***The Official Friday Silliness Thread****

[Girlene]

[Bertram3]

What is your favorite movie chase scene (preferably pre-CGI) - car or foot?

The Bank Dick I couldn't find a clip. Here's the movie for your evening's entertainment. "The resale value of thes car is going to be nil."

The car chase from Bullitt

[lilylangtree]

The Mustang Ranch and The $750 billion bail-out

Back in 1990, the Federal Government seized The Mustang Ranch Brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it.

They failed and it CLOSED! Now, we are trusting the economy of our country and $850+ Billion Dollars to a pack of nit-wits who couldn’t make money running a whore house and selling booze.

Now, if that don’t make you nervous, what does?

[red-dawg]

[red-dawg]

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Bullitt still wins hands down. Oddly, with all the progress in technology since then, nothing has come close, and in fact all the CGI tricks have lead filmmakers to generate stuff that is less realistic than before - essentially cartoonish. The chase in The Seven-Ups was also not bad, and entirely realistic.

[BibChr]

The foot chase that opens Casino Royale is the best part of the movie.

[Jeff Chandler]

Best Car Chase Ever

[weegee]

What is your favorite movie chase scene (preferably pre-CGI) - car or foot?

I must say that the stunt scenes in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World play out great on a big screen if you ever get a chance to catch it in a movie theater. It really is a big movie.

You can also use a video projector at home (beam it on a big wall or on the back of your house).

The last 30 minutes or so of Jackie Chan's Police Story 3 (aka Supercop) is a non-stop chase as well. I think it was even trimmed for the US release but that may just be me (I saw the original HK theatrical release in America before the big push to dub, rescore, and edit down Jackie's films).

Bullit has a good chase on the streets of San Francisco.

[weegee]

I think it is a generic card. There is no snow on the ground and no sweaters even (for a Chicago boy?).

He can send it out all year round “Happy Holidays”. I wonder if he bought in bulk.

[Rummyfan]

Favorite movie chase scene?

It's a toss-up between THE FRENCH CONNECTION and BULLITT.

[weegee]

They used to have flea circuses in New York City. My dad tells me that the fleas are trained by walking them through a straw (they don't "jump" so much).

http://www.fleacircus.co.uk/History.htm

About the only advice I have in vaudeville is don't let the dog act FOLLOW the flea act.

[kevinm13]

Favorite Chase in a movie (pre-CGI): French Connection

[weegee]

If we are going to talk about horseback movie chases, none are more thrilling than The Terror Of Tiny Town (an all midget western):

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

Colonel Parker was Elvis’s manager.

Colonel Sanders has fried a few chickens.

[Designer]

"..filmmakers to generate stuff that is less realistic.."

LOL!

Like the fireball explosions. How many times have you seen an explosion that is supposed to be "high explosive", like C-4, and the explosion looks like a giant fireball! LOL! What a crock of crap!

And it seems like every car that crashes must have been carrying about 25 gallons of gasoline in glass jars.

How many people think it is real?

[weegee]

[weegee]

So, did she beat the rap?

I think she rapped the beat.

[CougarGA7]

I dont know if this really qualifies as a “car chase” but the scene from 9 Months when they are trying to get her to the hospital is one of the funniest car scenes I’ve ever seen.

[neal1960]

One of the WORST chase scenes ever. This was filmed near my house when I was a teen by a B-movie maker named Earl Owensby.
From the movie Death Driver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVQiN764Xs