Why cant Hollywood make a good car movie?

[shiro666]

I have tried to see the best stuff out there for car movies. Only a few recent ones:

Highwaymen: Starring Jim "Jesus" Cavezil. More of a suspense movie, but great car stuff.

Vanishing Point: THE BEST CAR MOVIE EVER. Brings more glory to white RT Challanger's then anything I could imagine. Great plot and acting. The remake from the 90's is awful.

The Driver: Classic chase movie from the 70's.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry: Non stop car excitement. Peter Fonda in his prime.

Fast Company: Tough to find, but great Funnycar movie. Highly Dubious, but you will enjoy.

Fast and the Furious: "He was in my face!" "well now i'm in your face!" Just kidding that was awful.

Go get 'em from netflix and you will be happy. Your wife/girlfriend/pet will look at you strangely for yelling at the tv.


-Nick

[svp]

I agree with you guys as well.....I am often commenting or yelling at the screen. I hated boyd's show...especially when they had a full quarter panel and cut it in half seeming it straight up over the wheel...I mean, come on! Also that Wrecks to Riches show....so many things to pick apart....like when they did the Marauder...painted the car and then AFTER paint they steam clean it to clean up the dirt and grease! Monster Garage with all the "FREEBIE" commentary. I did like Overhaulin......in the end though I have found that many people now seem to think that all shops can build an entire car in 7 days....they fail to realize the behind the scenes support and sheer number of people they used. No common sense among many today.

Dukes of Hazzard with the tire squealing on dirt constantly.

I have corrected more kids than I can remember about using the word "NAWS"

I hate what the 2nd Gone in 60 seconds has done....nearly everyone now looks at a 67 Shelby and calls it an "Eleanor" and I have yelled at a couple of people who looked at my '67 in the corner of the shop and said "Are you going to build an Eleanor?" The color combo and the wheels are what made that car....I can't stand the skateboard ramp hood bulge and the faux fuel door on the side of the car.

Knight Rider....I can't see how ANYONE thinks this is a good show....I saw 30 minutes of the first episode and that is 30 minutes of my life I will never get back!

Anyone remember the Auto Fix it show called "Shade Tree Mechanic"....I always found it funny that despite the name of the show they always had the latest and greatest in gadgets and $30K worth of tools and tool box in the corner. Finally they changed the name but if you are going to call a show "Shade Tree mechanic" then you better have an oak tree in the back yard with a chain fall on it!

As for the part that reality isn't interesting....I disagree or maybe I am the only one that feels this way but watching vintage Trans Am Racing is enjoyable to me....that is real and not some CGI exaggerated stuff.

There can be movies made that entertain but have realistic values with the cars and actions....unfortunately I suspect that many of these that make the films just have no credible technical advisers or maybe no desire at all to have such.

[Orng Crsh]

Does anyone remember a movie from the 80s entitled "King of the Hill?" Granted it's been 20 years since I've seen it, but, as I recall, it had some pretty good car scenes. Harry Hamlin played a mechanic who worked at a Porsche shop owned by Dan "Grizzly Adams" Haggerty. On the weekends, Hamlin would race people down Mulholland in his modified Porsche spyder. The climax was when he raced Dennis Hopper at the end in a primered mid-sixties Vette. Hopper had a stopwatch taped to his rearview mirror. As I recall the racing action was filmed pretty well.

[rwhite692]

The most hilarious thing I have seen in a car movie is that scene in "Fast and the Furious" where the black charger is supposed to be doing a wheelstand with rear tires spinning, smoke pouring out the wheelwells at the same time...The producers needed a little help to overcome the laws of physics, LOL....

[countryboy]

I'm with you fellers,(oops aint that a movie quote). I just got the original gone in 60 sec, loved it. I wanted to go off on them at the theater when i watched f&f 2 at that jump scene. Had a buddy and the ole lady with me trying to calm me down. I felt sorry for them! lol

hey V8TV hows your deal going, seen you at the frog follies and lookin for an update.

BTW I sell nitrous and when that noss crap started it was a nightmare. I just wanted to strangle those morons. And they thought it went on everything from hondas to geos!

[jst8a5.0]

Who wants a part in a Lat-g movie? I already called the position for studly actor that does all his own stunts.

[terryr]

The Transformers? You say it has inaccurate car lingo? A show about cars that turn into giant robots? Most of the ones you mention are kids shows.

Ronin, Bullitt, Mad Max, Road Warrior, American Graffiti. And the Blues Brothers too. Some crazy stuff there, but hey, "they're on a mission from God".

[Rob07002]

Originally Posted by the68project

We were watching the Transformers movie the other night, and when the yellow Camaro quits on the kid, the girl jumps out, pops the hood and says something intelligent like "wow, a high rise double pump carb" while the engine bay showed a fuel injection set up.

Let's just get something straight right now... Megan Fox can say whatever she wants

[Bandit Ls-1]

this is because no one in hollwood that writes this stuff has ever actually gotten dirty turning wrenches on a car in their lives.

but i must say transformers was a very very good movie, and in defense when the chick pops the hood to fix it and explains what parts r on the motor the real motor that was in the car actually has a high rise with a double pumper not that fancy individual throttle body set up and the smoothed out firewall so im sure they added that after just to make the car apear kooler.

[s10kool]

Well lets start a good car movie collection list:

Vanishing Point
Bullit
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Gone in 60 Seconds
Two Lane Black Top
American Graffiti
Blues Brothers
Road Warrior
Ronin
King of the Hill
Corvette Summer
Fast Company
The Driver
Highwayman
French Connection
Rockford Files
Heart like Wheel
Grand Prix
Shirley Muldowney Story
Bourne Identity and seq.
F&F Tokyo