Worst movie ever...well maybe not take out the cool car chasing and the mini-bike and it's pretty ****py I was so dissappointed because I heard it was awesome...cool chase scenes though.
I saw one of the Challengers they used in the movie last year at Floyd Garrets Musuem in Gattlenburg TN. It was one of the camera cars. THe movie was ok, certianly not a block buster.
I drove one of the three Challengers they used in the TV Movie from Denver to the California border, going through all the original towns and film locations from the 1970 Movie. The No. 3 car is at Floyd's, and the guy who owns all three did a concours rest on the #1 car. No. 2 is the one we drove. Walked around in the Hotel SuperSoul broadcast out of, slept in the motel Barry Newman and crew stayed in, crawled around the rubble pile that was the gas station the Challenger hit the 'doze in front of... -Brad
Quote: Originally Posted by VonMoldy Worst movie ever... He's obviously never seen Plan 9 from Outer Space...... Mutt
for the ending crash scene with the bulldozers they didnt even use a challenger, they used a white camaro. lmao.
Vanishing Point and Two Lane Blacktop were not only statements about the futilities of life and saying "**** you" to the man, from a time when the country was under a whole different ball of stresses, they were made with budgets that wouldn't buy lunch on the set of some of todays movies. who gives a **** about the actors, their acting or the script the movies were about cars, fast American cars with big block motors running as fast as they could.. across the country...until they DIED!! the poor *******s hahahaha
Von Mold, it captures a time in America that you're probably too young to rememeber. CB radio, bad, fast cars, little white pills and an anti-establishment at***ude. It was a low buck production for that time. But, ya know, it's sort of sad that you missed those years. There were drag strips in every small town, rock and roll was still a thing that mattered and rebellion was hip. No wonder people are stuck in a nostalgia groove. chili
........Chills.........Spills.........And a hand full of pills.........what where you expecting..............
yes i didnt grow up in the 70's but i understood the message of the movie well except the end i didnt get why he killed himself that left me wondering why...
I seen it in 71 when it came out at the drive-in it was great back then and got good reviews but to each his own.The best car movie got to be american graffitti or rebel without a cause.
You got any UPS??? Cult flick,cool music,bad acting,rough edges. The snake revival scene in the desert reminds me of those hippies we used to wave to,as kids. We'd see them just off Santa Suzana p***,going to Simi Vally CA. I think thier leader was a guy named Charlie Manson. Hi charlie!!sparkx
I saw the movie when it first came out and loved it. I don't think people today Get the whole 60's early 70's thing. Had to be there.
I guess it is just a matter of opinion. Some people like, and or think, that the computerized special effects of todays movies is quality. I think it is pretty much **** to cover up poor writing and or bad acting. This movie, like most "car" oriented movies, is a cult movie for different reasons. But like I said, it is just opinion.
"Vanishing Point" with Barry Newman has always been a fav of mine. I thought it rocked! Now "Crazy Larry / Dirty Mary is a different story...............
It's a GREAT cult movie, it set the tone for my expectations of America. I saw it for the first time in a small Swedish theater, I thought everyone drove muscle cars and popped speed The only problem with this movie is that I don't have a Challenger R/T that I can beat the **** out of after I have seen the movie !
I too was able to see the original Vanishing Point when it came out in Minneapolis, downtown on Hennepin Ave at the Orpheum Theature. They had a new white Challenger in the lobby. I wonder how many of those got sold to people who saw the movie? Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy
I guess in thinking about it more it isnt the worst movie ever but i was really dissapointed in it except for any part with the car in it.
Fer reel? That's just fantastic! I never knew that before. Why did he kill himself in the end? Well half the movie was flashbacks showing that he'd done everything he ever wanted to, so draw your own conclusions. ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver" Easy on the Giggle Cream!
I think that movie is alright for what it is. I'm 37 years old, I agree that us guys that didn't live through the 60s or 70s as teens or older probably will never get a lot of things of that era. We don't own a ton of movies, my copy of Vanishing Point sits between American Graffiti and Two Lane Black Top on the shelf.
It's been a long time since I saw the movie, but didn't his girl friend die in one of the flashbacks? Kinda thought that was the whole reason behind the "don't care if I live or die" run to the coast.
Hey kids! Don't worry about wether you got it or not. That was the cry from a preceeding generation. You will have your own opportunity to be betrayed and sold out by your leaders, to see monterous injustices done, have everything you ever beleived in destroyed, to see youth butchered for the service of impotant old men's ambitions and finally to realize that the drugs you are taking are no longer taking the edge of things. And so forth. You will find your movie anthems as they present themselves. I liked that movie. We stayed and watched it three times in a row. We were probably 13 years old. We saw ****s! And gaybashing! And Clevon Little got lynched! I think. And some schmuck in an XKE ate it.
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