Favourite Car Movie

Christopher Ecclestone is a very accomplished actor, as was prooved in the superb BBC production, "Our Friends In The North". That said, the last convincing Doctor was Tom Baker. He and John Pertwee, thespians both, were the Doctors that sent me to the back of our sofa!

goose wrote: I admit I'm basing that entire, rather rash argument on one film I saw him in (I can't remember what). The voice annoys me too, which doesn't help, although it does give me a rather unfair criticism of him.

He was in "Let Him Have It" as Derek Bentley-maybe that's where you remember him from.

(Sorry, paisans -- no offence meant. I respect-a your once great culture.)

Great Canadian Films Peter????

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OK, I cant resist!
took me 3 times at the Drive In to get the whole thing
in, that was 1975.

TWO LANE BLACK TOP HIGHWAY(available on
DVD)

James Taylor is The Driver, a car-obsessed racer
with stringy hair and a concentration that precludes
conversation. He travels the backroads of rural
America with his buddy, The Mechanic (Dennis
Wilson of the Beach Boys), an equally obsessed lost
soul at home only in the car or under the hood. They
have no names, only designations, and no life
outside of their gypsy existence, riding the unending
highway in their souped-up '55 Chevy from race to
race. After picking up a hitchhiking Girl (Laurie Bird),
whose presence breaks the tunnel-vision focus of
the two men, they challenge a middle-aged hotshot,
the garrulous G.T.O. (Warren Oates) to a
cross-country race. Monte Hellman's Two-Lane
Blacktop is the most alienated evocation of modern
America ever made, an almost abstract study in
dislocation and obsession set against a vague
landscape of roadside diners and rest stops. Taylor
and Wilson deliver appropriately blank
performances, only expressing emotion when The
Girl sparks jealousy between them. Oates is a glib
dynamo constructing a new persona in every scene,
as if trying on characters to play as he ping-pongs
between the coasts. "How fast does it go?" asks The
Driver, admiring G.T.O.'s car. "Fast enough," he
answers. The Driver snaps, "You can never go fast
enough." These are characters on the road to
nowhere who can't work up enough speed to escape
themselves.

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Edited by DallasBryan

maani wrote: The Cannonball Run films are pretty good.

 

Also 'Days of Thunder'. Yes, it's cheesy and unrealistic, but the music's great and I'm a sucker for anything NASCAR. 

 

 

Bullitt has one of the greatest car chases I have ever seen.