Two Lane Blacktop Reviews

Number one on the list of my Top Ten Car Movies is 1971's Two Lane Blacktop, directed by Monte Hellman from a script by Rudolph Wurlitzer (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Candy Mountain). It's a movie that begins with six minutes of engine noise and no dialogue, a kind of automotive overture that sets the stage for one of the great American Movies of the 1970s, as well as one of the greatest car racing movies ever. But it's more than just another racing flick.

It's more of an existential road movie, a cinematic tone poem, where such things as plot and dialogue take a back seat to visually arresting widescreen...

This won't even count as a full review since it will be so brief.  I love James "Sweet Baby James" Taylor's music.  I played many of his songs in smokey little college coffee houses back in the day.  However; James - stick with your day job.  I rate this flick right down there with Frank Zappa's "200 Motels"...a total waste of time & money.