Two Lane Blacktop
 

Was one this morning on Encore Drama at 9:15 and i was to late to watch. But will also air Thursday December 15th at 1:35 pm and December 31 at 6:15 am.

it was on last night and i watched it until my wife couldnt take the "boring stupidity" any more.

So what did you do then Gary???

:D

handed her the controls and rolled over and went to sleep. i woke up about 1:30 friday morning with it coming out both ends. that went on till about mid day friday and just felt like $(!% until this afternoon. sorry no pics for you.

Copies can be found on ebay (and other sites as well) for a meager price. I picked up mine a couple years back for something like $10-$20. Stupidity for sure, but it's fun to put the girlfriend thru it every year or so. Smokey and the Bandit each year too for sure... :D

Got mine on Ebay. Only movie we have that the wife hates.

Found this site/info a few weeks back.
Has lots of great old pics/info.

Here is a TLB related section/link.
Enjoy.

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com...71-road-flick/

Thanks Gary - not really the answer I expected, but I appreciate the honesty. :rolleyes:

Hell...
 

I watch it just to listen to that M-22 whine! At least they got THAT right! Also...it's Oscar material compared to that "Fast and Furious" comedic garbage. Had to use special effects to even make those cars look interesting...let alone fast.

I watched it for the first time a few months ago. First movie I've ever seen where the first 10 min only had 10 words of dialogue. I thought something was wrong with the dvd. lol Lot of neat cars in the movie if only for a sec.

Agree with Gary's wife, that is one BORING movie. I tried to watch it on two separate occasions & checked out.

Smokey & the Bandit was on again this weekend. Watched 1/2 hour of it:

Bar scene where the truck river gets punched & tossed out, so he gets into the truck, grins & runs his rig over the bikes.
Truck convoy where the T/A tuck into the Rt Lane, and truck puts the blinders on the Trooper passing by. Then the T/A goes off-roading a bunch. By then then the Remote got wrestled away.

Early '70s movies (Easy Rider is the exemplar) are totally unsuited to viewers conditioned by the Hollywood of the past 30 years. The disillusionment and sense of loss is part of the director's vision, as well as the characters'. 6 years of Vietnam, the draft, Watergate, Kent State and Jackson State. . .everyone just keeps moving, with nowhere to go. These give you the red pill, versus the blue-pill "everything's gonna be alright" daily 8-hour energy drink toxin of today that keeps us going to our jobs and paying taxes.

I watched it last night and my wife kept asking me when something
was going to happen and what the point of the movie was. She couldn't understand
what the point of the movie was since there never really was a race and they never actually
went to Washington D.C She also wanted to know why they were driving around with
their car titles in their glove boxes and why they didn't go to Washington since their
car titles had already been sent there! To me it's worth it to see a brand new Orbit
Orange Judge being driven like it was intended to be driven rather than being hauled
around in an enclosed trailer. I always thought it would have been a much better film
if James Taylor and Dennis Wilson had been driving a Hemi Cuda instead of a pile of
crap 55 Chevy.

Here ya go, there is some interesting info and pics here. May be more than you ever wanted to know!:D

http://twolaneblacktop.yuku.com/

So you got what I had, I feel your pain.

yes, it was horrible.

boss, with that last post, i think you are starting to sound like steved and i.

when we were young we were preverts, then we became just good ole perverts and now we are old proverts.

The point was to show the substantial differences between what is consumed/bought without thought and what is created from scratch with a great deal of care and thought i.e, - the GTO, the ultimate consumer icon car of the time versus something hand-made and home-built - the 55 Chevy street machine. Two showroom musclecars of the same year would have completely missed Hellman's vision.

And that Chevy was no pile of crap, it was built for the movie and was an honest 10 or 11 sec. street machine with the best parts and craftsmanship of the day.

Ironically, many GTOs, today, occupy the status that the '55 did back then.

I have to say I'm a little disappointed - after the TA convertible story you do have a reputation to uphold!

Two Lane
 

You are spot on, excellent explanation.