Bullitt (1968). Bullitt Time.
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2024
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Stam Fine Reviews looks at a film that- by itself- is an okay late 60's thriller with some very good parts, but when you watch it now you realise i'ts almost a blueprint for every movie about a police detective made in the 70s and 80s.
Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) has to protect a witness over the weekend and things start going wrong. - Розваги
Dodge Charger, not known for their handling but well known for having more than four hubcaps.
Fun fact, they used super duper customised Mustang for the chase and almost stock Charger, and Charger was getting away every time and needed very little repair after jumping down San Fran hills and other impactful stunts.
@@FlymanMS Mustang had some milling done to the heads and some carburetor and distributor mods. For better handling they added heavy duty springs and Koni shocks.
The Charger's engine was stock. They did modify the torsion bars and put NASCAR springs on it. Both cars were reinforced to handle the jumps and both were falling apart by the end of filming.
When Simon Oakland was waiting and contemplating, I expected his inner monologue to be "KOLCHAK!!!"
This is what Superman means when he says “Faster than a speeding Bullitt” lol
The "maverick cop going his own way and scorning the top brass" schtick was a fairly well-worn trope from classic noir days, but it's true that Bullitt was the first to do it in the New Hollywood Era. Note also how the airport tarmac foot chase was borrowed by Michael Mann for "Heat".
You aren't seeing the bigger picture. Bullitt was more anti-establishment. This film portrays crime and law within the same realm of conformity. Notice how these guys essentially dress and act the same regardless of what side of the law they were on. Bullitt was truly an individual.
Literally (Literal adj Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or exaggeration, Literally adv In a literal way) everything in Bullit was borrowed by literally everyone else for everything else and I mean that literally . It's like watching Halloween and being able to predict everything Michael Myers is about to do.
One fun thing to do watching this film is have a drink every time you see a green VW Beetle in the car chase scene.
Yeah - I cant believe the narrator can talk all about that iconic chase scene & not mention the Beetle! .. it should get Oscar for best supporting vehicle
The fact he carries a pistol but doesn't use it till the very end of the movie puts Frank Bullitt in a different hero category. And his name is Bullitt lol.
I heard that the director Peter Yeitz decided to make the movie as realistic as possible, he even casted actual hospital staff. This way it makes sense that bullets don’t rain down in every scene and the few shots that are made are taken seriously and have impact.
Less is more. Unless it's Horsepower.@@FlymanMS
..the ''Matrix'' of it's time (in terms of influence and coolness). Still listening to the soundtrack every now and then...
Did you get the reissued soundtrack with the extraz?
My prize for most appropriate employee name goes to Phil Longnecker, who used to be the tour guide at Anchor Steam Brewery (in SF funnily enough). Really born for that role
Nice one Stam Fine. A well informed review that acknowledges some of the trailblazing aspects of this movie whilst acknowledging some of the less remarkable aspects of it.
Glad you bit the Bullit and reviewed this film.
Excellent Review .... and there's nothing the pencil pushers at Utube head office can do about it!
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Back in the early 2010s, I was flying across the Atlantic, and there was no modern film available on the plane that interested me. But this film was, so I watched it and enjoyed it.
Great to see a Car Superstar like Bullitt’s Mustang that has an open-wheel diff, you’ll notice it’s a single spinner when you see he’s floored it and only spun the one.
Single-spinner love!
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Never met a cop named Bullitt, dentist named Drill, or a sanitation worker named Dump, but I did have an optometrist named Pieper (pronounced “peeper”).
I had a dentist named Sweeney, which was kind of ominous.
I had a pharmacist named Phil.
Mr Pants the tailor, Dr Shoe the cobbler etc etc. This film has 1968 all over it.
But will Stam mention the hubcaps?
No, this time the hubcaps were spared. All 5 of them.
Jake Bullitt...Cybernautics.
That’s traffic control
Thank you!🤣🤣🤣@@robvegas9354
I was about to write that
@@6581punk one of the few times I got there first with a quip.
Excellent as always. You may at some point want to check out a very overlooked police procedural "The Laughing Policeman" (1973) starring Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern. Cheers.
_Duel_ would be a good one.
I agree, and Duelists too. Ridley used to be great.
@@FlymanMS he’s got one of those souped up engines!
Best car chase for me
The last bit had me ROTFL
Awesome ❤
Mrs. Dorothy Renick R.I.P.3:07
McBullit, in this department we do things by the book! > Bye book. BLAM!
