The saddest little birthday present in the world.
Unwatchable! OK, well, possibly if I were in my PJs eating a hot dog in a drive in. Otherwise, not. Ridiculous CB movie based on the hit song by CW McCall. Kris Kristofferson is "Rubber Duck" and drives a big truck with Ali McGraw as a reluctant passenger. That is, after he leaves his waitress girlfriend at the truck stop wearing sophisticated, well-to-do McGraw's clothes she doled out for free to all the po' folks. McGraw's perm is monumentally unflattering. Ernest Borgnine is a sadistic cop out to get Rubber Duck and his trucker buddies as they race through the desert landscape.
Even Ernest can't save this mess.
Now, I love Borgnine's smug, evil grin and bandy walk and I am currently losing the battle in my house to take the TCM cruise in December with 94-year-old Mr Borgnine and fantasy grandpa Robert Osborne (damn it!) but even I had to walk away from this dreck. During filming, Peckinpah struggled with addiction issues and may have turned director's duties over to others. The shopping list of failed gimmicks include: a heavy use of slow-mo during action scenes, badly overdubbed dialogue and corny double exposure effects (below) set to an orchestral soundtrack. Why are McGraw and Kristofferson not wearing shirts for most of the movie? It's like Smokey and the Bandit made by grad students. Ugh!
The final straw - what is this?!
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