Name your favourite movies starring machines!
 

You know this is a kind of subgenre. A movie that is billed as an action film, but it's something more specific: it features machines...and rather prominently. Whether it's cars, planes, or trains, these machines are so much the focus that they should be the stars.

Some of these movies may suffer on the level of film appreciation, but they have their value in showcasing expensive toys.

Some of my favourites that come to mind are as follows. But I'd really like to hear yours, because I'm sure I'm missing out on the good ones.

• Top Gun
• The Cannonball Run series
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Mad Max

Personally, I'd like to see more films with flying machines, especially since the jets have been screaming over Toronto in prep for the air show.

What are your favourites?

The original Gone in Sixty Seconds. Starring that beautiful '73 Mustang.

Christine. The 58 fury plays the jealous, murderous mistress in a horror flick.

That's all I got for now, I'm sure I'll remember something else later. I agree about needing more films with flying machines. Recent fliers have been pretty lame and too sci-fi.

The truck in Duel comes to my mind quickly.
edit: the Amtrak train in the 1990 remake of Narrow Margin would qualify as well I believe.

The car in The Car

It's scared the hell out of me when I saw it on TV as a kid.

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I'll think of some more later.

EDIT............

And Star Wars of course. It defined space ships, weapons and corridors for a generation.

i have never been into action movies..or sci-fi..but if i had to choose one..

Robocop

half man/half machine

i saw it hundreds of times as a kid

Sunshine. That damn space-ship is awe-inspiring.

The Terminator movies.
"WALL-E"
"Star Wars" movies
"Star Trek" movies
"Silver Streak" was a train.
"Murder on the Orient Express" was a train, and it had murder!!
"Return to Macon County" had some nice cars in it.
The movie "Condorman" was only good because of his spycar.
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" the titular flying car
"Dazed and Confused" a whole bunch of cars and trucks from the 70's and earlier.
"American Graffiti" a whole bunch of cars from the 50's and earlier.

Metropolis

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1927 representin'

Terminator 2: Judgment Day. IMO the best action movie ever made even today.

Awesome pick, sir!

Mine would have to be:
Robots from Robot Jox - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/
Stark's Mark III from Ironman - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/
Delorean from Back to the Future - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/
The fantastic steampunkerous blooming brass beauty from The Time Machine - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/
Pretty much all the awesome steampunk from Wild Wild West - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/

And last but not least:
Robbie, The Robot from Forbidden Planet - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/

The Matrix (does it count?)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Bicentennial Man
Titanic
Christine

Batteries Not Included (does this one count?)
Short Circuit
Death Proof

Short Circuit - duh! one of the only machines on this thread with a personality! ;)

I remember loving this book and thinking the movie stunk. Why are Stephen King book conversions to screen so ordinary?

Cinema Paradiso - the film projector is as much a character in the film as anyone else.

Terminator,speed and death race

^^I saw a replica of that car (yes, the DeLorean) cruising around my neighbourhood on Monday. I assumed it was for TIFF.

+1

Cybernetic infiltration unit / assassin with hyper alloy combat chassis that looks like a bodybuilder with an Austrian accent.

Has odd penchant for old school biker outfits and wields a GE minigun in bare hands. Also says, "Chill out, dickwad."

Woody Allen's Sleeper. It's AAAAAALL about the Orgasmatron.

Charlatan and m0rpheus: those are superb ways of seeing things, and I wish I could've been that cunning.

That I can recall off the top of my head,

Forbidden Planet
Death Race 2000 (though I'm not sure it counts)
Metropolis
Star Wars (the original)
Dr. Who (though that's a series)
Aliens

And that's all I can remember off-hand :)

Blessings!
Duskwynd

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We can't leave out mentioning Han Solo's Millenium Falcon from Star Wars , the ship that "made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs."