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It's on tonight at 11:05 on Yorkshire ITV, maybe elsewhere too. A must see if you haven't already (or even if you have).
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I noticed it was on tonight, got it on DVD, however, the TV version contains the cut scene with Charlotte Rampling I believe, so I shall be watching!
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I've got it on video tape. Stuff your DVDs. I have to borrow my 13 year old son's Sony Playstation just to watch them.
Anyway, the best film is Midnight Run which was on last Wednesday. Will be on again. Watch for it and as my son says "Trust me".
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Hmmm, those Challengers sure are smooth, and really low. I guess it's a 'Coke Bottle' shape, later copied by Vauxhall and others?
I don't think the star (Barry Newman? - not the Challenger) ever really went on to anything greater.
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I don't think the star (Barry Newman? - not the Challenger) ever really went on to anything greater.
Don't know about greater but he was in 36 films up to 1999 - details here www.imdb.com/name/nm0628017/
I agree with the bibliography that Vanishing Point is aging rapidly.
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barry newman - looks like DIY s.o.s.`s Nick Knowles
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There was also a remake later on (mid 80s I think) which followed more or less the same lines but replaced the drug addled bet with mad dash home to see the hero's wife as she suffered complications in labour. It wasn't as trippy and surreal as the original, but featured a redneck psychopathic cop (bearing a strange resemblance to Tommy Vance) who drove a black Charger R/T and went after Kowalski in a great chase scene.
'Takes a MOPAR to catch a MOPAR, son!'.
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Coincidentally I have had it for years on NTSC VHS and just this week I was going to get it transferred to DVD.
I know the whereabouts of a Challenger locally.
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Well, the scene with Charlotte Rampling wasnt in it, even though she was listed in the newspaper review, and also the scene with the E type jag was missing for some reason?! Does anyone know where the scene with Charlotte appears in the film?
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SWMBO went to bed - I settled down to watch and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, waking up when it was all over... its my age you know. I should have had my cocoa and gone to bed at nine as usual....
Mind you I am old enough to have seen it at the cinema . Excellent film.
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Well that was all a bit non-linear wasn't it? I wasted half an hour of my life on this last night! Why didn't he just stop when the first policeman asked him to (after he'd got the speed from the man with the bad afro), then he wouldn't have needed to be chased all through the film?
PG...think I might have missed the point ;)
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You hadda be there dear to appreciate......
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Supercharged Challenger..
Empty desert roads..
Naked girl on motorbike..
I think those three kind of embody the point for most people ;)
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First two: no problems.
Third: Growlette just won't agree -- I've tried everything.
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Perhaps it makes changing gear difficult.. :-)
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I started this post at 18:11 and guess who
a. forgot to set the video
b. forgot to watch it.
I must be getting old...
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Ditto point 3 G. I received a slap from SWMBO for saying "Oh look - there's a naked girl on a motorcycle!". We found it was on pretty much towards the end of the film and it was only when the DJ was uttering the words which Primal Scream sampled on their, umm... "Vanishing Point"... CD that everything clicked into place.
Some time ago here, someone posted the best three motoring related DVDs. Vanishing Point was one, Bullitt was another - what was the third? The original Italian Job or Le Mans? It might have been on the F1 newsgroup as I've searched here without too much success.
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The third best? Subjective, but I'd posit "Gone In 60 Seconds". Not the Nicholas Cage one, but the original, c.1974. I don't know who was in it, I think they were all unknowns, but it became a cult movie. As I recall, 100 odd cars were wrecked in the movie.
Bit corny I guess, but Smokey and The Bandit is part of my library too. Not for Burt Reynolds, but more for Sally Fields' buns. And of course the Camaro. Was it a Camaro or a Firebird? Must play it again.
Not totally motoring but I always enjoy the first Blues Brothers movie when they totally destroy that shopping mall.
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the words which Primal Scream sampled on their, umm... "Vanishing Point"... CD that everything clicked into place.
Now you know where they got the title 'Kowalski' from :)
On the subject of driving films - I think Top Gear's website had that list, and Badlands was quite high up, but as it doesn't have a search option (boooo) I can't find it!
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Am I the only one that can see a white Challenger on the train as the cars are transported alongside the bulldozer road block?
Very enjoyable film apart from no E-type or the lovely Ms Rampling. I don't know why those scenes are cut, spoils the flow of the film.
As for top car films. I rate Bullitt higher only because the stunts were filmed live, the Chargers were really that indestructable and McQueen did all his own driving.
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>>>>>As for top car films. I rate Bullitt higher only because the stunts were filmed live, the Chargers were really that indestructable and McQueen did all his own driving.
...............and he came home to find Jacqueline Bisset in bed
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