More musclecars in movies that weren't utilized.....

It appears everyone has an appettite for movies with musclecars whether there's a chase or not-so here's a few more. # 1. "I, The Jury"  ( 1982 version ) Best "Mike Hammer" adaptation ever done. A young Armand Assante is totally badass as Hammer, who wins by atrrition-he kills more bad guys than they can send after him. Ultra-sexy Barbara Carrera is great as a sinister psychiatrist ( of course Hammer gets her naked ) Voluptous Laurene Landon is his faithful secretary Velda, and Paul Sorvino ( "Goodfellas" ) is his Police Captain  friend Pat Chambers who may or may not be dirty, but has the best line in the film when he tells Hammer-"Try to only kill two or three people today, okay?"  Hammer's ride is a Chesterfield Brown 1979 Z/28 Camaro, but the only chase involves a Jeep Cherokee and a Ford Fairmont. # 2. "Knight And Day". Stars Tom Cruise as a rogue CIA agent on the run who kidnaps and frequently drugs Cameron Diaz so she passes out before he commits acts of murder and mayhem. Plenty of chases and shoot-em up action involving motorcycles, trains, and suvs, and Lotus Elises. However Camaron Diaz-when she's not screaming and running with Cruise-drives a Gold 1966 GTO with a 4-speed.  # 3. "The Punisher" this flick starts out great with an awesome gunfight at a family re-uinion between Hero Thomas Jane, his father-played by the always great Roy Scheider in one of his last performances, and a group of assasins sent by drug kingpin John Travolta. Jane's whole family is massacred and he's shot several times and left for dead. He lives, and decides to get revenge. He even builds a nasty, bulletproof 1968 GTO. Then the wheels totally come off. The Goat gets wrecked, not even in a real chase, and they spend waaayyy too long focusing on his quirky neighbors that include a fat guy, a pierced, tattoed, computer nerd and Rebecca Romjin-who doesn't get naked and is totally wasted.-Jane doesn't even have sex with her-and the country-singing hitman that comes after him who drives a yellow 1970 Super Bee.  A total train wreck after a good beginning. #4.  "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot".  Another train wreck that stars Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy and Jeff Bridges. Eastwood is a retired master thief, Kennedy is his old partner that thinks he has the loot from their last job that coincidentally sent Kennedy to prison. If he want's Clint to give him hidden money-why does he spend the 1st half of the movie trying to kill him?  Bridges is a young hustler who wants Clint to teach him safe-cracking. Slow-moving and convoluted, and disappointing-Eastwood is usually great in crime capers, even if they don't involve Dirty Harry-("The Eiger Sanction", "Tightrope "). Early on he and Bridges steal a 1973 Trans Am, and then swap that for a 1973 Boat-Tail Buick Riviera. #5  "Blue Velvet"  Typical David Lynch mess, but entertaining in a sick way, the way Lynch's stuff usually is.  Dennis Hopper plays a nitrous-oxide sniffing madman who spends most of the movie sexually absuing Isabella Rosellini-while the aghast Kyle Maclaclan looks on.  But he also drives a green 1969 Dodge Charger and smokes the tires a lot. Rosellini spends most of the movie naked, or barefoot in a blue velvet robe that falls open often, showing her boobs. Maybe that's where Lynch got the title. Honestly-the Charger is the coolest thing in this mess.  #6  "Malone". Burt Reynolds gives a knockout performance as a retired CIA hitman who just wants to be left alone. He drives a 1969 Mustang Mach 1, and gets stranded in an Oregon town run by white supremacists when the tranny goes out. The kindly town mechanic and his teenage daughter let Burt stay at their house while their fixing the car. When Burt maims three of the town badasses protecting the girl, it get's ugly. Especially after they murder Lauren Hutton-his sometime lover and ex-CIA partner who may have come to help him or kill him. One of Burt Reynold's best ever performances-he's a serious, suicidally depressed badass with migraine headaches-none of the cutesy, self-deprecating jokes, of "Hooper" or the "Gator" movies-it's even darker than the excellent "Sharky's Machine" that launched Rachel Ward's career. Why it wasn't a big hit, I don't know. I guess his fans always want the "Bandit". Lots of action, none involving the Mustang except crashing the gate of the Nazis hideout.  # 7. "Physical Evidence." This one also stars Burt Reynolds as an alcoholic "Dirty Harry' type detective who may or may not have murdered a suspect in cold blood. Sex-Bomb Theresa Russel            ( " Whore", "Black Widow", "Impulse" ) is his lawyer. Of course Burt is innocent, and he and Russel work to find the real killer and have a steamy affair while the trial is going on. Best line in the movie-Burt calls Russel's yuppie, Wall-Street boyfriend "His Gucciness". Not as good as "Jagged Edge"-the same writer wrote both screenplays-but entertaining. And Burt drives a red 1974 Z/28 Camaro, but no automotive mayhem. # 8 "The Getaway". ( 1994 ) Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger tried to remake Sam Peckinpah's 1972 classic about a husband and wife criminal team on the run. Except nobody is as badass as Steve McQueen in his prime, Al Leitteiri- ( "The Godfather" "Mr. Majestyk" ) was way scarier than Micheal Madsen as sexual deviant gunfighter Rudy, and the then 42 year old Kim Basinger- while still hot in a MILF /  Cougar way-couldn't touch the raw beauty and sensuality of the then 24 year old Ali McGraw-and since her and McQueen were having a torrid affair right under producer Robert Towne's nose ( who was also McGraw's husband ) the lovers-on-the-run chemistry lit up the screen way better than bored marrieds Baldwin and Basinger ever could.  Especially the scene where Doc slaps Carol senseless after he figures out how his freedom was bought. Seing Ali bloodied and crying, and begging for forgiveness was so powerful, that I wanted to kick Steve McQueen in the balls, and I'm a huge fan. The updated, politically correct for the 1990's "I-am-woman-hear-me-roar"-scene has Basinger slap him back harder, say "Fuck you" and storm off. This only made me want Baldwin's character to slap the arrogant, cheating bitch some more.  Anyhow, Baldwin's character drives a '92 5.0 Mustang GT convertible. And the only chase involves a taxicab LTD. I know some of you will run right to the video store now. Mastermind