Great Travel Movies.
I'm a big fan of road movies/travel movies. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. Feel free to add to, discuss, or argue:
Stranger Than Paradise
Old Joy
The Go-Getter
The Art of Travel
Paris, Texas
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Broken Flowers
Wristcutters: A Love Story
About Schmidt
Sideways
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Darjeeling Limited
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
Into The Wild
Little Miss Sunshine
Borat
Mad Max/The Road Warrior
The Blues brothers
Wagon Master
Red River
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Also, great to see O Brother Where Art Thou? get a mention. It's a greatly overlooked effort from The Coens. I'm always drawn to watching it whenever it's on tv no matter what point it's at.
Funny, because I think it's overrated.
I'm with Earthbound here, I think its one of the Coen's best, which is saying a lot because they're consistently good.
i feel the same.
meaning i find it to be completely the opposite of overlooked.
once upon a time, i was 'walkingcontradiction' on this forum.
never seen it but I heard Morvern Callar is good.
travel movies i enjoy:
(several that were already mentioned. espesh darjeeling limited.)
Thelma and Louise.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Indiana Jones.
Star Wars?
once upon a time, i was 'walkingcontradiction' on this forum.
I think that's because I like the dark Coens a bit more.
now that you say that, my opinion, and my life in general, makes much more sense.
once upon a time, i was 'walkingcontradiction' on this forum.
Stand By Me
is my favorite.
Would Time Bandits qualify as a travel movie?
Meh.
is my favorite.
I second this.
Does Back to the Future count? They technically traveled.
Dude, Easy muthaf**kin Rider.
Also, The Stand has epic journies across the US.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I think there's a distinct difference between Adventure Movie and Travel Movie/Road Movie, which have some similarities but aren't the same. I definitely think the Indiana Jones movies would fall completely on the Adventure Movie side, and movies like The Stand, Blues Brothers, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Mad Max/The Road Warrior and Thelma & Louise all fall more heavily toward Adventure Movie than Travel Movie.
How bout Frodo and Sam's quest to destroy the one ring in mount doom?
Adventure.
Two Lane Blacktop
Rain Man
1492, Conquest of Paradise
Leningrad Cowboys go America
Fitzcarraldo
And you are wrong about Butch Cassidy (it's a movie long chase).
The Motorcycle Diaries
"...human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
Freeway
Day of the Triffids
Terminator 2
La Strada
Lord of... the....
Looks like Spunck's life is dull and pointless.
Aw geez, I can't believe I forgot about one of the greatest Canadian movies of all time "Hard Core Logo."
Meh.
Dersu Uzala, of course.
CLEAN, SHAVEN.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Sin Nombre. One of the best films I've seen this year!
O Lucky Man! (1973, dir Lindsay Anderson)
It's a surreal journey of a naive young coffee salesman across England, played by Malcolm McDowell, who gradually finds himself involved in increasingly bizarre situations (including but not limited to secret sex clubs, military torture and bizarre medical experiments) that force him to sacrifice his principles for success.
Some say it's overlong and I kind of agree, but I just get a great feeling every time I watch it.
A Boy and His Dog (1969, dir LQ Jones)
In a similar vein to Road Warrior though low on action, it's a post apocalyptic story about a horny young kid named Vic (played by Don Johnson) and a mangy but well-read dog named Blood (that seems to share a telepathic link with Vic), living amongst the remnants of a nuclear holocaust. They have a somewhat symbiotic relationship, Vic needs Blood to sniff out women and Blood needs Vic's protection but together they're looking for a mythical place known as 'Over the Hill'.