Best Car Movie

[PhyschoMP3]

What about Driven? Remember that movie...

 

[fakieair]

If you like Driven.......................... I really want to say something nice about that movie but I just cant bring my self to say it. mabey if they had real looking car stunts instead of those cheesey computer generated ones (that made me think of of the autobots. I really was waiting for one of those formula cars to transform and start shooting up the decepticons)
but hey who am I thats just my opnion on that movie

 

[blynzoo]

ok guys i didnt see GONE IN 60 SEC's on here........they got probably all the best cars of the world in that movie w/nicholas cage, and a whole bunch of peeps.....and to the comment about fast and the ferious 2 vin diesel isnt in it cause he wuz offered more money to make XXX-2.......and both movies were going to be done at the same time so thats why he isnt in part 2....ja rule on the other hand just plain sucked at acting......and yeah it looks like its going to be a realist transformer movie to me.....but i'll still see it just cause i saw part 1.......

You didnt? lol...did you read?

 

[blynzoo]

Ok...I'm going to pull some old school movies and TV shows...all of which I loved as a kid..followed by new movies:

OLD SCHOOL
1. Cannon Ball Run...vettes, lambo's, muscle cars..etc.
2. Miami Vice...Testorosa(sp)..and that black car
3. Dukes of Hazard...I'm showing my age!!!..LOL
4. Magnum P.I. 308 Ferrari

NEW SCHOOL
1. I did like the Nissian SKYLINE in TF&TF...and some of the other cars that pulled up in the drag scene owned by real people as movie props
2. Gone in 60 sec.......YES all of them!!
3. Ronin

Just some good ol boys
never meanin' no harm.....

 

[blynzoo]

Well.........some 'fun' car movies listed here, for sure. But the true motorsports enthuisiasts here (and elsewhere), will (and do) agree that in the past 35 years, there have been 2 great racing movies:

"Grand Prix" (1967) & "LeMans" (1971)

Everything else is pretty much just a waste ot time (in the racing genre).

"Bullitt" is a classic for sure. Steve McQueen was always a car/bike lover; which led to his making of "LeMans". He was also an amateur racing driver, having participated in the 12 Hours of Sebring, and others. "LeMans" nearly failed in production, but was saved, and released. It lacks a good story line, but the Ferraris and Porsches you see in the movie are quite real. It's a fun movie for motor racing enthusiasts.

My personal favorite is "Grand Prix". All I can say about this movie is: Wow! A great story, with great actors, incredible racing sequences, and something else most unique: Enzo Ferrari, after having talked with the director, John Frankenheimer, allowed/welcomed the production company into the Ferrari F1 factory. This was completely unheard of for a team to allow this, let alone Ferrari.

Special camera mounts were designed for "Grand Prix", that were not used again until Frankenhemier directed "Ronin". Simply incredible footage in "Grand Prix"!

Both of these movies are 'must see', if you truly love motorsports.
Unfortunately, both "Grand Prix" & "LeMans" are still only available on VHS. This needs to change!!

Oh; and yes; I enjoyed 'both' "Gone in 60 seconds", and "The Wraith" was fun. By the way; that purple sports car in "The Wraith" was actually one of the PPG INDY Pace Cars from the 1988 (or '87) season.

Another good (interesting) movie; "Redline 7000" w/James Caan (around 1967). Not a great movie, but it has a couple of 'very' great cars in it. A 1965 Shelby GT350, and a very, very rare Cobra Daytona Coupe. One of 6 created by Carroll Shelby's team to "Kick Ferrari's Ass" in the 1965 World Championship for Manufacturers. The actual Daytona Coupe in this movie (chassis #2601), is the one that wrapped up the "1965 World Championship for Manufacturers" at Rheims, France July 4th, 1965. The first time an American manufacturer has claimed that elusive prize.

DAMN! Good call on Gran Prix. I had forgotten about that one. That is an AWESOME movie. Did terrible at the box office, from what I understand.

 

[eepr5]

made for tv movie "Knight Rider 2000" with the red firebird prototype. very nice.
good call on "the wraith" also. I think it was the dodge evader or something like that. one of a kind, VERY expensive. if memory serves, the film crew was barely even allowed to touch it.
definetly not a fan, but the car jackson turns into in moonwalker would be fun to have. looked like the result of a delorean and a lamborghini mating.

