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What is the best movie car chase or chases?
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Mitchell Tsai, Dani Radu, Ahsan Ali aka. Slick and 78 other people liked this
The French Connection, hands down.
- James (!?)
Ronin... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Michael Hocter
Bourne again has some good ones.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ronin for sure, follwoed closely by the fight/chase scene in Matrix Revolution.
- Admiral Anika
Surprisingly, for someone who likes car chases, I don't recall them too well. The most recent ones that come to mind are the racing scenes in Fast & Furious and the freeway attack/kidnapping in The Kingdom
- LANjackal
I like the Matrix Reloaded one.
- mridul
I'm being serious here, but BAD BOYS 2 has the single best car chase scene, takes place on the bridge.
- Roger @ CineVegas
BULLITT with Steve McQueen
- Billy Warhol
+1 ronin
- Marco
speed 1
- Demetrios the Traveller
Speed.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Ronin
- .LAG liked that
another vote for Ronin here
- martha
Catch that Beast - insanely long "We need this movie to be half an hour longer, just ad car chases" syndrome
- David Miller
Blues Brothers
- Glen Mistletoe
from iPhone
The ones in the Transporter movies.
- Rahul Das
The French Connection
- Nick
Gosh, can't remember Ronin very well, must watch it again.
- Kol Tregaskes
what mridul said: matrix reloaded, oh yes!
- esther ♥ ♫
The latest Matrix?
- Daniele Di Gregorio
I love the fact that the credits of The Blues Brothers lists 273 stunt drivers
- Glen Mistletoe
I'd have to say "Bullet" & "Ronin" are tide in my mind for best chase scene.
- Bluesun 2600
Mustang vs.Charger, with Steve McQueen as Bullitt, is tops in my book!
- CJ Guest
Just watched Ronin on Youtube, Umm!! kinda lacks action when compared to Matrix Reloaded but never seen that kinda driving before!! Hard to choose between Ronin and Matrix Reloaded though, it's girl on bike v/s girl on the wheel. I say Trinity (in that shiny leather outfit) beats the blonde.
- mridul
for the record: Ronin is REAL bad ass skilled driving, Matrix Reloaded is mostly CG crap! record book closed :)
- Marco
Matrix 2, followed by Bourne 2.
- Roberto Bonini
Ronin is #1, but the French Connection is a close 2
- Davis Freeberg
Ronin by a mile
- Steve
matrix
- alexray oLO
Ronin followed by the original Italian Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) Something about mini coopers jumping from rooftop to rooftop that is just awesome :)
- Robert DeBord
Sorry, but you're all wrong :). This is the best car chase ever shot http://www.youtube.com/watch.... 9 minutes, one single take, no speeding up, no special effects, no blocked street, excessively dangerous and perfectly illegal. It's also an amazing tour of Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for more.
- Jérôme Flipo
Diamonds are Forever
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
every time this question comes up, i am the only person who mentions the jetcar/bike chase at the end of "THX-1138." :-)
- Karim
another vote for Ronin... either one of the 2 car chase scenes in that one edge out French Connection.
- Jim Hearts FF
If you didn't click my link, Jeremy Clarkson said C'était un Rendez-vous "makes Bullitt look like a cartoon". Now, go watch it and let me know your new opinion :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jérôme Flipo
clicked it. that is cool.
- Marco
Cool vid. Seen it before and still contend French Connection best, if only because of its back-story.
- James (!?)
one expects the driver to get out of the car at the end of "C'était un Rendez-vous" and pull some dead pigeons out of the radiator grille. :-D
- Karim
Taxi (French version)
- Keith Hollingsworth
from iPhone
yeah Matrix Reloaded, Ronin, and Bourne series all have some excellent chases. I haven't seen Bullit or French Connection YET. Hear good things.
- Nathan Chase
Ronin and French Connection.
