Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Um...No.



Entertainment Weekly has produced a list of the top 10 car chase scenes. Here's their list...

10 - Terminator 2

9 - Charlie's Angels

8 - Death Race 2000

7 - Blues Brothers

6 - Thelma and Louise

5 - Man with the Golden Gun

4 - Road Warrior

3 - Ronin

2 - Bullitt

1 - French Connection

Any car chase fan should agree that putting Bullitt at number 2 completely discredits this list right out of the gate...



And putting it under French Connection only compounds the stupidity. Thelma and Louise? Please. Death Race 2000? Totally fun movie, but the vehicle action is strickly grade B...



I haven't seen Charlie's Angels so I can't comment. And Bond chases are always fun, but they tend to be a bit ponderous, lacking that adrenalin releasing kineticism of the great chases.

Including Ronin is a classy move...



Directed by old school master John Frankenheimer it's great to watch some super intense car chasin' done without computer generated FX - relying totally on...real cars going real fast.



Featuring Robert Deniro, Jean Reno, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce, you can find Ronin on DVD under $10 pretty easily. Well worth it - Frankenheimer even treats Katarina Witt the way you always wanted to...



French Connection is a decent chase scene, you just can't put it in above Bullitt. Road Warrior is a solid choice and so is Terminator 2. Indeed, all three Terminator movies have great chase sequences...



I guess we should include Blues Brothers as well just for sheer volume and audaciousness. So what might I add to the list...

Whatever you may think of Terminator 3, the chase sequence with the crane is pretty darn good. Bourne Supremacy also has a terrific chase in Moscow...



You can't talk about car chases without bringing up Indiana Jones - and I'm thinking the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark just edges out the tank sequence in Last Crusade but I could be persuaded otherwise...



We haven't even gotten into the whole silent film era when they used real cars and real trains and real planes for the stunts. There's got to be some great chases I'm not thinking of. Whadda you think?



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