Nice reference, but I actually liked that Frank uses his brain and social skill more than his braw and stays stoic and well mannered through the movie. Someone said that Bullit is what’d happen if Dirty Harry used his head instead of his gun to solve the problems, and I think it’s accurate.
My favorite year for mustang in Fastback. Dad had bought one in the early 90s. Straight no rust and stock 4 speed. It was going to be mine eventually but it was totaled out parked on the street by a drunk driver. He passed during Covid and while the 69 fastback I’m finishing up is a nice consolation, I still wish that first one wasn’t ruined.
Love the story of the movie car and how it resurfaced.
Film Four channel in the UK once placed Bullitt in their "Anti-Hero" season, along with the one, the only original Get Carter.
I can see their point, they're not heroes in the respective movies, Bullitt doing deals with a mobster among other things and Carter is more villain than hero, depending on what you think of the character.
Would be great if you did a review of Get Carter, of course I mean the original only.
There’s still a huge gap between them. Frank might not be your classical flawless hero but he is a moral man who makes moral decisions. Carter is just a typical sociopath criminal who only gets “moral” when something bad happens to his family. And both those movies are among my top favorites, they seem typical but in fact they are very unique and memorable.
This delivery is hilarious
I think Steve McQueen's best role was as "The Cincinnati Kid". It doesn't hurt that it had a solid story and some of the best supporting actors around.
He was great in that movie. Personally, I liked McQueen best in Papillon.
@@ricardocantoral7672oooo, I forgot about that one!
I'm sure I remember getting up at stupid o'clock in the morning (something like 4am) when I was a kid to watch a test transmission of "Bullitt" on the about-to-launch Channel 4 in the UK in November 1982. And there isn't a damn thing those moderators at Wikipedia can do about it. Countdown, The Vorderman, "Walter" or no.
The cartoon Fairly Odd Parents said it best.
He's a lone cop.
Living on the edge.
Breaking all the rules.
Blazing Saddles is worth 20years of late fees. Love the internal dialogue
This is a thriller within a police procedural. It's a fine movie. Don Gordon is very good as Bullit's side-kick.
The one, the only car chase scene you ever need, will NEVER, EVER be bettered!!
Balls t' Fast & The Furious!! 😉🤭
No damn CGI, and McQueen was doing his own driving.
@ Absolutely! 👍
Both McQueen and the driver of the Dodge until the fireball of course!
Practice, practice, practice on a race circuit to get the scene fine tuned to perfection!
The green VW bug seems to reappear a lot in the sequence...
I LOVED this film. I used to show it to my intro to film class at my college, believe it or not. :) True story.
Great presentation! And there's nothing those stuffed-shirts at UA-cam can do about it! :)
This is a great movie! And there is nothing my rational mind can do about it.
The only thing better than this movie was its Polish poster. The Polish School of Posters was an amazing period of time.
The Naked Gun & Bullett.
"I pulled out my 45... when I find the other 7 cards, I can have a proper game of solitaire..."
great review, thank you!
My major problem of this movie is why Bullitt troubles himself so much with spring onions, when all he eats are TV dinners.
Super Nintendo Chalmers
Well, Seymour, I made it... despite your instructions... thanks to my fancy Mode 7!
When Steve McQueen said “It’s bullit time!” and then bullit through the movie I realised it was one of the movies of all times.
Memes aside, it’s one of my all time favorites. This movie is just so well done and full if style, like a time capsule, even though it could be considered a bit “old style” back in the day.
Steve McQueen Bullitt is a good Film my favorite is Sam Peckinpah The Getaway Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw husband and wife bank robbers very good. But it was great characters actors Ben Johnson Al Lettieri Dub Taylor who pull there's weight back then they had good character actor and actress now seen to be a rear breed. Steve McQueen said that if he never had become a actor he would have been a bank robber.
In the film Papillon Steve McQueen gave his best performance playing Papillon all round good character actors great film McQueen should have gotten a Oscar her his performance and the Director too.
I read the book Papillon Henri Charrriere real life convict Papillon when hearing there's making Papillon into a film. Henri Charriere said there's only one person who could play me Steve McQueen.
I left a comment, and there's nothing those bean counters at UA-cam can do about it.
Kathy's biggest obstacle isn't Bull'ts wall of stoicism, it's getting through that bowl of dry shredded wheat.
I thought that was diced beef and was suitably impressed. I thought, "She's a keeper!"
Or seeing past Frank's shoulder. You move the CAMERA, not the actor!!!