- TVTechGrl
Bullitt with Steve McQueen
- Larry Roth
Bourne trilogy for me, Ronin was good also, maybe even the Italian Job.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
The Blues Brothers.
- Ton Zijp
Bullet
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Ronin.
- Mycaptain
Gone in 60 Seconds. Eleanor. (surprised it took this long to get a mention)
- chrisofspades
BULLITT.
- Steven Perez
French Connection & Ronin tie for me.
- Pete Delucchi
Bourne Identity drive in the classic mini and the opening chase scene from The Transporter are very good.
- Alex Scoble
Bullitt, Ronin, French Connection.
- AJ Kohn
Gone in 60 Seconds and Matrix Reloaded..
- Varun "Maverick" Pitale
Bourne Supremacy>Orognal Italian Job> Matrix Reloaded
- Vemana Madasu
Ronin is the best because it is real! Matrix is nice too but it is special effects
- Amir
Another vote for Blues Brothers here!
- Mellissa Claus
Death Proof.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- bnoise
The Matrix - Reloaded and yes, Tarantino's Death Proof || I also love French Connection!
- Frank Da Silva
Terminator / L.A. River
- Marg Uerite
While 'C'etait un Rendez vous' isn't strictly a movie chase scene, it's a great drive. My vote is for Ronin though. It's pretty much what you think of when you think of modern car chases.
- Will Higgins™
Ronin, because it was real cars.
- Andrew Leyden
The Blues Brothers
- thinkQuick
Ronin and the Bourne movies
- Norbert Evenich
Dandy Dan and his gang chasing Bugsy and Fat Sam in Bugsy Malone.
- Mark H
Ronin without doubt.
- Faraz Mullick
Transporter
- Bora Mesut PALAS
Ronin by a landslide
- Bwana ☠
I hate to say this because the movie itself is absolutely terrible but.. The scene in Bad Boys where the cars are flipping over the Ferrari.. OMGWTFBBQ.. I think CGI is the way to go with car chases..
- Can Koklu
French Connection, Ronin, Bourne movie had a decent one.
- David J Lowe
The Bourne Identity had the best one IMHO, though the one in Bourne Supremacy came close to beating it. Ronin was fantastic too. Michael Bay puts together some entertaining ones, even if they are over the top - the chases in The Rock, Bad Boys, and Bad Boys 2 are definitely fun to watch.
- Eric P
The Dark Knight "prisoner transport" chase was pretty awesome.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
The chase scene from Bullit is great. The chase scene with the crane smashing through buildings from Terminator 3 is a fave as well.
- Jeremy Brooks
Great thread, gonna have to go back and watch a few movies. By the way, the horse chase in first Lord of the Rings was quite good :)
- jcunwired
Blues Brothers hands down. Winnebago in a lake, police car lands INSIDE a semi, 20+ police car pile-up, army helicopters, nazis, what else do you need?!
- Peter Ghosh
Blues Brothers & French Connection are tied in my mind for best, but I love the chase scene in "Day Watch" as well.
- Jennifer Dittrich
So which Ronin chase is better, the Audi / Citroen / Mercedes chase or the BMW / Peugeot one later in the movie?
- Andrew Leyden
RONIN.
- Zafer Yılmaz
Ronin
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ronin, for sure...
- DAL
Ronin, The French Connection then Bullitt
- David Monroe
FriendFeed is not seeing the same level of growth as Twitter because trolls and spammers are not welcome here.
anna sauce, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Kimber Scott and 26 other people liked this
Honestly, who needs that kind of growth?
- Steven Perez
FriendFeed is not seeing the same level of growth because most people are not subscribed to so many social applications. And after all FriendFeed IS a social aggregator more than anything else.
- Amit Morson
Last night's discussion on this topic: http://friendfeed.com/acitran...
- Aviv
I get anywhere from 15 to 30 notifications from Twitter a day. No less than half of those are spam accounts. It's gotten to the point where I don't even open them anymore. And this is the model that a handful of a-list goofballs want to emulate? Thanks, but no thanks.
