Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jun 08, 2018, 08:28:00 AM
Bullitt's an awesome film (and not just because of the world's most over-hyped car chase). If you ignore the fact it was so obviously filmed in the 60s (hard to do; it's 60s as f*ck ) it's actually a pretty modern movie. A lot of the procedural stuff foreshadowed where TV has gone since. I love Robert Vaughn in it. Such a slimy shit.
I don't normally like films that old, I find them way too corny, but Bullitt is so straight and gritty I love it.
That's one of the main things I like about those old movies like Bullitt, Alien, etc. So much effort went into the world, and not just the characters or some love story or what-have-you. Everything was so detailed and procedural. Everything felt real. People working, using things, tools, machines, processes. Now we just pan past all sorts of wonderful technology and things and are expected to accept it without question or interest since we're a very techno-savvy society. Where's the salesmanship? It's a lost art I tell you.
Well, the Martian was pretty good about it, but he was depending on that gear for his life. So the technology had to play a bigger role and seem legit while doing it.