Movie Car Chase Cliches:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

-Driving into an alley
-Knocking over lots of cardboard boxes
-Zig-Zagging on Lombard St., S.F., CA
-Jumping off steep streets in S.F., CA
-Fuel truck at end of chase leading to big explosion (Simpsons did a sendup of this once with a milk truck exploding)
-Jumping half raised drawbridges

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Hitting anything

results in a huge shower of sparks.

[DS1]

2. Ending up in the those LA canals / flood lanes

Helicopter that follows car under bridge optional.

[BulletproofLandshark]

3. Knocking over fruit stands and the like.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Yes, live poultry flapping wings and lots of feathers is always good.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. Must have wooden crates of live chickens!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Dubbed engine sound

that isn't consistent with indicated RPM when they do the obligatory tach/speedometer close-up.

Also, the sound of a 4-speed when interior shots show a shifter for an automatic.

[Lisa]

6. people crossing in front of them with garment racks ...

... or plate-glass windows, etc.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. Driving through a parade, or crashing thru a cloth or paper banner

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Or a paper Chinese dragon in a parade?

:rofl:

[Twillig]

18. Or cars repeatedly smashing into a Volkswagen van!

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. Or a VW Beetle sailing into San Francisco Bay

and floating on it.



"We can make it!"

"No..."

"We can make it!"

"No..."

"I don't think we can make it."

:rofl:

[Democrats_win]

26. Ending up before a cranky judge who takes a blue pill to remind him

to take a red pill that they're afraid to tell him about.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. And who happens to be the father

of the woman who started the whole mess.




Then the bench falls apart. :rofl:

[flvegan]

8. "Bandit, you sumbitch!"

Jumping bridges that were "out" or in disrepair. Good thing that someone had the foresight to build a big frikkin ramp in the place of fixing the bridge.

I wonder if anyone has any idea how hopped up that T/A would've had to have been to perform like that. The 400 was a good small block, but the 403 Olds was an anchor. Both were strangled by emissions equipment.

[henslee]

9. Narrowly missing a woman w/baby carriage.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. The chase ends when a car goes over a cliff

Even in Iowa

[petronius]

12. Getting detoured onto another street...

...making a series of turns, and then pulling out directly behind the car being chased.

[ET Awful]

13. Running the barrier for a railroad track and missing a train by inches

:P

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. It is impossible to lose too many hubcaps.

[Gold Metal Flake]

15. Auto transmission, 4-speed sound effects.

[TroubleMan]

16. No matter how far behind, the car in the back will always catch up

to the one in the front.

It doesn't matter if they came to a full stop and went the wrong way, they'll catch up somehow.

[pintobean]

17. The chase goes through a mall.

[elshiva]

19. BLUES BROTHERS!

[sendero]

20. Car is damaged in one scene..

.. then in the next scene 10 seconds later it is miraculously repaired :)

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

21. "This is an American made car -

if you flip them over they explode after 25 seconds." - very rough quote from Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV which gleefully recycles the classic Troma car-flip sequence.

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Pile of stuff obscures the ramp that is used to get car on two wheels

so that it can go through the narrow alley, or drive past the oncoming enemy car, or, if it's a police car doing it but the police are the bad guys, the car goes on two wheels only so that it come crashing down on another police car.

And the pile of stuff that obscures the larger ramp that is used to either get the hero to fly over the enemy cars, or get the enemy car to fly on top of another enemy car, or fly up and into a garbage truck, wooden crates of live chickens, or the like.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

25. some more

Guys moving a plate glass window across a street.

Some guy painting on a ladder, ladder falls guy goes flying.

Driving thru a shipping dock area.

[jobycom]

28. Going the wrong way on a one way street. Explosions from things that don't

explode in real life. There was a great spoof chase in "Tripletts of Bellville," where cyclists on a stationary bike which has broken free are being chased by American gangsters. Every American is extremely fat, and every car explodes. At one point a car tops a hill and sees the obligatory baby carriage in the road. The car slams its brakes, skids up to the carriage, in which you see an incredibly fat American baby, and comes to a stop just as it barely nudges the carriage. And the car explodes!

Great film!!