- Steven Perez
Not sure twitter is exactly welcoming either... When FF gets big enough the spammers will surely begin to head this way in higher numbers
- David Miller
Aviv: saw that. Wasn't interested in overthinking the situation like the rest of them were.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think you hit the nail
- BEX
It's the same problem that Blogspot had some time ago: any fool could get a Blogspot account and start spamming blog comments at will, because Blogspot (and then Blogger) had zero tools to cull that crap. That allowed services like Haloscan and Disqus to blossom, but at the cost of a mass exodus to Wordpress, which has seen similar issues.
- Steven Perez
I think I may have seen no more than a half a dozen times where spammers hit my threads, and it's always been easy to root them out, but fighting them is the real problem that FF faces.
- Steven Perez
FriendFeed also has a solid base of core users who look out for, and stamp out, trolls and spammers on sight. Something Twitter does not have, or has become too big to have.
- Helen Sventitsky
I am thinking also that crazy people do not attract trolls and such as well as tweeters.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
There is a long thread here too: http://ff.im/53C52
- Kol Tregaskes
Lazy day watching a few movies, now watching The Fountain and hope it actually makes sense this time, as clueless last time I watched it.
Shevonne and Penguin It's Cold Outside liked this
Definitely not worth re-watching. Shame as I had such high hopes for that film...
- David Miller
I <3 this movie. The movie is trying to say that things are circular.
- Shevonne
Giving it another go as I think it's better than I first thought but need to understand it more first.
- Kol Tregaskes
Will we eventually use terms like 'Facebook/Twitter it' similar to 'Google it' for finding information?
Twitter it...facebook it...Hmm, doesn't roll off the tongue for me :)
- Mo Kargas
i call it searching the "social grid" vs traditional search which is all about indexing & gaming for rank
- mike "glemak" dunn
I've been known to use tweet as a verb in general conversation -- "that meal tasted so good I'd tweet it"
- David Miller
@mike accurate but never going to roll off the tongue though ;)
- David Miller
Cufón - custom font embedding with SVG/VML - http://ajaxian.com/archive...
Very interesting system this, probably my favourite font replacement so far
- David Miller
Social Music: 5 Ways to Find Concerts Near You - http://mashable.com/2009...
Some of these are actually pretty good
- David Miller
Going to try ubuntu using virtual box on Vista... Universe Implode in 3... 2... 1...
Nir Ben Yona, David Miller, Tyson Key and Mona Nomura liked this
It's brilliant as long as you don't do a filesystem search for 'the c: drive plz'... at which point the system we know as 'binary collapses faster than a house of cards|economies
- David Miller
Re: Why Facebook May Already Be Killing Twitter - http://www.inquisitr.com/14244...
Daniel Krech, Marcus Beagley, Andrew Trinh and 13 other people liked this
"There has been a significant increase in responses to status updates on Facebook, and not just from the mainstream. People I know used to most often respond to me via FriendFeed are responding via Facebook at now with some regularity. But it's as I've always said, you should move to where the conversation is and not force it in one place. If it moves, I move."
- Louis Gray
I have a different group of regular commenters on Facebook - and I don't import my FF. :) Crap, I should go write that on inquisitr. Ooops.
- Mona Nomura
Yes, but it is a different set of people. Tech-savvy people respond on my blog, Twitter or FF, the people who post on my FB wall, or respond to status updates, or message me on FB are old highschool friends, my Mom, not tech-savvy folks.
- Bora Zivkovic
Well um...I don't know about other people, but 99% of my facebook status updates come from Twitter.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
As big of a clustermess Facebook's web interface is, the phone apps are PHENOMENAL. (BB and iPhones, the only two I've personally used) I only log on via phone. And I DO have a lot of web savvy people on my Facebook who don't like Twitter or FriendFeed...
