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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: Cargo7 on November 11, 2005, 12:53:19 AM
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OK folks - it feels like winter up here in BC. My insurance just ran out for the year and it feels like rain for awhile. That means less riding and more bench racing...
I've collected a number of good cage movies over the years - you know all the usual suspects in the B-movie line up. Gumball, Cannonball, Mad Mad World, Ronin, Christine, Italian Jobs etc.
I'd be interested in hearing if we know of any good bike movies out there - I have McQueen's Great Escape which has a bit of good 2 wheeled action. I've got Torque (Hey it was only 10 bucks).
Any suggestions besides GP500 videos to fill the void? Ron.
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On Any Sunday, or the two follow-ups & Faster are good moto documentarys.
There was a 1 hour special (40 minutes after you take out commercials) on Miguel Duhamel on Speed the other day called "Duhamel - Adrenaline Rush" - had some family clips of Miguel back when he was a kid and his dad Yvon was a pro racer. Not bad, but more of an interview format with family films thrown in. The did show a lot of footage of Miguel crashing...
B-grade cage movies - got Two Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, Gone in 60 Seconds (the original)?
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Dust to glory is good, I have a couple Isle of Man DVD's one called the Road Racers and V-Four Victory and the other called TT a Film Documentary. Whitehorse Press it good for moto stuff.
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None of you guys heard of Biker Boyz ? (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JM10.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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The two greatest bike flicks:
"The Wild One" with Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin (1953) - an American classic!
"On Any Sunday" - featuring Steve McQueen, Malcolm Smith and Mert Lawill. The way it WAS!
Amazon's got 'em both for a song....enjoy. :banana:
Billster
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None of you guys heard of Biker Boyz ? (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JM10.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Burn rubber, not your soul! :lol:
One of my fav old cage movies is Steven Speilberg's first movie - "Duel (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800060121&cf=info&intl=us)"
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Duel is excellent! I remember reading it in a magazine before it became a movie. Dennis Weaver is good.
B
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If you guys in the 'states can get hold of them, 2 of the best bike movies I've seen are
1. Stone - '70's Aussie cult classic - about a cop (Stone) who goes undercover with the Grave Diggers MC to find out whose killing them - great film - particularly if your a fan of the Z900's
2. Mad Max - starring Mel Gibson I've been on all the roads in this movie, filmed around the Geelong/Werribee/Laverton/Anakie areas (not Mad Max 2 - it's a good movie but not many bikes and definitly not Mad Max 3 - Beyond boredom)
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Hey Mick,
If you're referring to Stone Cold starring Brian Bosworth (the ex-NFL football player) that was a good movie to watch. I particularly enjoyed the scenes of the choppers riding through the courthouse.
Here's a link for those who don't remember this flick
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102984/
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Not to mention of course Easy Rider, which made it to the National Archives.
There's also an interesting doc made back in the 80s called Dawn Riders about what is now a famouse Sunday morning motorcycle ride along the California coast. Not sure if it's readily available, however. Dawn Riders was the catalyst that finally made me get the motorcycle license I planned to do thirty years back...
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I almost forgot about Easy Rider. I'm ordering "On Any Sunday" and "Faster" via Amazon.
I started riding dirt in the early 70's and been riding street since '76 and I've never actually seen On Any Sunday - so something to look forward to!
Great suggestions, Ron
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I like TORQUE. Yeah, it's the silliest entry in the FAST & FURIOUS set, but it's good natured silly, with comic book dialog and some cool stunts (with liberal help from the CGI). Get buzzed on whatever you get buzzed on and enjoy!
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...and Torque even has a cameo appearance of a 2G B12 near the end...
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Torque only has one good part as far as I could tell. Towards the beggening where they are riding an awesome set of twisties.
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Torque only has one good part as far as I could tell. Towards the beggening where they are riding an awesome set of twisties.
The sequence on the train, which is of course totally impossible (drop the bike sideways between two cars? Maybe on a trials bike!) was totally a blast in the theater. Like many movies, the home experience mahes the special effects not-so-special. But for lightweight fun, I'd otherwise have to disagree with you. The bike-top fight between the two chicks near the end? The R.O.T.JEDI-like chanse through the palms? It's high-octane fun, and you can tell 'em Sven says so!
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"Vanishing Point" 1971
some fun car chases and a REALLY cute bare-back
motorcycle ride in the desert.
"Electra Glide in Blue" 1973
kinda existential like "two-lane blacktop" but its harley territory
haven't watched this one yet myself
"Motorcycle Diaries" 2004
Che
"Knightriders" 1981
George Romero of zombie fame does camelot on bikes
"Purple Rain"
I would totally ride a purple goldwing if they all
came standard with a naked Apollonia.
"The Girl on a Motorcycle" 1968
some nudity then its all slow riding and european countryside
"easy rider"
this was good when I was younger and on drugs
Satan's Sadists (1969)
supposedly a really naughty film but very little nudity
Motorcycle Gang (1994)
cheese
Long Way Round (2004)
bmw's and OB1
"Black Rain" 1989
Yusaku Matsuda last movie
"Akira" 1988
anime great fun
"mospeada genesis climber"
old robotec anime the first tranny I ever saw and it was after school
on TV cartoons - great fun
CHiPs and Street Hawk have not made it to DVD yet
and if you need a complete breakdown ->
http://www.motorbiker.org/motorbiker.nsf/Movies_Titles!OpenView
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AND DON'T FORGET THE "WILD ONE"!!!! it was the FIRST biker flick....the one that gave motorcyclists a bad name that still hasn't worn off.
