Recently my little boy Thor become enthralled with anything car related. Starting with the Cars movie and then Wacky Races and Speed Racer the kid cant get enough.
So I'm trying to start a car related thread with the best(worst) recommendations. For kids - adults,
here's some to start with. In no particular order
*Updated list*
TV shows:
Wacky Races (animated)
Speed Racer (animated)
Rory the racing car (animated)
Maters tales (Cars related animation)
Knightrider (original -action)
So I'm trying to start a car related thread with the best(worst) recommendations. For kids - adults,
here's some to start with. In no particular order
*Updated list*
TV shows:
Wacky Races (animated)
Speed Racer (animated)
Rory the racing car (animated)
Maters tales (Cars related animation)
Knightrider (original -action)
Speed Buggy (animated)
Gumball 3000
Wonderbug (kids)
Top Gear
Dukes of Hazard
My Mother the Car
Transformers
Supercar
Car54
Adam 12
CHiPs
Tom Slick
Movies:
Cars (animated)
Gone in sixty seconds (i prefer the original but both are ok to watch)-drama/action
Cannonball Run series - action/comedy
Bullitt: action
Gumball Rally: action/comedy
Vanishing Point:drama/action
Thunder Road
Grand Prix
American Graffiti-more American Graffiti
Le Mans
the Car - horror
Duel -action/drama/horror
Death Proof - horror/action
Christine: Horror
Hollywood Knights
Mad Max -sequels
Death Race 2000 (i prefer the original but try the remake too)
Eat my Dust
Lively Set
Smokey and the Bandit
Hot Rod
White Lightning
Hot Rod Girl
Hot Wheels (animated series)
Johnny Dark
Greased Lighting
To Please a Lady
Heart Like a Wheel
Redline
Last American Hero
Hot Rods to Hell
King of the Mountain
Italian Job
Dirt
Herbie (lovebug)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Driven
Initial D
Fast and Furious (i didnt like these films but the cars are awesome)
Tucker
Transporter
Rat Race
the Great Race
Blues Brothers
Blood Car (horror)
Twolane Blacktop
Winner
Battletruck
Big Bus
Damnation Alley
Transformers
Funny Car Summer.
Corvette Summer.
The Van (1977) - probably not for kids.
The Big Bus.
Supervan.
Munster go Home
the big wheel - mickey roonie
the Crowd Roars
the Driver
Knightriders
the Wraith
related-or smaller car apperances
Ed Big Daddy Roth
any Bond flick
any Batman film or tv
Back to the Future
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
love the beast (Doc)
Truth in 24 (doc)
Too fast to Race (doc)
Did I miss something? - share your favs and or critize mine!
zenjoy
Gumball 3000
Wonderbug (kids)
Top Gear
Dukes of Hazard
My Mother the Car
Transformers
Supercar
Car54
Adam 12
CHiPs
Tom Slick
Movies:
Cars (animated)
Gone in sixty seconds (i prefer the original but both are ok to watch)-drama/action
Cannonball Run series - action/comedy
Bullitt: action
Gumball Rally: action/comedy
Vanishing Point:drama/action
Thunder Road
Grand Prix
American Graffiti-more American Graffiti
Le Mans
the Car - horror
Duel -action/drama/horror
Death Proof - horror/action
Christine: Horror
Hollywood Knights
Mad Max -sequels
Death Race 2000 (i prefer the original but try the remake too)
Eat my Dust
Lively Set
Smokey and the Bandit
Hot Rod
White Lightning
Hot Rod Girl
Hot Wheels (animated series)
Johnny Dark
Greased Lighting
To Please a Lady
Heart Like a Wheel
Redline
Last American Hero
Hot Rods to Hell
King of the Mountain
Italian Job
Dirt
Herbie (lovebug)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
Driven
Initial D
Fast and Furious (i didnt like these films but the cars are awesome)
Tucker
Transporter
Rat Race
the Great Race
Blues Brothers
Blood Car (horror)
Twolane Blacktop
Winner
Battletruck
Big Bus
Damnation Alley
Transformers
Funny Car Summer.
Corvette Summer.
The Van (1977) - probably not for kids.
The Big Bus.
Supervan.
Munster go Home
the big wheel - mickey roonie
the Crowd Roars
the Driver
Knightriders
the Wraith
related-or smaller car apperances
Ed Big Daddy Roth
any Bond flick
any Batman film or tv
Back to the Future
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
love the beast (Doc)
Truth in 24 (doc)
Too fast to Race (doc)
Did I miss something? - share your favs and or critize mine!
zenjoy
28 comments:
tv
Dukes Of Hazard...lots of car jumps and chases
tom slick
wonderbug
speed buggy
films
deathrace 2000 , but edit out the gory parts fer the kiddies
escape from new york
rat race
blues brothers
theres some cool car stuff in those
You left out "My Mother The Car"
Bim :)
Don't forget 'The Great Race' with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon ("push the button, Max")! :)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
one or two of the Harry Potter movies have a flying car
My Neighbor Totoro with the Catbus
Blood Car 2007
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780485/
In the near future, gas prices are at an astronomical high. One man is determined to find an alternate fuel source. That alternate fuel source turns out to be blood...HUMAN BLOOD.
I got this one at my local library. No budget indie film, quirky. It has a hilarious 2nd commentary track that is an over the top parody of pompous jackass film critics.
