Originally posted by LightBoy
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In anycase, I will now share with you my favorite cycling movie. It's actually not so much a cycling movie as it is a bike movie. By bike movie, I don't mean that it's about biking, but rather about a bike. More specifically, it's about a guy who takes off accross the country in search of his bike, and the wacky 'adventures' he has on the way. I suppose it's not really about a bike then, so much as it is about a guy that has a bike. Or rather a guy that used to have a bike...
My favorite bike/looking for a bike/guy that has a bike/guy that had a bike/guy/bike movie is 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure.' I can't really explain it. All I can say is that Tim Burton plus Pee Wee Herman equals nightmares for the average six year old. But not in a horror movie kind of way; more of a 'what if Kubric make a kid's movie' sort of way.
If nothing else, that was one awsome bike.
ooooh!
thanks for reminding me!
Pee Wee's Big Adventure is definitely my favourite movie with a bike in it. It's sort of a roundabout love story, boy has bike, boy loses bike, boy goes to great lengths to find bike...
waitaminnit. that sounds a bit like the plot of Beijing Bicycle. Which also sounds pretty good to me, by the way.