Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!limbo!taylor From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies Subject: Re: chases Message-ID: <342@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 19 Jan 90 18:00:27 GMT References: <640@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <5933@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <98@puzzle.UUCP> <11374@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <21662@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <16866@cc.usu.edu> Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +011 (415) 966-1151 Lines: 30 > "Duel", 1971, Dennis Weaver, directed by Steven Spielberg... Actually, I believe this is the best thing that Spielberg has done yet; taut realistic action without any of the sappy touches that have since become his trademark in the film industry. If you've never seen "Duel" then dig it up and see it! A great film!! > "To Live and Die in LA", 1987 (?) This too has a great chase scene, especially the wild scene of the big rig jack-knifing and "sweeping up" the cars near it on the freeway. An all time favorite film of mine for the cinematography and excellent (Wang Chung) sound track. See it too! I'm amazed in all this discussion of chase scenes that no-one has mentioned one of the most famous of them all; The Blues Brothers! A pretty silly film, it nonetheless has some incredible chase scenes. I seem to recall that "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" also has some particularly good chase scenes, as did "Running Scared", where the two cars in the chase end up on the "T" (?) (overhead train track) and get out just in the nick of time as one car is crushed and mangled by a train flying into the station. -- Dave Taylor Intuitive Systems Mountain View, California taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor