How stupid was the RC Car Chase?
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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!
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c-huddleston — 15 years ago(July 31, 2010 10:18 PM)
The more I think about it the less I think the OP (and some others of us) actually got it
Clint was playing games with us in this one, finishing off the franchise with something that took the rise out of Dirty Harry just a little and played out the themes or action sequences from the other movies in the franchise.
The RC car chase is just one example:
We have a total psycho serial killer a la Dirty Harry (and questionably in Sudden Impact) as the main bad guy.
We have a car chase with a bomb involved a la Magnum Force.
Harry survives against people with machine pistols and takes them all out pretty much without a scratch - The Enforcer
Harry gets a bigger gun (harpoon gun) - Sudden Impact (auto-mag) and Enforcer (LAWS rocket).
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diddymuck — 15 years ago(September 10, 2010 08:46 PM)
completely goofy. As if they wanted to lighten the flickhowever, this is a Dirty Harry movie. The name of the topic is vengeance and justice for crimes too insane to contemplate. Being comedic is both unnerving and off the regular track of the rest of the series.
Besides how much explosives can a model car carry, anyway? Why didn't bad guy just attach a bomb to the underside of Harry's car and hit a button while he peeled out?
But definitely a different, funny and exciting SF car chase.