trucking movies

[Johnny Z]

Ok, I'm watching Breakdown, one word: sucks. That Jeep sure did stay clean for a long time while driving through the desert and the wind. What other movies involving truckers, trucks, etc stand out in your mind?

[eeeee5]

.  .  .  .  Space Truckers is rather funny and stupid sci-fi.  And then horror has two easily remembered films with Duel (1971) and Maximum Overdrive, (I've seen neither, but have caught pieces of the latter).
.  .  .  .  There's another I remember about two Body-Building-Brothers, it used to play on "USA Up All Night" and I think involved some sort of duel to save a woman?
.  .  .  .  Do you mean Breakdown (1997), starring Kurt Russel?  I liked the film.  

from The Bog Creatures (2003) Jeffrey Howard as Professor Feneman and Michael Mosley as Nick Warren:
PF:  Ohh, ooooh, oooh, such beauty in death!  Oooh, I'm so happy, this is vindication... oooh, sweat vindication!
NW:  Yeah, congratulations an that.



Post Edited (03-16-04 15:32)

[Johnny Z]

Break Down is right.

[Bgrade.]

For a Trucker film you can't go wrong with Convoy.
I also have a soft spot for Maximum Overdrive.

Other truck-ish movies.

Smokey and the Bandit.
or
Any Which way but Loose.
(damn! why so many movies from the 70's you would think I was old or something.)

Or maybe loosely, "Over the Top" but who the hell would want  to watch that. Plus not really a trucker movie.

This is Rubber Duck Over and Out.

[AndyC]

Best trucker movie, in my opinion, has to be Smokey and the Bandit. It's also among the great car chase movies.

For cheesy fun, it's hard to beat Chuck Norris in Breaker Breaker. It would take a whole page to list everything in that movie that makes me laugh.

[Deej]

Bgrade named all of my favorites.

Convoy: Kristofferson as The Rubber Duck...good tuff

Smokey and the Bandit...Classic!

Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can...hahaha Monkeys!!

The 70's were great for trashy trucker flicks. It was a good time, when everyone had a CB in their car and wore trucker-style hats without a trace of irony....ah sweet youth.



Post Edited (03-15-04 22:31)

[Ash]

Who could forget Speilberg's first good film "Duel" where that guy is menaced by a big greasy oil tanker.

[JohnL]

There's also the USA Network film Trucks, based on the same short story as Maximum Overdrive, but MUCH slower and more boring.

[trekgeezer]

Jan Michael Vincent  made a trucker movie but I can't remember the name of it.

[raj]

And let's not forget that tv show BJ and the Bear.

[The Burgomaster]

Here are a few . . .

* ROAD GAMES
* DUEL
* CONVOY
* SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT
* BLACK DOG (ugh!)
* TRUCKS
* MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
* WHITE LINE FEVER
* SORCERER
* THE WAGES OF FEAR
* THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT
* FIST
* THE ROAD WARRIOR (okay, I'm stretching it now . . . )

And what was that one from the 1980s starring Forrest Tucker?  I can't remember the name and I'm too lazy to go to IMDB . . .

[Kirk]

Smokey and the Bandit II
Rolling Vengeance
Thunder Road
Black Dog
Breaker, Breaker

[Lee]

Mximum Overdrive in an under-appreciated gem. Gotta love that dialog. :)

[JohnL]

>Jan Michael Vincent made a trucker movie but I can't remember the name of it.

White Line Fever

[Yaddo42]

eeeee5 means the Barbarian Bros. (Peter and David Paul) non-classic "Think Big". Not really worth seeking out unless you get a kick out of the Bros. or want to see  David Carradine, Claudia Christian, Martin Mull, Richard Moll, and "Tiny" Lister REALLY slumming for a paycheck.

Never seen it, but there is the Peter Fonda/Jerry Reed truckin' movie "High Ballin'". Guess Jerry was trying to corner the market on trucker movies in the 70s.

Paul Le Mat was in the Jonathon Demme directed "Handle With Care/Citizen's Band" more about the CB craze, but truckers figure in it.

And "Big Trouble In Little China" isn't a strict trucker flick, but how about some love for Jack Burton and The Porkchop Express? The man went through a lot to get his truck back after all.....