Anybody watched the Shadow? I am only 15 minutes into it and have already seen more perfectly restored Iron than I have ever seen in any movie. They must have borrowed cars all over the Country for this movie.
Yeah, just wait until you see the GIGANTIC NIXIE TUBES they used in the "Atomic Bomb". I've been trying to find enough of the "Godzilla Nixies" to build a clock for years. The Cord Taxi is - of course - a fake. I still like the Untouchables for the huge number of Model A sedans and phaetons that the cops use. "Chinatown" for prewar and the lesser seen "The Two Jakes" for post war cars. Jack had it ON! La Confidential - though a great movie - just didn't quite get the car thing right except for Pierce's garage. And the Warren Beatty "Bugsy" had the trappings of California style wealth down pat - cars, clothes, address. Sometimes Hollywood comes through. Don't get me started on movies....
I have never seen the shadow, but this post reminds me of something that irks me bad.... PERFECTLY restored cars in movies. Its cool to watch (don't get me wrong)...ANY old car in any movie gets me going... BUT PERFECTLY restored cars driving around in lets say a depression era flick....What a joke! The cars back then looked like the cars nowdays. BEAT to shit. Go down to the local Wal mart and take a GOOD look at the cars...beat up and DIRTY. You will see maybe one or two clean and perfectly new looking cars. Sorry bout the rant. Oh, a cool car flick that I recently watched was COBB. About Ty Cobb the famous early baseball player. It was made a while back, but it has a few cool car scenes in it. DAMN COBB was hell on his vehicle in that flick..... JT.
"Is that the mid-nineties one with the purple superhero guy?" Not sure when it came out. I haven't seen anything newer than a '40 Ford yet. Alec Baldwin plays the Shadow, Peter Boyle and Ian McKellen are in it too. Speaking of which, did you all know Ian McKellen is Homosexual? I didn't hear about that until just a few days ago. I never would have guessed it...
Von Tingler - Hollywood has been getting better at that. Good rule of thumb is: If it's being filmed on a set - over-restored cars are used. If it's being fieled at a location - the budget is better and they can usually afford to buy and modify their own cars to make them more real. Look at Bonnie and Clyde, Beatty again, and at the Costner flick "A Perfect World". Both are period movies with a very realistic selection of cars that look like what really drove around at the time. Hell - even "Getaway" - the original one - had a cast of very boring and perfectly realistic cars. Look at movies done at the time that are portraying what was hot -at that time-. Gumball Rally and the original Thomas Crown Affair both show some cars that we think are second tier today, but were hot-hot-hot at the time.
That Tom Hanks one... Road to Peridition(sp?) did a good job of that as well, having not perfectly resorted cars... hell, even Hanks and his kid in the movie paint an old Ford with brushes.
[ QUOTE ] ...did you all know Ian McKellen is Homosexual? I didn't hear about that until just a few days ago. I never would have guessed it... [/ QUOTE ] You don't watch night time talk shows do you?!? Ian isnt just gay, he's openly gay. He even joked on the Kilborn show, (or was it Letterman?) about how his boyfriend stripped his lord of the rings action figure nude, did something unmentionable to it's privates and hung it on their Xmas tree during a party. Big deal. there's 3000 pople registered on this board. The Kinsey report done bck in the "traditional years said 10% are gay or bi you do the math. No, I'm in the 90%, thank you, but I live in tinsel town, ya just go with the flow here.
"ya just go with the flow here" There aren't very many that let it be known that they are Gay in Rural Missouri. Doesn't bother me, each to his own... I kinda like Lesbians though, i keep telling my wife she needs to turn "Bi", no luck so far...
"Road to Perdition" was a pretty good flick. "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" Has some great car scenes in it too. I can't quite remember how "realistic" the cars were in that one, but I do remember they were plenty dirty and the movie had a very authentic feel to it. The scene where the cops were chasing Babyface Nelson and hit that cow is friggen viscious!... I would like to know how they pulled that scene off. I assume digital special effects, but DAMN it looked real. "Cows,....I HATE cows worse than coppers!!!" JT.
Watch "Herbie the Love Bug" sometime...lots of cool vintage Trans Am racers and street cars in nearly every scene...kinda cool for a Disney flick!
"Oh Brother Where Art Thou" Thats a hell of a good movie. My kids love it too, unfortunately they have scratched the DVD up so bad its unwatchable. Guess i'll have to buy it again... That Cow scene is some of the best effects i have ever seen. i have watched it frame by frame, and you still can't tell what they did. I wonder if they had a Dead cow propped up in the Road?
there's a movie called "fried green tomatoes" that has some real cool period correct car stuff.storys about some ol women reminising about her past,alot of flashback stuff,and yes the cars are even "whupped"lookin like they should be kinda cool,i find myself sittin through most of it when it's on.
