[PenultimateManStanding]

Just saw that classic car chase through the streets of San Fransisco in 1968. Steve McQueen and Peter Yates put it together. The rest of the movie is just standard crime caper stuff, but that car chase is vertiginous! All live, all real. Spectacular. They're going over the steep Frisco Hills and you can feel it in the pit of your stomach. McQueen did a lot of the stunt driving himself in that '68 Mustang. At one point he blew a turn and smoked the wheels, after which they did the rest with a stunt driver. I've never sene a scene like that, with so much grit and realism in any movie. Not that piece of crap Nicholas Cage car theft flick, nothing compares.

[lotrfan55345]

Have you seen the matrix reloaded car chase scene?

[sparkylab]

Another random but excellent topic, PMS

Have to agree with you on this one. Definitely the most stylish ever - did you notice how the soundtrack (Laylo Schifrin at his funky jazz best - well worth picking up the remastered version) was non-existant during the chase. The cars become the soundtrack.

Fantastic.

With regard to the realism, McQueen used real locations and wherever possible non-actors in their actual roles (the hospital scenes during the first act - the doctors and orderlies etc). It just adds to the authentic grit of the whole picture.

In my opinion, Bullitt has influenced every cop show made since.

Unless they bring out a hybrid version of the new mustang (of which the basic versions look amazing), it looks like I will never get to live my Bullitt fantasies.....

[sparkylab]

If I had to pick a runner up though, probably the chase in the original Italian Job (not the shit remake), Ronin, or at a push, the first Bourne movie.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sparkylab', 'A')nother random but excellent topic, PMS

[The_Toecutter]

I liked Vanishing Point. Practically the entire movie was a chase scene. The scene in Mad Max where Max in the BoB chases Toecutter on the Kawasaki into a road train is also gold.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')nless they bring out a hybrid version of the new mustang (of which the basic versions look amazing), it looks like I will never get to live my Bullitt fantasies.....

[Antimatter]

Yeah, the whine of an electric motor just isn't the same as a rumbling great behmoth V8.