saw it for the first time tonight. AWESOME MOVIE !!! i love the way they captured the real NYC. and the car chase for the L train was beyond genius. ahead of its time.



"VEGAS, G. totally VEGAS"

- Amsterdam718

7/19/2006 1:24:43 AM

wtf. have none of you guys seen The French Connection with Gene Hackman. it won 5 academy awards.

7/19/2006 5:17:11 PM

OLD

7/19/2006 5:22:17 PM

Yes, many years ago. It is indeed a great movie.

7/19/2006 5:25:28 PM

great movie, i caught it on the big screen last semester at the Campus Cinema.

i loved the car chase and the open ending

7/19/2006 6:21:04 PM

the car chase was crazy. it had such rhythm to it. and to find out it was real and unscripted was awesome. i'm going to rent mcqueens bullet cause i hard there's another cool chase in that one.

7/19/2006 7:01:59 PM

best car chase scene ever... even better than Ronin.

7/19/2006 9:36:25 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqRaLUN98aY

7/19/2006 11:35:34 PM

Here's a little FC trivia for you.

The detective that Popeye did not get along with was played by Bill Hickman.
He is the one who actually did the high speed driving and stunts.
(He also did drove the hit man car in "Bullit"....same director)
although Hackman did do some time in the car as well. When a car pulls out and Popeye hits it.
That was unscripted, and Hackman was driving! Some dude just pulled out in front of him.

Also, the guy who played the Police chief was the real Popeye. I think he's dead now, but appeared in movies and tv ever since TFC.

Another good car chase was in "The Seven-Ups" with Roy Schieder chasing, again, Bill Hickman.

7/20/2006 7:02:14 AM

I like the car chase in the Bourne Supremacy that took place in Moscow

7/20/2006 12:29:51 PM

i like the pure quantity of car chases in Ronin better

7/20/2006 12:30:37 PM

^agreed.

I saw The French Connection for the first time about 7 weeks ago. Loved it.

Did you mean L train as in elevated train? B/c its the N train

7/20/2006 10:05:51 PM

the ELevated train, g

7/20/2006 10:45:30 PM

fcuk

7/20/2006 10:56:39 PM