Two-Lane Blacktop is the only classic 1970’s car-related exploitation flick not already on your list.
For my money, the greatest driving video game is Burnout 3 for PS2. the driving is easy, and the crashes are awesome. PS3 version makes you go through a boring driving around sequence to select mode instead of a simple menu that lets you go straight to “Road Rage,” and the skill level is higher – not as good for kids or lousy drivers like me.
Can't forget the Tron ripoff Automan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQb1ZD9W8_c&feature=related
And the Batman TV series
Winner with Paul Newman and great Indy footage.
The CGi monaco race in Ironman 2.
a bit too far fetched and too much CGI
Days of Thunder
Movies:
Early MST3K entry "The Last Chase" featuring Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith, and Chris Makepeace with a score by Gil Melle. Race car versus fighter jet? ...Seriously?
If you want to expand to any sort of road vehicle, the Mad Max ripoff "Battletruck" and "Damnation Alley" with its famed Roadmaster are fair-to-good bets, especially for the bad-movie buff.
"The Big Bus," the pre-"Airplane!" disaster spoof about a luxury mega-vehicle, might be stretching the definition a little.
"The Cars That Ate Paris," maybe? Not really for the kids.
You mentioned Ed Roth, which is funny because I'm getting on a nostalgia kick for Tom Daniel's and Dave Deal's funny-car art and model kits from the '70s.
Tom Daniel (who has an active web site) made great art and kits of both "normal" funny cars--he created the well-known Red Baron and Tijuana Taxi--and "deformed" caricature dragsters, such as Revell's "Snap Draggin's" series featuring Super Taxi, Hemi Semi, Roarin' Rail, Street Cleaner and others. They pop up on eBay fairly frequently and are great kits for kids IF you can score a complete one. Tom also has a toy line if you don't want the kid sniffin' glue.
Dave Deal (who passed away recently, after contributing to Pixar's "Cars" as a designer) created a similar but distinctly original line of comedy kits with BIG tires, a few of which were recently reissued: Zzzzzz-28, Tirebird, Surfer VW Van, and others. He also did military kits such as Lt. Rif Raf's Spitsfire, Weiner Moldy and his Messa-Schnitzel, Der Baron and his Funfdecker (5-wing) Fokker--as well as Swine Hunt (German desert tank) and Lucky Pierre (WWI French flyer) but those last two are VERY hard to find. Bit of a chore to paint sometimes.
Googling the names alone will cough up fansites with plenty of images.
Transformers.... cars that turn into robots... how could we have forgotten that one.. both tv & film
i purposely left out My Mother The Car cuz the car never really drove too much if at all.. mainly it just spoke and the show wasnt funny... but no disrespect to the concept , which they did better later on with Knight Rider anyhoo.... i just really didnt think Thor would keep interest in MMTC for more than a minute....
lotta car & boat stuff in the Indiana Jones films too....
More movies:
Funny Car Summer.
Corvette Summer.
The Van (1977) - probably not for kids.
The Big Bus.
Supervan.
And although it's not really a car movie, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention On Any Sunday, a Steve McQueen movie about motocross, not to be confused with the stupid football movie Any Given Sunday.
Oh! And don't forget More American Graffiti! Lots of great rail drag action.
an introduction to gerry anderson.
supercar
A great car race movie for the kids is "Munster, Go Home". Herman enters a race with his souped up "Dragula".
The Knight Rider with the HOFF!! that one was good. adolf
Let's not forget Gerry Anderson's UFO, and just about any Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series (Supercar, Thunderbirds, etc.) Straker & Foster's cars were my faves as a kid.
http://www.cars-electric-hybrid.com/images/ufo-fosters-car.jpg
TV Series: There was the live action Stingray: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090528/
Bearcats: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066631/
Route 66: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053534/
Car 54, Where Are You?: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054528/
Automan: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084978/
Here's a top of car chases in movies
http://www.thesmokingjacket.com/entertainment/hollywoods-most-exciting-movie-car-chases
Merry Christmas
You could add The Big Wheel featuring Mickey Rooney. Midget racing and Indianapolis. And Mickey Rooney!
The Crowd Roars from 1932 featuring Jimmy Cagney. A Howard Hawks film.
Some one off Saturday morning cartoons can be found here:
http://befastpast.blogspot.com/search/label/cartoons
cheers,
bfp
For sports-car-as-time-machine, Back to the Future.
For a virtual-reality car chase, The Matrix Reloaded.
For a car-turned-submarine, The Spy Who Loved Me (I know you mentioned Bond films, but this one is worth singling out!)
Tom Slick, from the George Of The Jungle show.
And what about the 1966 Batmobile from the Adam West's campy TV show?
I also love the Deloris, the car that appeared in the trilogy of "Back to the Future".
Those two cars beat them all!!!
And Kathy Bates was really good in Delorean Claiborne.
Oh yeah! I get to watch car related movies and shows for a couple of months! My kiddo is going to be a gear head I just know it! HA HA HA
"The Driver" 1978 with Ryan O'Neal http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077474/
I like "The Wraith" with Charlie Sheen and the Chrysler PPG pace car http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092240/
"CHiPs" had some interesting action.
And the bikes aren't too OT, try some "Devlin" (TV,animated) and George Romero's "Knightriders" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082622/
A happy new year for you.
i got a good one.
car racing
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