- Mona Nomura
maybe twitter/friendfeed are better for people who are ok with having their status updates and comments public? You don't have to bother with accepting "friends requests"? yes you could have your facebook profile set to publicly accessible, but then you would be sharing more about yourself than just your status or start playing around more with privacy rules?
- Davide D'Incau
the bemoaned redesign finally opened up the platform to other web services and developers :)
- Mike Chelen
Commenting on items seemed to take a long time to kick off on fb, but now that it has, the status update gains the possibility of being a threaded conversation starter, as far as my social graph goes though, the nature & scope of the conversation is massively different...
- David Miller
What is of massive impact though is that with fb comments you don't a search functionality that is even remotely as useful as search on twitter. Again... search is one of the key aspects of twitter, which fb's incremental privacy features & walled garden mentality will be very hard pressed to replace
- David Miller
Should Twitter Add Authority-based Search? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Lu Tao liked this
"Loic Le Meur is asking Twitter to add an authority filter to their search (he also goes on a rant about Sprint, but ignore that). He wants to sort through Twitter messages based on how many followers the person writing has, so he’ll know the relative importance of what’s being said."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Is number of followers really an indiciation of importance???
- Roberto Bonini
No
- David Miller
Ever since 2003, I’ve always wanted a menu that sticks out... - http://kirindave.tumblr.com/post...
I would very much like to know how this is done...
- David Miller
Register's Googlewashing Story Overblown - http://radar.oreilly.com/2008...
Calm & thoughtful. Makes a nice change
- David Miller
Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer: Your all-inclusive guide to a life well-lived. - http://basicinstructions.net/...
Beauty & the Beast is not romantic, it's stockholm syndrome
- David Miller
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Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks - http://www.digsby.com/...
Kamath (नमः), Jan Dawson, Sean Oliver and 40 other people liked this
Is it out in Linux yet? Is it? Is it?
- Helen Sventitsky
Digsby app was created right here in Rochester, NY = hotbed of east tech! ha, ha!
- Susan Beebe
More importantly, by a fellow RIT alum :)
- Andrew Badera
Looks good, but not mac or linux friendly. Who the heck makes a social app that can't be used by macs? Oh god, my sweet, sweet bubble of mac superiority has been punctured nooooooooooooooo!
- Soup
Finally tried it out today. Loving it
- Mark Wilson
When I was still on Windows, I used Digsby for a while. Loved it, but the Memory leakage sucked the life out of my experience with it.
- Helen Sventitsky
memory leaks have been fixed, It now takes about 5-7mb when running in the systray, and for me 25-30mb when opened up.
- Pascal
I use Digsby
- Kristian Salonen
Keep coming back to check this out only to find no linux version. Looks nice though
- David Miller
I use Digsby as well..
- Terence
Me too, great app, still needs a few tweaks though.
- Kol Tregaskes
I know it's not linux friendly but it's a terrific app, and the memory leaks are a thing of the past. It's ideal to have it on and keep an eye in your email and now with the FriendFeed by IM it's almost better than Twhirl.
- Cibeles
I use it on my windows boxes. They need a Mac and Linux client.
- Neal Jansons
Digsby is fine. They did improve mem usage, but it can cause lag when it jumps from idle to active. I still couldn't use it for that reason. It's like David Banner turning into the Hulk everytime you touch it. Stuff gets all ripped up and stuff...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I really don't have a problem with it, to be honest. But I do remember the memory leakages in the past. It so good that I had to close the updates from FriendFeed it was way to much information for me LOL, that's why I don't use that much Twhirl it jumps on you when you are doing something else.
- Cibeles
Digsby and Ping.fm are great together - definately need a client for the Mac. My pc is offline and I want my digsby back, great for keeping track of multiple FaceBook, MySpace and IM accounts.
- Chris Loft
still waiting for the Mac version...
