Movies Watched -- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

103 minute running time … bit of a weird one, reminds me of other pointless (I don’t mean that in a bad way, you know, “existentialist”) movies from the late 60s, early 70s like Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider .. pretty boy James Taylor as the Driver … goofy Warren Oates, who will always have a place in my heart for starring in Charles Willeford’s (my favorite writer) Cockfighter, as G.T.O. Loved Laurie Bird, the pretty hippie chick, who looked like a young Mia Farrow. (Bird killed herself at age 26 and was also in the above-mentioned Cockfighter … she was also in Annie Hall.)

Lots of good music in this one (though the music rights were apparently a reason this movie wasn’t released for decades), and Harry Dean Stanton as a gay cowboy made me laugh. You can see why it’s a cult movie, but it certainly doesn’t get a green-go.

I feel good; I can take it all the way

I feel good; I can take it all the way