Gone In 60 Seconds (1974) Full Movie

Gone In 60 Seconds (1974) Full Movie on YouTube

Thought you guys might like to see the original.

I've seen the original many times. Most people find it boring, but I like it.

Most people have the attention span of a goldfish.

Always loved the original. "The Junkman" is awesome too. They jump a Cadillac over a Pitts Special, while it's flying!

"Junkman" is pretty awful, and I say that being quite the rabid fan of Halicki's original "Gone In 60 Seconds". The acting continues to be awful, the car stuff isn't as good and the attempts at injecting humor (like the French in the Citroens) falls horribly flat. You do get to see Toby's real-life office filled with his toy collection at the end though.

I bought all the Haliki stuff on VHS, it's ridiculous fun.

I love that you guys keep looking for acting and plot in a car crash movie.

This movie was famous for the chase scene at the end. One of the longest in movie history.

Loved that movie, I use to watch while bottle feeding my daughter before her naps. Yes I have eased her right. Last weekend she went RC racing with me, rather then hang out with her nieces

Such terrible acting, such a great movie.

I like my car movies like I like my porno, questionable storyline line, a complete lack of character development, terrible acting, but great action sequences that involve fruit being smashed at some point.

Trans_Maro wrote: I love that you guys keep looking for acting and plot in a car crash movie.

It's like Bullitt, or Mad Max. There's actually a plot in there.

In GISS, the plot is kind of the opposite of a police procedural: we see the ins and outs of a VIN-switching auto theft ring, with the fun part (the part that makes you think they're not so bad) that they have access to insurance policy information, so when they buy a wreck and steal its donor car, they know that they are only stealing from insured people. Then the corrupt insurance guy is given a really sweet deal: Steal a bunch of high-end cars for shipment to South America, in exchange for cash. No VIN switching, no risk of being found out, the stolen cars just disappear. Then one of the cars they steal is found to have a bunch of heroin in the back. One member of the ring says, hey, we can sell this and make LOTS of money. Ringleader is not an idiot. He knows that IF he tries to sell it, he'll catch hell from the established dealers/distributors, maybe even get the car theft traced back to him. So he takes the car and destroys it, washes his hands of the whole thing. Then they discover that the '73 Mustang they stole wasn't insured. So he returns the car and steals another one they saw Mr. Baruth driving to the radio station. But not before the snubbed overly-ambitious guy, super pissed off at the missed opportunity, calls the police and gives an anonymous tip to watch that parking garage.

There. That's the plot for the first 45 minutes of the movie.

(knew I should've read my horoscope this morning)

captdownshift wrote: I like my car movies like I like my porno, questionable storyline line, a complete lack of character development, terrible acting, but great action sequences that involve fruit being smashed at some point.

Ah yes, I remember. I had the fish.

I enjoyed Gone in 60 Seconds, but JunkMan did suck. What was the name of the third movie?

For those of you who don't have 90 minutes with which to digest this masterpiece of awesome (to paraphrase Maddox's review of Dawn of the Dead, the genius of the film is that the first 45 minutes allow you to adjust your face before it gets rocked off), and as an observation you really need to re-evaluate your life if you think you have anything more important to do than to witness this cultural icon, I found an animated GIF that condenses the movie down to its core:

There. That's it. Not only is that awesome, but it is REAL. All of the stuff in this movie is real (well, okay the garbage truck falling over was pretty bogus) but this was an actual filming accident and they said, well berk, we got it on film, let's GO with it. And they did. And it was awesome.

This is why new movies suck. Everything is all sterile and CGI and they try to compensate for that with being over-the-top beyond what reality and physics would allow, and at that point you're just watching a really intricately rendered cartoon, except, as per the comment regarding physics and reality violations, frequently cartoons require LESS suspension of disbelief to watch because they are more realistic.

Don't forget, no-one would give them permits to close the roads for filming so they filmed in traffic, on Sundays when the permit office was closed.

Guerilla filmmaking at it's finest.

Trans_Maro wrote: I love that you guys keep looking for acting and plot in a car crash movie.

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

The best car chase movie ever made, IMHO. Has a plot, good acting, interesting characters, cool cars and NO CGI. And when you've got a helicopter bashing in the roof of a Charger while in flight, you've got a stunt sequence no one in their right mind would ever attempt today.

Plus the ending was 70's nihilism personified.