The Big Bus (1976) - First appearance - 2001 a space oddyssey music - El autobus atomico

[stingray4real]

London had a ssingle decker version of the Big Bus and it was called the bendy bus which that communist Mayor of London Ken Livingston replcing the beloved Routemaster,The Routmaster are the open back end buses,Boris John axed these dreadful bendy buses and replace them with the state-of -the art Routemaster.

[yurrri1978]

Боже мой какая наивная хрень.

[jayocular]

even for that time, a bus that goes that fast just doesnt seem practical,at all. would be cool though

[tutaj99]

Wow idiot idea

[nyshortline]

Was this bus really jet powered or was the jet engine at the back just for show? If not was it really powered at all and all movements by camera tricks? Just curious.

[cubdukat]

@nyshortline From what I understand, only the front portion of Cyclops was real; the entire rear portion was hollow except for the engine--which was, quite obviously, a prop. This was way before motion control was possible outside of a soundstage (it was almost another 15 years before they tried it with "Back to the Future Pt II") so they actually drove this monstrosity, and it was definitely not an easy task.

[nyshortline]

@cubdukat You know what, at that time Detroit Diesel had a quad-turbo'ed 12V-92 engine that could have powered this whole thing just as easily as a jet engine and probably would get better fuel economy. But seriously WAS there a diesel powering the front part of the bus?

[mato52]

OMG I love this film. The grand-daddy of all disaster spoof movies. "Look out, the guy's got a busted milk carton!" 

[mrgb46]

you can buy this movie at rare movies world wide dot com....

[das81]

I t was eons since I watched this flick!

[videomanyak1]

Nice bus!!! What movie is that?

[gunhed76]

imagine pulling your zipper down and hearing this music haahhahahahahah

[NICENAD]

I was at the actual location yesterday where the Big Bus was about to go over a cliff in the movie where the back of the bus the kitchen was flooded with soda pop to balance the bus to keep it from going over the cliff . The cliff scene was supposed to be the mountains just outside of Denver but was actually filmed in Big Tujunga Canyon, CA. on a matte printing since the bus did not really go on the cliff. However there are no real mountains just out of Denver from the east from NY.

[luc10781]

i saw that film in that time and wow that a big long bus, The engine is a missle design, they ain't gonna put that on the street, it was made for the movie, it be nice the have a smal model of that big bus

[Tr2u1ck]

1:01 The enforcer of "Keep Back 500 Feet" signs

[randwolfray]

Ok, I think I've got it. The sky deck is somehow collapsible into the interior of the bus, and can be elevated once the bus clears the hanger.

[zoldszemu998]

/watch?v=Aqdcsy4hSyM

[lazyflyingtiger]

I stumbled on this video because I wanted to see exactly how uncomfortable my impending Megabus trip was going to be. I really hope Megabus is like this. It is isn't it?

[lazyflyingtiger]

I love that they have an NYPD incident reaction team ready to go there, just waiting for alll the inevitable casualties.

[maresia747]

kkkkkkkkkkkkk, eu lembro de mais desse filme, saudades!!!!!

[plateshutoverlock]

the atomic loonbulance for bush and camping!

[rhabwarvid]

This was the largest movie prop ever built at the time.

[AngelBearOH]

The crazy thing I remember from the movie is that they always drove the Cyclops on twisty, two-lane highways. There must have been four-lane interstate highways to drive on in those days.

[pearljaime2]

'Ring Time?

[bruhe]

I saw this in the theater when it came out . It always reminded me of the mammoth car from Speed Racer.

[MultiRob77]

@bruhe The Mammoth Car is 10 time longer. The Big Bus always reminds me something that the Power Rangers would drive.

[solerso68]

@MultiRob77 yeah, the mammoth car was the size of a smaller japanese island. the japs are always more ridiculous than ridiculous

[jasonsbrain2]

I remember seeing this movie at the Theatre when I was a kid. I would have been 11 or 12. This was supposed to be a satire of all the "Disaster Movies" which were all the rage during the 1970's ("Airport", "Airport-75", "Earthquake", "The Posiedon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno"..)

Now the movie characters could experience life-threatening danger on a "Big Bus." I remember enjoying it as a kid, but I remember very little about it. I assumed everyone was saved at the end...

[TheAtheistSwede]

You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal.

