Eddie Murphy and
Owen Wilson flee pursuers while their car is stuck
on a truck, only returning to street level at the end. "The entire
chase, they were just sitting in their car," says Hopkins. We fell
asleep before we noticed.
Maximum Overdrive
(1986)
After a possessed 18-wheeler fails to run down a clunky
midsize car (as if), the truck swerves off a hillside and blows up!
"[It's like] every truck is just packed with napalm or something,
so as soon as it does anything, it automatically explodes," quips
Hopkins.
A View to a Kill
(1985)
Even
James Bond has his off days. When
Roger Moore races
a taxicab through
Paris, "all of a sudden, the back half gets cut
off, and he's driving half a cab. That makes no sense." But it
looked cool (in 1985).
XXX: State of the Union
(2005)
At the beginning, audiences are teased with Mustangs,
Bentleys, Porsches, Ferraris, and the prototype for a Cobra. The
Cobra gets minimal use in a low-speed pursuit of a train by star
Ice Cube. Blah.
MISFIRES Even the greatest cinematic chase
ever has its flaws. In
Bullitt, aside from
a green VW that keeps popping up in shot after shot, the black
Charger that
Steve McQueen's Mustang is chasing loses as many as
eight hubcaps during the chase. At the climax, the Charger crashes
into a
gas station and blows it up. "But the driver was going so
fast, he couldn't control the car and missed the building
altogether," reveals Hopkins. "If you watch in slow motion, you can
see him drive behind the building and come out the other side, and
then the building blows up." Still, we didn't notice. This one
rules because it has no
CGI or cheap effects and was probably
pretty dangerous to pull off.