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Summary: Fox Presents:World's Scariest Police Chases(Lost Episode)!
Review: Okay all of you people who say "I can make a movie better than that!" here's an example of someone with no film making experiance tries to make a movie.Don't give me that "What about Quentin Tarrantino." stuff.That's one out of a million.But you've gotta hand it to H.B. "Toby" Halicki,he had a good concept for an action movie:A car thief has to steal 50 cars without getting caught.However,Toby's inexperiance shows.Though he had some good ideas about sub-plot(Talking about settling down with his girlfriend),he didn't have the experiance to focus the story enough.The film fluxuates in between action,comedy,and documentery(Some of the scenes that explain the art of auto theft were actually real methods at the time).Still,in the end,the film's climatic car chase with "Elenor",is the only reason worth giving the film a look.It is,as my review title suggests,like watching "World's Scariest Police Chases".One of the DVD's perks is the audio commentary by the lead cameraman and the editor of the film who provide some interesting insights into the movie(It also helps to pass the first 50 some-odd minutes untill the big chase).
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Summary: Gone in 60 Seconds X2,Coments on the old and new.
Review: When Gone in 60 seconds was originaly filmed in '74 I was not quite in kindergarten therefore had no knowlage of this movie.I became aware of it while my wife and I were perusing the shelves of the local Blockbuster and saw it next to the Nicolas Cage version.I had to see it (and no ,they would not sell it to me as a pvd ). As car movies go I liked it for the cars. I was less impressed with the originals story line and acting ability of the cast. Then again I wasn' there for the dialouge anyway. I was there for Elinore.(I'm a hard core Ford fanatic)As far as the driving ability displayed here I'd have to say that it is right in there with the other great car wreck movies such as Vanishing Point 1970 version(the newer version of Vanishing Point with B.H.90210's Jason Priestly is a waste of time and film,don't bother watching it), Blues Brothers 1 and 2,Smokey and the Bandit and Gone in 60 seconds with Nicolas Cage. When I was younger than I am now I bent the ocasional rule about only taking MY car out of the driveway and therefore identify with Cages role as Memphis Raines. I was in the life and got out with my a** intact. I did not like the premise of boosting cars shearly for profit.I was there for the car and never let harm come to any,and all were recoverd no worse for the wear. The newer version is a haunting memory for me and my youthful stupidity. The older one was just plain fun with an adreniline rush delivered mainline for a car crazy wrench turner and former street racer.BUY BOTH GONE IN 60 SECONDS original and remake period .You WILL love these movies. (Side note:Nicolas cage did all of his own stunt driving to include driving in reverse gear through a warehouse and on to the surface street in front of a semi wrecker.)
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Summary: Gone in Sixty Seconds (original)
Review: I thought that this movie was really good. The forty minute car chase in it was really funny.
