Car movies that I have to get?

[Tarzan]

Anyone know any good car movies? Old and new. Has to be muscle cars!!!!

[BMOTOXSTAR]

Speedtrap.

[TruckDriver]

These are good car movies I own, but not all have Mopars in them.
SPEED TRAP (Joe Don Baker, Tyne Daly)
DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY (Peter Fonda & Susan George)
BULLITT (Steve McQueen)
GREASED LIGHTNING (Richard Pryor)
HOT ROD (Pernell Roberts, Robert Culp, Ed Begley Jr.)
COLLISION COURSE (Jay Leno & Pat Morita) Funny movie too!
THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (Jeff Bridges)
GUMBALL RALLY
CANNONBALL RUN
CANNONBALL RUN 2
BLACK MOON RISING (Tommy Lee Jones)
CANNONBALL (David Carradine & Robert Carradine)
EAT MY DUST (Ron Howard)
GRAND THEFT AUTO (Ron Howard)
GONE IN 60 SECONDS (The original and the remake)
JUNKMAN
THE GLADIATOR
THE CALIFORNIA KID (Martian Sheen)
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - I liked it, even though it was cheesy.
2 FAST 2 FURIOUS - I liked it, even though it was cheesy.
REDLINE 7000
SPEEDWAY (Elvis)
STROKER ACE (Burt Reynolds)
WHITE LIGHTNING (Burt Reynolds)
FUNNY CAR SUMMER
SHAKER RUN (Cliff Robertson, Leif Garrett)
BANZAI RUNNER (Dean Stockwell)
43 - THE PETTY STORY (Richard Petty plays himself)
CORVETTE SUMMER (Mark Hamill & Annie Potts)
THE SEVEN UPS (Roy Scheider)
Mc Q (John Wayne)
HEART LIKE A WHEEL
VANISHING POINT (The original and the remake)
SHORT TIME (Excellent car chase, & funny movie)
TWO LANE BLACK TOP
RETURN TO MACON COUNTY
BORN TO RUN
COBRA (Selvester Stalone)
SUNSET HEAT
DOUBLE TROUBLE
DAZED AND CONFUSED
ACTION JACKSON (Carl Weathers & Craig T. Nelson)
THE WRAITH (Charlie Sheen, Randy Quade)
MAD MAX (Mel Gibson)
THE ROAD WARRIOR (Mel Gibson)
MYSTERY MEN (They use Chargers as cop cars)
BLADE (Wesly Snipes) All 3 movies.

These are Trucking movies with cool cars in them.
CONVOY (Kris Kristopherson & Ernest Borgnine) (flamed out '71/'72 Chevelle with side pipes)
BLACK DOG (Patrick Swazi, Randy Travis & Meat Loaf) (Camaro & Monte Carlo SS)
HIJACK (David Jassen & Kennan Wynn 1974) (One of the villians uses a triple white '73 Charger)
COAST TO COAST (Robert Blake & Diane Cannon) (Nice early '80s El Camino)
DUEL (Dennis Weaver) (A old Plymouth Valiant)
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (I & II) (Burt Reynolds & Jerry Reed)

[694spdRT]

In addition to those mentioned:

Smokey and the Bandit 

[greenpigs]

In addition to those mentioned:

Smokey and the Bandit 

It helps to read the whole thread.

I like the show C H I P S as they had some cool old cars in the background, most movies I could think of have been mentioned cept Christine and Hollywood knights.

[694spdRT]

In addition to those mentioned:

Smokey and the Bandit 

It helps to read the whole thread.

I like the show C H I P S as they had some cool old cars in the background, most movies I could think of have been mentioned cept Christine and Hollywood knights.

Either he edited or I am blind as I checked twice. 

[bordin34]

"Used Cars" is good

[moparstuart]

 christine, american graffiti

[440charger68]

you forgot Starsky and Hutch with the ford gran torino

[John_Kunkel]

Might wanna add California Kid to the list.

Most don't consider it a "car" movie but Grand Prix is still at the top of my list.

[Charger_Fan]

Might wanna add California Kid to the list.

I recently got & watched that one. The acting is about par, but they show plenty footage of the chopped Hot Rod, which makes up for a bunch of the lame acting.

[71ChallengeHer]

Finish Line. Low buck but a lot of great muscle cars.

[TruckDriver]

In addition to those mentioned:

Smokey and the Bandit 

It helps to read the whole thread.

