# Hall of Fame/Shame of Car Chases and Car Stunts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754 "2003-07-02T12:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/61 "2004-08-10T02:32:50Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > The people that could bend gravity in that chase did, the only person that could fly wasn’t involved at all except for the deus ex pickup at the end. I’m not sure what this line means, but the scene had people hanging off of trucks, and not just at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/62 "2004-08-10T02:59:15Z")
The hillside getaway scene at the beginning of Jackie Chan’s _Police Story_ deserves a vote, IMO. Fruitcart? Hell, they levelled the entire town! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/63 "2004-08-10T04:03:52Z")
> [@Necros](#): > > Other good ones: The Rock. This was good, though (and correct me if I’m misremembering) the cable car blows up after being derailed. There is not a damn thing on a cable car that could catch fire so quickly, much less explode, save maybe a bit of lubricant in the gears underneath. And I have to say I’m disappointed that _Blues Brothers 2000_ surpassed the original, since it was so bad. (And it didn’t @#$%ing come out in 2000, neither!) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/64 "2004-08-10T06:15:22Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > I’m not sure what this line means, but the scene had people hanging off of trucks, and not just at the end. Well, yeah, but only the non-flying ones, and they jumped back on top of the truck eventually. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/65 "2004-08-10T17:43:30Z")
SHAME for The Bourne Supremacy. Unlike Bond, the Bourne films are supposed to be taking place in our real world. So when Bourne and the guy chasing him both commandeer ordinary cars and smash into other cars - the air bags should go off and end the chase right then and there. I have not seen the movie. Airbags are designed to deploy during frontal crashes only (not talking about side impact bags). If it wasn’t a frontal then it might not have been unrealistic. I’ll let you know once I see the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/66 "2004-09-21T17:04:10Z")
Well, I enjoyed _The Bourne Supremacy_. There, I said it. As for the airbag issue, while the bad guy’s 4x4 would have probably had an airbag, I am fairly certain that the battered old Russian taxi Bourne was driving would not! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754/67 "2004-09-21T17:16:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ll be taking these Huggies and any cash you have in the register. What comes next is one the best funny chase scenes in film, for that is a line from **Rasing Arizona**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hall-of-fame-shame-of-car-chases-and-car-stunts/185754.md?page=3)