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Any movie that more or less dispenses with plot in order to follow a somewhat aimless journey.

Like The Passenger.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Two-Lane Blacktop

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

good one!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit - can't top 2-Lane

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Smokey & The Bandit

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Vanishing Point

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Cannonball Run

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Muppet Movie

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Taillights Fade

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

too much plot!

Vanishing Point is good.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

What about those Wim Wenders movies set in America, Alice In The Cities and so on?

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

could work.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Payday

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

More importantly, when the fuck are those Wim Wenders movies going to come out on DVD?

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

good question. kings of the road is so great.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

My video store has Kings Of The Road on VHS.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

mine too; i've only viewed it on VHS. anything shot by robby muller begs be seen on film, so i hope i someday have the chance. wenders' early stuff seems really ripe for revival -- who has the rights to it?

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 27 January 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Too much plot for Cannonball Run? How about Cannonball Run II?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Down By Law (Jarmusch)
Satantango by Bela Tarr ???????????

― spectra (spectra), Saturday, 13 May 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Gerry (kinda)
The Brown Bunny (kinda)

― evil bill (evil bill), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Gerry (kinda)
The Brown Bunny

― evil bill (evil bill), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

(oops)

― evil bill (evil bill), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Made in U.S.A.

Powwow Highway - although the journey's not all that aimless

I like the short ... it may have been on PBS' POV about 10 years ago... that covers an entire cross-country road trip and ends with the driver jumping out of the car and splashing in the Pacific surf in SF. forgot the darned title...

bonus haiku:

There's lots of movies
that go aimless to the end
but I liked Broken Flowers

― Dan Aloi (67Dano), Monday, 12 June 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Another "Kinda": Scarecrow

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

OMG, I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You a new Brazilian movie, has got to be the purest road movie EVER. If you get the the chance to see it, do!

― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 May 2010 19:48 (fifteen years ago)

Pretty much my favourite genre...Wenders for sure; he made at least three or four of them. Scarecrow, Harry & Tonto, The Straight Story, Five Easy Pieces (sort of, for some of it), Wild Strawberries (ditto), Flirting with Disaster, The Daytrippers, Weekend, Thelma & Louise (the fugitive film being something of a subgenre of the road film--the journey does have an aim, though), Something Wild...I know I'm missing a bunch of movies I like a lot.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

phantasm III

― meisenfek, Monday, 10 May 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)

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