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Summary: An action movie that has no equal!
Review: Although this movie may not be favoured upon by your top-notch reviewers such as Leonard Maltin, Gone in 60 Seconds is a riveting tale of action-packed drama and excitement, made by first-time director H.B. Halicki, who also wrote, produced, and starred in the movie as Maindrian Pace, a professional car-thief whose front is insurance investigation, and his job is stealing cars. In order to complete a new contract, Pace and his gang have to steal and switch over 40 cars in a week. All of them are easy, that is, except for the last: Eleanor - a '73 Ford Mustang that takes you on the most fantastic car chase ever! After his boss double-crosses Pace, a 40-minute demoltion derby evolves with 93 cars being destroyed and Pace using the most hair-raising tactics to outrun the endless number of police. The chase ends in a spectacular 128-foot jump through the air as Pace escapes the overwhelming number of police pursuing him. This movie is what started the car-chase epic and features some of the most exotic and luxurious cars ever made. If you want action, then you want Gone in 60 Seconds. It's a smash!
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Summary: Decided never to watch it ever again in under 0.60 second's
Review: This movie is terrible. It reminded me of the bad acting you see in a pron movie, I kept expecting the twangy music to start playing and people to start striiping off and getting it on! Thats how great there acting is!I suppose if your a car lover, which im not, then this movie would be of intrest, but to me, it was a porno movie without any nudity! It was shockingly bad acting! The remake might have had better actors and a plot, but even that one didnt intrest me. If your into cars and like to see them on screen going fast? then youll probably love the movie, if your like me and thats not your fancey, then youll agree with this.
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Summary: greatest car chase ever!!!
Review: Just sit back and let H.B. Halicki entertain you. this gives all car chase's a standard to live up to. and the Extras are very interesting as well. this just goes to show that holywood is out of ideas and tried to atempt to remake a trend setter with a big name actor and failed. do yourself a favor and watch this the " origanal"
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Summary: Decided never to watch it ever again in under 0.60 second's
Review: This movie is terrible. It reminded me of the bad acting you see in a porno movie, I kept expecting the twangy music to start playing and people to start striiping off and getting it on! Thats how great there acting is! I suppose if your a car lover, which im not, then this movie would be of intrest, but to me, it was a porno movie without any nudity! It was shockingly bad acting! The remake might have had better actors and a plot, but even that one didnt intrest me. If your into cars and like to see them on screen going fast? then youll probably love the movie, if your like me and thats not your fancey, then youll agree with this.
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Summary: See it for the chase
Review: "Gone in 60 Seconds" stands as the greatest car chase film of the 1970s, a film with an even greater reputation than the first "Smokey and the Bandit" movie. It's lengthy chase scene--clocking in at an astonishing forty plus minutes--at the end of the film trumps every other automobile chase ever put to celluloid in the history of cinema. The movie even succumbed to remakeitis a few years ago when they put Nicholas Cage and Angelina Jolie in front of a camera for a big budget reworking called, not surprisingly, "Gone in 60 Seconds." While I haven't seen the remake (I heard the title referred to the time it took filmgoers to leave the theater), I did recently rewatch this classic of yesteryear on DVD. I had great memories of this film ever since I watched it on cable some twenty years ago. Sadly, this film is yet another example of an experience best left to memory. "Gone in 60 Seconds" is such a turgid film in nearly every aspect that I truly wished I hadn't rented it. But I can tell you right from the start that I'm going to take it easy on H.B. Halicki's classic picture. As bad as most of the movie is, you can tell the guy had his heart in the right place. He just didn't possess the skills to put it on film.
