Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Directed by H.B. Halicki
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.
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His film is nominally a tribute to old car-chase movies (he cites the 1971 "Vanishing Point" and the original, 1974 "Gone in 60 Seconds"), and the chasing and the crashing in it are suitably spectacular, in a familiar way.
It may not be the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T of Vanishing Point, or the 1955 Chevy One-Fifty or 1970 Pontiac GTO of Two-Lane Blacktop, or the 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1 of Gone in 60 Seconds, but comparisons to those cult car movies are no doubt welcome, as far as Shepard is concerned.
In a nutshell, this is everything Gone in 60 Seconds should have been: loud, mindless, entertaining rubbish.
It's a refreshing change from such no-plot, all-action movies as "Gone in 60 Seconds."
The Fast and the Furious puts the lie to wannabe also-rans like Driven and Gone in 60 Seconds -- it's got the goods for real, and it delivers them wrapped in a shroud of speed and wild-eyed, hi-test fun.
Over the past year, we've had a couple of auto-based, adrenalin rush pics with "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Driven."
This is no gentle love story of a man and his cars, you know, like Nic Cage in Gone In 60 Seconds, this is a deflowering visit to the automotive brothel.
After the duds "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "Driven", it's actually refreshing to see a film that understand that "fast car movies" should feature...well, fast cars.
Ric Roman Waugh, a former stuntman on “Lethal Weapon 2,” the original “Total Recall” and “Gone in 60 Seconds,” isn’t quite it.
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The stylized rush is years beyond the clunky if adrenalized pile-on of H.J. Halicki’s junkyard opus, the original “Gone in 60 Seconds” (1974).
Mark Wahlberg stars in a smuggling film that plays like a really boring, forgettable version of Gone in 60 Seconds.
It’s the remake of Gone In 60 Seconds you never knew you needed!
At the same time, while the title eludes the audience is in for a non-stop chase picture in the realm of Gone In 60 Seconds or Ronin, it is just as much a play on words as it is comparable in many people's minds to Walter Hill's 1978 film, The Driver, also featuring an unnamed protagonist (and the whole cast of characters actually.)
Although expecting Drive to be an action-packed offering similar to films like Fast & Furious or Gone in 60 Seconds , I?m not disappointed with its character focus instead.
Depending on how you take your action, "Gone in 60 Seconds," is either a triumph of ultra-slick silliness (read: a popcorn thrill ride that belongs in the JBAAD theme park along with "Top Gun," "Crimson Tide," "Bad Boys," "The Rock," "Con Air" and "Armageddon") or a head-scratching attempt to jack wallets with the finesse these characters use on cars.
“Gone In 60 Seconds” was directed by Dominic Sena (“Kalifornia”) but in the end, he’s little more than a puppet to producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who worked out through the years his own recipe for a guarenteed summer blockbuster.
Dominic Sena's "Gone in 60 Seconds," based on a cult 1974 film of the same name (famous for a showstopping 40-minute car chase sequence), is the latest brain(less)child of producer Jerry Bruckheimer (1997's "Con Air," 1998's "Armageddon")--someone who knows how to make a movie fast-paced, and how to orchestrate overblown action setpieces--and it should have been the film to reinforce the idea of letting go of your inhibitions and driving fast every now and again.
There's not one scrap of art in Gone in 60 Seconds, but there's no flab either; in its pedal-to-the-metal professionalism, it's almost a lowbrow version of Ronin.
Gone in 60 Seconds is a check-your-brain-at-the-door, dig into some popcorn, sit back and enjoy summer explosion movie, brought to you by the same folks who did Con Air.
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A movie-as-mixtape with few slots available for catch-your-breath downtempo tracks, Edgar Wright's rollicking Baby Driver is a Gone in 60 Seconds for the La La Land crowd, a True Romance that relishes the long wait before its young lovers can finally go on the lam.
That means it can’t help but feel like a little bit of a betrayal when the new film – The Fate of the Furious – expects us to believe that team leader Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has betrayed everyone he knows and loves, and has joined forces with an international supervillain whose first crime appears to have been stealing Angelina Jolie’s hair from Gone in 60 Seconds.