- Jon Price
Agree with others -- with the memory leaks fixed, digsby is the best client of it's type -- and it SHOULD have a linux client. I know the dev team has mentioned trying to make one happen, wonder if it would run in WINE?
- Woodrow Jarvis Hill
A bit slow to start up even when I reduced it to just TWO Y! Mails and a Twitter acct.
- Adam
I love this. Nothing against Adium but... This is better
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WordPress 2.7: If You Don't Like It, Change It - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
I will be upgrading just as soon as I get a chance...
- David Miller
Spotify: Everyone Loves Music - http://www.spotify.com/en/
Icekahlua, Simon Wicks, AJ Batac and 12 other people liked this
Only for Europeans right now...
- Zee.
ha, way to get back at us for Pandora, huh :P
- Kamilah Gill
yeah, love it! :)
- Zee.
Looks interesting - anyone have an invite code?
- David Miller
I could use an invite as well, always looking for new music!
- Juan Pablo González
not for Germans either :(
- Baard @ Pixum
no invite codes made available to me yet - as soon as they do, will definitely post them here
- Zee.
Yay I'm European
- Toby Graham
It's good to be European... for a change. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
zzzzzzzzzz
- LouCypher
Where is its Europa? : )
- Erhan Erdogan
bumped due to duplicate...please try & search before posting guys. Then bump up the original
- Zee.
i've got invites if anyone wants them - 5 available
- Zee.
invite for me, please.
- Jon Price
Would love an invite please Zee - usual address :)
- Matt Harwood
np, email address Jon?
- Zee.
great line in their company bio: "If it’s not good for the user then it’s not worth doing." wish every product creation company had the same mindset.
- Jon Price
zee - would love an invite (am in Europe for a few days)
- Frederic
just sent to your lastpodcast address Frederic...where u at in Europe & for how long?
- Zee.
zee - jonprice at gmail
- Jon Price
Thanks mate, got mine. Fantastic service!
- Matt Harwood
I'm loving spotify!
- Dave Pook
On the downside there is no social functionality and the genre list on the radio is a bit limited. Would be wicked with some last.fm type stuff to enhance browsing and discovery.
- Dave Pook
貌似这个现在开始火了，等邀请啊。。。。
- cch
I'm confused. It still works for me (granted, I had an account during the alpha).
- Brandon Titus
@Brandon Titus can you sent me a invite？
- cch
Sounds interesting. Can't wait to try it out! But I do wonder how long they'll last with the whole free music thing.
- deepikaur
Sorry cch, looks like I don't have any invites left.
- Brandon Titus
My girlfriends cousin is part of the team, I'm glad to see it getting some recognition now. Library of tracks availabe to free users has dropped a bit, and i often see songs from my playlists marked as not available, or set to not available in the UK, but overall, i love it. Shared playlists is awesome, we should set up a friendfeed one! every one add a track. I have a bunch of invites if anyone's still after them.
- Simon Wicks
Amazing App.... The best one for listen music... !!!
- Icekahlua
Twitter CEO: The revenue's coming soon, but I won't tell you how | Webware - CNET - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
akira, (jeff)isageek, Jose Maria Pelaez and 32 other people liked this
And speaking of expansion, there are several projects on the books. Williams said that the top feature requested on Twitter is grouping, and that it's in the works. This will enable users to segment their Twitter friends into sub-networks to send specific groups certain posts. It will also make Twitter a more useful tool in business.
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Those of us on http://www.peoplebrowsr.com already have grouping. It definitely makes Twitter more useful to business.
- Robert Scoble
I keep wondering is I should look into peoplebrowsr..
- Dave Winer
Churchill Club podcasts. http://www.churchillclub.org/podcast...
- Dave Winer
Grouping is a feature that's so useful I might even consider paying for it... but when you can already do so for free [currently] with tweetdeck or others, you'd have to wonder about pinning your revenue hopes to it. They'd have to offer a lot more as well
- David Miller
Dave: I think you'd find lots of the concepts of PeopleBrowsr interesting. You should watch the video here for a good demo: http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
- Robert Scoble
Hey Robert. The guy in the Kyte video is Jodee Rich. Were you in Australia or does he live overseas now?
