Posted on: October 23, 2017 Posted by: Jeremy Comments: 0

Winter is coming and the couch is calling.  Here are fifty car movies to enjoy whilst the weather is not amazing.  There are some classics, and then some sequels to those classics.  Presented in alphabetical order with their corresponding Tomatometer score.

1 American Graffiti 95%
2 American Graffiti 2 22%
3 Baby Driver 93%
4 Bullitt 97%
5 Cars 74%
6 Cars 2 39%
7 Cars 3 68%
8 Cannonball Run 30%
9 Cannonball Run II 13%
10 Christine 68%
11 Corvette Summer 57%
12 Days of Thunder 38%
13 Death Proof 65%
14 Death Race 2000 85%
15 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 50%
16 Drive 93%
17 Fast & Furious 1 53%
18 Fast & Furious 2 36%
19 Fast & Furious 3 37%
20 Fast & Furious 4 28%
21 Fast & Furious 5 77%
22 Fast & Furious 6 69%
23 Fast & Furious 7 80%
24 Fury Road 97%
25 Gone in 60 Seconds – original 43%
26 Gone in 60 Seconds – remake 24%
27 Grand Prix 100%
28 Le Mans 63%
29 Love the Beast 61%
30 Mad Max 90%
31 Mad Max 2 98%
32 Ronin 68%
33 Rush 89%
34 Senna 92%
35 Smokey and the Bandit 81%
36 Smokey and the Bandit 2 17%
37 Talladega Nights 71%
38 The Driver 80%
39 The Dukes of Hazzard 14%
40 The Italian Job – original 84%
41 The Italian Job – remake 73%
42 The Love Bug 75%
43 The Transporter 54%
44 The Transporter 2 52%
45 The Transporter 3 37%
46 The Wraith 33%
47 Tucker 84%
48 Two Lane Blacktop 94%
49 Vanishing Point 76%
50 Winning 50%

The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality for millions of moviegoers.

So, essentially we have an aggregate review from multiple reviewers.  This value is interesting because while I’d agree with that Cannonball Run is much better than Cannonball Run II, it’s hard to believe that Dukes of Hazzard is the 2nd worst movie on the list – just barely above Smokey and the Bandit 2.

While I emphatically agree that not all Fast & Furious volumes are created equal – I’d argue that Toyko Drift was the worst incarnation with the protagonist sounding somewhere between southern and someone who recently suffered repeated concussions.  While I could opine about car movies all day long, I included the Tomatometer score so you can ignore me and start with the classics if this list is new to you.

Anything listed that is too horrible to watch?  Did I miss any classics that should be included?

Let me know!

funwithwheels@sobit.org

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