Just saw thr original Gone in 60 Seconds

I like both movies alot for the chase scenes. I lived in San Francisco and always expected a 68 fastback to come flying past me about 5 feet in the air. I like the Original Gone's chase scene better then the new one. I think its more inventive that he returns the car again and then when he does steal it he wrecks it completely. Then goes to the car wash where the exact car was in and just took the fresh new one. Plus its more realistic then jumping a gt500 off a flat bed and still driving the car away. I mean come on.

bditty50 said:

... Plus its more realistic then jumping a gt500 off a flat bed and still driving the car away. I mean come on.

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And that Cage jump scene was a hokey computer image while the original Gone's stunts are all real.

Bullitt was a far better movie IMO, and the chase scene worked well into the plot. Gone was a little indy production with horrible acting with an incredible, albeit gratuitious chase scene.

Bullitt wins hands down.

I own both on DVD. I've seen Bullitt several times and think it's a decent movie. I got the original Gone In 60 Seconds last year for Christmas and have only watched it twice. I'd have a hard time calling it a "movie." It's just a very long car chase with a few scenes sprinkled around it. Both movie's car chase scenes are exciting. I think "Gone" has the better chase scene, but Bullitt is by far a better movie.
A funny thing I learned when I watched the original "Gone In 60 Seconds" was that when the movie was filmed in 1974, I lived less than a mile from where most of the chase scene was going on and never knew it until 32 years later when I saw the movie.

edgars23 said:

Makes me want to take my 67 coupe out to the nearest road course.

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Take it up here to Willow Springs.

Neither of the Gone movies were good IMO, but the first at least had a more "realistic" car chase that was long enough to make sitting through the transparent plot seem worthwhile. The second was a bad high budget remake of a bad low budget indie film. It just didn't have the entertainment value of the original. I won't get started on the Foose Eleanor clone craze.

The sad reality seems to be that car and driving-centered movies are typically lacking in plot. I think the only car-based movie I've watched and not rolled my eyes every ten seconds was probably Days of Thunder.

I also own both on DVD

The orginal chase scene will never be matched its just AWSOME!

So last night I saw the Nicholas Cage version of Gone in Sixty Seconds. As thin and full of holes as it was, the plot and production was oscar material compared to the original which was just a string of film shots with poorly done voice-overs that sounded like they were spoken by lobotomy patients with the vocabulary of a kindergarten class. Yes, the chase scene was obviously filled with green screen and CGI technology and when it wasn't, the cars were driving really slow compared to the sound the foley studio added.

In the past two weeks I've watched a few great driving movies - Grand Prix, Bullitt, and The Gumball Rally. The thing that made them exciting were the driving sequences. In Grand Prix they actually had the actors driving Formula 3 cars and James Garner in a Formula 1 car on the actual road race tracks as the production followed the race season. You just can't do that anymore due to insurance costs. Could you imagine Brad Pitt and Ben Afleck driving real open wheel race cars at 110+ miles an hour through the Monaco road course with cameras mounted to the car bodys so you could see the concentration on their faces as spectators fly by at a blur and only protect them with an open-face helmet and goggles? The underwriters would have a fit! There isn't a whole lot of liability (not to mention the cost savings) to have some geek who can't even drive a stick sit in an air conditioned office and CGI the thing. I actually feel cheated when I invest my time watching a movie build up to a climax only to be rewarded with something that looks like it was done in MS Paint.

Even Bullitt ran into liability issues. They wanted the cars to exit the city at full speed across the Golden Gate bridge and continue the chase in Sausolito, but the city wouldn't allow it. That's why there is a continuity gap in the locations of the chase scene. Could you just imagine what that scene would have been like if they let the cars open up on that straight and long of a bridge, weaving in and out of cars like they were standing still? I'll bet the camera plane or helicopter would have a hard time keeping up with them, especially on the downhill side!

Now I'm not so demanding that I think I was ripped off because the Star Wars trilogy wasn't filmed on location, but I wish people's hands weren't so tied-up by insurance companies and had more freedom to work hard for enjoyment. Not just film makers either, I'm talking about everybody.