I just got the Vanishing Point remake

[Psyco Diver 69]

I got the newer Vanishing Point (the remake made in 1996) in earlier today, and I have to say it is better than the original. I only saw it once before back when it first came on Fox back in 96 or 97. This is the movie that got me liking muscle cars, before that I was just a kid that like cars but this is the movie that turned me into the car nut that I am now. I've seen the original a lot of times and I'm going to buy the dvd next chance I get but I just like the newer one better.

[Strtracer]

In the original, I like where the Challenger turns into a Camaro right at the end when he totals it. The original fit the generation of the 70's better, the newer version drops all the social comentary to become just a car movie, both are good in their own rights,

[357windsor]

Cool

[Psyco Diver 69]

Originally Posted by Strtracer

In the original, I like where the Challenger turns into a Camaro right at the end when he totals it. The original fit the generation of the 70's better, the newer version drops all the social comentary to become just a car movie, both are good in their own rights,

I don't think so, they really make a big point out of those home terrorism law that were passed in the mid 90s right before the movie came out. I remember the protest to those anti terrorism laws passed on tv, come on it was only 10 years ago (damn that makes me feel old)

[4 cam tbird]

All other points of the movies aside, Super Soul is way better than The Voice.

[!@#$%^]

better than the original? I think you were out in the heat too long!!

[4 cam tbird]

I did appreciate the little detail of the resto shop having the Challenger to install the correct dash pad in the new movie. Since it was a 70 and the dashpad that year was different from the 71-4's so it would be a very possible thing for a guy to have a car that was restored and had the later style dash pad put in since it would be easier to find one of those. They were both cool car movies, overall the actions in the first one made more sense, I would tend to agree that it was marginally better than the remake. The editing for the DVD of the remake is poor though, they really could have made the transitions where the commercials were more seemless than they did.

[Psyco Diver 69]

Yea I can defintatly notice those commerials spots alot more near the end of the movie. I need to get off my lazy but and go get the orignal vanish point. The remake made more sense to me but I didn't grow up in the 70s and don't know drugs like some people here

[4 cam tbird]

I didn't grow up in the 70's or anything either. I was just referring to the bet and some of his random encounters in the original making more sense than meditating out in the desert in your whites with a native american dude.

My biggest issue with the first one I guess though was at the beginning, they show him pull up to the bulldozer then turn around and go out into the desert. Then they flashback to the beginning and show you how it got to that and he just drives straight into the dozer without flinching. That really made no sense to me at all. But that was still better to watch than Vigo Moretnson and some indian meditating in their whites.