Showing posts with label stunts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stunts. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

where can you find Andy Granatelli, Bill Hickman, Bud Ekins, and a Max Balchowski prepped race car? In the Love Bug


The opening credits are over about 2 minutes of figure 8 races, and maybe circle dirt track races. How is that not cool?


reminds me why there aren't many 1950's cars around. a lot were demolished in races



driving in the movie were Bud Ekins, maybe best known for Steve McQueen stunt doubling... Bill Hickman for driving the black Charger in Bullitt... Max Bulchowsky for making a race car from junkyard parts and beating Ferraris, plus having a race car repair and tune up shop that was in Beverly Hills that Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and Von Dutch hung out at.  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049590/
You've never heard of Jesse Wayne, but he was a stunt man in every cool show there ever was in the 60's, 70's, and 80's... and was Mickey Rooney's and Mel Brooks stunt double too http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915586/

Friday, December 21, 2012

"Premium Rush" is a great bike chase movie, and Danny MacAskill shows his skills in it too!





the above is the better trailer if you want the story about the movie, in short, Bike Messenger vs corrupt NY cop, cop chases the best messenger in NYC to try to get the package. Bike messenger pulls off incredible evasive moves, gets chased a couple times, delivers. On time.

Great biking, good movie, terrific reviews all over, Ebert to Rotten Tomatos.

the below is the better trailer for a bit of action


http://www.premiumrush.com/site/#downtown

For the best write up about the movie (ignore all the filler about "The French Connection" and skip down to where the writer nails the biggest idiot to break into the set during filming, some a hole with a diplomats license plate who knows he can get away with anything less than murder, crashed into the film location with his car, and caused the well known and liked actor Joseph Gordon Levitt (JCL) to crash into the back of a taxi, through the back window, and get 31 stitches) check the verbose New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/movies/joseph-gordon-levitt-dodges-traffic-in-premium-rush.html?_r=0

If you are wondering why I mention Danny MacAskill, it's because he is a phenom in trick riding, I've posted videos of his stunts a year ago: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/12/danny-macaskill-rides-through-over-and.html