Movies with awesome choreographed dancing
 

I thought about this a few weeks ago when I watched "The Love Bug." Yeah, it's a sappy Disney movie from the 60's, but I was getting a little bit of a pudgie watching all the cars that Herbie was racing against: Ferraris, Lambos, many other very cool machines that I couldn't identify.

"Le Mans" with Steve McQueen is coming on in about half an hour. I'm going to record it so I can watch (and rewatch) at my leisure. I understand there are some very cool racing scenes in that movie.

Anyway, I thought I'd start this thread for people to mention movies that include something interesting that's car or car racing related, even if it's just a drive-by. Spotted a cool Miata in a movie?

I own this thread.
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I have to admit, Gone in 60 Seconds is one of the reasons I got into cars. Love that movie.

Bullitt
Vanishing point
Mad Max
Teh farts and teh furriest (for comedic value)

Came here to post this. :inout:

The original 1969 version of "The Italian Job". The first few minutes of the movie follows a Lamborghini Muira on a mountain road. Not necessarily great driving, but the sexiest car of ever.

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Came here to say Bullitt.

I'll save you some time:



Protip: Crank up your volume and be thankful we have tire options nowadays that are not bias-ply :rofl:

F&F Tokyo Drift had some real (not CGI) awesome dorifting.

Corky Romano

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When I saw this thread title, the first thing I thought was "LeMans"

LOL at Mustang GT getting owned by a Chrysler 300....


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....And more LOL at Mustang GT shifting gears to accelerate in reverse....

I watched Le Mans last night. The racing scenes are the best I've seen, maybe the best that exist, and the best part is the movie is almost one long racing scene. Reminds me of pro porn where the sex scenes are briefly tied together with a storyline that nobody cares about.

I will admit that I'm especially drawn to cars from that era (early 70's.) The LaFerrari is cool, but the Ferrari Dino 246 GT makes my heart beat faster.

It's been a while since I saw it, but as I remember, Ronin had a pretty good chase scene.

I notice a huge flaw in the sound effects of that movie. If you see the part where he steals the car, you can see an automatic shifter, but the sound effects are clearly for a manual trans car.
As for Chrysler 300 owning mustang GT...I believe that. I watched a SRT 8 hemi 300 run a 13.1 with nothing more than a power programmer and a different intake.

Drive is a shitty movie.

Bullitt with Steve Mcqueen is good stuff

Remember when Speed had the drive in movie night? One of the films they showed was Two Lane Blacktop. It was produced in the early 70's I believe.

That movie made me think that the personalities of street racers have not changed much over the years. Pretty cool movie for an old low budget.

Bullitt was exciting. The directing and editing, etc was good, I'll give it that. And the motor noises were cool. :)

But a friend had a Charger like the one in the final chase scene and I know for a fact that they are the worst handling turds ever manufactured. It was impossible to get the car around any corner quickly because it took a half hour to rotate, and then only if/when it felt like it. Understeer is not a strong enough word. My knowledge of that made the entire chase scene seem lame to me.

I had a Chevy wagon with the "trailer package" (stiff suspension and a 402 big block) and I could drive circles around the Charger. It caused no end of shame and embarassment to my friend that such a cool looking car would be consistently spanked by a station wagon.

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Ferrari in Paris circa 1976 - Video

Not a movie... But this is a must see for any auto enthusiest!

I just watched it again (first time in many years) and noticed something surprising. The sound designed succumbed to the stereotypical problem one deals with when dubbing engine sounds on a long chase sequence with sustained high speeds. Namely, transmissions shifting all the way up into fourteenth gear.

Yeah, also the car used was actually some old Mercedes, not a Ferrari. I saw that years ago and read all about it.

In addition to some of the great stuff already mentioned, I saw part of a movie, back when I was a teenager (mid 80's), that I thought was pretty frikkin sweet. It was the first time I saw heel toe down shifting, and it is what started my intrest in the "physics" of driving.

