Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
I was really looking forward to seeing Monte Hellman's existential masterpiece of a road movie. I love road movies. From Easy Rider, Vanishing Point, The Straight Story, through comedies such as Road Trip to Plains Trains and Automobiles.
Universal's answer to Easy Rider just doesn't come close to matching that film's nihilistic view of the late sixties. Although occasionally arresting the film is, on the whole, interminably boring. Minutes go past without a word uttered, the nameless characters just drive through the American backwaters, catching up with a young girl drifter and Warren Oates in his bright yellow GTO for tedious, unexciting, and worse still uninvolving race sequences.
Perhaps i wasn't in the right frame of mind for Two Lane Blacktop after just seeing the Aronofsky masterpiece that is Black Swan.
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