On the Run: The Road Movies Tournament (1 Viewer)

[ErikG]

Hi everyone, welcome to my Road Movies Tournament.

I've always enjoyed movies where a large portion of the action takes place on the road. Let's shoot for 32 movies. Everyone gets 4 nominations, 5 Seconds, and 5 Thirds.


The Master List
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Bonnie and Clyde***
Breakdown
Death Race 2000
Duel****
Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
It Happened One Night***
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Lost in America*
Mad Max**
Midnight Run****
National Lampoons Vacation*
Natural Born Killers
O Brother Where Art Thou?*
Perfect World, A
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles**
Rain Man*
Road to Perdition*
Road Warrior, The**
Seventh Seal, The**
Sullivans Travels****--WINNER
Smokey and the Bandit*
Speed
Straight Story, The
Sugerland Express, The**
Sure Thing, The
Thelma and Louise
Tommy Boy
Wild Strawberries*
Wizard of Oz, The
Y Tu Mama Tambien**


Wild Cards
Badlands****
Cannonball Run*
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry*
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Getaway, The (1972)
Hitcher, The*
Joyride
Kiss or Kill
Muppet Movie, The*
Near Dark*
Pee-Wees Big Adventure
Rat Race
Thunder Road
Two-Lane Blacktop
Wild at Heart
Wraith, The

 

[Travis Olson]

Good Idea.

Noms:

Breakdown
Days of Thunder
The Road Warrior
Speed

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Nominate
Tommy Boy
O Brother Where Art Thou?
National Lampoon's Vacation
Road to Perdition saw your sig Travis

Second
The Road Warrior
Speed

 

[Rain]

Nominate:

Thelma and Louise
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Bonnie and Clyde
A Perfect World


Second:

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

 

[Ric Bagoly]

Nominate-

The Cannonball Run

Smokey And The Bandit

Death Race 2000

Natural Born Killers

 

[Rain]

Second:

Natural Born Killers

 

[Travis Olson]

Second:

Road to Perdition
A Perfect World
Tommy Boy

Third:

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

 

[Vickie_M]

Nominate:


One False Move

The Getaway (1972 with Steve McQueen)

The Straight Story

Kalifornia



Second:

Thelma and Louise
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Bonnie and Clyde
Smokey And The Bandit



Third:

Road to Perdition
Natural Born Killers

 

[george kaplan]

I'll nominate:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Great Race

I'll second:

National Lampoon's Vacation

I'll third:

Smokey & the Bandit
Speed

 

[SteveGon]

I'll nominate:

Highway 61
It Happened One Night

I'd nominate Cold Fever, but what would be the point? :frowning:

I'll second:

Death Race 2000
The Straight Story

I'll third:

The Road Warrior

 

[Walter Kittel]

Nominate:
Duel
Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
Vanishing Point

Second:
It Happened One Night

Third:
The Straight Story

- Walter.

 

[LukeB]

Nominate
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Midnight Run
Speed

 

[george kaplan]

I'll second:

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Duel

I'll third:

It Happened One Night

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Tempted to nominate Aguirre... does a river count as a road?

Nominate:
Lost in America
Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal
My Own Private Idaho

Second:
Easy Rider
Midnight Run

Third:
Duel
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles


other suggestions:
The Hidden Fortress
Lolita
Deconstructing Harry
The Lady Vanishes (do trains count?)
The Wizard of Oz?

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Third: Midnight Run

 

[ErikG]

Luke, Speed had already been nominated, so you get that nom back.

Chuck, I'd prefer we kept to the pavement.

 

[Lew Crippen]

Nominate:

La Strada
Thunder Road
The Samurai Trioligy


Second:

Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal


Third
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

 

[SteveGon]

I'll second La Strada and Thunder Road. Need to rewatch the Samurai trilogy.

I'll third Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

another suggestion: The Muppet Movie

 

[Brook K]

3rd Easy Rider

2nd Five Easy Pieces

Nominate
Sullivan's Travels
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Ballad Of A Soldier