Great movie and such a good ending! Best way it could have turned out. so unexpected but so good.
When I started this, I though, "Really? This is Ridley Scott's best film in between Blade Runner and Gladiator? This seems like a scene out of the sitcom based on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore." But Scott Directs Sarandon, Davis, and Pitt into three great performances, and one of the most memorable (if overblown) finales of all time. Thelma & Louise lives up to its hype.
Starts out incredibly strong: detailed set design, simultaneously unglamorous and evocative camerawork, richly contrasted characters. Dissolves into fist-pumping parody of itself and severs any ties to realism well before the ladies drive full throttle into the Grand Canyon in slow-motion (oops)
Much darker and deeper than your ordinary chick flick. Director Ridley Scott and cinematographer Adrian Biddle craft the highways of America into an unexpected visual masterwork, but despite how extraordinary the slick visual spectacle is, it does kind of quash some of the intimacy of Callie Khouri's much-lauded script, which is not without its flaws itself. Still, the performances are strong and, even though it's been imitated so many times since, it remains fresh and original (despite Hans Zimmer's incredibly dated score and the slew of pop songs on the soundtrack).
I remember it changes my perception of women in films back when I was a child.