Best car chase of all time

OK, not even close.  And we've covered this topic dozens of times anyway.

But y'all needed to see this, or see it again.

Oh man. My thoughts, in no particular order:

• Holy crap five black 911s together look really cool
• This is unbelievably bad
• That's an uncomfortable amount of mouth breathing time for our protagonist. Was there no director? "Close your mouth please" would've been a good on set call
• OK, 911s may handle well but dodging lasers seems like a tall order even for them
• I like how "fire outside lasers" is followed up by "fire inside lasers" but never "fire all lasers" and once they miss one time it's "never fire lasers again."
• Where the hell did the sheet material for the ramp come from, and where did it go once they retracted it?
• Seriously, close your mouth, you look like you're mid-poop for half this car chase
• That was very polite of mr cafe man to pull his chair out of the way of the cars. Most of us would just launch ourselves to safety but he kept the cafe's equipment in good order and avoided continuity error causing scratches on the hero cars all in one swift move
• The out of sync reactions of the actors to the bumps from the enemy cars are comedy gold. I can picture the MST3K riffs on that. First left, then right! Now first right then left! Perfect. Director, you're doing a good job, again.
• That poor pine tree. What did it ever do you to mr slant nose 911 driver?

Delightfully cheesy!

That's so bad it's actually good. 

I'm still going with Hooper as my all-time favorite. 

dculberson said:

Oh man. My thoughts, in no particular order:

"Close your mouth please" would've been a good on set call

Seriously, close your mouth, you look like you're mid-poop for half this car chase

LOL 

that slantnose tho. 

That's so bad it's good.  
I thought you were looking for nominations. I nominate my son with his hotwheels camera car.  
 

Watching Condorman over and over as a kid is why I love slant nose 911s. And also why I have always wanted a chrome contact lens that covered my whole eye. 

When I was a kid I saw a Condorman trailer on a VHS for some other movie and thought it looked interesting. I keep hearing it was a terrible movie but every clip I see from it makes me want to watch the whole thing more

In reply to GameboyRMH :

It’s like the old SNL “Bad Decision Family” skit. 

Here, taste this milk. 

I thought they had a lot of good chases in the Rockford files ,

San Fernando Valley in its prime for "Cop shows"

Watched the 1976 Cannonball last night for the first time.  It was impressively bad with horrific continuity problems.

Trying to figure out how I can incorporate this clip into my DE lesson plans. 😆 

KyAllroad said:

Watched the 1976 Cannonball last night for the first time.  It was impressively bad with horrific continuity problems.

That's weird, I just watched it last night, too.  Main continuity issues I noticed were David Carradine's shirt, and the crash at the end.  I'm sure there were a ton more, too.   Also, it looked like the movie was almost entirely filmed in California, regardless of where they were supposed to be.

I was waiting for him to crash as he pressed all 45 buttons to do one thing. The poster child of distracted driving. I also loved how if you paid attention several buttons would start flashing before he pressed them.

It's like none of you have watched the original Death Race 2000.

The downside is, you end up seeing Sly Stallone's giblets part way through with no warning.

In reply to ShawnG :

Oh, I've seen the original Death Race 2000.  I've seen it several times.

I'ma hafta go with the car chase from Short Time...

https://youtu.be/AlSMrxXrba0?si=qapKviZYeWCkK9xe

Here, a bit of a palate cleanser.

The Condorman action sequence is credited to the Rémy Julienne team, which accounts for the quality of that element.

The intro sequence of punching buttons on the dash reminded me of this:

Best?  Probably not.  It made a mark in my memory though, I think it was a Porsche 356 near the end (supercharged of course) and the girl kept pulling the supercharger lever.

In reply to David S. Wallens :

I can't fathom the utter misery of driving most of those cars cross country.  I have a tough time taking my Miata somewhere 2 hours away and it's a luxury car next to a Cobra.

/thread. 😁

Wait do cartoons count?  What about Speed Racer?  

KyAllroad said:

In reply to David S. Wallens :

I can't fathom the utter misery of driving most of those cars cross country.  I have a tough time taking my Miata somewhere 2 hours away and it's a luxury car next to a Cobra.

Things were different back then. Okay, yeah, I can see arriving in California a little raw.