Javelin (Forum Supporter) said:Corvette Summer
Quoted for picture awesomeness! Without this movie, the album "Shut Down," and an older friend across the street who was into cars during my formative years I wouldn't be here on this forum for sure. Sure it's bad, yes I have the VHS, and yes I have the movie poster. Haha!
My vote though has to be Driven with Stallone. Really? Car chase with an Indy car through the streets and it sucks a manhole cover into the air? Awful.
Hooper is a good "bad car" movie. It's basically Smokey and the Bandit in some alternate universe where Bo Darville is a stuntman and Frog is still... uhh... Frog. BAN-ONE is red with a rocket strapped to the back instead of the familiar black and gold. Plus, Burt Reynolds gets in a zany bar room brawl with Terry Bradshaw. And Jan Michael Vincent is there instead of Jerry Reed. And somehow, Adam West is there, playing himself.
Tony Sestito said:Hooper is a good "bad car" movie. It's basically Smokey and the Bandit in some alternate universe where Bo Darville is a stuntman and Frog is still... uhh... Frog. BAN-ONE is red with a rocket strapped to the back instead of the familiar black and gold. Plus, Burt Reynolds gets in a zany bar room brawl with Terry Bradshaw. And Jan Michael Vincent is there instead of Jerry Reed. And somehow, Adam West is there, playing himself.
You forgot Norm Grabowski.
I may catch hell for this, but I like the Herbie movies. At least the original and Monte Carlo, anyway.
Spoiler alert for the end of the first Herbie movie: "I can't weld that!"
Overdrive.. I love this film..a story about international car thieves..
In reply to Apexcarver :
I rented The Junkman on VHS from the local video store back in the mid-80s. I actually saw it before Gone in 60 Seconds. Teenaged me just saw cars on the cover and said, "cool..." ...but I've only seen it that one time. 35-odd years ago. I kinda remember enjoying it ("car crashes = cool!"), but as I've gotten older I've learned to avoid spoiling my childhood fond memories by trying to relive them.
I am of the opinion the 70's will go down as a truly unique period in movie making history. So many films got made that would never make it through the modern bean-counter review process today. Film makers would try anything and coked-up producers would say, "Dude! That sounds awesome! Here's some money. Go for it!"
"Black Moon Rising". So bad. You wait the entire movie for something car related to happen.
But hey, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton are still fun to watch.
Want bad movies? Just look to Roger Corman. Car chases are a default in a lot of his pictures. He got Ron Howard to do the truly awful "Eat My Dust" as a trade to finance Howard's own "Grand Theft Auto". The latter is much better, though still Corman-ish. At least it has car stunts and a Rolls-Royce (on a Chevy truck chassis) that does a jump.
Though "Used Cars" bombed at the theater I think it's actually a good movie. I mean, it's got Edsels!
"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" is not a 'bad' movie. It's probably one of the top five car movies ever made.
Something about a Norwegian The Fast and the Furious involving a lot of Eurotrash stereotypes, JDM cars, and American muscle cars, that's also a comedy, really amused me.
Plus it has some actually good car and racing scenes.
It's way easier to list the good car movies made, since the only one I can think if is Gumball Rally.
Car movies pretty much universally suck.
Then there's the movie version of Need for Speed, where the director had more experience as a stuntman than a director - and this was probably the right choice. It was basically a case of trying to put together just enough plot to string together a bunch of stunt driving. I'm sure many GRMers will recognize Road Atlanta's appearance as well.
In reply to MadScientistMatt :
That was AFN's movie of choice in 2015 to 2016. I watched it far more than I care to admit.
Streetwiseguy said:It's way easier to list the good car movies made, since the only one I can think if is Gumball Rally.
movies pretty much universally suck.
Fixed that for you
Someone mentioned Talladega Nights - I'm just going to go ahead and disagree with you. Among the very best documentaries I've seen.
Appleseed said:The Wraith
came here to say this
I'm not saying it's my favorite, but 3 pages and no one has mentioned...
You guys pretty much hit every one I could think of. I had to do a search because I forgot the movie title but found an image:
"Street Racer" - 2008 ...in which a stock Scion xB almost beat a BMW. I had just bought my first xB & a friend told me about the movie. Even as a big Scion fan I thought "who the hell made this schlock?"
Uncle David (Forum Supporter) said:I'm not saying it's my favorite, but 3 pages and no one has mentioned...
I think this is the movie I remembered as "Ambulance", it was a weird B movie that fits those characters in my memory. I could never find it...
Driven should be the only answer on this thread.
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