[phetops]

@FearDotKill

Uh Huh.... Would you like to disclose where you're from ?

[marchovens]

2 steers? left no right no left no right no crashhhhhhhhhhhhh

[AcropolisDiscoMovil]

no entendi esa cosa es real,, o es para una pelicula de ciencia ficcion??

[Diaredd59]

@AcropolisDiscoMovil yes. It was a spoof of disaster films.

[DocWolph]

"Thunderbirds are GO!"

[TheTallMan35]

How in the hell did they get this bus out of New York City with all of those low clearances?

[ssinan001]

made in china

[127OO1]

piece of shit



[patchesdf]

Apparently this vehicle was designed to send hundreds of people, hurtling to their deaths at 400 mph on a public road in a crash that would result in a 5 kiloton atomic explosion. FUCK YEAH. Now there's an ending that would top Silver Streak.

[solerso68]

@patchesdf this movie was fucking hilarious. a really good spoof on all the "airport" movies too.

[MultiRob77]

I think Michael Bay will use this bad boy as Stuntion Leader Motor Master in Transformers 3.

[runawayfreak]

@MultiRob77 If he does that, I will take back al the bad things I said about him XD

Does make me wonder how the bus' character will be like though?

[MultiRob77]

@runawayfreak The Bus Character would deffo give that semi truck from the death race movie 3000 a run for its money,

[kalanike]

something kim, jong il would build

[dokokai]

@kalanike NICE!! Hahaha

[DKH1103]

"Raise the flags of all nations!"

[runawayfreak]

LOL that thing would so Not make the turns in real life it is way to long! XD

[Porgot138]

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver

[tarzan694]

how come the extra-part on the top of the bus appear like magic once the bus pass the door ?????

[omamder5]

I heard it had self-changing tires. Non stop means non-fucking-stop!

[Buckeyecat2002]

The music was also WCW Wrestling's Ric Flair's entrance theme.

[FerretJohn]

@Buckeyecat2002 Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. Flair used it as his theme music for yours but it's better known from 2001 A Space Odyssey

[brax5156]

Czy ktoś zna tytuł tego filmu ?

[MASmith91]

if you notice at 0:40 the bus has a flat roof but at the end an observation bubble appears

[nazcaplain]

@ craigm2: Majick, voo-doo, sorcery, there's many names for it.

[FormerlyFlightsuit]

Why do the guys in orange jump-suits run around to the front and salute each other at the end?

[mfuji02]

@FormerlyFlightsuit xD <3 that gay salute -_-

[FormerlyFlightsuit]

It makes absolutely no sense! They're not even in the military, and even if they were, they still wouldn't do that. Regardless, I really wanna see this movie. I think I saw it when it was first broadcast on TV, but that was a loooong time ago!

[mfuji02]

It's a crazy comedy love the 70's crazy times -_-

[FerretJohn]

@FormerlyFlightsuit You're looking for something in this movie to make sence?? Good luck! Actually the standing at attention and saluting (I assume that's what you mean) does make perfect sence, you don't need to be military to do that and when the Boss is showing the very big and expensive new toy to his bosses boss (and his boss) you will put on the formal show.

[FormerlyFlightsuit]

@FerretJohn It still makes no sense. You salute somebody who ranks above you, and they might acknowledge by saluting back. But two "soldiers" of equal rank (which those guys appear to be) would not salute each other.

[FerretJohn]

@FormerlyFlightsuit ah, I see your mistake here. They're not saluting each other, they're saluting the Bus

[FormerlyFlightsuit]

@FerretJohn Hah, hah!!!

[craigm2]

love the way the sky deck at the back miraculously makes it out of a door four foot shorter than it...

[mgabrysSF]

@craigm2

Yep nice camera cut - pity they left it parked next to the door so you couldn't help but notice afterwards.

[riddioughp]

@craigm2 0:44 the sky deck isnt there

[manoman0]

@riddioughp pop-on-pop-off skydeck maybe? =D

[gumball63146]

@craigm2 there was no skydeck when it came out of the building

[ZayTattoo]

oque ele faz......vai pro espaço??

[MrYuppie]

Vai de NY pra Denver, sem escalas.

[JBofBrisbane]

You mean, "Also Spracht Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. Thanks for posting, though.

[KlunkerRider]

Still looking for this one on DVD!