Billster :bigok:
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Hey Mick,
If you're referring to Stone Cold starring Brian Bosworth (the ex-NFL football player) that was a good movie to watch. I particularly enjoyed the scenes of the choppers riding through the courthouse.
No the movie is STONE, released in 1974. They do a burnout, but it's in a Pub.
see link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072209/
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Mission Impossible II had some pretty cool scenes with a Black Naked.
(http://img284.imageshack.us/img284/7494/strip4ny.jpg)
Matt Mingay was the movie stuntman, he rides a Bandit in his pro stunt shows...
(http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/1781/dkstmatt1ld.jpg)
I had to turn Bikersboyz off when they started drag racing on dirt roads with street rubber. :duh:
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I thought the purple Rain bike was a honda CB450 (only two exhausts) and a Vetter fairing.
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i couldn't find good big photos, but you are right
its a smaller bike. I forget how little prince is.
on the DVD sleeve the engine looks smaller than the fairing
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what was the bike movie 25 years ago, where the bike club was like some Knighhood? I think that Ed Harris or one of the "Right Stuff" guys was in it?
I wanna see the M/C Diaries. Also wanna see the GP movie that just came out on DVD.
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what was the bike movie 25 years ago, where the bike club was like some Knighhood?
i think its Romero's Knightriders, been looking to watch it myself
http://imdb.com/title/tt0082622/
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Time Rider, (time traveler takes his dirtbike to the old west)
Silver Dream Racer (starring rock star? David Essix) saw after Daytona practice.
Shell Oil motorcycle racing documentery (3 or 4 VHS tapes)
ciao! eh
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what was the bike movie 25 years ago, where the bike club was like some Knighhood?
i think its Romero's Knightriders, been looking to watch it myself
http://imdb.com/title/tt0082622/
yep.....
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oh shmack!
how could I forget Judas Priest's video for "Turbo Lover"
bad special effects, bad hair, cheesy techno-metal, g-strings with fishnets, bike-riding robots, sidecars, crazy fenderless naked frankenbikes, and everything else.
great motorbike media!
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Dust to glory is good, I have a couple Isle of Man DVD's one called the Road Racers and V-Four Victory and the other called TT a Film Documentary. Whitehorse Press it good for moto stuff.
I rented "Dust to Glory" from the video store the other day. Excellent cinematography! I had to add it to my collection... and I don't do that very often - it's my wife who usually buys movies.
It's a documentry on the Baja 1000 and covers the bikes & trophy trucks the most. Some buggies and a smattering of stock car class and only a couple of spots on the ATV's. It's done by Dana Brown, son of Bruce Brown, who did "On Any Sunday." Like his dad, he started off with a surf documentry film ("Step into Liquid").
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How about this one! Outstanding 2004 documentary of the MotoGP
:motorsmile: :motorsmile: :motorsmile: :motorsmile:
It's even available on Amazon.com.
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0003JAO5Y.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
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What about the Karate kid, lot's of kids on dirt bikes with 80's haircuts. :grin:
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Just saw "World's Fastest Indian".....It's the best motorcycle based theatric movie ever made.
Can take the whole family. Just real people in a real time...captured the era.
I know he really didn't go 200 mph, but otherwise it was pretty realistic.
Loved seeing those old land speed vehicles...and representations of real characters like Rollie Free ...I can't say enough. I got a little choked up when they gave him the sportsman award.
I think this was Hopkins best movie.
Fantastic! See it!
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I could always stick in one of the GP or AMA races I've taped too. I don't have studded tires for my Bandit either, I should check out a couple flicks myself.
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see the world's fastest indian
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FASTEST INDIAN is the best, reminds me of Bandit wrenching and moding, just a classic movie about a man who loves bikes. :beers:
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Hey Mick,
If you're referring to Stone Cold starring Brian Bosworth (the ex-NFL football player) that was a good movie to watch. I particularly enjoyed the scenes of the choppers riding through the courthouse.
Here's a link for those who don't remember this flick
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102984/
hmmmm dont actually remember any choppers
No it was called "STONE" it may have been relesed under another name elsewhere. It was mainly done with z900's and honda fours and the cop rode a norton if memory serves me.
Noted for the clubs members funeral and last ride where a F1 type sidecar carries the coffin. Huge Huge Huge. And I do beleive all ausie actors with a few ex pat english men
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Hey Mick,
If you're referring to Stone Cold starring Brian Bosworth (the ex-NFL football player) that was a good movie to watch. I particularly enjoyed the scenes of the choppers riding through the courthouse.
Here's a link for those who don't remember this flick
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102984/
hmmmm dont actually remember any choppers
No it was called "STONE" it may have been relesed under another name elsewhere. It was mainly done with z900's and honda fours and the cop rode a norton if memory serves me.
Noted for the clubs members funeral and last ride where a F1 type sidecar carries the coffin. Huge Huge Huge. And I do beleive all ausie actors with a few ex pat english men
The Black Birds rode a chopper or 2, plus a Ducati some Trumpys, Nortons but not Jap bikes. At the Pub scene Bird Man comments something to the effect of "what's that Jap crap". I thought Stone's bike was a BSA, there was one yank actor, and funnily enough he played a character call Septic. He's famous for the line "Hey it's the fuzz man" at the grave yard when burying Go Down.
Yes I have a sad life and have seen Stone a few times - not quite as much as Mad Max but close. Oh the hairy fella in Stone the one that was stoned at the begining also played Toe Cutter in Mad Max, the fella who played the 'priest' in Stone play the Nightrider in Mad Max, Fifi in Mad Max was also in Stone.....
Sorry I couldn't help myself - they're two of my favourite movies....