Captivating movie !

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a weird one. I never heard of it but being at a muscle car convention they showed clips from this flick and a remake is in the make so it was time to pick it up.There isn't much of a story in it. It's all about racing, picking up hitch-hikers, a lot of nonsense while talking, I mean. On the edge of boring but still it is over before you know it. Boring due the story itself but if you are into muscle cars then this is a must see. You will come across all of them, from the main lead, a GTO and a stripped '55 Chevy to Camaro's , Mustang, you call it it's all there. While they are on track for racing it's where this movie takes it's fame. And for the geeks they do talk a lot about the cars and engines. Made in the heydays of the muscle cars, only for those geeks. There's better out there to see with a good story but still, it do pull off somehow. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

I have just seen a quite unusual movie. Two Lane Blacktop came out in 1971 and I first thought that it was some kind of 'Easy Rider' copy, but I was quite wrong. As a road movie, it is a bizarre experience, that follows two drifters cross the United States in an upgraded 55 Chevrolet challenging other drivers for drag races as they progress east. They take on a drifter girl along on the road and agree to a west to east race with a slimy character in a GTO. All this happens in a weird atmosphere with the bare minimum of dialogue. This is paired together with an absence of purpose and direction. They seem to be in a race, yet they don't seem to strive towards their goal , the end of the movie is so telling of this tendency, it didn't almost surprise me any more. An interesting movie, but not to my taste. 5,8/10 " - rogdie

Masters Of Cinema Cast - Episode 4 - Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop Monte Hellman's 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is rare film. Judging by appearances it is a typical road movie, fast cars, cool guys, pretty girls and endless roads yet Easy Rider this is not. Its two main characters have no names other than The Driver and The Mechanic - they barely say a word and when they do its just about cars anyway. For light relief we have Warren Oates in the kind of role that only Warren Oates could play but for those wanting something a little more deeper or indeed a little more...well anything then Two-Lane Blacktop maybe something of a slog. It simply refuses to act like a film should. The main plot is not that gripping, you don't really get to know the characters in any great depth and its doesn't even have a score to tap you foot too. But sometimes cinema is about those moments of silence between characters, that reflective look out the window and where that story you have seen many times before should be is something altogether different. In this episode Joakim and Tom and joined by Hunter Duesing from the Midnight Movie Cowboys Podcast to discuss this cult oddity as well as go on a fair number of tangents. Enjoy. moccast.blogspot.no/2013/05/episode-four-two-lane-blacktop.html

A girl gets into a car; the owners don't say 'who are you?' or 'would you like a lift?' but drive off. She gets out the car and into another. She gets out and gets in the first car. She gets out and wanders around then gets back in another car. James Taylor stares meaningfully into the middle distance. This goes on for one hour forty minutes.Yes, we're in existential 'masterpiece' territory folks. I can never work out whether people claiming to love this type of film genuinely love it (in which case they're definitely seeing something I'm not) or they're pretending to for film snobbery reasons. Both types are out there I think.I could have directed this blindfolded and it couldn't have been any worse. I could never, in a million years, create a clever, profound, witty, insightful masterpiece such as an All About Eve or an Annie Hall or a Casablanca or a Quiz Show.Truly, the emperor has no clothes...