Cycling in the movies...

WheelMeals
WheelMeals Posts: 86
edited March 2018 in Road general
I don't mean actual films about cycling, more cycling represented in mainstream films...Watched a film called Thoroughbreds last week, which features a douchebag rich dad character who is a cyclist. His riding outfit is top to toe in Rapha of course (I'm a Rapha fan, but still found this pretty amusing) his daughter nobbles his quick release is one part of the plot. Anyhow got me thinking of other examples of cyclists in mainstream films, pretty few and far between given popularity. The other US one that makes me chuckle is "This is 40" with the main guy cycling out his midlife crisis giving me somewhat major deja vu.....So mainstream representation seems to generally be a-holes, or saddos, not ideal given the all the great benefits of cycling. Any other examples....?

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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    I watched Remember Me with my wife a few years back, which features Robert Pattinson riding around on what appears to be a single speed (not fixie) with no brakes. I was kind of amazed they even let him do that on set given the risk of him injuring himself and holding up production.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    Peewees Big Adventure has the Tour de France.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    There's a good bit in a film called ET where the main character takes up cycling, climbing ratio was good
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    HaydenM wrote:
    There's a good bit in a film called ET where the main character takes up cycling, climbing ratio was good
    His VAM on the flying sequence must be suspicious...
  • lakesluddite
    lakesluddite Posts: 1,337
    I watched a film called 'The Program', which is a film about drug taking. That had a bit of cycling in it.
  • weezyswiss
    weezyswiss Posts: 123
    There's a truly rubbish one about a delivery messenger. Premium Rush
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    Great Muppet Caper.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
    Caddyshack.
    The Goonies.
    Transporter 3.
    The Wizard of Oz.
    Napoleon Dynamite.
    ...
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  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    American Flyers and Breaking Away.

    That's all you need.
  • burnthesheep
    burnthesheep Posts: 675
    I swore there was a contemporary one about taking some under privileged kids from the wrong side of town and teaching them to succeed through cycling. Can't find it.

    Haven't seen, but heard about "Rising from Ashes" about the Rwandan team.
  • WheelMeals
    WheelMeals Posts: 86
    God, yes Premium Rush was rubbish, had to switch that off mid-way..
  • awiseman
    awiseman Posts: 35
    British film Alleycats, "Is a high-octane, action/thriller set in the cut-throat world of illegal bike racing." The blurb always makes it sound better than it is.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    Did Robin Askwith ever make a film called "Confessions Of A Cycle Mechanic"
  • chippyk
    chippyk Posts: 529
    James Coburn in The Great Escape.
  • bristolpete
    bristolpete Posts: 2,255
    Mr. Beans Holiday.
  • hucko003
    hucko003 Posts: 28
    Nightcrawler is a great one that comes to mind and it happens to have Jake Gyllenhaal stealing a Cervelo early in the film.
  • john1967
    john1967 Posts: 366
    Thelma and Louise has the single most coolest cyclist scene ever.
  • fatsmoker
    fatsmoker Posts: 585
    Paul Rudd in the comedy (use that loosely) This is 40. He gets doored.
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    cant believe no-one has mentioned BMX bandits yet
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    fatsmoker wrote:
    Paul Rudd in the comedy (use that loosely) This is 40. He gets doored.

    National Lampoon's European Vacation
    https://youtu.be/hsM0CwqGrBs
  • martincroxall
    martincroxall Posts: 102
    Speaking of Robin Askwith, he does cycle at the start of Confessions of a Window Cleaner. The first few minutes are of him cycling through London with a ladder over his shoulder. It's well worth watching that scene for both his ease on a bike and the lack of traffic. Truth be told I switched over after that.
    You hear that? He's up there... mewing in the nerve centre of his evil empire. A ground rent increase here, a tax dodge there? he sticks his leg in the air, laughs his cat laugh... and dives back down to grooming his balls!
  • g00se
    g00se Posts: 2,221
    Bellville Redezvous / Triplets of Bellville.
  • bmxboy10
    bmxboy10 Posts: 1,958
    Fenix wrote:
    American Flyers and Breaking Away.

    That's all you need.

    I even have the Shaver Sport jersey!
  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    Goonies - not only has it got some cycling but it also happens to be one of my favourite films of all time.
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  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    martincroxall wrote:
    Speaking of Robin Askwith......

    I would really rather not!
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    ayjaycee wrote:
    Goonies - not only has it got some cycling but it also happens to be one of my favourite films of all time.

    it was just kids going round being irritatingly fat and American wasn't it?

    There was a dystopian / pandemic thing a while back that featured Ewan MacGregor riding round Edinburgh(?) on a fixie with some unnecessarily narrow handlebars.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    The Young Offenders has loads of cycling in it . . . basically a cycling road trip movie
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    KnightOfTheLongTights wrote:
    There was a dystopian / pandemic thing a while back that featured Ewan MacGregor riding round Edinburgh(?) on a fixie with some unnecessarily narrow handlebars.

    It was called Perfect Sense and it was Glasgow. Apparently his own bike.
  • cyclingsheep
    cyclingsheep Posts: 640
    WeezySwiss wrote:
    There's a truly rubbish one about a delivery messenger. Premium Rush
    Was this more or less a rip off of Quicksilver starring Kevin Bacon?
  • naavt
    naavt Posts: 226
    Bicycle Thieves, Original Title: Ladri di biciclette.

    A 1948's classic. A Vittorio De Sica masterpiece and one of the most important films from Italian Neorealism, where the bicycle is the semiotic representation of a nationwide sociopolitical situation in post-war Europe. A must see!

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