Bullitt

This week I was going through Netflix and found a few movies from a list of " Awesome car chase movies". The grand daddy of all car chases to date remains the classic "Bullitt" with no one else but Steve McQueen. The movie itself is boring, no really it kind of drags, the plot has that 60's era we're-so-cool your going to be interested in our long monologues thing going on. But you can sense the movie has some connection to cars, even before the great chase, every street shot of San Francisco has some nice cars parked along the road, Mustangs, Vette's, Austin Healey, AM DBS, SS Chevelle, Bentley, McQueen's girl has a sweet ass Porsche 356 cabriolet and even the ambulance is a Cadillac Superior. I'm not sure if LeMans is imprinted on my brain but to me McQueen seems much more like a racing driver than a Cop, the entire time i'm thinking he's gonna put on a jumpsuit, strap on a fiberglass helmet and drive the Mustang to the track. (Go see Clint Eastwood for good Cop movies). By the time the chase starts I was already snoozing as far as the plot goes but in a nice 60's car nostalgia state ready for the action, the scene is awesome, some say overrated but there is just this realistic touch that you don't see in Fast and Futile type movies today. Sure they show the shot of the two cars going by the green FuscaBug about 20 times from a billion angles, and as another commentator said, McQueen upshifts the car so much he could be in 16th gear, but that seems standard in Hollywood, somehow cars can always find an extra gear. So my recommendation is see it, pay attention to the cars and enjoy the sound of pure american muscle cars getting some air on the hills of San Francisco.