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Actually, I like it because it's a lot closer to what actual car chases are like. It's not howling tires and people making lots of turns in center-city grids. It's moaning engines as people accelerate as hard as they can. It's people getting going as fast as they can on a freeway or other such straight line so that they can lose the person chasing them. It's not people hanging off a running board emptying the magazine of an Uzi; it's the occasional random pot-shot in hopes of either hitting a driver or disabling the car. And, like most car chases, this one ends with the chased getting away. Seldom do car chases actually end up with someone catching the chased car unless that car gets disabled somehow. That's why cops put so much money and effort into actually stopping cars they are chasing these days with stuff like spike strips and those little rocket-powered doohickeys that blow a hole in the oil pan and such.
TCM is the channel that has Silent Sunday featuring silent movies and cartoons.
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Is where I always check for old *real* classics ... "Turner Classic Movies"
I just love old movies! Far better plots, far less un-needed sex and foul language ... and I get a kick out of the old cars, clothing, and even the interior decorating and furnishings.
Also love to watch old Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall ... Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn movies.

12 O'Clock High
Paths of Glory
Any Marx Brothers movie
Any John Wayne movie
How to Steal a Million
Dracula (the original Bela Lugosi version)
Forbidden Planet
Boy Meets Girl (A rare Jimmy Cagney comedy)
Casablanca
1776
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Patton
Captain Blood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version)
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Son of Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein is a shot-for-shot spoof of Son of Frankenstein, and if you've seen Son, then Young is even funnier)
The Court Jester (The dialogue is as funny and quotable as the Princess Bride, also a classic)
Anything with Bob Hope, but especially the road movies with Bing Crosby
King Kong (the original) WOR in NYC used to play the original King Kong, Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young every Thanksgiving. To me, it isn't Thanksgiving without giant apes and turkey.
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