This has been pointed out a few times, but if you watch the car chase carefully, you will see Steve McQueen's car pass the same green VW beetle about 3 times. 😁
I've wondered about that myself, but if you go back and watch the scene carefully, there's one instance in which it makes sense.
The Charger reaches the bottom of the hill and turns left, followed by the Mustang. The Charger turns left again and is now going up the hill, followed by the Mustang. The Charger reaches the top of the hill and turns left again, followed by the Mustang. They come to the intersection at the top of the hill, where they both turn left again and go down the same hill they went down the first time, passing the VW a second time. They've circled the block.
The first movie I saw where somebody said bull shit. I was in high school at the time.
One of the best Hey it’s that guy movies😊
the epic meeting of Robert Vaughn and Norman Fell
A great film - and there's no way those other reviewers with their fancy dan larger words and better editing techniques will top this review!
Thank you for taking the piss out of b'Bullet.
I thought he was having a piss at the end too. Honestly, I think that would have been more appropriate for the character!
Enjoyed your video and there's nothing those stuffed shirts at UA-cam can do about it.
Going from a UN secret agent to an US senator... poor, poor Napoleon Solo.
Excellent review! I kept thinking that the film really was missing something. Perhaps a laugh tract. IDK.
Steven Spielberg is making a Bullitt movie, not a remake but another story with the Frank Bullitt character, while I love Spielberg as a director (he orginally wanted to cast Steve McQueen in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' in 1977, but the actor turned him down), I am not so sure about Bradley Cooper playing the role. I don't know if it will be a contemporary or period setting yet, however.
The thing about Bullitt is it's a totally American concept but it's "European" in flavor. Less conventional than one thinks.
"It's pronounced B'leeet! B'LEEEEEET!!"
I loved this movie when I was a kid because it was filmed in SF, where I grew up.
This excellent Stam Fine Review is Number One with a Bullitt !
Norman Fell - Mr. Roper!
He was in my favorite Don Siegel film, The Killers.
this movie made me think they didn't know what exciting was in the 60s until I saw Two Lane Blacktop. Cuz as a car chase movie it suxxxx but I never thought to go back and appreciate it as proto diirty harry etceteri etcetera.
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@Stam Fine, I would love it if you'd review "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"!
0:50 I appreciate splitting the difference by pronouncing "lieutenant" as "lettenant" in the spirit of Anglospheric unity.
hi pal Sliders Bullitt
No kidding, I know an eye surgeon whose last name is Blinder.
I remember watching it and while the chase was indeed a car chase, it felt pretty underwhelming for "the greatest chase scene ever filmed"
Jake, jake bullet
There was nothing those stuffed algorithms at UA-cam could do about it.
Hm! An excellent "No Holds Barred" review! Personally, I had forgotten that Robert Wagner was on this cast; he and McQueen had worked together on "The Magnificent Seven" and so it was nice seeing them play with each other in a whole new setting and with different dynamics in terms of the motivations.
And RE: The End of the Hays Code; *Very Astute,* and directly to the heart of the matter. No coincidence either that this is the period of time which launched a lot of "Independent" film makers like Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Any plans to cover the films produced by American Zoetrope?
7:51 The strangest editing decision to hide a scratch between the cars. Why didn't they cut the shot a second before? Why leave a couple of frames of the crash and edit the previous car for a second? A guy with thick glasses and a cigarette in his mouth made that decision, and until the day he died he boasted of being perfect.
He’d be dead Twelve years later. Super cool McQueen
All that exposure to Asbestos working on cars. 😔
Nah Yeah Nah Mnah Mnah do do dee doo doo
You know the lyrics!
7:51 YUP... they left that 'oops' moment in the film...
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I'm going to write a comment, and theres nothing the toadies at Stam Fine can do about it!
Bullitt + Al Pacino = Serpico. Peace All
Not really. Bullitt is far more Hollywood. Serpico is film as news journalism and yes, I do know that the film isn't entirely accurate.
@@ricardocantoral7672 Seems you missed one point of the vid. Bullitt INSPIRED the makers of future films/tv shows, such as Serpico. It set the foundations for film makers to try new things on old subjects, like journalism, prison reform and corruption on all levels. Peace All
@@garetjax19 I have seen Serpico twice. Bullitt had no influence on that movie which was based on an actual police officer that blew the whistle on corruption in the NYPD. That was a journalistic film, not a Hollywood entertainment like Bullitt.
