FWIW, I almost put this post in the "Car pics too cool not to share" but I figured my questions could lead too far off that topic
It's been roughly 20 years since the second time I watched it and almost 6-1/2 years since my Traumatic Brain Injury so I don't remember the movie details beyond something at a diner and hopefully the truck, not the car, drive off a cliff and exploded. I do know that I never understood why the movie exists.
I first saw it on TV in the early 80s when many cars were already important to me. Honestly, the 15 yr old me didn't watch it to see my grandma's car nor the old painted-patina semi that looked very similar to a truck in the woods that I had shot bbs at hundreds of times trying to add to the bullet holes made by someone else. Maybe I thought I didn't understand the movie because I was too young but I'm pretty sure at 15 yrs old I understood everything.
The second time I watched it, I watched for the movie itself, not the main vehicles because they still weren't anything special to me (at this point I have to admit my Grandparent's car wasn't a red 4 door Valiant but was a gold 2 door Dart Swinger with a white vinyl top) anyway, by the end I shook my head hoping something would click so I'd know why I watched it. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
Is it a good movie? If so I have to ask how? or maybe why?
I believe the movie is about something but I never really knew what. Is it about good vs evil? mental illness? risk of driving alone?
Maybe it was about fear? Specifically, the fear of putting the pedal to the metal and leaving that truck far behind because even the slant six would have had no problem getting away from a truck with a top speed somewhere under 60 mph.
It's been roughly 20 years since the second time I watched it and almost 6-1/2 years since my Traumatic Brain Injury so I don't remember the movie details beyond something at a diner and hopefully the truck, not the car, drive off a cliff and exploded. I do know that I never understood why the movie exists.
I first saw it on TV in the early 80s when many cars were already important to me. Honestly, the 15 yr old me didn't watch it to see my grandma's car nor the old painted-patina semi that looked very similar to a truck in the woods that I had shot bbs at hundreds of times trying to add to the bullet holes made by someone else. Maybe I thought I didn't understand the movie because I was too young but I'm pretty sure at 15 yrs old I understood everything.
The second time I watched it, I watched for the movie itself, not the main vehicles because they still weren't anything special to me (at this point I have to admit my Grandparent's car wasn't a red 4 door Valiant but was a gold 2 door Dart Swinger with a white vinyl top) anyway, by the end I shook my head hoping something would click so I'd know why I watched it. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
Is it a good movie? If so I have to ask how? or maybe why?
I believe the movie is about something but I never really knew what. Is it about good vs evil? mental illness? risk of driving alone?
Maybe it was about fear? Specifically, the fear of putting the pedal to the metal and leaving that truck far behind because even the slant six would have had no problem getting away from a truck with a top speed somewhere under 60 mph.