I like the show C H I P S as they had some cool old cars in the background, most movies I could think of have been mentioned cept Christine and Hollywood knights.

Either he edited or I am blind as I checked twice. 

I was messing with ya

I was adding/saving/adding/saving I got them all now although I did forget American Graffiti.

[rav440]

do not i repeat DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME watching TWO LAME BLACK TOP  it is the worst friggn movie id ever seen id rather watch the CONSTANT GARDNER agin "and that movie sux and is a bore to watch" before ever thinking of watching TLBT  a 2nd time it took me a week to watch TLBT i could only do 5-10 mins ant a time and then i got ill 

other car movies or better yet movies with cool cars

PAY BACK - mel gibbson 68-69 road runner & a black 71-74 CHARGER
LOVE & A .45 , 71-72 road runner
THE BOYS NEXT DOOR - 73-74 road runner
PHANTASM - 71 340 CUDA
PHANTASM 2 & 3 - 70 HEMI CUDA vert
NATURAL BORN KILLERS - 70-74 CHALLENGER vert
DEATH RACE 2000

[Brock Samson]

in your opinion,..
i thought it was alot better then alot of the so-called car-movies on the list above.

you rag on that movie every time you can, why not let someone form their own opinion?..

[TruckDriver]

Ya, I love that movie myself.

[68 CHARGER R/T]

blade (wesley snypes) one more

[rusty lee]

how about the "car"  a cheezey 70's flick about a demon car

[Charger_Fan]

Two Lane Blacktop is in my want list, for sure.

I did get a really lame one recently, though...Thunder & Lightning with David Carradine & Kate Jackson. At least it was only $2.

[greenpigs]

The acting in two lane blacktop is horrible and thats being nice, but the cars make up for it.

[Orange_Crush]

Mad Max...the ONLY car movie that matters.

[74-StreetMachine]

  Don't forget Macon County Line and Return to Macon County Line. And my favorite, Hot Rods To Hell !!

[Brock Samson]

It took me a while to find this, but although written about the movie Mcabe and Mrs. Miller, it fits Two Lane Blacktop as well...

from IMB
Author: tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com) from Virginia Beach

"Filmmakers - intelligent ones - have to choose where they live in a film. The ordinary ones attach themselves to the narrative, usually the spoken narrative, so we get faces and clear, ordered speech to tell us what is going on. These are the most formulaic because there are after all only so many stories that are presentable.

Some attach themselves to characters, dig in and let those characters deliver a tale and situation. Often with the Italians and Italian-Americans, the camera swoops on a tether attached to these characters. I consider this lazy art unless there is some extraordinary insight into the relationship between actor and character.

And then there the few who attach themselves to a sense, a tone, a space. That situation has ideas and stories and talk, but they are only there as reflections from the facets of the place. Of the three, this is the hardest to do well; that's why so few try. And of those that do, most convey style only, not a place, not a whole presentation of the way the world works.

This film is about the best example I know where the world is 'real,' the situation governs everything and the primary substance is the presentation of a Shakespearian quality cosmology of fate.

The camera moves not so much with the story, but it enters and leaves. And there is not just one story, but many that we catch in glimpses. Words just appear in disorder as they do in life. Not everything is served up neat."


and...
  what a hoot... 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EtDxu3SMi98

[rav440]

in your opinion,..
i thought it was alot better then alot of the so-called car-movies on the list above.

you rag on that movie every time you can, why not let someone form their own opinion?..

i have no problem letting somebody form their own opinion . im just trying to save somebody 1 1/2 of thier life 

i have to go check the jets

[Mike DC]

 
"Two Lane Blacktop" was a high-concept piece of arthouse film.  The musclecars were just backdrop. 


I think TLB is more purely existential than "Vanishing Point."  (And that's no small feat.)  TLB doesn't really want you to like it, so much as respect it.  It takes some serious attention span just to watch the whole film start-to-finish. 

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It's interesting to me that TLB was Gary Kurtz's project just a couple of years before the "Star Wars" series started developing in the mid-70s. 

Gary Kurtz is probably the most under-credited person in the entire SW story.  He did a lot of serious load-bearing work for the first two movies they made in 1977 and 1980.  In "Empire Strikes Back" he probably did more of the producing work than George Lucas himself.  "Jedi" and the rest of the SW movies were never the same without him. 

 

[BMOTOXSTAR]

What about the animation, soon to be classic...Cars....