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I recently read a review of "The Road Warrior", by Roger Ebert and was
reminded of the film's great chase scene. As you remember, I submitted
a post a while back on great chases and received varied input from other
inmates.
Let me quote from Ebert's review: "The set piece in 'The Road Warrior' is
an unbelievably well-sustained chase sequence that lasts for the last third
of the film, as Max and his semi-trailer run a gauntlet of everything the
savages can throw at them. The director of 'The Road Warrior', George
Miller compares this chase sequence to Buster Keaton's 'The General', and
I can see what he means. Although 'The General' is comedic, it's also very
exciting, as Keaton, playing the engineer of a speeding locomotive, runs
on endless series of variations on the basic possibilities of two trains
and several sets of railroad tracks. In 'The Road Warrior', there is basically a truck and a road. The pursuers and defenders have various
kinds of cars and trucks to chase or defend the main truck, and the whole
chase proceeds at breakneck speed as quasi-gladitors leap through the air
from one racing truck to another, more often than not being crushed beneath
the wheels. The special effects and stunts in this movie are spectacular,
'The Road Warrior' goes on my short list with 'Bullitt', 'The French Connection', and the truck chase in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', as among
the great chase films of modern years."- AudioHead
nt
Of the more current releases,Ronin had a few the better chase scenes of recent memory. I have to agree with the choices above as well.
Yeah I agree Ronin has great chase scenes I only wish they were using cars with V8 engines, woulda been even better sound.MiKe
I rented Ronin on Victor's recommendation, and I do recall them asking specifically for an Audi S8 as their escape car. Just in case you are not familiar with the big Audi very limited edition aluminum-bodied dual-turbo all-wheel-drive S8---nobody can touch it. I own a poor cousin to it (with the S4 drivetrain). Wicked fast, and untouched in slippery corners. They had to ban them from the motorcross. Sorta like fishing with dynamite.You can have your loud-mouthed Cameros and Mustangs. I'll take that German engineering every time. This is a class movie--calls for a class car. Remember the Austin-Martin built for 007? Can you imagine him driving a Dodge Charger? or an Impalla SS with a jacked-up back end? or even a Ferrarri? No, the Austin Martins are hand-built to fit only the owner--every car is different. You have to go to the factory for a "fitting", just as you would for a suit on 'Kings Row". You can't buy a "used" Austin Martin--they bury them with the owner. That's a class act.
Oh--that reminds me. There was one with a Dodge Super Bee...a robbery in a grocery store and they get away in a chevy impalla and then switch to the Dodge and duck into the Walnut Groves while the cops chase them in a helicopter--they have a cop radio...and end up in front of a train...
And then a classic...Blue Highways...with Peter Fonda and Warren Oats. Fonda drives a '57 chevy and Oats has a GTO. They race all across the country. One of Warren Oats best films (hondo, the cowboy with the dog..).
the Cadillac STS v8. They would have fit right in.MiKe
Oh--that reminds me. There was one with a Dodge Super Bee...a robbery in a grocery store and they get away in a chevy impalla and then switch to the Dodge and duck into the Walnut Groves while the cops chase them in a helicopter--they have a cop radio...and end up in front of a train...
"Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry" I believe.
***I rented Ronin on Victor's recommendation, and I do recall them asking specifically for an Audi S8 as their escape car. Just in case you are not familiar with the big Audi very limited edition aluminum-bodied dual-turbo all-wheel-drive S8---nobody can touch it.Unfortunately that includes the mechanic. No one knows how to fix, where to get parts, etc. My wife used to have one - the biggest financial disaster. You are right, it is untouchable on snow and water, though, and I loved most of it. But part prices - my God. Take any BMW delaer part price and multiply by 5, then add $100. That was the first time I have experienced the $700 brake disks - not even the dealer price.
Fortunately, a drunk in a truck helped us to get rid of it - and we lost just a bit after the settlement.
***I own a poor cousin to it (with the S4 drivetrain). Wicked fast, and untouched in slippery corners. They had to ban them from the motorcross. Sorta like fishing with dynamite.
Great cars when they run.
You've been to Grendel's Lair and lived to tell the tale?I remember seeing a Mazaratti listed in the local paper (the Daily Local News in the late 70's when Dave Barry still worked there) for about $3000 (what's wrong with this picture?). I cut that ad out and taped it to the refrigerator. One of the best short-stories I've ever read.
