Absurd Movie Car Crashes
@arthurchappell (44941)
Preston, England
July 17, 2016 7:42am CST
Barely any modern day action movie goes by without a car chase in which at least one car plummets over a cliff and explodes in a fireball on impact with the rocks below.
In actuality it is quite hard to explode a car petrol (gas) tank. The crashes in which a car is seen crumpling and disintegrating as it bounces off the rocks are more realistic and even more interesting.
Some cars used in the exploding vehicle stunts are clearly stuffed full of Semtex or dynamite and a few go off like nuclear blasts far beyond even a full fuel tank. I have seen a few cars on film even explode in mid-air before making contact with the ground or other obstacles.
There is a terrific parody of the absurd exploding car image in an early episode of the TV series Family Guy – Peter and Meg Griffin are raced against by an Amish-man on a cargo free completely wooden cart pulled by a horse. Both cart and horse go over the cliff and explode.
Hopefully readers will think of these words when watching the next movie featuring such scenes.
Youtube – the Family Guy Amish scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjgfhAvpmE
Arthur Chappell
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
@Asylum that would be great - we staged a full Wacky Races cast stunt for an SF convention once - I was Rufus Ruffcut
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Jul 16
@arthurchappell I bet you was relieved not to be chosen as Penelope Pitstop.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
@Asylum or Peter Perfect but that would have been typecasting
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@sunilparthan (6302)
• India
17 Jul 16
car crash in movies? actually lot of money is wasted in that here.
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@sunilparthan (6302)
• India
17 Jul 16
@arthurchappell but is that much it worth. now as animations are here it is cool
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
@sunilparthan cars used in movies for crashing are usually only fit for scrap anyway - a good car is used for scenes right up to the crash/destruction, when a scrap-heap car is used in the final trashing - it's actually quite cheap compared to other effects and star-fees
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
@sunilparthan very much here too
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
@skysnap TV and movie maker Irwin Allen used to look at scripts and casually say - 'not enough happening here so blow something up'. His shows therefore had randomly inserted bursts of action just to liven things up without advancing the series
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Jul 16
hopefully people watched mythbusters too, they demonstrated that over and over
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
20 Jul 16
I do enjoy Mythbusters apart from repeating what went on earlier throughout the episodes
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Jul 16
@arthurchappell yeah, they got bad about that later on. we watch records of it. so fast fwding through all that wasted time
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
@JudyEv electrical wiring in cars can be quite combustible and with so much plastic fire can catch hold fast in a car - always best to get out quickly in even a minor crash
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Jul 16
Exploding cars in movies and TV have been a staple for decades. They just love spectacular car explosions. I have never been enamored of them as it's rather a cheap mundane trick. An exception would be the car blast at the conclusion of the race in Bullit.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 16
There are a few that do it well - the original version of Vanishing Point for one
