Gone In 60 Seconds and the remake. The first is a bad movie with a tremendous car chase. The second is a okay movie with a pretty awful CGI infused car chase.
Gone In 60 Seconds and the remake. The first is a bad movie with a tremendous car chase. The second is a okay movie with a pretty awful CGI infused car chase.
Malibu Express (1985) director Andy Sidaris would give ex-Playboy bunnies parts in his movies, and he'd really use that to maximum effect.
But that's nothing compared to the raw sexual energy of the SCCA Trans Am in the movie. There's some great running shots of it, and an escape scene where one of the aforementioned playboy bunnies rides shotgun, even though it's caged and there's no passenger seat.
I neglected to originally post a double-feature: even though it was made earlier, I'd follow it up with Stacey (1973), which is basically the same movie but involves driving can-am cars cars on the street.
ShawnG said:Death proof and Planet Terror were good together.
Yes I was going to bring those up
Seeing car focused, Death Proof and the original Gone in 60 Seconds, not necessarily in that order
How about Timerider and Freejack?
From Wikipedia:
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann is a 1982 American science fiction Western film directed by William Dear and starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer in the 1980s who is mistakenly sent back in time to 1877.[3] The film was scored, produced and co-written (with director William Dear) by Michael Nesmith.[4]
Freejack:
Alex Furlong is a Formula One racer who is about to die in a spectacular 1991 crash when a time machine snatches him from the cockpit and into 21st century New York City, now a futuristic dystopia populated by scavengers and killers. When Furlong's captors are ambushed by a hit squad, Furlong escapes from Victor Vacendak, a hardened mercenary who has snatched him on behalf of the powerful McCandless Corporation. Alex's former fiancée Julie Redlund is now an executive at McCandless, handling high-stakes mineral negotiations with a rival Japanese firm.
Note to Freejack:
To me, Smokey and the Bandit is the perfect old-school car chase movie. Put it in a double-feature with Baby Driver for a great bookend on getting away from the cops.
Big fan of DR 2000 and Cannonball both, but I've seen a few good alternatives here.
re: DR2000---"...and who is responsible? THE FRENCH!"
In reply to David S. Wallens :
"If you drank any of that...I'm out of a job."
Cannonball Run and The Gumball Rally, both comedies.
I don’t think I have ever seen “Eat My Dust” but adding it to the conversation. Maybe this with an episode of “B.J. and the Bear” or, if keeping with Ron Howard, “American Graffiti.”
Also, is that Don Steele narrating? I hear he was also in some David Carradine movie.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
I actually saw eat my dust at the theater when it came out.
In reply to Tom1200 :
Worth watching today?
And hey, it’s on Prime.
Also, how can you say no to a description like this?
See Opie go berserk in the fast-paced action chase Eat My Dust! Darlene is into fast cars--and Hoover is into Darlene. When they get their hands on 700 horses, they're off on a squealing, screaming, shattering smash-a-thon. Buckle your seatbelts for one hot date in an even hotter car.
Some of these combinations sound like a real life episode of MSTK3000. 
They should probably be watched while consuming cheap beer and delivery pizza.
As for car movies, Vanishing Point is pretty good. A motorcycle related movie of the era is Electra Glide in Blue.
Oh yeah, I forgot to share this. After watching the movie, I found this online: One of the Trans Ams from “Cannonball” will cross the block at Mecum next week!
Might have to register to bid....
In reply to David S. Wallens :
I can't say because I was maybe 19 when it came out and I haven't seen it since.
In reply to Tom1200 :
Maybe we’ll check it out. I mean, heck, Opie goes berserk.
Eat My Dust is gawdawful. Typical Roger Corman terrible. Lots of undercranked film to make things look fast. You can watch it if you want...but you've been warned.
ddavidv said:Eat My Dust is gawdawful. Typical Roger Corman terrible. Lots of undercranked film to make things look fast. You can watch it if you want...but you've been warned.
It's a Corman terrible! Oh, we have to watch it now!
Tom1200 said:ddavidv said:Eat My Dust is gawdawful. Typical Roger Corman terrible. Lots of undercranked film to make things look fast. You can watch it if you want...but you've been warned.
It's a Corman terrible! Oh, we have to watch it now!
Speaking of Roger Corman, he did:
The Wild Angels
The very first Fast and Furious movie in 1954 - you need to check this one out if you haven't seen it yet. Lots of early British sports cars. Yes. There was a movie called Fast and Furious in 1954 and Roger Corman produced it with Jaguar 120s and Austin Healey 3000s.
The Young Racers in 1962 with lots of Formula 1 and Formula 2 cars of the early 1960s vintage.
The Wild Racers in 1968. Another one with Formula 1 cars of the late 60s.
Another one in 1978 called Deathsport with David Carridine and Science Fiction Motorcycles.
Then there was Frankenstein Unbound, created by the novel written by Brian Aldiss. This was the last one Corman actually directed and produced before his death. I really like that move. So much I bought the DVD.
I'm sure I missed many. He did a lot of good stuff. You could do a Roger Corman Film Festival and keep several theatres going all week.
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
I've also seen the Fast and Furious; the plot, as expected, is crap but man there is some great footage.
I actually watched is at 3:30 AM. I couldn't sleep and was slated to be up at 5AM to head to the track for a PCA track day, so I decided to get up and make myself a big breakfast.
Paul Newman in Winning and Grand Prix
The Ice Pirates is truly awful and has Ron Perlman.
In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :
There are a number of grade Z 1950s hot rod and sports car movies available on YouTube that are pretty entertaining. There's also a bunch of Roger Corman movies, including such cinematic greats as Attack of the Crab Monsters, A Bucket of Blood, and Teenage Caveman. There's also the outlaw biker film The Wild Angels, with Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern and Nancy Sinatra. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjp9cDM5tlPo-gnpYU6ul8Uinn6COwUmx
My love of awful movies grows stronger with each post on this thread.
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