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Crete_drvr
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: favorite trucking movies |
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Just wondering what everyones favorite truck driving movie is?
Now I know alot of you love the ubiquitous movie Smokey and the Bandit. I saw that and wasnt impressed. Maybe I was too young. My favorite truck driving movie is "Over the Top" starring Sly Stallone.
This has to be one of Stallone's most underated movies of all time. Stallone is probably the only person who can make a movie about arm wrestling and make it just as exciting as a Rocky or Rambo flick. This movie has it all, pressure, failure, love, and trust. This is definitely a good father and son bonding movie too. Stallone basically arm wrestles at local bars to make some sweet dough, he finally realizes he has a talent and should take his arm wrestling career alot further than anyone could imagine. So what does he do? He enters an arm wrestling competition to win a new truck and his whiny son goes along with him too. He inspires Stallone to become the baddest, roughest, pugnacious monster alive. Great action great acting. I love the scene where his father in-law is offering him some money to stay out of his son's life and he turns around to leave and his bodyguard wont let him through the glass deck door, sly tosses him through it with force. Or the scene where he takes his truck to his father in-laws mansion and plows through the fence in front. Lots of mullets, bad 80's music (Kenny Loggins *barf*) and the son is a bad actor, still a great flick. You should rent this movie if you havent seen it already.
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Roadhog
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Location: Upper Lower Michigan...he heeeeeeeeee
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:57 am Post subject: |
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wot i life
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| roadhog wrote: Yeah, I love Bleep, bleep movies too :lol: |
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shyykatt
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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There really aren't too many trucking movies are there?
The only ones I remember are not specifically 'trucking' movies; one was called "Breakdown?"- a trucker abducts Kurt Russels wife or something- stores her ALIVE in a freezer under his barn/shed floor. I recently saw an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer hithes a ride w/ a woman trucker, she asks him if he knows how to double-clutch, he says yes, so she lets him drive and he grinds the **** out of all the gears.
(Pretty lame, I know.) |
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Malaki86
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Convoy, Smokey and the Bandit (1st one only), Duel, Black Dog (I loved the truck wreck scenes), hrmmmm..... what else.... |
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devildice
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Duel was and is my all time favorite movie............ |
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Crete_drvr
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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devildice wrote: Duel was and is my all time favorite movie............ I'll have to check that one out...
what's the storyline? what's it about? I'm too lazy to look it up on IMDB right now. :oops: |
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Rev.Vassago
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Location: The other side of the coin
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Psycho trucker is stalking a four wheeler, and we never find out why. |
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Malaki86
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| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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D*mn four wheeler cut him off :wink:
Duel is well worth checking out.
Off-topic, but Crete_drvr - I love your avatar - I think I've felt like that many times on the computer hahahaha |
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Fozzy
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White Line Fever..
The Black Dog movie was really silly! |
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PackRatTDI
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Duel was one of Stephen Spielberg's first feature films.
The scariest thing about Duel is that it's supposedly based on a true story! |
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jhutchi63
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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shyykatt wrote: There really aren't too many trucking movies are there?
Actually there is a lot more than you think, I put this list together from the truckerflicks.com web site ( www.truckerflicks.com )
If anyone else knows of anything that should be added to it let me know as I am trying to get a complete list of them together.
TV SHOWS:
BJ and the Bear
Movin On
Cannonball
18 Wheels of Justice
Movies:
Convoy
White Line Fever
High Ballin
Breaker Breaker
Steel Cowboy
Flatbed Annie and Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
CB Hustlers
Truck Stop Women
The Great Smokey Roadblock
Black Dog
Black Top
Coast To coast
Joyride
Maximum Overdrive
Over The Top
Smokey And the Bandit
Smokey and the Bandit II
Smokey and the Bandit 3
Citizens Band
Hijack
Moonfire
Road Games
Smokey and the Hotwire Gang
Thunder Run
Willa
Breakdown
Truckers woman
Duel
They Drive By night
Theives highway
Sorcerer
The Wages Of Fear
Deadhead Miles |
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shyykatt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| holy moly! I had no idea there were that many! :shock: |
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yoopr
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I liked BJ and the Bear-I was still driving a COE and I THINK he was driving a KW COE |
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shyykatt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, Joy Ride- Rev. stars in that one! :lol: :D |
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