"For Sale. 1974 Mazaratti Biturbo Sedan. Chocolate brown, birdseye maple with gold accent, tan interior. Immaculate. Needs work."
I was talking about what you mentioned - the S4. Actually, the one they started as the 200 Quattro - the one with the flared fenders and those obcene inverted rotor breaks. The irony was, it got totalled (and us almost killed) just couple of months after we finished paying about $6000 for assorted repairs just to keep it running. A true car from Hell, but quite pleasant when running, my wife loved it.As far as Ronin is concerned, my car of choice there was certainly the black Euro M5.
***I remember seeing a Mazaratti listed in the local paper (the Daily Local News in the late 70's when Dave Barry still worked there) for about $3000 (what's wrong with this picture?). I cut that ad out and taped it to the refrigerator. One of the best short-stories I've ever read.
"For Sale. 1974 Mazaratti Biturbo Sedan. Chocolate brown, birdseye maple with gold accent, tan interior. Immaculate. Needs work."
Yeah, right, Immaculate, needs work. A vicious car with total lack of control, fast and brutal. Fortunately, most of them spent more time in garages being fixed than on the road. Those twin turbos BEFORE the caburators didn't help much in terms of reliability. I don't remember who it was, but it was once called "the best car to give away in a divorce settlement". Yes, one could get them CHEAP.
I was hanging around Don Rosen, looking for the S4 advertised in the Inky (20v in-line 5 turbocharged and intercooled Quattro, only available with 5-speed, 240 bhp stock with lots of aftermarket tweaks available ). It was about 4 or 5 years old and he wanted $40,000 for it. Funny what you can rationalize when passion gets the better of you. The A8 had just come out, and it was a beautiful beast. I haven't seen them around much. Must be a total flop? But I've never seen the "totally tweaked" version of the A8, the S8 until I saw Ronin. I love sleeper cars.I know your car. I owned the CS 5000 turbo sedan with the "detuned" S4 engine. They had to change the marque to "200" because there was this little problem with "sudden full-throttle acceleration". It happend to me three times while I owned the car (187,000 miles when I sold it to an Audi mechanic), but I was aware of the problem and only once had a bit of a go of it on the way home from a ski trip after running South on the NE extension for an hour or so I went thru the toll both in Landsdale at over 8000 rpms. That was exciting. You had to be very fast with the kill switch if you owned one of those cars. But I still consider it one of the three best cars I've ever owned (1970 Datsun 240z, and my current station wagon).
I've never driven a BMW, and now I don't think I could because I don't have the personality for it. I'm stuck with my sleeper wagon. Nobody expects a Volvo with two kiddy seats to be smoking all four tyres when the light goes green. It's a gas!
I see you know your cars. Have you ever driven the big Jag? God what a ride! I'm almost old enough to pass for a Jag owner. I wonder if Ford has ruined them? Can't imagine any V8 that's as silky smooth as the 12. What am I talking about? My next car will be a wheelchair with a colostomy bag on the side.
***I've never driven a BMW, and now I don't think I could because I don't have the personality for it. I'm stuck with my sleeper wagon. Nobody expects a Volvo with two kiddy seats to be smoking all four tyres when the light goes green.Please, don't tell us it is beige...
***It's a gas!
Hah?
***I see you know your cars. Have you ever driven the big Jag?
Do you mean the XJS? Yes.
***God what a ride! I'm almost old enough to pass for a Jag owner. I wonder if Ford has ruined them? Can't imagine any V8 that's as silky smooth as the 12.
That is probably true. Also, the older ones had more copper tubing than your average plumbing shop.
***What am I talking about? My next car will be a wheelchair with a colostomy bag on the side.
My daughter's friend (an RN) told her a story about bursting colostomy bag... just another day in the hospital... But you know, between your children's diapers and your very own colostomy bag there is that beautul stretch we call life. Enjoy it.
is that the color you refer to? Because my local dealer had one and I took the wife down to see it. She laughed hysterically the entire time we were there, while the salesman and I tried to make a serious pitch for it (high-visibility is an important safety feature!).She wouldn't go for it. So we ended up special-ordering a black one. I haven't seen that car around anywhere. I wonder what happened to it? Earl Scheib?
