No CGI, no Ultimate Arm, no drones - Only Action Movie: Short Time Director: Gregg Champion Writers: John Blumenthal, Michael Berry Stars: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr ...
Another thing that makes this car chase so brilliant and sets it apart from the others is the context behind it. It's not about catching the bad guys or escaping the bad guys. Its about Dabney Coleman's character trying to get himself killed and failing to do so!
In 1991 I worked for a security company that had a fleet of ex-police Dodge Diplomats as patrol cars. They were as tough as anvils. None of them worked right but they never stopped running.
When I started my 30 year career as a cop, our fleet has Dodge Aspens as patrol cars. They were horrible. They were very fast if you drove straight. But hard braking and turning right or left, the engines would die. Cops knew to put it in neutral and restart the engine. Nice and roomy. Phased those out fir the early 80’s Chevy Malibu, a great car, but came with different engines, a 305 and 350. The 350’s screamed.
Side story to the Aspen! There was a cop, who was very strong. The Aspen died on him while driving in a high speed situation. The power steering shuts off and he had to muscle through the turn. He bent the steering wheel. Typical, the city mechanics tried to straighten out the steering wheel so for the duration that cruiser was in service, the steering wheel was more oval than round.
@@TurboPro9952 Dabney Coleman played the voice of Principal Peter Prickly in the animated TV series, _Recess_ (1997-2001), as well as _Recess: School's Out, Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street_ (both 2001), _Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade_ and _Recess: All Growed Down_ (both 2003).
I remember this movie. It was hilarious. The cop thought he was dying of a terminal disease that was not covered by insurance but if he was killed in the line of duty his family would get a huge settlement. So he was taking a lot of dangerous chances. He had been an extremely cautious cop until then. The actor was not really known for comedy roles but he did a good job in this one.
@@a.person7825 one of his best in this genre is actually "Cloak and dagger. " where he played dual roles as the dad who has no time for his kid and an imaginary spy that advises the kid through a lot of adventures against real spies.
@@sprint429 He's not so much "loosening the belt" as expressing regret that the seatbelt saved his life in the roll-over crash. He wants to die, on his own terms.
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs Don't you hate it when you want to die dramatically in a car chase, but _then safety belts have to get involved and ruin the fun for everyone!_
Nobody who saw the film was expecting him to get out. He was trying to kill himself in the line of duty but didn't realise he was still wearing his belt.
One of the greatest underrated car chases in movie history. The camera work, editing and sound design, not to mention the stunt driving, is absolutely first rate. I would even put this slightly above the chase scene in Friedkin's To Live And Die In LA.
I love watching the car chase scenes from these movies. You get to see a lot of cars that were common in those days but you don’t see anymore. Very nostalgic.
@@Pbadome1 It was the ending of the second Bourne movie. He steals a cab and beats the hell out of it, along with half the cars in Russia. For gratuitous property damage though, I think "Blues Brothers is the winner.
Exactly! Wish they would go back to making stunts and practical effects. Computerized explosions and cars turning over, bullets flying through in slow motion doesn't do anything for me. Movie producers need to go back to the drawing board and make good movies again.
My full admiration goes out to the flashing red light on top of the cop car! Not only did it manage to stay attached right til the end, it also managed to remain functioning right til the end. It's made of sturdy stuff!
The camera shots played a massive role in this masterpiece. The bumper shots, the camera shake, the sudden pause here for an example 4:00, the creative camera placements like this one here 3:38, the static shots on some parts. It really adds to the excitement.
Absolutely phenomenal camera work here. You can tell precisely what is going on at all times and with maximum impact. Also, the sound and editing is incredible.
If you watch the whole movie it is not lame, he is driving like that so he can die in the line of duty and his family will be set for life as he thinks he is dying !!!
This was awesome! Look closely at 1:49 frame by frame, the cop car clearly breaks his Left Front tie rod (steering) but looks like they repaired that and kept filming the scene with the same car at 1:51.
Yep. Same with the tow truck in Terminator 2. When it jumps down from the bridge you can clearly see that it broke its right steering but in the next scene its fixed.
@@magnetmannenbannanen Well good point, but the only the T1000 himself was liquid metal, not the truck he was driving. And like the T-101 said, it cant use/make complex shapes or things.
@Dude with Opinion when i was 17 , i ride my BMX all day long.....not the same country, not the same way for play. Now i'm 34 and i ride a 1971 firebird tuned to 330hp , and every time i ride my pontiac i'm back to my 19, when i was stupidly mad.
