Probably my favorite genre of movies is post-apocalyptic road trip movies, where a group has to get from one location to the next in a super-dangerous perversion of places we normally associate as being safe.
28 Days Later probably does this the best, as it’s equal parts fun and horrifying, but Children of Men is the better movie of the two (if darker and less humorous).
fury road counts, right?
paris, texas and duel come to mind
Oh, you should see that, you would like it.
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children of men really is phenomenal and the direction is something else (it felt like it accomplished everything cuaron ever wanted to do and subsequently more or less ended his career, same as happened to charlie kaufman) but I don’t think of it as a road movie necessarily
Yeah, it’s fucking terrific.
Actually it’s terrible : 3
Since you’re going to be drunk: The Wizard
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure!
really need to catch this again
haven’t since cinema release
i hope it still owns
Life Aquatic and Apocalypse Now
unless we count fury road, i don’t think i’ve watched a road movie since my teenage years
back then, my favourites were beavis and butthead do america and jay and silent bob strike back. but bear in mind i was a teenage boy and it was the turn of the century
Surprised no one’s going to bat for Bing Crosby movies.
Vanishing Point
I know I would! That’s why I recommended it!
Man I can’t believe I didn’t think of A Goofy Movie, that is a fucking ace film.
It’s one of my all-time faves but I can’t see how this is a road movie exactly. It’s a ‘boat’ movie.
best boat movies:
Jaws
Captain Ron
uhh
a road movie is more about a long journey with numerous incidents along the way, rather than an actual road. the odyssey is a road myth
Oh, Little Miss Sunshine! I liked that movie a lot
I can’t say I agree. if that were the case then probably 90% of movies could qualify as “road movies.” I think to be considered a true road movie you need to have at least one actual road down which characters travel.
I’d say a road trip movie is any film focused on a single group traveling via vehicle to a distant location, regularly put into close proximity so as to have like at least a third of the movie’s interaction take place without the option to leave.
