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SPEEDTOWN — One thing Hollywood knows is that everyone loves cars, and especially cars that go fast. With “Need for Speed” opening this weekend OK.com has decided to look at five films that deserve to get a ticket for speeding.
In all honesty just thinking about watching Nicolas Cage try to act his way out of a speeding ticket might be one of the funniest things ever.
Besides breaking the law for auto-theft, which actually increased across America after the release of “Gone in Sixty Seconds” also features some pretty cool cars.
Nicolas Cage and his crew have to steal 50 cars in one night. The jewel of them all is the car they call Eleanor, a 1967 Mustang Fastback. After a lot of speeding and numerous other violations, Cage's crew manages to pull off the impossible.
The Fast and the Furious Franchise
Somewhere in all these movies there is a plot, or at least I think there is. But who needs a plot when you have some of the fastest, adrenaline pumping, drag racing and car chases ever?
The franchise has done over $2.3 billion worldwide at the box office, more than enough to cover the many speeding tickets they deserve.
After watching any of these films you will definitely want to hop in your 96’ Geo Prizm and try to max it out at top speeds.
How could anyone as cool as Burt Reynolds ever get a ticket? Any cop would see how cool that mustache is and let him go.
The black Trans Am from “Smokey and the Bandit” is now iconic. It will always be associated with Burt Reynolds and Sally Field running from the law.
"Somkey and the Bandit" was the second highest grossing movie of 1977, thanks to “Star Wars,” it is well deserving of several speeding tickets throughout the movie.
The fast Lighting McQueen, he doesn’t know the meaning of slow down. He is a rookie that only desires to be the fastest car around.
I do realize it would have to be a cop car giving another car a ticket in this scenario but the cop would have to catch him first.
This is a great movie to get the little ones interested in cars, and to inspire them to burn some rubber on their big wheels.
OK, so this is not technically a car movie, but it is the original need for speed. Maverick and Goose did their fair share of speeding throughout the movie.
As Iceman said to Maverick “You’re dangerous” and he has a point. Buzzing the tower, and disobeying protocol will get you in big time trouble in Top Gun school.
Mavericks love for speed in his fighter jet also shows when he rides his motorcycle. When you are an adrenaline junkie like Maverick, you always feel the need… the need for speed. But just remember, sometime that need will get you a hefty fine. Curtis Linnell is a communications graduate from Brigham Young University and writes for ok.com
