VWs in Movies / Films / TV / etc.

71VOTB · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

I can't believe nobody remembers "What's Up Doc?" with Barbara Striesand. The big chase scene at the end was in a Beetle with a van getting smashed over and over on one side so when the owner comes out and tries to open the door it just tips over. They cut that out of the version they show on TV so you have rent it to see the van. The chase scene ends with the VW floating in the bay and all the other cars sinking.

"Boy, they really built these things..." Woody Allen after starting a VW found in a cave in the distant future.
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Rogue10186 · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure if this counts, but on the news, WWLTV (i think), they were talking about people comming back from evacuating for Ivan... there was a pic w/ half of an old Vw van, not sure of the year... it was in the litle picture thing next to the news room anchor, and was following behind a winebago

MikeJ · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:28 am Post subject:

Kill Bill Vol 2

"The Bride" drives a blue conv. ghia.

*edit---just saw it was mentioned already...sorry

Big Luni · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:51 am Post subject:

I just remembered another '70s movie I saw when I was a kid. In one of the numerous Killer Bees movies, the climax had the hero & heroine drive a VW bug into the Astrodome and lure the entire swarm in. The bees swarm around the bug, but can't get in (thanks to air-tight German engineering!). Meanwhile, the A/C gets turned up in the Astrodome, eventually getting cold enough to kill all the bees. Sorry if I ruined the ending of that crappy movie for anyone, but I doubt any TV stations play it anymore.

jheil · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

My daughter was watching Snow Dogs the other day (Cuba Gooding, Jr), and I walked through the living room just as he discovered a beetle covered in snow. Looked like a 70's standard. He hooks the dog team up to it and takes off. He crashes into a tree eventually, but I don't think they had to hurt the car for the scene.
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edgy · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 7:19 am Post subject:

Overnight Delievery, horrible movie, except that it has Reese Witherspoon in it and she drives a Purple Thing for the better part of it, until it gets pushed off of a cliff Crying or Very sad

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Also Kelly's Hero's, a few Kubels in that movie.

Big Luni · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:36 am Post subject:

Yeah, I saw that Reese Witherspoon crap- another good Thing sacrificed in the name of bad entertainment. There's a movie named Romero I had to watch in Sunday school- Raul Julia is driving a green Thing and it gets shot up and flips on its side. I think the guys w/ AKs were in a bay window. I hate to see VW on VW violence.

tortron · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:01 pm Post subject:

oh yea, if it hasnt already been posted, theres a splitty in the new "texas chainsaw massacre"

sure its rusted and has chainsaw holes in it, but id still rock that. infact even if i was bening chased by a chainsaw weilding redneck id still stop and have a look Razz

REXER · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:57 pm Post subject:

Bad News Bears- Abdul Rahim's parents drop him off in a red ghia coupe
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dan baldwin · Samba Member Joined: August 21, 2004 Posts: 38

not sure if its been mentioned yet but in BUNDY ted bundy drives a yellow 74 ish type bug throughtout the whole movie...he picks up dumb hot chicks and they get a spanner round the head quite often..in the car...dreadful for the upholstery.....i dunno..these serial killers...no respect..

73BuzzBomb · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:47 am Post subject:

"Tin Men" with Richard Dryfus and Danny Devito. A very funny movie set in the early sixties, about aluminum siding salesmen. They all drive big Cadillacs but there are references to VW Beetles. Richard Dryfus' character is thinking about selling Beetles as a new career.
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Laguna04 · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject: vw's in movies

christopher Walken in "the Dead ZOne" white 67 bug

6d7vdub · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

dont know if it was mentioned, but "Ronin" with Robert Dinero (bad ass flick) has a bay bus at the beginning.
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REXER · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

Karate Kid- at the arcade during the date there is a parked bus, and a blue baja riding around the lot- "Rook Eye!! Arways Rook Eye!!!"
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ibfunkee · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 1:43 am Post subject:

New movie shot in New Mexico called "Around the Bend". Stars chris Walken and Josh Lucas and a white/orange Splitty (two identical ones...saw them in person)
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71VOTB · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:11 am Post subject:

Oh, man! I almost forgot! The Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles movie had an old bus. They escaped in it then cracked the block. Casey Jones said the crack was as big as the San Andreas fault and that they should shoot it.
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VWAdam · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:41 am Post subject:

In the Ghostbusters cartoon, the secretary (can't remember her name) drove a yellow Beetle vert.
They actually made a toy of it, the Bug transferred into a monster lol. I still have mine from when I was a kid. It's a strange mix of years. The toy has early bumpers, '67 style front fenders, vert W lid, and a dash like a curved windshied Stuper.
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RobzKombi · Samba Member Joined: July 15, 2003 Posts: 2137

Not sure if anyones mentioned this one. It's fairly new, LadyKillers with Tom Hanks and one of the Wayan bros. The scene where the safari looking dude is about to load the cash into a split bus. All you see is the outline of the bus since it's taking place at night. It's definitely a split bus though.


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