I love movie car chases! Car takes a hundred rounds to the radiator without a puff of steam. "Bullet* with Steve Mcqueen has got to be the all-time best
Certainly not, many car chases are better, in Bullit you dont see any cars in streets, except one or two beetles!For example, I watched a french movie called " le casse" (" the burglars") and chase is in real streets traffic....There are many others examples..
"Short Time" is a real gem of a movie with some great stunts and funny lines. It is helped by Dabney Coleman and Matt Frewer playing two cops called "Bert" and "Ernie" and doing a good job of channelling the Sesame Street characters.
How about how the cop car loses its windshield and then a few (film) shots later it has a windshield and then a few (film). shots later the windshield is missing again!
No!!! The geezers here seem to think these cars all survived. Just patch up the holes and drive them another 800,000 miles. Nostalgia is one of the greatest enemies of the truth.
I was a teenager in the 90's and it was easily the best decade of my life! The early Internet, Gamespy, heaps of populated Quake servers, modem and LAN Warcraft II, Star Trek Next Generation, Stargate, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, and so much more! Pure heaven!
Was a teenager in the the early 80's and it was easily the best decade of my life! Discovering computers with my first VIC-20, then C64. Trading games on BBS's. Great action movies like Aliens, Die Hard. Back to the Future, the Terminator, Star Trek WOK, Commando, Ghostbusters, The Goonies. Back when TV was entertaining with shows like The A-Team, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Knight Rider, the start of Star Trek:TNG, McGyver, Magnum PI, The Greatest American Hero, The Six Million Dollar man. And so many sitcoms. The birth of Music videos. Very cool TV miniseries like "V". When Schwarzenegger, Willis, M. J. Fox, Sigourney Weaver, were household names. Good times. Good memories. (The 90's weren't too bad either. Neither was the 70's)
@@DocMicrowave Awesome reply! Although I was too young in the 80's (born in 1984) I still have immense love and respect for that era, as well as the 70's (mostly from music, TV shows and movies from those decades). Thank you so much for sharing your experience! Peace and love ❤✌❤
Lets see...SEGA in it's prime, console wars, the Mclaren F1 (and supercars in general), best NFS games of all times, the best anime, NBA golden age, best action movies (Arnold, Sly, JCVD, JC, Bruce willis, Seagal, etg), first Matrix, The truman show (Jim Carrey), Football in it's prime (the real Football, not the american), F1, FIA GT, Indycar golden years, and a long etc...
Hell yes. All action and no cgi. Never saw this movie, but will now have to check it out. Dabney Coleman was hysterical, and was also a good dramatic actor as well. The car chase in "Ronin" has always been a fave, also obviously Smokey and the Bandit, and the Blues Brothers too, for the choreography, sheer hilarity and utter destruction of many, many cars. John Candy's quip in the Blues Brothers- "We're in a truck!" Classic.
I saw this on HBO! I've always felt this was by far the greatest car chase on film to this day. Rolls down an enbankment, unclicks seat belt and continues. This is for you Dougie.
W...why? Those things were at the tail end of the Malaise era. Thing only made 140 HP or something. My 2 liter 4G63 SOHC makes that amount. On a 2xbbl carb.
@@the_kombinator e58 4bbl 360 made 245 hp and a nice big flat torque curve. More torque at 1500 rpm than your shitbox all out. You're engine wouldn't last 30 minutes at maximum rated horsepower. A 318 would last 20k hours in a towmotor.
@@randymagnum143 Um, actually, a very worn out (and heavily modded - 15.8 at St Thomas) 4G32 I had lasted an hour at Mosport well past the redline at times until I spun a bearing due to oil starvation. I still have the engine. I was keeping up with an Integra Type R on the straights and an MR2 kept up with me in the turns. The 360 fitted to an American land yacht would not be able to keep up with my shitbox on track, period. It MIGHT breach the 14s with some mods. Also, 4G33s are in fact used as forklift engines in Asian countries and are extremely durable. So are GA16DEs - both are better than what Hyster put into their forklifts and require very little servicing and don't piss out oil like the Iron Duke.
This was one of the most hilarious ridiculous things I have ever viewed - especially when his red mangled car was still able to drive after somersaulting. this is one of the best good old belly laughs I have had in a long time. Good for the immune system.
The story and acting in this movie is superb from everyone involved! It is a great movie. But that damned car chase made it monumental. That is bad ass. Short Time!
I still want a DVD for this. The movie is 'Short Time' from 1990. Long story short, a medical mix up makes Dabney Coleman think he's only got a short while to live, but his insurance only pays out if he dies on the job, so to provide for his wife and son after he's gone, he becomes supercop.
