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Samuri's forthcoming Trans America road trip got me thinking of great road trip films.

I remember seeing Two Lane Blacktop back in the seventies and thought it was the coolest film ever.

Hardly any dialogue, almost all that there is relates to carbs, jets and the back end.

What's on your road trip film list?


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 9:37 am
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert 🙂


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 9:39 am
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I clicked on the thread thinking I would post about TLBT 🙂

So instead how about The Straight Story - I'm sure you can tell me the connection between the two....


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 9:39 am
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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_Point_%281971_film%29 ]Vanishing Point.[/url]

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Posted : 14/04/2015 9:42 am
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Two Lane Blacktop is one of my favourite films 😆

McMoonter I know you have done a bit of cycle touring, I always wanted to pitch a TV show on cycle touring in a similar format as Deadliest Catch, when I did my trip from Vancouver to Mexico I met and experienced such amazing people and experiences.

Follow about 3 or 4 different people on different routes, like Crazyguyonabike but filmed.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 9:47 am
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Posted : 14/04/2015 9:51 am
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Does Generation Kill count as either a road trip or a film?

I love Vanishing Point though, such an awesome film from a great era of muscle cars, but I've not seen Two Lane Blacktop yet, despite watching a ton of stuff about '55 Chevvy Bel Airs recently.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 9:56 am
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[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/ ]The Straight Story[/url]


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 10:01 am
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[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111482/ ]Tread :)[/url]


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 10:05 am
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McMoonter I know you have done a bit of cycle touring, I always wanted to pitch a TV show on cycle touring in a similar format as Deadliest Catch, when I did my trip from Vancouver to Mexico I met and experienced such amazing people and experiences.

Follow about 3 or 4 different people on different routes, like Crazyguyonabike but filmed.

It would make for an interesting film in. Louis Theroux style. No two bike tourists are alike, I've always found hanging out in camp at the end of the day as rewarding as the pedaling.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 10:07 am
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Goodbye porkpie.

I remember Wellington railway station back then.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 10:45 am
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^ +1 Vanishing Point. /end thread.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 2:02 pm
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Plane, Trains, Automobiles.

Need we go any further?


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 2:56 pm
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@peterfile +1 🙂

Thelma and Louise

y tu mama tambien


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:03 pm
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Duel
Motorcycle diaries


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:05 pm
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heh! I remember Two Lane Blacktop only from them racing the guy in the yellow car and one of them teaching the girl how to drive.

"And that's fourth, not that you'll ever use it"


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:07 pm
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Sideways.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:13 pm
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Bubble boy


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:15 pm
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y tu mama tambien

Very much NSFW, though.

(I only say so as you've embedded the whole film)


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:18 pm
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Soft Top, Hard Shoulder.

Because I owned a Triumph Herald converitble when it came out...

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[url= http://www.peter-capaldi-news.com/blog/capaldi-career-corner-soft-top-hard-shoulder-1993/ ]http://www.peter-capaldi-news.com/blog/capaldi-career-corner-soft-top-hard-shoulder-1993/[/url]


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 3:23 pm
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Jack Nicholson at his finest


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 5:42 pm
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It's not really a road trip film but the film "tracks" about Robyn Davidson walking from Alice to the coast is a great film.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 5:59 pm
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Fandango, with Kevin Costner is a tremendous roadf-trip movie.


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 6:08 pm
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DeathRace 2000 ?


 
Posted : 14/04/2015 8:26 pm