# Road movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807 "2011-09-01T01:05:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_McAwful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@Larry\_McAwful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_McAwful)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/1 "2011-09-01T01:05:48Z")
I guess I’d have to say that _Interstate 60_ and _Highway 61_ are my favorite road movies. What I like about them is that the main character or characters find themselves in a world that doesn’t seem to involve anyone else. Sure, there are other characters that the main characters interact with, but basically, the story revolves around the person or the people in the car. _Roadside Prophets_ counts, too, even though those were motorcycles. And hell, _Doctor Who_ is kind of a road movie, even though it doesn’t involve roads and it’s not a movie, and it doesn’t always have cars in it. A good road movie doesn’t have to involve a car, but it usually does. I live in Boston, so I’ve got a burning urge to drive to somewhere along the Pacific Ocean. However, due to obligations I’ve got, I can’t really do that at the moment. I still have road movies, though. Which ones are the best ones? ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/2 "2011-09-01T01:09:42Z")
Is _Field of Dreams_ a road movie? If it is, it’s my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_McAwful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@Larry\_McAwful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_McAwful)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/3 "2011-09-01T01:25:16Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > Is _Field of Dreams_ a road movie? If it is, it’s my favorite. I dunno; I’ve never seen it. I get the feeling I ought to, since it’s referenced so much. I’ll check it out; thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/4 "2011-09-01T05:09:43Z")
_Huckleberry Finn_–no movie, no road, and no cars, either–is the best-ever road movie! ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/5 "2011-09-01T11:23:32Z")
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. There’s another road movie where the guys keep talking about going to see “Dom”. Turns out it’s a bottle of buried champagne. But the name escapes me right now. It inspired a friend and I to bury a bottle of whisky near a remote, but very beautiful lake in Rocky Mountain National park. Details available to anyone interested. It’s been there 30 years now… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/6 "2011-09-01T13:09:05Z")
**Road to Morocco** is the best of the Road pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/7 "2011-09-01T13:20:11Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > There’s another road movie where the guys keep talking about going to see “Dom”. Turns out it’s a bottle of buried champagne. But the name escapes me right now. [Fandango](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089126/). Notable for being Kevin Costner’s first starring role, and for its terrific Pat Metheny music. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/8 "2011-09-01T13:29:13Z")
“Route 66” TV show of the early 1960s because nothing beats two young guys in a Corvette working odd jobs across the country. Although the best epsiode was where Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr play themselves. For “reality” dig up DVDs of Charles Kuralt “On the Road” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/9 "2011-09-01T13:36:48Z")
How about **Apocalypse Now**? Martin Sheen is on some sort of trip. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/10 "2011-09-01T13:51:44Z")
_Paul_: RV road trip w/two comic-con geeks and an alien. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/11 "2011-09-01T14:09:39Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > [Fandango](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089126/). Notable for being Kevin Costner’s first starring role, and for its terrific Pat Metheny music. My favorite. One of the most quotable movies ever. **Kalifornia** was one. Trip sharing probably dropped by half after that came out. **Duel** was one of the best road movies ever. Spielburg’s first effort, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/12 "2011-09-01T14:57:44Z")
Complete opposites, but both great road movies: [Vanishing Point](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/) about a guy who is delivering a Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco. He’s chased by cops and spiritually supported by a blind black DJ called Super Soul. He also comes across a gorgeous naked female motorcyclist. The actress, ironically, went on to become a big name in costume design. The other is [The Straight Story](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/), about an old man who drives across a state on his lawn mower to visit his brother. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/13 "2011-09-01T15:00:17Z")
Two-Lane Blacktop is a great one. The Straight Story Into the Wild is a road movie for the most part Little Miss Sunshine In a slightly different vein, National Lampoon’s Vacation As a sub-genre, there are a lot of thematically similar movies about lovers on the run: Badlands Wild at Heart True Romance Natural Born Killers ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/14 "2011-09-01T15:05:27Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > My favorite. One of the most quotable movies ever. > > **Kalifornia** was one. Trip sharing probably dropped by half after that came out. > > **Duel** was one of the best road movies ever. Spielburg’s first effort, wasn’t it? Yes, it was, but three years later he made another very good road movie called [The Sugarland Express](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072226/). It was about a rather dopey minor criminal and his wife, the lovely Goldie Hawn, escaping from an open prison and trying to get to the Mexican border, with half the US police forces in pursuit. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/15 "2011-09-01T15:07:43Z")
_Planes, Trains, and Automobiles_. A great road movie with John Candy and Steve Martin. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/16 "2011-09-01T15:11:09Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > There’s another road movie where the guys keep talking about going to see “Dom”. Turns out it’s a bottle of buried champagne. But the name escapes me right now. > > It inspired a friend and I to bury a bottle of whisky near a remote, but very beautiful lake in Rocky Mountain National park. Details available to anyone interested. It’s been there 30 years now… I’ve actually gone to visit [Dom](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=413047) myself. Heck yeah, we need the details. That sounds pretty darn interesting. 30 years… too bad you didn’t bury a cask. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/17 "2011-09-01T15:25:13Z")
_ **Lost In America** _ is a great one. _“Say it! Say it! Say “I lost the nest-egg.” Go on, say it!”_ 😛 I have to thank _ **About Schmidt** _ for turning me on to the [River Road Archway Monument](http://www.archway.org/), one of the coolest roadside attractions I’ve been to. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/18 "2011-09-01T15:35:03Z")
**The World’s Fastest Indian** Anthony Hopkins plays New Zealander Burt Munro and his road trip through California to get to the Bonneville salt flats to break a land speed record. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/19 "2011-09-01T15:35:50Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’ve actually gone to visit [Dom](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=413047) myself. Heck yeah, we need the details. That sounds pretty darn interesting. 30 years… too bad you didn’t bury a cask. I’m moving today so I have limited time but I’ll post details as soon as I get a break. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807/20 "2011-09-01T16:30:29Z")
**Michael** with John Travolta, Andie MacDowell and William Hurt. It was actually the first movie that popped into my head when I heard road movie. What is odd is that I could have sworn that the girl that slept with Michael in the movie was Renée Zellweger, but she isn’t listed in the credits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-movies/594807.md?page=2)