Fried Green Tomatoes RULED!!! Oh shit...did I just say that out loud??? "I don't understand that....he won't sit down and eat a meal with a black man, but he'll eat eggs. Hmmmpphh...don't he know an egg shoots straight out a chicken's ass?" That movie cracked me up...an instant classic! Dealt with poverty, racism, death, corruption and freedom of spirit! Damn...I sound like a movie critic!
Last Man Standing is a cool movie. Oh yeah, FYI...Mad Max 4 starts shooting in the spring. A pal who I did stunts cars with is working on it. They were supposed to start last May but Mel wouldn't sign. $100 million budget... Stay tuned!
Grapes of Wrath had realistic cars in it. Lots of the fifties B hot rod movies had realistic cars on the street. I hate when you watch a fifties movie and every car that passes is a Nomad or Crown Vicky or convert of some sort decked to the nines with accessories. Or a whole street of perfectly restored cars, none of them 4-doors, and pickups with lots of accessories and whitewalls. Ruins it for me, I know it is just a movie. Hard to get into it if it isn't realistic. Or another pet peeve is 50's hot rods with newer mags or thin whitewalls or stuff that hadn't been invented yet. Or my all time favorite, a nice convert 50's car going over a cliff that miraculously changes to a 4-door 59 plymouth in mid air. How do they do that?
i even looked back at an ol post,has anyone mentioned "the california kid" with martin sheen,or is that jus plain obvious! the Reverand
"Born on the 4th of July" With Tom Cruise.... I was watching it and there is a scene where the camera pans through some yards and yuo see a mint old school rod. Looks like its in grey primer, salt flats....lowered and lookin pretty... plus the whole whack of other "restored" cars... wicked movie....
And ohh yes... a great movie with J Lo in it. "My Familia" Kick ass movie with a super mint ride in it.. i won;t even ruin it for you guys..... plus theres mint daily 64 Buick in it... damn.. ima go watch it now hehehe
[ QUOTE ] "ya just go with the flow here" There aren't very many that let it be known that they are Gay in Rural Missouri. Doesn't bother me, each to his own... I kinda like Lesbains though, i keep telling my wife she needs to turn "Bi" [/ QUOTE ] maybe that tells more about the community then that there arent alot of gay people there? ;P , ah well anyhow streets of fire has some cool cars in it , even though the music feels to modern in that movie... there is a custom merc convert that the lead character steals and drives alot with in the movie... one cool movie with old cars, was dark city, but that is a wierd horror movie so first i saw like an ford 50 driving around and then i belive there was alot of mid 70ies cars etc, but its generally dark in that movie so not really something to watch for the cars.... if you like prewar harleys there is a movie called born to ride ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101501/ ) with actor John Stamos who played in fullhouse haha anyhow quite decent movie in the early 40ies with hopedup harleys etc... not really a car movie at all but there is one scene in deliverance i remember (no nothing about no pigs!) when they drive to the river before they play off with the banjo and everything wasnt there like alot of old chevy pickups standing at one house, and didnt the hillbiillys drive an old chevy pickup aswell?
hay sean what about loving you , elvis i know it a litte old for you . but i had a roadster like that i drove to school....
I guess everybody knows about THE GIANT GILA MONSTER. Staring a 32roadster and co-starring a 5-w, Av8 roadster and 40 ford. Super.Got it on e-gay with Elvira for $5
didn't the giant gila monster have a wicked T or A rpu in it, with suicide front end, channelled to the basement? i saw it, the mystery science theater 3000 version, a while ago, i can't remember. the kid WOULD have to crash his car headlong into the freakin gila monster though. another couple of movies where cars are realistically dirty are "this boy's life" with deniro, and a fairly recent one where brendan frasier plays a jewish working class kid from a steel town that goes to an uppity up W.A.S.P. new england school. the cars in both are filthy, reflecting the crap they ahd to drive through. i can only imagine the little town around here where my mom grew up. right next to a cement plant. i guess they had to wash their cars with lime-away or something to take the lime off. that cement dust ate the hell out of paint too. i can't imagine the cleaner was any easier.
Eddie Murphy's blue Nova in the first Beverly Hills Cop movie was pretty typical of what a Detroit beater looked like back then...looked TOTALLY out of place in California...adding some credibility to the car! Joe Dirt's 69 Daytona was actually a very nicely restored Plum Crazy Purple Charger R/T covered with paint weathering (fake patina!) over thrown-on nose and wing pieces. Like a typical Mopar with a Torqueflite...the tranny fried while filming the movie (gotta adjust those TV cables right to even have a prayer!!). The old clunker Matt Damon drove in Good Will Hunting, the old Chevy Travolta's buddies drove in Saturday Night Fever, DeNiro's Caddy in The Deer Hunter, and Queen Latifa's old beater Chevy in Set It Off were all pretty convincing, too. Oh yeah, and John Cusack's LTD wagon in Better Off Dead...with the tailpipe dragging on the ground the whole time...PERFECT example of what a typical suburban teen might be driving in 1985 while his Camaro sat dead on the front lawn!
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