My memory is sketchy, perhaps someone here has seen it and can fill in the gaps. The movie is set in Los Angeles and a young undercover cop is trying to get in with some high end car thieves. In the scene I'm thinking of he's driving a 911 (I think) down a twisty narrow residential street, in and out of cars, heel toeing as he goes, I remember trying to understand what he was doing. I vaguely remember a hot blonde being there too

We'll that's all I got, anyone have any idea what the hell I'm talking about?

I seriously enjoyed watching that. Thank you. :bigtu:

The Starsky and Hutch effect. I'd bet lunch money that the cars used in filming had automatic transmissions.

Interesting... I had no idea! A teacher introduced me to that video in an automotive technology class and I guess he didn't know that it was a Mercedes.. Wikipedia had the specifics about the film and the car... Just read up on it lol

Found this: Little known facts about Claude Lelouch’s ‘Rendezvous’ viral video of him racing through Paris in 1976

Le Mans and I haven't noticed anyone else mention Grand Prix!!!

Those IMO have the best noises and racing of any car movie, hands down. Those are the only two Blu Rays I own.

Wangan Midnight for the JDM goodness, there's a miata at about the 7 minute mark. FULL MOVIE:

I cant believe I forgot Jackie Chan's Thunderbolt. Its free on youtube, endorsed by Jackie himself. So many awesome cars and racecars we never got here.

Initial D

I'm going to have to confer with the other mods, but I think this may be a perma-bannable offense.

I'm gonna stand up for Saml01 and say that I actually watched Initial D, and while it is a Jap drifto movie, it is still pretty decent. I like it the way I like the F&F movies; I don't respect it, but for some reason it is entertaining.

Especially because a lot of the sub titles on my version were very poorly translated. They used some funny ass word instead of suspension and it took me till almost the end of the movie to figure it out.

In fact, we may have to nuke his ISP from orbit.

Would sending an executioner be a little too strong? :dunno:

Only if the executioner has more than a 7 round capacity magazine.

Love the beast: Targa Tasmania in a Ford Falcon, but much more then that.

And while not strictly a car movie, if you have any petrol running through your vains, you need to see TT3D. A movie following the underdog Guy Martin through to the Isle of Man TT.

+1 For "Love the Beast"

One of the most boring things I've ever seen in my life.

Ronin car chase
 

Grand Prix the Movie
 

For guys my age, the Monza circuit used to be a place that separated the brave from the rest. From Grand Prix the movie:

If you'd like to see a very realistic freeway race between two proper sports cars, check out Against All Odds.

Special bonus: Rachel Ward!

Double O 86, is your user name in reference to Get Smart?

What the hell is wrong with you people.

Best car movie ever;
Days of Thunder

/thread

As much as I'm not an especially big fan of NASCAR... yeah, Days of Thunder was a pretty good film.

+1 for ronin and love the beast
i almost forgot about ronin till i saw it in this thread - love that movie
i always thought this was a pretty good chase scene -

Today, some demoman in TF2 got mad at me for suggesting that his stickybombs looked like giant diseased testicles.

Which, of course, brings me to a fairly obvious point:

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Honarable mention for born to race, low budget fasts and furious attempt. Miata in the begging even though its a club ricer style car. Overall decent movie if your bored
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwxqAZV1QI&sns=em

+1 for The Paris Chase. That was awesome!

Drift Bible.

Basically this. It's mindless entertainment.

I've been tainted by Porsche-tards at the track these days, but growing up my movie store had this movie on VHS and i watched it everyday for like 3 months. no fake shit, ust a real Porsche hauling ass as it's chased by a fighter jet. I bought the movie not long ago on Amazon on DVD for its 30th (or 35th). was a Canadian film when lee majors was a big deal in the 80's, right in the 6 million dollar man and fall guy era.

The Last Chase (1981) - IMDb

No comments on TT3D?

Imho its a better movie then Love the Beast (which was pretty great). Even if you hate bikes, go see this movie! Nothing comes closer to capturing the lunacy of driving any vehicle right on the ragged edge.

This scene was mildly entertaining ...

This one is going to be epic

That's half of it, but don't tell anyone. :squint: :nono:

Not a movie but does this with Emillio and 949 racing count?

watching that makes me sad. But it does give me a good bit of motivation for Aug.

Not a chase scene but I found it in related links: