Best Police Car Movie???

[Pete Kaczmarski]

As I put my '70 Fury III Pursuit (ex-Washinton State Patrol) away for the Winter in Wisconsin, I check my Favorite Car Movies or Videos. In the middle of Winter I watch the Best Police Car Chase Movie ever (in my opinion). Sugarland Express was made using "Panavision" for the first time in the early 1970's. Goldie Hawn is in her early Movie career. The movie is based on a true story of a Texas Trooper abducted by Hawn who helps her Husband excape to get their young son from Social Services Foster Care. It has GREAT car sound effects. One of my favorite is the two small time Officers waiting at night to surprise them as they come into the little town. The picture/audio of the big block Mopar idleing in the cool night air and seeming the exhaust fumes. When I was starting to drive in 1977, I remember seeing a ex-WI. '71 Fury I at a dealer for only a few hundred of dollars. These full sized cars is what me and my friends grew up with.

 

[polara71]

That is the best police car movie... I remember Smokey and the Bandit II destroying a ton of cars but most of those were late 70's pontiacs with a few early Mopars thrown in. Sugarland Express has to take the prize.

 

[Bryan]

A couple good chase movies that come to mind are Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Convoy and Vanishing point (even though there really weren't a whole lot of police cars, but the main star was a MoPar Classic).

 

[Husky]

Gone in 60 Seconds (the original) has to be one of the best...plenty of action, lots of mopar cop cars.

 

[1978 NYB]

Vanishing Point is my best of the best chase movie...especially with the surround sound cranked.

 

[70NPORT]

Yeah, Vanishing Point is THE best.....I love the Imperial in the beginning, had one just like it. I believe the cars that Kowalski picks the Challenger out of are a bunch of Mopars (think I saw a 70 Super Bee in the crowd), and then on his way to score the "uppers" from his buddy, he drives the Challenger past a Dodge dealership. If you slow the movie down you can pick out brand new Dodge Chargers on that lot if I remember correctly.

 

[polara71]

Everyone brags about how great Vanishing point is. I saw the original twice and the remake once..... I had enough, its a B movie for a reason. Its a bad cult movie at best

Very few police cars in Convoy......

 

[1978 NYB]

I like Bullit a lot too!

 

[polara71]

Last year the Vineland drive-in had a one night showing of Bullit, that was fun, on the big screen

 

[cm23uoc]

My plan was to watch Bullitt today, but as I just realized I only have it on video and my VCR is dead.
One of the few movies where the stunt driver (Bill Hickman) also played the actual role of the killer.

 

[70NPORT]

Everyone brags about how great Vanishing point is. I saw the original twice and the remake once..... I had enough, its a B movie for a reason. Its a bad cult movie at best

Very few police cars in Convoy......

Maybe, but its a cult classic movie for a reason, not by accident. That means there's a dedicated following.....which also usually happens for a reason. I agree about the remake though, I saw it once.....its trash compared to the original, and the writers (who probably were not car people) took "creative license" with the story line so it's not really a remake of the original in the strict sense.

AND they trashed a Charger, which does not score well in my book.

 

[1978 NYB]

My plan was to watch Bullitt today, but as I just realized I only have it on video and my VCR is dead.
One of the few movies where the stunt driver (Bill Hickman) also played the actual role of the killer.

VCR? Those movies are available in Blu-Ray.

 

[cm23uoc]

What's Blu-Ray I'm always three steps behind development. I got my first DVD player/recorder just a few years ago as well as private internet.

 

[polara71]

Blu-ray....... The only way to go. I am not a movie buyer but I had to buy Jaws in blu ray.... Love Jaws

 

[1978 NYB]

Blu-Ray is a HD version of DVD. Amazing detail on big screen TV's. Is DirecTv available over there yet or is it still the Sky Network? I have a DirecTV DVR and record and view pretty much everything except a few cult like car movies. With everything that's available on Satellite I never rent movies and rarely go to the cinema. I went to the cinema to see E2 and will go see 007 next month..........that's pretty much it for me.

 

[polara71]

I dont see the difference with hd tv compared to traditional tv. I see a huge difference with blu ray

 

[1978 NYB]

I dont see the difference with hd tv compared to traditional tv. I see a huge difference with blu ray

It's like night and day on my TV. I have a 240 Hz LCD TV with all HDMI connections and watch everything in 1080p HD. Combined with a Yamaha amp and a nice surrond sound that automatically formats to the best format of sound available for each show that I watch. Most in Dolby digital but I'm starting to see a lot of stuff in DTS (Digital Theatre Sound)

 

[Greg B.]

I see a huge difference between standard definition and HDTV - it is especially noticeable because one of our cheapskate local stations still has not converted their studio to HD so while all their network programming is HD, their local stuff is still SD and it is blurry, fuzzy and looks awful by comparison.

Since almost all of my DVDs are either classic TV series or old movies from the 1960s or earlier I see little benefit in throwing out the gear I have in favor of Blu-ray. If you were buying DVDs of today's crappy CGI-infested movies I suppose it might be worthwhile, but I haven't seen a movie in the last 10-15 years that I'd consider buying.

 

[Zymurgy]

I don't know if you guys have come across this cars in movies search engine before. http://www.imcdb.org/
It's pretty cool you can type in the movie and it will list the cars in that specific movie. You can also type in a specific car and find out what movies that car was in. It even rates the car in the movie based on how much screen time. Check it out any car/movie nut will like it.

 

[cm23uoc]

I was about to name this link to the movie car database myself; no 300 Hurst ever detected there.