just watched the bullit car chase on amc network.I dont care if the 2 stonefaced dudes charger lost 16 hubcaps or the same vw was in 18 shots,the scenes still give me goosebumps and ive seen it at least 40 times.great movie
It is one bitchin car chase. The sense of speed when the charger leaves the road and hits the gas station is truly amazing. The wheel hopping reverse burnout in the mustang is too dam cool too.
I just like how it's calm....... calm........ calm....... calm........ VVRRROOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like the car chase in the movie as well as the next guy but the way he shifts that mustang is not my favorite sound.
Yep, it won't ever be beat...if I had that charger I would pay some homeless guy to ride around in the back seat pointing a shotgun at people as I drove at breakneck speed through traffic!!! That would freakin' rule!!
one of my buddys had a brown GRANADA another had a black DUSTER we would reinact the chase on the hills of pittsburgh
Yep, coolest car chase sequence ever. Is it me or was the actor that was the Mob wheel man in the Charger the same actor that played the wheel man for the bad guys in Seven-Ups? I realise the car chase in that movie pales in comparison, but, I remember thinking it was the same guy.
I saw that movie in Kuala Lumpur Malasia with a girl named Suzie...yeah Suzie... (weren't they all named Suzie?) on R&R from Viet Nam. You would have to have been there to understand how cool that chase scene was to a hot rodder stuck in S.E. Asia. Almost exactly 39 years ago. They celebrated Tet while I was there. And yes I did notice how many hub caps came off. It's a personal character flaw.
Those little flaws in movies help give it character, kind of like the "Ever-clean" paint on Bandits trans-am
I agree, that movie is the reason my first car was a 70 charger. Still like when Steve throws the stang in reverse and boils the rubber off, wheel hop and all, cool movie indeed.
That's why I like DVD. You can go right to the chase chapter, crank the volume and let the cars do the talkin.
I saw that movie at a drive-in in my 4 speed Camaro in 1968 with a six pack and a blonde round-eye(Tommy knows what that is). The ride home sounded like the sound track.
THIS is why i bought a mustang in high school! Anyone who has ever had one finds out pretty quickly they are not the best made cars. Friggin thing tried to kill me no less than four times. Being a new driver at the time it did give me good experience. for instance, what happens when the left front brake drum explodes when you try stopping. how many hedge post it takes to push a radiator back past the distributor. 6 to be exact. oh and ahh yes, the experience of what it means when the worm gear jumps in the steering box... on a curve! so i get a little more excitement when i watch the chase because i know how many bolts hold on the entire front end of that car. that my friends is excitement. I love it! i watch it no less than once a month.
Thanks, Muttley.... How much storage does your computer have ? I couldnt even fit your hard drive in my shop I'll bet.
Great movie-I have it here at the office and will watch it again today-am on a McQueen streak right now. Did you notice the Charger misses the gas pumps and comes out behind the station during the explosion?
Years ago.....My buddies and a my brother and I were out crusin' around in my Charger, a '68 R/T. It was cool summer evening and all the kids (us too) were out. We were going up Meridian (4 lane) to South Hill (NW guys know it). At the stoplight at the bottom, a '67-'72 Chevy pickup with a couple of guys in it pull up and start revvin' their engine.....not one to back down from a "race", we proceed to blow their doors off up the hill. We slowed near the top and when the pickup pulled up along side, one of the guys pulled out a Super Soaker and started shooting us with water.....our windows were down so a freind in the backseat thought it'd be funny to pull the shotgun I carried out from under the seat and stick it out the window..... I'd never seen a truck stop that fast......hahahaha.... Later, when we pulled into Taco Bell, the truck pulled in as well and the guys asked us "what the hell was that? A shotgun?"....uh...."no, it's just a broomstick covered in electrical tape"....hahaha.... Things were all good and we all had tacos..... Ah....the crazy shit kids do.......
This movie changed movies for all time. When it came out in the theater, I had never seen anything like it. The pacing of the movie is especially interesting. For me, much of the the allure of the film boils down to the moment the guy in the Charger buckles his seat belt......time stands still......then all hell breaks loose. Earlier there's a similar moment when the cop guarding the snitch in the motel room notices the door is inconceivably unlocked......just before the bad guys bust throught shooting. The cadence of the movie is a big part of its magic. Beyond that, it's made me a lifelong fan of green mustangs and black chargers, and I absolutely love the way Frank Bullitt is so sure of his ability to do his job that he doesn't take any crap off the Man From Uncle.
Thank God for external hard drives...I have a 500 gig and a 320 gig. All of my DVDs get backed up on it.Any time I want to check out a scene I just point and click!
I love it when the bad guys loose him,then he appears in the rear view mirror. Before the chase starts.
That's funny, I've done a couple 360's through an intersection in my buddy's 69 Charger. Neatly sandwitched it between a light pole and a fire plug. Left front brake gave up the ghost. My friend turned around and said: "nice parking job, eh guys?". Hahah! But yeah, I'd be lying if I didn't say that Bullitt plays a small part in why I've had this for the last dozen or so years:
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