Nope, very different styles and movies. Bullit is stylish noir that still feels upbeat, Serpico is just all NY 70s misery concentrated.
BBoullit
Car looks like an absolute Sh%t Box! But it's actually a worked, custom Mustang, as mentioned with an open-diff. Really it's a lot like Elanor... I think maybe the inspiration for Elanor?
I had the same reaction as Stam - I get why it's famous (and I am a huge Steve McQueen fan), but I don't think it aged well. If you want to see a better Steve McQueen movie, watch Magnificent 7 or Great Escape.
I liked bullet good car chase! Prefer the Italian job again good car chase lighter film OK I was a youth but first impressions stick and there's not a thing anyone can do about it
“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
McQueen bought the 1968 Mustang GT Dark Highland Green for $3,500 and sold for $3.74 million after his death.
Wow! good investment. 1000 percent return. But just curious...how did he sell it after his death?
@@humantiger72 Robbie said "sold", not "He sold it".
a better movie The Driver (1978) with Ryan O'neil
I agree. The Driver is fantastic.
Buddy why dont make a video about the movie countdown with robeet duvall and james caan that movie is so underrated
Now I'm no expert on American policing, but isn't shooting the witness that you were assigned to protect generally frowned upon?
Nah, it's fine
Now review the film without saying "Bullit" !
I have a very specific fetish: I love to watch all of the films released during the year of my birth, 1968. Compared to 2001: space odyssey, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, planet of the apes, and many others, this is not the best film.
I'm leaving this comment, and there's nothing the pencil pushers at your UA-cam channel can do about it.
Back in the 90s I was out with friends and we ended up at Blockbuster to rent a movie. I suggested Bullitt based on everything I'd heard about the car chase. We watched it, and I apologized for suggesting the movie, because that car chase is... not good. Frankly, it goes on too long, and it's boring. It's been a quarter of a century since then, and I still can't fathom why anyone talks about it.
You mean your taste hasn't changed or matured in all that time?
I've seen it more recently, and the chase still goes on too long and and has not gotten more interesting.
I'm curious why you seem to be suggesting that it's a sign of "maturity" to like that chase scene.
@@scottpandich3972 the car chase scene aside, didn't you enjoy any other aspect of this movie?
@@FlymanMS It was an okay movie, but definitely not as advertised.
Stylish? Totally.
Cool? Absolutely.
Influencial? Without doubt.
But I just find it boring....😢
What did mentioning his race have to do with anything
If "Bullitt" was made today, it would be "ironic" and the macho name would be a constant source of jokes. Also, it would be terrible. Props to movie makers who can make a movie with a straight face.
It would star the Rock and he would make a quip every two seconds.
They tried that in the '90s. It was called action hero.
Bruh way to bring up an unrelated tangent. That being said, it is possible to make quality movies like Bullit nowadays, maybe not with major studios tho.
@@FlymanMS My comment was related to movie "Bullit" and it's choice in tone, to which this video also relates, bruh.
Apart from the car chase it was a very boring movie
Well yeah, if you’re watching this or Godfather for the action you’d be disappointed.
Bullitt kinda sucks lets be honest.
Once I looked harder at the plot, I realised this film makes no sense at all. Why is Bullitt even chasing those two men? It starts with them chasing him. He has no better plan than a dog chasing a car: how would he pull them over, given his car is unmarked; what would he do if he succeeded, and isn't he a terrible cop by forcing his quarry into a lethal crash? There are myriad plot holes, inconsistencies and absurdities that wreck the whole film, and McQueen simply can't act at all.
Because movies are only good when they are 100% logically flawless and they have no other artistic merits? But even this, have you ever considered that he was going to just follow them to wherever they lead? And he didn't have radio in his car so he couldn't call reinforcements? People who adhere to surface level plot critique (that they themselves got wrong) omitting everything else basically admit that they can't criticise anything else about the movie. And same people think that subdued acting isn't acting and if an actor doesn't show character's emotions in a blunt way that it's bad. Long story short, bad critique, dumb comment, try better.
McQueen's a great actor. He has testosterone, which modern viewers can be alienated by.
@@cg98243 What a bizarre and uninformed comment. McQueen had a range that went from stoical to blank. But if you want to think that masculinity is about not showing emotions, then stay in the 1950s.
consider doing reviews of 'Basic Instinct' & 'Sliver' & 'Jade'
I think those could be hilarious. 'Jade' even has a hilly car chase!
Two heavily armed professional killers. So what was he planning on doing if he caught them?