How stupid was the RC Car Chase?
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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.
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MierdaDeToro — 13 years ago(September 25, 2012 07:07 PM)
Totally hilarious! A 4-door Oldsmobile chased by a little black Corvette chased by a Monte Carloyou gotta love it. Especially when the little Corvette spins out and hits a curb, then gets back up and pops a wheelie down the road. Classic.
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ex-files — 17 years ago(August 12, 2008 03:19 PM)
are you serious- i thought that was just Awesome, As i built an exact replica of that black stingray vette team associated rc10- except i did not blow it up just put up in a display case - heck even my wife thinks its hot!! i mean come on - while i will grant the story line may not have been excellent it was not bad not too mention you get a legend in movies such as Clint Eastwood, lots of guns blazin, some cool lines, a bit of romance, and one of the greatest car scenes in history that involves a remote control car - talk about Fun!