I used to drive one of those Dodge/Plymouths. Very exciting chase, but the most unbelievable part is, how fast that Dodge/Plymouth drove. The most desirable thing about that car was the air conditioner.
I owned a 1980 Dodge Diplomat and what a good car it was just like all of the 1960's and 1970's Chrysler Corp. cars I owned. Back then Chrysler was awesome if you can believe that.
I too owned a boatload of MoPar cars. Starting with a 1961 Plymouth, 383 auto. all the way up to 1967. These were all former Tx Department of Public Safety patrol cars. They started getting flaky after that.
Anyone else notice that the car changed from a Dodge to a Plymouth? In all the scenes Right before the rifle shots to the front of the car, the car was a Dodge Diplomat. From the rifle scenes forward, the car was a Plymouth. The grilles are noticeably different. Great chase though.
I always get sad when I watch old movies and they total something like an old Crown Vic, Dodge Diplomat, Grand Prix, etc. But the thing is, those cars were new then. It's the same principle as taking a 2021 car (any model), and revving it until the engine explodes. Or taking it off-roading and purposely putting it through abuse. We don't see them as valuable now, but they could be in 50 years, the same way classic cars now were normal then, so they didn't think anything of it. That's what I always think of.
@@jackrich8399 true because there was a time when cheap easy to modify vehicles were readily available for $1000 on Craigslist and the days of 92-00 Civic, Integra, Prelude, E30, Volvo Brick cars are long gone. Eventually everything becomes a classic and sought after on some level.
@@BoostedPastime they only become a classic after people buy and wreck as many as they can. No respect for the car, just something to beat up because you can't be bothered to fix it.
@@internetbodhi1009 agreed I think a lot of what it also is is the fact that it's a limited edition item they were only produced for a certain amount of time and once the car is no longer in production it is essentially a countdown until there is none left which means that they can only become more valuable overtime since there's going to be less of them overtime.
What puts the original Gone In Sixty Seconds into a league by themselves is Toby who was everything. Writer, Producer, Director, Actor, Stuntman, High-Speed Stunt Driver, you name it. They couldn't get permission for the high-speed chases but they did them anyway. They paid many thousands of dollars not only in fines, but they also paid for all the damage they did to the infrastructures (light poles, etc) of the several cities they flew thru. Best of all, the reason they were able to crash 100 cars is that he owned a massive wrecking yard. Sell 'em for scrap, write 'em off the books, add the money to the filming budget. The guy was one smart cookie!
Practical effects. Infinitely better than the cgi crap we get today. That was a solid car chase, and funny too. Will have to watch this movie some time.
It was a funny movie. Worth checking out if you can find it for free. Don't remember the movie name but the actor was Dabney Coleman. He was in the original Wargames movie among a few other 80s movies
Funny I recognize the final scene, under the parkade. It's in New Westminster British Columbia, Canada. As a little kid I used to go shopping with my parents at the department store that was there Army and Navy. Between Amazon and the pandemic it put the final nail in the coffin for them. The family that started it the children decided it was time to wrap it up and cash out. As a young man my girlfriend used to work in a bar on that street so I'd always be there late at night. Now as a truck driver I drive down that street on a weekly basis it's changed a lot. Last year there was this huge fire that destroyed a pier here on the river beside a nice park. They are now building two of the tallest waterfront towers in Metro Vancouver there it's along the Fraser River. When they go up for sale I think I'll inquire about a unit. It's beside the New West Quay some cool shops and pubs and restaurants down there.
SHORT TIME: I watched this film a few days ago with low expectations. Hahahaha! How wrong was I. When you know the story you will understand why the cop was annoyed with himself for wearing a seat belt during the rollover. Brilliant film and if you like comedy/cop movies, you will not be disappointed.
Certainly one of the best car chases since 1968's "Bullitt" with Bill Hickman and Steve McQueen and 1973's 'The Seven Ups" with Bill Hickman and Roy Scheider.
Yes sir. That new west minster underpass is such a giveaway. They use it in many films. I like how they made true to life use of the stop sign that’s totally hidden by the support column. They must have thought hmm we can use that, get a car about to go through and he doesn’t see the stop sign till the last second. Idk the right filmography term for it but they made use of their surroundings. I mean once they had the location they’re like ok good let’s do this but I bet they added the stop sign as they were in production.
Amazing, - . . . . . . . all those bullet holes appear in the sides & in the hood. I don't really know why. (Maybe there is a "bad guy"-helicopter just off screen) ?
I love watching these classic 80s movie car chase scenes! It reminded me of Cobra! In reality these cars would've been done but it's just Hollywood entertainment!
