PhilipMSPT

iTrader: (5)

Gotta love cinematic moments with edge-of-your-seat chases and races.

There are so many movies that are so memorable, but I have two that I love particularly:

BEST CAR CHASE:
DeathProof, 2007, directed by Q. Tarantino.



YouTube Death Proof Car Chase Edited



BEST MOTORCYCLE CHASE:
Martix Reloaded, 2003, directed by A. & L. Wachowski.



YouTube Matrix Revolutions Ducati Chase



What's your favorite?

JessePS

If I had a list of movies, I probably can remember which ones.

I can only recall one of them. Ronin.

flipspeed

best car chase... probably the transporter in the manual 7 series.

DASHOCKER

iTrader: (2)

Opening chase scene with the biker in the 70's movie "The Car"

jracerlmn

best car chase - Ronin hands down. No special effects, all skill

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

Motorcycle chase - Arnold in T2!

Car chase - Ronin and Bullitt.

UDel

Ronin, Bullit, Cobra, Terminator 2, Breakdown had a decent one.

PVlexus

Gone in 60 seconds, the Shelby 'Elenore', Gotta love that one

kit cat

iTrader: (6)

Ronin, made me fall in love with an Audi.

PhilipMSPT

iTrader: (5)

Another honorable mention:

MOTORCYCLE CHASE WITH HELICOPTER
Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997, Directed by Roger Spottiswoode.



YouTube BMW R 1200 + Helicopter Chase Scene

flipspeed

legend of speed had a pretty good motorcycle chase.

MadMax96

Maybe not the best, but one of my faves - the opening scene from Cannonball Run with the Lambo and the T/A patrol car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB6FfaNQ40

PhilipMSPT

iTrader: (5)

Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso chooses his 10 favorite car chase scenes of all time.

A spectacular car chase can turn a run-of-the-mill action adventure-flick into an instant classic, revered by moviegoing gearheads around the globe. Filmmaker D.J. Caruso, director of the blockbuster Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan, is a true student of these classic high-speed pursuits. “We used scenes captured by John Frankenheimer (French Connection II, Ronin), Peter Yates (Bullitt) and others as models for the action in Eagle Eye,” says Caruso. Curious about which films he found most influential, we asked the director to come up with a list of his top 10 favorite car chase scenes.

Link to original article with YouTube links...


1) The French Connection (1971)

In pursuit of a drug suspect, grubby New York detective Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) appropriates a civilian car and chases an elevated subway train, barreling beneath the tracks at 90 mph.

2) Bullitt (1968)

Steve McQueen steers a Mustang fastback through what many consider to the standard-setter for all car chase scenes. Hard-boiled cop Frank Bullitt (McQueen) races the bad guys' Dodge Charger up and down the streets of San Francisco at speeds up to 110 mph in a sequence that helped earn the movie an Oscar for its innovative editing.

3) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

In his attempts to babysit impetuous John Connor (Edward Furlong), The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) must avoid having his motorcycle run over by an 18-wheeler piloted by the metal-melding T-1000 (Robert Patrick).

4) Ronin (1998)

This multi-car chase through the narrow, steep streets of Nice, France, in this Robert De Niro spy thriller is one-upped only by the sheer lunacy of an against-the-traffic pursuit through tunnels under the Seine in Paris.

5) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

A band of punk-biker pirates pursues a tribal convoy, led by Mel Gibson's Mad Max, that's escorting a precious fuel tanker to safety. Fighters clad in studded leather spar atop moving cars, motorcycles and trucks, picking each other off with shotguns and crossbows.

6) The Blues Brothers (1980)

Jake Blues (John Belushi) and his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) leave a 106-mile path of destruction as they speed toward downtown Chicago in the Bluesmobile (a converted Dodge Monaco police cruiser).

7) Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

Obsessive sheriff (Vic Morrow) in a Bell Helicopter pursues a ’69 Dodge Charger driven by bad guys. The chase takes them through a citrus orchard and ends with the Charger colliding with a locomotive.

8) Vanishing Point (1971)

The movie opens with Kowalski (Barry Newman) in a white 1970 Dodge Challenger sparring with the California Highway Patrol. And the excitement keeps building, crossing median strips while just missing cross traffic, sliding along dirt roads, and running at what are obviously true high speeds.

9) Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)

A South American drug lord pays Maindrian Pace (Toby Halicki) $400,000 to steal 48 specific cars for him, and all but one — a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 with a code name of "Eleanor" — are successfully stolen by Pace and his associates. The film is famous for having wrecked and destroyed 93 cars in a 40-minute car chase scene.

10) To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

As the life of a Secret Service agent (played by CSI star and legit car enthusiast William Petersen) slides into anarchy, he takes greater and greater chances with his own life and the lives of those around him, including pursuit with Petersen piloting a Chevrolet the wrong way down the freeway.

Kaydee

IMO Matrix Reloaded car chase is the greatest car chase ever...the music, the destruction, the sheer epicness...unbeatable

Ronin gets a thumb up for its realism. I think the Chinese Initial D movie has some pretty good chase scene...then again, it's all about chasing down someone lol

My personal fav is the car chase scene from Mr & Mrs. Smith where not one, not two, but THREE Ultimate Driving Machines got royally owned by a Dodge LMAO

Byprodrive

iTrader: (1)

I think Transporter 3 opens today @ a theater near you!!