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Best Movie Chase Ever Made

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March 16, 2017, 09:39 PM
mr kablammo
Best Movie Chase Ever Made
For the foot chase, The Third Man. Shadows, echoes, dogs...

And submarine movies should be considered too. Ping... ping... ping... boom! Slow yet suspenseful.


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March 16, 2017, 10:03 PM
Balzé Halzé
Many of the Indiana Jones chase scenes were fun.


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March 17, 2017, 01:33 AM
jack32586
If Ghostface chasing Carmen Electra in Scary Movie doesn't count, then...

ONG BAK
March 17, 2017, 07:50 AM
cne32507
French Connection car chase story
March 17, 2017, 06:59 PM
sincityboy
Police Story (Jackie Chan), with the cars crashing down through the shanty town. It was shamelessly copied in Bad Boys 2, but I can overlook it because of the amazing freeway chase in that movie(with the boat, etc.)

If we can name two, I'd throw in the post-robbery foot chase from Raising Arizona. The music, the editing, Barry Sonnenfeld camerwork. "Son, you got a panty on your head..."
March 17, 2017, 08:50 PM
ZSMICHAEL
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French Connection car chase story

Thanks for posting that. That explains the back story very well.
March 17, 2017, 09:16 PM
Loswsmith
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Originally posted by IrishWind:
Police Dispatcher: Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers HAS been approved.


Isn't that where they got them Picassos?


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March 17, 2017, 09:27 PM
terra
Ronin and Vanishing Point (original).
March 17, 2017, 10:29 PM
jsbcody
Most realistic foot chase involving old guys:

Justified: Episode "Blaze of Glory" where Art is chasing bad guy with an oxygen tank and they both end up on the ground rubbing their sore knees. Big Grin
March 18, 2017, 04:21 PM
21bubba
The last chase sequence in the original Gone in sixty seconds.



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March 18, 2017, 06:48 PM
NavyAgShooter
The French Connection, Bullitt, and Quantum of Solace are my top three.

In addition to all the others listed here, I would give an honorable mention to the dog chasing Benny in The Sandlot.
March 18, 2017, 08:39 PM
andronicus
Pretty much any of the chase scenes from Mad Max Fury Road. I much prefer it to The Road Warrior.

I also really liked the tank chase scene in Goldeneye.
March 19, 2017, 12:04 AM
crash
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Originally posted by jwk226:
I really liked the car chase scene in the first Jack Reacher movie. It seemed pretty realistic but I cringed at the damage to a pretty nice '70 Chevelle SS.


Watch it again and this time count gear shifts. That Chevelle must have had a magical 18 speed transmission. The sound guys went a little overboard...


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March 19, 2017, 12:38 PM
bendable
category : chase scenes/Ford w/ girl
1971 Diamonds are forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN0uAmS3EoM

Category : chase scenes /Ford w/o girl
1968 Bullet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vNvc9n1ikI





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March 19, 2017, 01:13 PM
Balzé Halzé
The end of Alien 3...It creeped me out thinking about that alien chasing me like that through those dark corridors.


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March 19, 2017, 02:17 PM
jwk226
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Originally posted by crash:
quote:
Originally posted by jwk226:
I really liked the car chase scene in the first Jack Reacher movie. It seemed pretty realistic but I cringed at the damage to a pretty nice '70 Chevelle SS.


Watch it again and this time count gear shifts. That Chevelle must have had a magical 18 speed transmission. The sound guys went a little overboard...


You are right Crash!! Hahahaha....I had to rewatch the chase on utube. There is a lot of uneccessary shifting going on there.
March 19, 2017, 06:02 PM
FrankMoses
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Originally posted by parabellum:
To me, nothing can beat the 7+ minutes of the Bullitt chase, but I'll say this for the car/train chase in The French Connection- nobody, and I do mean nobody tops Popeye Doyle for fierce determination of getting his man.

BTW, did you notice the BG in TFC was using a Colt Gold Cup?


Going in lock step with the boss on this one. Popeye would have chased that guy until the universe collapsed.
And no, I didn't notice the Gold Cup.
March 19, 2017, 07:48 PM
uzigalil
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has 2 foot chases and one car chase all very well shot
March 19, 2017, 07:52 PM
uzigalil
and what about the car chase foot chase in point break

and the chase across the timbers in the river from Insomnia
March 19, 2017, 08:02 PM
jsbcody
quote:
Originally posted by FrankMoses:
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
To me, nothing can beat the 7+ minutes of the Bullitt chase, but I'll say this for the car/train chase in The French Connection- nobody, and I do mean nobody tops Popeye Doyle for fierce determination of getting his man.

BTW, did you notice the BG in TFC was using a Colt Gold Cup?


Going in lock step with the boss on this one. Popeye would have chased that guy until the universe collapsed.
And no, I didn't notice the Gold Cup.


Popeye repeated it somewhat (without the car, it was a lot more of a steeplechase, on foot and going over obstacles) at the end of the French Connection 2 when he got "Frog One".