***It's a gas!***
Yep, this is the one with the "T-5" engine and "Quattro" drivetrain. When you get under the hood you see lots of "Made in W. Germany" on the parts. It's essentially the Audi S4 motor, drivetrain, suspension and brakes nailed on to a Volvo wagon. The whole thing has been lowered 4 cm and comes with stock rubber that wears down to slicks on the way home from the dealership (very sticky). I use it for trips to the grocery store and Home Depot. Once or twice a year I get on the pike and make a mad dash to Soundex, after telling the wife I'm going to get milk and diapers. With the seats folded down, you can get an entire BAT CD player back there, with room for the cables.
That's enough of this. What did you see this weekend?
The One Wild Moment - the French movie with a totally un-American ending.Another good one - The Fire Within with good actors, B&W and depressing. Also, The Music Teacher one more time - for our guests.
To demo the system to our guest - Ronin and The Mission Impossible side by side. What a striking contrast, with the Mission being a complete trash and waste of time, even some good actors being unable to salvage it.
I could not believe how awful Emmanuelle Beart looked in the Mission. She is certainly losing it and her lip job loks like something made for a cheap Barbie (I am presuming the lip job, too bad if she didn't have it).
My guest is a ping-pong nut, so he brought with him one of those tapes of the professionals doing their strokes. Trying to be a good host, I watched through most of it. As you like to say, horror...horror...
thanks for the film reviews. If we can't abuse our friends, why even have them? You sound like a gracious host. Another lost art.
Euro bad guys,narrow Euro streets and alleys.......Of course you need those fancy Euro rigs for the chase scenes. One of our plump American rides might have " Christeened" itself in a narrow alleyway.I was also amazed that whoever got behind the wheel( in Ronin ), immediately turned into a world class Gran Prix driver. All in all,however, a very enjoyable flick.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this one in part one (and I'm too lazy to look) but I think the tank/car chase scene in Goldeneye is worth the price of admission.Tom §.
Lot of great chases in the Bond films. I like the opening sequence to, I think it's Moonraker, where the chase ends with Bond skiing over the cliff and popping open the Union Jack parachute.
This is probably the world's slowest chase scene and rivals the live coverage of the Simpson chase. I don't remember the exact movie but it was probably The Abyss and there was this underwater chase between a couple of mini-subs. Churning up the water at an astounding 5 or 6 knots, this scene seemed to just go on and on and on and...
That could be the slowest chase in the movies. My nomination for slowest chase is the handicap scooter chase from Seinfeld.
I don't know if this was already mentioned or not, and its not a continuous chase as I recall, but Steve McQueen being chased by the Nazis while riding a motorcycle in the "Great Escape" is a pretty good one too.BTW: the bike he stole should have been German, probably a BMW or maybe a Zundapp, but they used a Triumph in the movie.
nt
the french connection. gene hackman behind the wheel leaving a trail of mayhem through new york. damn. i think i'll get the dvd tonight.
I think it had (I'm so old my memory's shot) the guy who played the cop in Jaws...it was called..."something six or seven" (I'm alot of help, arn't I) and it was a cop vs the drug smugglers in NY movie. Anyway, the driver of the "bad guys" car was the same driver in the "bad guys" car--a dodge charger or satalite if I recall, in "Bullitt" with Steve McQueen and (puke) Ali McBra. But in this "french connection" movie Rod Scheider chases them in a regular cop Dodge and runs under the back of a big truck trailer--shearing the entire top off the car! Wow! I bet you wet your pants when you see it. Much better than the exploding gas station scene in Bullitt.You wanna talk about chase scenes--what about "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"? Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, and Mr. Howel in a twin beech? "How about a little drinky winky?" or Cid Caeser in a Jenny? Now THATs funny!
Best chase scenes I've ever seen: Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and anything the Keystone Kops were in. It's already been done, and nobody has done it better since.
Definitely one of the better.
"Losing your mind is a terrible waste...or not to have a mind, is very wasteful" ...Dan Quale"If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he'll get sick of fish in no time."
Thanks Bob. Did you notice that the driver looks exactly the same as he did driving in Bullett? I'm sure he didn't wash his hair between films. Heck, they probably filmed both scenes on the same day--I'd love to run the chase scenes side by side to see if it is the same set.Geese, that link with Amazon is cool. I'm afraid to go there. I'd fill my house with books and films by the weekend. It's a sin to put temptation in the path of the weak.
nt
It's been years since I've seen this, but I recall (Austin?) Mini Coopers going down sidewalks, through buildings, down stairs, etc. Exciting and WILD escaping from the titular heist.
The Mini Cooper chase. Up and down stairs :-) Thats a good one. One of the all time great chase scenes as I recall. Haven't seen it in years.
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