Best racing scene ever?

I agree with you there Indeep, Bullitt has the best car chase in my book. But the scene in Against All Odds is very well done!

don't forget the car chase in seven-ups

What the $%*& is a Chinese Downhill?!?

Absolutley! Bullitt is unbeaten in the car chase stakes, closely followed by Ronin.

The best chase scene in a movie bar none is BULLITT

I dont know about best ever, film makers just keep raising the bar

Back when this first came out it was a real rush for me, this car race, the start, the near misses, etc-- to the heartstopping skidding to a stop behind the garbage truck---adding intensity to the whole Jake and Terry thing that built up throughout the movie to its climax in the 'endgame'.
Also the fact that it was just a little race between friends, rather than a Cops n Robbers chase(where were the cops anyway?)was also cool.

Funny, I used to like this movie a lot, but now I find the plot kind of shallow,
like most of the characters and the subject matter...but it still has its good moments, like the race.....

Including 'chases', the other one that strikes me for pure intensity was the one in 'Live and Die in L.A.'. I saw one on cable recently that was more up to date, with a huge rush, that was the beginning of '2Fast2Furious', but I think they're using computer effects now to augment the scenes, Im not sure...I was still impressed.....

All great car scenes.. Whether two guys racing each other just for fun and ego like Bridges and Wood's characters; cops chasing the bad guys; cops chasing the undercover guy (Live & Die in LA); Gosling stunt guy character chased by drug dealer in Drive; Carusso in Jade ( good one I had forgotten); Ronin; Grand Prix/awesome footage ; Grease ( just kidding); French Connection and Bullit both in their own categories.. McQueen is still my favorite even if that is technically a car chase and not a race.. Fast & Furious 1; never saw Gone / 60 seconds.. 7 Ups is a good scene too., great thread.. And yes.. I like fast cars!! ??

Although I loved Basic Instinct the film and her Lamborghini ... the music editing was superb.. it's still not in my top ten like the others mentioned. A few Bond films come to mind for good chase scenes too!! ??? And I loved Against All Odds and was In my early 20's and had to go to Mexico after seeing this film.. Great acting by Woods and Bridges and showed more range for Ward. Taylor Hackford helps too being the great drector that he is!!

I know this originally was the best 'racing' scene, but since so many people are mentioning chases, I'd have to say that the one in Bourne Identity was pretty damn good.

Viola? Isn't that like a large violin?

(Above: the guy meant “Voila” by-the-way)
I wanted to mention this separately: A TERRIBLE scene I mean completely irresponsible. Bone-fide chases are different -- usually police chasing someone for ostensibly legitimate reason – This was drag-racing with complete impunity & actually shocked me a bit – these days especially (when many injuries & deaths, my area & everywhere, in similar cases) completely irresponsible – my reaction was, where were the cops, then or afterwards, with a traffic ticket? – “Politically incorrect” (hopefully I’m not a wuss or something!), 2 jokers – even if a ‘staged scene’ -- endangering many innocent drivers, these 2 (as far as I could tell) without seatbelts – and after it’s over, into parking lot ha ha like it’s nothing. well-done & all that, but beside the point I'd say, people might think this is exciting, but how many young people try to imitate this with too-often disastrous results. A token admonition at least – motorbike cop meets them at parking lot, "hey here’s a $200 fine" (whatever) – to discredit such stupid behavior.
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something ties in with this – yesterday, saw a sign on highway, in French (I’m in Quebec) saying in effect “Our roads are not racetracks! 140 km/hr. = 658 DOLLARS fine & 10 demerit points”. Wow heavy-duty but gets point across. Not to belabor this, but again the problem with ‘race-scene’ in this movie is that it was completely gratuitous, even as fictional scene endangering many people – 2 schmucks showing off muscle cars, like boys on a joy-ride, oblivious to people around them; if Jeff Bridges character hit garbage truck & he flew into the dumpster – maybe poetic justice (but would be the end of the movie!) -- & something sad might have happened, like Doggie gets hurt… – anyway, different from “French Connection” etc. where police action is the extenuating circumstance for risking life-&-limb.