- Barak B
Barak: he visited my house in Half Moon Bay.
- Robert Scoble
haha robert i love how you're recording yoru password lol
- stanleyyork
He knows what is best. Maybe an expansion could make twitter more useful?
- Jack
So if grouping becomes reality, does that make apps like Peoplebrowser less appealing (although i realize PB brings more than grouping to the table)?
- David Bisset (sn)
PeopleBrowsr is one of the best looking SocNet apps I've seen - highly feature packed, with novel utility...very nice
- Susan Beebe
i'm not sure he knows how himself just yet - but the iwantsandy purchase/hire hints that they are planning to try a few things
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Teasing strategy?
- Marcello Del Bono
Put a dent in the universe - http://www.37signals.com/svn...
Precisely why I am happy to be leaving this job in a week's time
- David Miller
Archie Shepp – Hambone - http://www.last.fm/music...
This did masses for me & jazz... Not quite as much as those first Coleman & Coultrane records, but close
- David Miller
Inconnus - a set on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Haven't tried searching flickr for keywords in languages other than english for ages. Forgot how useful it is
- David Miller
from Bookmarklet
hmm IM notifications for comments on my posts seem not to have been working today... Or ever in fact :( has this ever worked for anyone?
davidmiller I just wanted to test your comments and see if you receive any notification via IM :)
- Ehren Cheung
from IM
Yes, it's working for me. One of my favorite FF features now. Adium + FF = WIN.
- Chris Baskind
This now seems to be working fine... FTW indeed
- David Miller
from IM
@thatdavidmiller IM notifications for FF? They have worked for me ... not too recently. Then again not many ppl reply to me via FF :)
I get a few people pushed into IM on gmail, & supposedly comments on my feed as well, but It's not been working
- David Miller
from IM
I don't use this enough so I'm testing it :)
- Ehren Cheung
from IM
I just received the notification
- Ehren Cheung
from IM
Pixies – Gigantic - http://www.last.fm/music...
edythe, Anna Haro, Emma and 3 other people liked this
Best pixies song
- RAPatton
I have a big big love for this song
- David Miller
Trying to convince management that multiple fake personalities stirring up trouble on competitors web forums is a bad way to go - ideas?
Scott of Two Countries, Igor Poltavskiy, Ladybug Heather and Rob Diana liked this
TechCrunch had a post yesterday about Motorola doing this. Fake profiles and the company get killed when found out.
- Rob Diana
Well, one thing is that it WILL be figured out, and the technology exists to track their IP addresses back to the company. Subsequent press attention will be BAD.
- Ladybug Heather
Thanks for the heads up about the techcrunch link - hopefully that along with a compete.com graph showing relative traffic might be instructive as to risk involved... I'll keep at it :)
- David Miller
Alleged Twitter Security Issue: Doctor It Hurts When I Do That… - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
Twitter's proposed oauth clone to be optional rather than mandatory after they introduce it...
- David Miller
It's Not Over: We are "the change we need." - http://radar.oreilly.com/2008...
The how-to of idealism
- David Miller
Someone left a piano in the woods - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
Brilliant expression on this police officer's face
- David Miller
this isn't happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr - http://nevver.tumblr.com/post...
A world in which this is a serious concern is a bizarre one indeed to contemplate
- David Miller
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If everything is top priority, then nothing is top priority - http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewt...
Actioning this item is now my infinite priority
- David Miller
When approached by a progress chaser at work, my default response is "yes, your job is the most important. so are all these jobs here. each one is more important than all the others."
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
Nothing Is New - http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008...
Tales of subtle fascination & gaps in reality...
- David Miller
Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
Messing about on the internet is not just a time sink. Long suspected, now confirmed.
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