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 21:23
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"Christine"
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Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: March 26 2005 at 06:51
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Bullitt has one of the greatest car chases I have ever seen. ------------- Sun Tsu said: To fight and conquer in your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tsu: The art of War |