No; this is not a topic about the experiences of odinn7 and myself with cars.
This is pretty much a guy thing.
How many times have you seen a classic, nice, or suped up car bite the dust in the movies or TV?
Which was the worst for you?
Some I remember are:
The destruction of an El Camino in Nash Bridges
A head-on collision between a Dodge Viper and a Cuda in Viper
Running over a pristine Fiero with a Hummer in CSI
Let's not forget Kowalski driving his Dodge Challenger into a pair of bulldozers in Vanishing Point
What are some of your's?
The worst one for me is when that Falcon bit the dust in Road Warrior. That car was just too awesome to die.
My husband votes for:
The ferrari death in The Rock
The Mach1 getting crushed in Marked for Death
Now...this is being read and responded to while we are watching.....The Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction. *L* Interviewing Carroll Shelby as I type. :)
Christine....
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Christine got what she deserved... My vote is for the '57 Ford Fairlane in "The adventures of Ford Fairlane" (now that's a movie that deserves some cult status on the board and never seen even mentioned) and that tiny sports car that gets totalled on "Con air".
Oh, and the TV series "Stingrey" showed a Chevy Corvette Stingray getting both riddled with bullets (from a chopter, just imagine) and later being smashed against a yatch.
How about Jackie Chan running over a Rolls, a Porsche and two other cars (something like a Lamborghini or something and something else) with a dump truck in "Mr Nice Guy"
The Lambo getting crashed in The Hidden.
I'm not much into cars, but I seem to recall the entire Phantasm series being particularly harsh on them. There was ALWAYS a car being blown up or otherwise destroyed in those movies.
The Challenger in Vanishing Point sticks out clearly . By the way Dodge is resurrecting the Challenger in the same way Ford did the Mustang, the new one will look very much like the 1970 model.
The car wrecked at the end of Vanishing Point was actually a stand-in: a '68 Camaro. Some sources say it was a rolling wreck they got cheap from a junkyard.
They actually did wreck a Challenger and a Charger in the remake, though. Bastards.
The Charger buying it in The Fast and the Furious was pretty hard to watch.
Crockett's Ferrari (his first one, not the white Testarossa) getting blown up on that episode of Miami Vice was horrible. (EDIT: Although the car itself was reportedly a kit car, and what we saw blown up was apparently a model.)
How about Cameron's father's classic sports car going out the window in FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF?
Jean Reno gets his two BMW totalled in the two instalments of "The Crinsom Rivers". One gets ruover by a Hummer and takes a few gunshots, I think, the second one gets riddled with bullets from a bunkeer machinegun. Really.
Deffinatly the Falcon from Road Warrior.
That was just wrong.
If the Mach 5 were ever to be destroyed that death would tie with the Falcon.
The Weasley car from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets took quite the painful beating also.
Another I rememebered.
The death by train of the 69 Dodge Charger in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.
It's kind of painful to watch reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard, knowing how many Chargers they wrecked making that show. Every time the General comes down hard, you think "There goes another one."
I always though of "The Dukes of Hazzrd" as a painful show, but for other reasons.
Indeed, but it has a certain nostalgic appeal to people of a certain age.
In "Prime Cut", with Lee Marvin & Sissy Spacek, a very nice/very classic/classy Lincoln Continental ('68?) gets devoured by a combine. Not content with just showing it destroyed, they take shots from a camera inside the vehicle as it's being BALED, like a bale of hay.
It is one of the sickest car destruction sequences ever filmed . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
¡"Prime cut"! Love that one. One of the sickest, most evil movies ever filmed. Should have far more cult status than it does now.
Oh, that's what you meant, Menard. I thought you meant . . .
pedesterians ran over by cars in films. While probably no more painful than anyother film death, the first one I remember, and it still sticks with me, for some reason, is the one in "Diplomatic Courier" w/ Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Karl Malden, and Lee Marvin.
I also remember a pedestrian ran over and killed, in a film whose title I have now forgotten, by an ambulance. I think that is about as an ironic a death you can get in a film.
As for actually being ran over by a car, I have--fortunately--never had the pleasure. Though, I have had some close calls.
Which brings up a true to life case posted on one of the Disney messageboards, which I was perusing.
Apparently, a man near Walt Disney World tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrists. This not working fast enough to suit the man. He drove his van to an overpass over the freeway near WDW.
Where he parked it. He climbed out of his van and dropped onto the freeway below. If that didn't kill him, he was soon dead. As it was early morning and still dark, he was hit by several vehicles.
By the time the Florida state police got there, he was not in one piece, but in many pieces, scattered all over the freeway. The police actually thought they were dealing with a dead animal, until they saw the clothing covering the pieces. While he did leave a suicide note, it was still unclear, as to why he committed suicide. And he left a wife and child behind. Thus we have not only the man, who must have suffered some pain, but the traumatized pain to his wife, child, the state police, and who ever ran over him in their car. That is about as painful of a car death, as you are ever going to get, in or out of films.
BoyScoutKevin Wrote:
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> Oh, that's what you meant, Menard. I thought you
> meant . . .
>
> pedesterians ran over by cars in films. While
> probably no more painful than anyother film death,
> the first one I remember, and it still sticks with
> me, for some reason, is the one in "Diplomatic
> Courier" w/ Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Karl
> Malden, and Lee Marvin.
>
> I also remember a pedestrian ran over and killed,
> in a film whose title I have now forgotten, by an
> ambulance. I think that is about as an ironic a
> death you can get in a film.
>
> As for actually being ran over by a car, I
> have--fortunately--never had the pleasure. Though,
> I have had some close calls.
>
> Which brings up a true to life case posted on one
> of the Disney messageboards, which I was
> perusing.
>
> Apparently, a man near Walt Disney World tried to
> commit suicide by slitting his wrists. This not
> working fast enough to suit the man. He drove his
> van to an overpass over the freeway near WDW.
> Where he parked it. He climbed out of his van and
> dropped onto the freeway below. If that didn't
> kill him, he was soon dead. As it was early
> morning and still dark, he was hit by several
> vehicles.
> By the time the Florida state police got there, he
> was not in one piece, but in many pieces,
> scattered all over the freeway. The police
> actually thought they were dealing with a dead
> animal, until they saw the clothing covering the
> pieces. While he did leave a suicide note, it was
> still unclear, as to why he committed suicide. And
> he left a wife and child behind. Thus we have not
> only the man, who must have suffered some pain,
> but the traumatized pain to his wife, child, the
> state police, and who ever ran over him in their
> car. That is about as painful of a car death, as
> you are ever going to get, in or out of films.
And now, back to the lighter side of this thread.