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Summary: Five Star Car Stunts, Two Star Production Values
Review: Objectively speaking, this is not a very good film.The "acting" is mostly non-extant, and the dialogue sounds as if the film was shot "wild" and later post-dubbed. The plot meanders in several directions it didn't need to go. That said, fans of car-chases will get their money's worth with this one. As has been pretty much beaten to death in other reviews, the basic story involves a steal-to-order car-theft ring operating under the ideal dual "fronts" of a junkyard (Halicki's own "Mercantile and Junk Emporium", i'm sure -- seen in much more detail in his second film, "The Junkman [q.v.]) and a firm of insurance-adjustors. The opening half-hour or so is a sort of crash course in car theft methods, as the gang takes a comission to steal 48 specific cars by a certain deadline. As we all know, as the deadline approaches, only "Eleanor" -- a yellow 1973 Ford Mustang Mach One -- remains unaccounted for. And herein lies a joke that many, almost thirty years later, in a time when the Mch One is a "classic", may fail to get -- in 1974, yellow Mach Ones might not have been as common as VW Beetles, but they were probably more common than, oh, say, 1973 MGB-GTs... So here they are, having gotten all of the extics -- including Lyle Waggoner's personal Ferrari, for instance -- and they can't find an example that meets their criteria-for-theft of a car that, at the time, was so common you could count on seeing one or two a day in almost any city of any size. (There is a funny sequence with an ironic payoff when they THINK they've found the car they want, but have to put it back...) And, of course, when they DO find "Eleanor", the chase, literally, is on. Forty-odd minutes and 93 smashed cars later, Halicki puts the battered but still gamely-rolling Eleanor through one of the single most spectacular car stunts i have ever seen on film -- the flex and twist in the body as it lands after The Jump, captured in slow-motion, bear witness to the stress on both the car and the driver, as the tires spinand smoke as he battles for control. And, of course, the final gag in the car-wash is nicely ironic and funny. If nothing else, this film is a tribute and testimony to the power and durability of Seventies Detroit Big Iron -- though i usually prefer the subtlety of a European sports car, sometimes the only way to go is with the sledge-hammer unsubtlety of Cubic Inches and bags and bags of torque and oversteer. So much better than the Nick Cage in-name-only remake that there's not comparison. Too bad about the DVD "remastered" soundtrack, though ((SOmeone's suggestion that you find a cpy of the original mono VHS release and listen to that while watching the DVD sounds appropriately weird to me.)) "Toby" Halicki was killed on the set of the abortive production of "Gone in 60 Seconds II" in a freak, non-driving accident. Too bad; i'd love to have seen what he could have done with a little more experience and the bigger budgets he would probably have gotten as time went on. Highly recommended, even if it doesn't have the original soundtrack.
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Summary: WAY to long car chase
Review: the content of the movie such as the plot of stealing the cars, and they tricks they used to steal the cars is great.... the movie was really good, the only problem that i see with it is that the car chase was very very long, alot longer than it should have been. I mean yeah i know the car chase is a major part of the movie, but it could have been done in half the time and still have been as effective... i actually fell asleep half way through it... it was just way to long for me... i do reccomend this movie as a good watch- but if you dont have alot of time to sit through and extremely long car chase, then you shouldnt watch it... I have also seen the dvd version.... and the dvd has some pretty cool extras on it... if you like the vhs you should check out the dvd....
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Summary: the movie is great, but the dvd STINKS
Review: This is one of the all-time greatest car movies every made. the chase scenes are spectacular. Unlike some other reviewers, I found the plot plausible and intriguing. HOWEVER, the dvd RUINED this movie. Although the bonus features are great, they cheaped out and didn't include the original score. Instead of the funky 70s music that totally fit the mood (stuff) that I could have whipped up on my home pc in about 10 minutes. The missing songs and score totally ruined this otherwise terrific movie. You also get to see Halicki's widow insert herself all throughout the special features to the point of nausea. She even credits her own PARENTS with the making of the dvd! WTF???
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Summary: best car chase movie ever?
Review: Bullitt, the best car chase movie ever made? well gone in 60 seconds sure gives it a run for the money.If your a car buff then check this one out.
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Summary: Skip it!
Review: A stinker--lousy--terrible, unless you get your thrills stealing cars or imagining yourself stealing cars. Zero credibility anyway.
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Summary: I actually liked this film despite Cage being in it.
Review: The cars are as exotic as Angelina Jolie. Not a bad flick (for a remake anyway). The action combined with humor is quite entertaining. It's too bad that they had to cast Mr. No-acting skills himself as the lead. I find it hard to beleive this guy won an oscar. I wonder how much his original name (COPPOLA) had anything to do with it? Despite all of this, this isn't a bad film. Nice casting too, except the obvious leading role mistake.
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Summary: Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Review: Awesome a true classic. They just don't make car chase movies like this anymore. Much better than the Nicholas Cage version.
And those styles of the 70's, talk about retro.
And a nice touch is the intro at the beginning and the spin at the end in the Mach 1
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