The idea behind the film is a great one. Maindrian Pace (Halicki) works as a respected insurance crash investigator by day, but in his off hours he and several of his pals run a profitable auto theft ring. We learn early on that Pace accepts a contract to procure a set number of cars (forty-eight to be exact) in a short period of time. It's a tough contract, almost impossible to fulfill in fact, but Pace is just the arrogant sort of chap who thinks nothing can stop him. The first half of the film is an agonizing nightmare to watch, even for the diehard B-movie aficionado. Forget about acting, a script, proficient cinematography, or tight pacing during this part of the movie. It doesn't exist. Not anywhere. I looked every place I could think of for some sign of competence--under the couch, behind the television set, on the back of the DVD case, even in my sock drawer. Nada. Zilch. Doughnut. Oh, you get a few scenes of the lads yucking it up in their quest to find the different types of cars they must steal. For example, one of them swipes a vehicle only to discover a live tiger in the backseat. Another car brought into the shop turns out to have a huge quantity of narcotics in the trunk, but Pace burns the stuff since he's basically a decent thief at heart. Now that I think of it, he refuses to steal uninsured cars.
Your best bet is to ignore the pap that constitutes the first half of the film and skip straight to the car chase. It starts off slowly when Pace finally secures Eleanor, a 1973 yellow Mach 1 Ford Mustang that is the last car on his list. Unfortunately, the cops caught a whiff of what was going on and spotted Maindrian zooming off in the car. Thus begins the chase, which winds its way through several areas around Los Angeles, through dirt fields, down city streets, across freeways, and over any piece of earth that will support a vehicle. The first half of the chase is rather slow when you compare it to what we see in films today, but once it picks up the pace the movie is quite an enjoyable ride. Billions of cops join the pursuit, Pace turns some ninety cars into mashed masses of metal, and the beloved Eleanor looks like someone hit it with a wrecking crane by the time the whole thing rolls to a stop. I experienced some frustration watching the chase, though. I remembered it being a rollercoaster ride of non-stop car crashes, which it definitely isn't. Then again, I viewed this film back in the days before intricate special effects and fast editing techniques became the norm in Hollywood. Too bad Halicki perished in an automobile accident a few years later; I would love to see what he could do with today's technology.
The extras on the DVD are extensive, although not particularly crucial to the enjoyment of the car chase. This disc is the Special Edition super duper ultimate enchilada version (guacamole optional), so you get a commentary track from the cinematographer and the editor, an introduction to the proceedings from Halicki's widow Denise, a bunch of stills, a 510 second summary of the film, a trio of deleted scenes, and even a look at the original Eleanor Halicki used in the making of the film. There are also four interviews, with Lee Iacocca, Bobby Orr, Parnelli Jones, and J.C. Agajanian, Jr. All four men discuss automobiles, the movie, and their memories of H.B. Halicki. Iacocca's observations about the film are the best because he expresses astonishment that anyone would treat cars in such a manner and still get them to run. You even get a couple of trailers for this film and one called "The Junkman."
While I thought "Gone in 60 Seconds" was a tremendous letdown in most respects, I still recommend the film to low budget cinema fans. Halicki's labor of love inspired countless imitators in the 1970s, most of whom failed to achieve anything near to what we see in this movie. Epochal in its importance to the crash 'em, smash 'em genre and incompetent in virtually everything else, "Gone in 60 Seconds" is nonetheless a movie worth watching once for no other reason than to say you've seen it.
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Summary: Eh.
Review: Not a great film. Not a prompt to make the toilet your friend either. If you need intellectual stimulation of some sort, you'll hate it. But if you like cars, it's not bad to have in the background while you work from home in your pajamas.
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Summary: Gone in 60 Seconds - Re-issue comments
Review: This DVD is a great reissue of the original movie. The widescreen feature is a nice touch, as well as the digital re-mastering of the video. Very nice job! My only negative comments are the lack of the original soundtrack, featuring songs by Phil Kachaturian. A sort of B-grade "suspense" background track was added, which sort of reminds you of the cheesey old karate movies. Sadly, an important dimension was lost from the film by deleting the original music, especially in the scene with Pumpkin in the office alone, waiting for her man to return..(check out the original movie to compare..). The commentary feature is nice and full of cool trivia, but it too fails to mention anything about the original songs. Another bit of information that would have been a great addition, would have been current interviews with the old cast members, as a sort of follow-up as to their current where-abouts. Other than those few points, the movie is great and a trip down memory lane. Enjoy!
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