How stupid was the RC Car Chase?
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c-huddleston — 18 years ago(September 09, 2007 10:13 PM)
Funny isn't it?
We all (I include myself) find the RC Car chase far fetched.
But then we swallow so much implausibility in action movies without batting an eyelid!
Maybe we need to remember to put our brains in "Park" (neutral for those with manual gear change) mode before watching an action movie. -
jack-upland — 13 years ago(January 19, 2013 07:25 PM)
I find it hard to believe a toy car could match a real car for speed over that distance. Also, the villain is driving his own car at speed while at the same time controlling the toy car over terrain he can't see. And when the toy car takes the pavement, it never hits anyone or anything and people just jump out of the way, rather than stopping it.
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transmentalist — 18 years ago(November 30, 2007 04:39 PM)
How'd they wind up in the alley? I forgot. Was it Harry's intent to dead-end themselves and force the killer's hand? Seems odd that an experienced cop would let himself get boxed in by accident in his own city.
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jamasian_man — 18 years ago(February 04, 2008 12:09 PM)
You're all wrong. It was obvious that the Lilliputians had harry's name on their Dead Pool list and wanted him out. They were gonna get him kamikaze style.
Harry's partners
Dirty Harry - latino and white
Magnum Force - black
The Enforcer - white and woman
Sudden Impact - none
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tehck — 9 years ago(September 13, 2016 11:08 AM)
Harry does have a partner in Sudden Impact Horace (played by Albert Popwell, who appeared in every DH film before this one, as Mustapha, Bradford Dilman's "black militant" in the Enforcer, as the pimp with the Drano can in Magnum Force, and as the first "do you feel lucky, punk" bank robber in Dirty Harry). But in Sudden Impact Harry is suspended from the SFPD and goes to Carmel on vacation where he runs into Sondra Locke's revenge play. So he has Horace meet him at a gun range there (I can't remember if he's there testing the .45 auto or if Horace brings it to him). The scene is played for suspense with Horace being made to look like a bad guy sneaking up on Harry until Harry wheels and draws down on him before realizing who he is. Soon after, the evil rape-gang murders Horace, which upsets Harry . . . until he sees that they have also injured his bulldog, and then he really gets peesed.
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zerodegreesk — 17 years ago(April 29, 2008 07:38 AM)
I don't see why they didn't just get out of the car when they turned that last corner and were blocked by the semi-trailer. They could've just got out and ran away. What difference would it have made? They still wouldn't have known who was after them.
Really, the most ridiculous thing was that the bad guy could drive the car AND the RC car at the same time, avoiding accidents for both vehicles. I mean, when the RC car was on the sidewalk and all the people were jumping out of the way, I was laughing my ass off. Why were they scared of an RC car?!? They didn't know it was full of explosives! All it had to do was run into a table leg or a lamp post or a person's foot who wasn't paying attention and the chase was over. Sort of ridiculous to me and utterly forgettable. -
djensen1 — 17 years ago(June 14, 2008 07:02 PM)
I recall thinking it was pretty dumb at the time I saw it in the theater, and I think I even knew that it was a direct parody of the chase in Bullitt, long hailed as the greatest chase on film.
Of course, I also thought that the Jim-Carrey-as-Axl-Rose opening was pretty stupid. I quickly wrote the film off as a clumsy self-parody of the earlier Dirty Harry movies. -
WarpedRecord — 16 years ago(February 07, 2010 10:38 PM)
I thought it was a "Bullitt" parody as well. Frankly, scenes of San Francisco car chases have gotten very old after all the imitations, but this film puts a fresh, inventive and humorous spin on it. I loved those sequences.