My first thought was the original "Gone in 60 Seconds"....first third of the movie was just pure blah, then when he hops into Elenore and spends the next frikkin hour or more tearing through...what...five different counties and like a dozen cities in southern California, and totally trashed upwards of a hundred police cars? Pure poetry!!! And how he gets out of it at the end was sheer genius, the remake (although it had a REALLY nice car) just couldn't come close. "Bullitt" was also awesome, and I really need to watch French Connection again...its gone foggy in the braincell. "Duel" was just awesome...there are something like five sentences spoken in the entire movie, IIRC. Gotta love it!