What did you think of this as a road movie? — that hallowed American film tradition where two or more people, ususally at odds in some way, get in a car and drive across our beautiful country, usually from East to West (in true frontier spirit), and end up closer to each other, or with a greater understanding of themselves, at the end of the trip. Did Transamerica just follow the cliche route of road movies, or did it take some unexpected detours?
For comparison, here are some road movies I thought of: Little Miss Sunshine, Thelma and Louise, Dumb and Dumber, Another Day in Paradise (this is fantastic), Kalifornia, Lost in America, the Wizard of Oz ... a million others.
(What is your favorite road movie, by the way?)
6 comments:
I don't think there was anything cliché about this movie. I don't know enough about film categories to be sure that this didn't have road movie clichés, but it sure seemed fresh to me.
I'd have to check my filmaffinity ratings to be sure, but this is probably the best road movie I've seen.
I checked filmaffinity -- I gave this movie a 9, but I gave Little Miss Sunshine a 10. And would O Brother, Where Art Thou count? It's also one of my tens.
Oh yeah, any movie with Odyssean themes is a road movie.
There was movie a few years back called Tumbleweeds — a mother-daughter road movie — that I thought was pretty awesome.
When I was a kid, I always liked those "Road to ___" movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
Oh, I LOVED those old movies. Anything with Bob Hope I thought was HILARIOUS. Hehe. It was a real disappointment to see his annual specials when I was an adult because by that time he was just running on fumes from funnier days.
Yeah, I had the same experience.
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