Vanishing Point remake

[General_01]

Has anyone seen the 1996 "Vanishing Point" remake with Viggo Mortensen<sp?>? I saw it last night. I thought it was pretty good. He still drives the Challenger and there is a cop who chases them for a brief time with a '68 Charger. Just wondering if anyone else saw it and had thoughts about the movie.

[moparguy01]

ihave both it and the original on dvd. I didnt like how hollywood killed the original plot  in the remake, but it still wasnt all that bad. and in the remake the dirty bastards actually blew up a challenger. unlike the original where it was a camaro.

[General_01]

Yea. They kinda lost the brooding character aspect by making her death come during the movie. It was kinda cool watching a Challenger doing burnouts and flying around corners.

[Dave22443]

I thought it was pretty pathetic myself.  Particularly the way they trashed a '68 Charger for no damn reason other than to trash another classic Mopar.  They could have wrecked that stupid Camaro police car and had the same result, but Nooooo!  They have to total another Charger!  (OK, I'm biased because I own a '68 Charger).

And what really tore me up was that they didn't even give it any quality screen time.  What a waste.   

I know, I'm internally torn over Hollywood and stunt cars.  I know movies like Bullit and shows like DOH have probably paid for themselves many times over in the number of Chargers they have sold or saved (by making them popular) but it still pains me to seem them get wrecked.

Don't even get me started on Duke Fest.  Why the heck someone would take a car, reguardless of condition, and spend all that time and $$$ to turn it into a General Lee just so they can total it in front of a crowd is beyond me.  What a nutjob.

[my73charger]

Didn't even know there was a remake.  Guess I need to add another video to the collection.

[694spdRT]

The plot does leave something to be desired but, the first plot was not exactly award winning either. I definately prefer the original 1971 version over the remake hands down. There is something with the original that the remake will never capture. The soundtrack is way better in the original and I can't stand "The Voice" character either from the remake.

['CUDA360]

I like them both but I like the second one better.  I can watch it with my ten year old son and not worry about the nakee girl on the bike or the drug use. The original had no real plot, no one knew why Kowalski
was running except for the drugs.  Cleavon Little was good in it though.. He was a great actor

Not to mention when the chrysler folks heard about the blue parts of the movie they pulled out the're support.

Too bad Viggo turned out to be just another hollywood  flake 

[greenpigs]

ihave both it and the original on dvd. I didnt like how hollywood killed the original plot  in the remake, but it still wasnt all that bad. and in the remake the dirty bastards actually blew up a challenger. unlike the original where it was a camaro.

Same here, the second one has more cool Mopars, but the story is watered down. But mainly who cares its about the car just like the first one.

[hemihead]

I liked the remake better. 

[41husk]

Whats wrong with naked hippys in the dessert

[TruckDriver]

I liked the remake better. 

[derailed]

i thought the remake was good. I didnt even know there was one until about 6 months ago. I do agree that black 68 charger looked to nice to be wrecked like that.

[my73charger]

I just purchased the Highwaymen to.  It wasn't bad, had an awesome 68 Barracuda in it.  I am trying to collect all the old Hotrod movies, especially Mopar.  I am actually thinking about adding the Phantasm movies just for the car.  I currently have the original Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry, Highwaymen, & American Graffiti.  I had Smokey and the Bandit 1 but my daughters dog chewed it up.  Also gonna by Bullit this weekend.

[derailed]

tried to play my copy of 2 lane blacktop a few weeks ago and the tape when haywire right after i put it in. Its about 20 years old and it probably wasnt any good so now im on the hunt for that as well as Heart like A wheel.

[my73charger]

A buddy of mine just brought that movie over.  I have to say that plot REALLY sucked rocks.  The cars were fun to watch though.  I also want to get a copy of Catch me if you Can.

[derailed]

With the exception of Bullit I think most of those movies plots sucked back then, but I love listening to that 55 Cheby in 2 lane 

[my73charger]

With the exception of Bullit I think most of those movies plots sucked back then, but I love listening to that 55 Cheby in 2 lane 

[694spdRT]

I was looking at the Vansihing Point display at Mopar Nats back when the remake came out and the guy was getting some heat for the wrecking of the '68 in the show. He said there were actually 2 '68 Chargers and the "good" one was not wrecked. I still don't think it added enough to the story line to wreck the stunt car.

[my73charger]

You guys know that in the original they didn't wreck a Challenger in the end....it was a Camaro.

[694spdRT]

You guys know that in the original they didn't wreck a Challenger in the end....it was a Camaro.

Yep. 

[41husk]

If you collect movies with old mopars in it get the original gone in 60 seconds, terrible plot, music and actors but a bunch of mopars.

[greenpigs]

If you collect movies with old mopars in it get the original gone in 60 seconds, terrible plot, music and actors but a bunch of mopars.

Cannonball-with David Carridene-sic has a 68 Charger- black of course- that get some screen time.
Big Fish- 66\67 Charger
The Gladiator- beat up 69 Charger
DeathRace 2000 - cool Roger Corrman flick with weirdo cars

Plenty of others, might I suggest getting Hot Rod magazine Feb 06, it has a review of the top 40 car movies in it.

[moparguy01]

Duel had a valiant in it, Christine was everyones favorite possessed car, then what car movie collection would be complete without Stroker Ace orthe cannonball run movies.

[Darkness]

I liked the remake better than the original. Plot could of been better but, fun watching that Challenger slide and hotrod around. I didn't like where to they destroyed the 68 Charger and 70 Challenger though. But, who knew what was coming as that movie was made before the muscle car boom of early 2000-2001.

[Mopartranman]

Hi everyone... I'm a newbie here. Cool website! I thought the original movie was better. But any movies with mopars are a plus in my book.  I got the pleasure to rebuild the trans in the main stunt car from the 2nd movie. Still had the "make up" dirt on it.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

in the re-amke in the charger scenes you can see the cops are in a flat black challenger charger and in the ending crash a challenger with cragar ss rims-MATT

[Dale The Bold]

In the original, I couldn't figure out what Kowalski's motivation was.  In the remake, it was kind of cheesy, but at least there was *something* for his motivation.

[Mike DC]

Little known fact:

The director of the 1971 VP was originally making a much "deeper" movie than what actually was produced.  The studio took over and re-cut it at the last minute to dumb it down several notches.  Even the extended British version in the DVDs is still badly re-cut from the version that the director originally delivered to 20th Century Fox.   

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I think the remake is just fun to watch the cars.  There's nothing too badly wrong with it, but nothing's really right either.

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[Andrew]

In the original, I couldn't figure out what Kowalski's motivation was.  In the remake, it was kind of cheesy, but at least there was *something* for his motivation.

Didnt he bet that guy he could?