Jun 21, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 12 segments
Drew and Travis visit the lot for *Used Cars*! It's the 1980 comedy from Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, starring Kurt Russell, Deborah Harmon, Gerrit Graham and Jack Warden. This is our third entry in…
So Used Cars, this is our comedy for Car Trouble Month since we're trying to switch up genres with all of our entries here.
And it's one that I wanted to revisit because I never saw this when I was younger.
And I remember being like, I see why that is what it is and why people would have liked it and yada yada.
However, the big interest point for me that when I'd originally seen it was that this is a Robert Zemeckis directed film.
It's a second film after I want to hold your hand, which he also collaborated on the screenplay with for this and his previous movie with Bob Gale.
So there were things that I remembered about used cars being like, well, you know, I didn't think it was that great, but it's got, you know, Solid sense of style or filmmaking or structure and all this kind of stuff.
And to the point of at least the filmmaking point of this, I do think this is a worthwhile movie discussing from that point.
Well, it's making almost a conscious transition into the 80s with some of what it's doing as far as its tone and everything.
This is something that I had really only heard about as sort of like a curiosity in Zemeckis's filmography, which by now is a filmography kind of like full of curiosities because.
You know, Zemeckis now has his kind of like tech demo toy movies like Welcome to Marwen or whatever.
But back then, you know, obviously he was in a much different phase of his career.
And I had understood that like used cars had kind of been, you know, maybe, you know, it didn't do well at the box office at first and kind of flew under the radar for a long time.
So Used Cars, this is our comedy for Car Trouble Month since we're trying to switch up genres with all of our entries here.
And it's one that I wanted to revisit because I never saw this when I was younger.
And I remember being like, I see why that is what it is and why people would have liked it and yada yada.
However, the big interest point for me that when I'd originally seen it was that this is a Robert Zemeckis directed film.
It's a second film after I want to hold your hand, which he also collaborated on the screenplay with for this and his previous movie with Bob Gale.
So there were things that I remembered about used cars being like, well, you know, I didn't think it was that great, but it's got, you know, Solid sense of style or filmmaking or structure and all this kind of stuff.
And to the point of at least the filmmaking point of this, I do think this is a worthwhile movie discussing from that point.
Well, it's making almost a conscious transition into the 80s with some of what it's doing as far as its tone and everything.
This is something that I had really only heard about as sort of like a curiosity in Zemeckis's filmography, which by now is a filmography kind of like full of curiosities because.
You know, Zemeckis now has his kind of like tech demo toy movies like Welcome to Marwen or whatever.
But back then, you know, obviously he was in a much different phase of his career.
And I had understood that like used cars had kind of been, you know, maybe, you know, it didn't do well at the box office at first and kind of flew under the radar for a long time.
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