 

[P_Diddy81_99]

Im gonna put in my vote of pretty much all the Bond cars, from the orginal DB 5 to the newest Vantage V12. Gone in 60 Seconds, both of them. The TVR in Swardfish.

And for TV shows I'll have to go with Nash Bridges' Yellow Hemi Cuda!

 

[andy_guerriero]

My memory is getting foggy, but:

My Science Project
The dude had some kind of.. I don't know.. Mopar? I think it was a Challenger, maybe. Anyway, it had that ridiculously huge supercharger coming like 2 feet out of the hood. At the end, he had to race an electric charge going down a power line or something. Heh.

There was another movie that featured a Lamborghini Countach skipping over water... anyone remember?

 

[BSN_mt]

Lambo over water was in a Cannonball Run movie.

 

[4DRMP5ATR]

i'm also going to have to agree w/ P-diddy on his choice of the most awesome car with Nash Bridges' Yellow Hemi Cuda! that car is off the chain....i mean its ballsy, sexy, and just plain bad ass....i would drive that anyday at anytime for no given reason.......thats the ultimate classic.........good choice p-diddy....... i have tons of models of that car in my room......1970 convertable hemi cuda....what could be better......

peace out lates

 

[Captain KRM P5]

Any of the car chases from the oldie "Its A Mad Mad Mad World" with Spencer Tracy. Who remembers that one?

 

[ALLMAN]

Hey that Hemi Cuda was sold at the Barret-Jackson car auction on Speed Channel this year for...I think $140,000....the car was really owned by Mr. Don himself...LOL...he also had several other awesome cars for auction that day as well...Peace!...but yeah,..that car kicked ass.....hey forgot to mention the Black Charger on TF&TF......true Amercian Muscle!!

 

[BSN_mt]

Black Chager from TF&TF was the same car they used in Blade. I think it looked good in both shows, but in Blade it had a nice sinister look.

Another good american muscle show was Corvete Summer. The corvete was ok looking, a little Bling Bling, but the firebird in the final chase was very nice.

 

[1sty]

was that with Luke?

 

[Mazdaspeedgirl]

I gotta go with the S8 in Ronin...excellent car chases thru twisty tight european streets? No question...
chasin the bimmers...flashin the lights...zoooooooooooom!!!

 

[SomaMP3]

I loved corvette summer.....Yeah, Mark Hamill was such a weenie in that movie....when that prostitute picked him up.

 

[chuyler1]

First off, I'm all about the S8 in Ronin. By far my favorite movie...but there are some you have forgotten about.

The French Connection
If you have played the PC game 'Driver' you will enjoy this one. A young Gene Hackman chases an elevated trolly. The most intense chase I have seen on film. I want to say the car was an early 70's Pontiac.

Days of Thunder
Tom Cruise and his buddy destroy a pair of rent-a-cars driving through the city. The stock car racing is pretty cool too.

Vanishing Point
This was an obscure made-for-tv movie that came out in the mid 90's. A guy races across the midwest in a white 1970 Challenger because his wife is pregnant and in the hostpital. Along the way there is a chicken race with a 68 Charger.

Death Race 2000
Have you ever played Carmageddon?? Well this movie inspired the game, staring our buddy Sylvester Stallone. Drivers race across the country in crazy looking race cars and get points for running people down on the road. I'm not joking, this was an actuall a movie.

Good suggestions everyone, I have more but I'm drawing a blank right now.

P.S. I used to watch Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, and CHiPS religiously when I was a kid.

 

[chuyler1]

I loved corvette summer.....Yeah, Mark Hamill was such a weenie in that movie....when that prostitute picked him up.

No s***, that was Mark Hamill? I saw that on TNT years ago...one of the cheeziest movies I have ever seen.

 

[I_Vtec]

Death Race 2000 is and will always be the best B movie of all time. I have no shame in saying that I own that movie on DVD. Just so you know, Stallone is the second billed star in that movie. David Carradine is the real star. That movie is fun to watch when you're really drunk.

 

[I_Vtec]

Also what about Bullit. Steve McQueen was the s*** in that. So was his car.