# Do you like car chases and kick boxing in movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457 "2003-03-01T21:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![parteee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@parteee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parteee)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/1 "2003-03-01T21:46:40Z")
Those are two things that make me wish for my fastforward button, which I do use on DVD’s. The only good car chase was the one in Blues Brothers, played for laughs by crashing hundreds of cop cars in huge piles. And kickboxing is the modern version of the western saloon brawl, where you can duck out for popcorn without missing anything. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/2 "2003-03-01T23:43:20Z")
Have you seen _The French Connection_? Now _THAT_ was a car chase! ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/3 "2003-03-02T01:56:51Z")
Kickboxing is okay, but I prefer a good ol’ fistfight a la_The Quiet Man_ as opposed to a martial arts-style fight in a non-martial arts movie. ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/4 "2003-03-02T03:32:38Z")
You beat me to it **NoClueBoy**. _The French Connection_ was just on tonight. Good movie - and a great chase scene. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/5 "2003-03-02T07:37:45Z")
My favorite of all the car chases I can remember is the one in Jade, just after Angie Everhart gets ground into the pavement. Normally car chases bore me, but I liked that one. Kickboxing? I’ll pay extra for martial arts in a movie, provide it doesn’t suck and doesn’t involve Jean Claude Van Damme. (exception: No Retreat, No Surrender. The first one. Where the kid trains under the tutelage of Bruce Lee’s ghost to fight the Russian (played by JCVD). I know the movie sucks amazingly, but I liked it for some inexplicable reason). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/6 "2003-03-02T13:08:20Z")
Blues Brothers is a great movie. But, one of the few movies that I don’t mind the car chase (since the whole movie IS the car chase) is Smokey and The Bandit. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/7 "2003-03-02T13:38:18Z")
I hate both. The martial arts stuff is neat to watch, but only if done realistically. No one can withstand the sheer number of blows taken in most screen fights. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/8 "2003-03-02T13:52:06Z")
Watching Jackie Chan in anything is a treat for me. I would love have a DVD or tape of nothing but the outtakes they show at the end of his movies. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/9 "2003-03-02T14:03:15Z")
Do you like car chases and kick boxing? And getting caught in the rain? Marc ---
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/10 "2003-03-02T18:20:10Z")
To paraphrase Quentin Tarantino, car chases and kickboxing are some of the things you can do in a movie, just like tap dancing. A well-done car chase is a joy to behold, as in _Ronin_ (twice, in fact). And there’s a brief kickboxing scene in _Gross Pointe Blank_ that sells the movie, for me (if only because it takes place during a comedy, and is underscored by the English Beat). ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/11 "2003-03-02T18:44:33Z")
I love a good fight scene (though not necessarily a kick-boxing scene). I don’t mind a car chase. They have to be well done, though, and their occurrence has to be at least be somewhat justified. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > \*\*Watching Jackie Chan in anything is a treat for me. > > I would love have a DVD or tape of nothing but the outtakes they show at the end of his movies. \*\* I saw something like that at Hollywood Video the other day. It was a video of nothing but fight scenes from various martial arts flicks. Although this wasn’t a collection of just Jackie Chan footage, I’m pretty sure he was in it (as was Bruce Lee, I think). Not sure if this would be your kind of thing or not, but your post reminded me of the video. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/12 "2003-03-03T04:47:08Z")
**Mephisto** , you’re talking about _The Deadliest Art_, one of my all-time favorite videos. A friend and I rented it so much back when I was in college that he bought it (and it wasn’t priced for sell-through at the time) because it would be cheaper than the rental fees! ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-car-chases-and-kick-boxing-in-movies/158457/13 "2003-03-03T06:46:24Z")
I hate kick-boxing. That’s why none of my 100+ martial arts movies fearture kick-boxing; just kung-fu, karate, tae kwon do, wire fu, and martial arts gymnastics. But no kick-boxing. Car chases and martial arts are entertaining when done well, and not so much when done poorly, just like every other part of movie making.