So I watched Bullit Tonight!

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My comment on the sound track was for Two Lane Blacktop, and was a joke, because there is no music.

After watching Bullit you can tell by the exhaust note, there’s definitely small block and big block mustangs.
 
Cheapsunglasses said:
Mustangs were always plagued with a poor suspension design.
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My favorite part in Bullitt is the reverse wheel hop burnout and the one legged burnouts in the Mustang.
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missing linc said:
The French Connection had a wild chase in it as well, and it actually had a pretty solid script too.
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Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?
 
Glad to see "French Connection" mentioned.

Always been one of my favorite car chases.

Just have to get past that they are pontiacs.....and 4 doors.
 
YY1 said:
Glad to see "French Connection" mentioned.

Always been one of my favorite car chases.

Just have to get past that they are pontiacs.....and 4 doors.
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I remember the Mad Magazine parody "What's The Connection?" Accepted reading for an eleven year old fifty years ago sort of startled me seeing it today. Context is important.
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harrisonm said:
I watched Bullit this evening. It DOES have one of the best car chase scenes in history. However, I told my wife that this time I was actually going to watch the movie; not just focus on the chase scene (which, by the way, lasts 6 minutes and 50 seconds and the charger loses 6 hubcaps). So, for the first time, I actually focused on the movie's plot. I came to the conclusion that without the chase scene (and Steve McQueen), the movie kind of stinks. Think about it. Not much of a plot. I don't want to ruffle any feathers, but I really did give the movie an honest chance.
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What station?
 
Cheapsunglasses said:
I think I heard a story, it was either the Mustang or the Charger, ripped the oil pan, and because it was a pre production car they couldn’t get a replacement quick enough. So McQueen pulled the pan and welded it up. I can’t remember where I read it, but if it’s true, that’s what made him so cool
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He did some crazy crap. Think he did alot of stunts in The Great Escape. The guy Rode Hard Man! He was a bike and car guy fo' sho'!
 
And in case you didn't know- "Car-Toons" has been resurrected.

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I don't think it has been mentioned...but... Bill Hickman (Driver of the Charger) was also in The French Connection... He also staged the car chase for that movie as well!!
 
Tsully said:
I don't think it has been mentioned...but... Bill Hickman (Driver of the Charger) was also in The French Connection... He also staged the car chase for that movie as well!!
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Yes! He plays the FBI agent that is killed at the end by Gene Hackman's character Popeye Doyle. Doyle's character was based on Eddie Egan, a NYC policeman who played a senior NYC officer in the movie. Strange casting, but adds realism. Sort of like Jim Garrison playing a character in JFK.
 
How bout “Striking Distance” ?
Or another Pixburgh movie….
Innocent Blood, they go in the Fort Pitt Tunnel and come out the Liberty Tubes.

:lol:
 
abodyjoe said:
lol. watching that now. what a stupid *** movie.

bullet was bad. chase scene is just meh. guess back then it was awesome.

vanishing point was horrible too.

guess it was the best they could do back then.
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so i just watched Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry the other night. my god is the acting bad in all these old movies..lol
 
I agree on the bad acting. One of my favorite movies is Easy Rider. The music and the movie are great, but the acting is mediocre.
 
harrisonm said:
I agree on the bad acting. One of my favorite movies is Easy Rider. The music and the movie are great, but the acting is mediocre.
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Jack Nicholson had by far the best acting performance in that movie.
I have the soundtrack LP. I've had it a long time. I'm not sure where I got it, but it was used.
 
abodyjoe said:
so i just watched Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry the other night. my god is the acting bad in all these old movies..lol
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You have to understand that people were different then.
I thought that the acting in DMCL and Vanishing Point were great. The people were genuine. I have known people that act and talked that way. You haven't ?
Gone in 60 seconds though....holy crap.....the production values of the film were terrible but the stunts and chase scenes were great.
 
I watched a doco on the filming of Bullitt; they interviewed the cameraman who sat [ unseen] in the back seat behind McQueen. Poor bastard was scared out of his wits with Mcs driving, thought they were going to die.
So he said to Mc, hoping he would stop, 'We are out of film'.
To which Mc replied: ' That's nothing. We're outta brakes...
 


You’d have to be from the Burgh to notice to notice the goofs. Drive up the hill to Mount Washington, come down in Duquesne and make the left in West Homestead.
 
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