Monday, November 22, 2010

The Getaway (1972)

  This was a terrible movie.  It was boring as shit and made no sense.

Steve McQueen is in jail and has a ridiculously hot wife.  He doesn't want to be in jail so he tells his hot wife to go make a deal with the crooked sheriff so he can get parole.  She accomplishes this by sleeping with the sheriff.  Steve spends the rest of the movie pissed off at her about this. 
The crooked sheriff wants Steve to rob a bank because Steve is a master thief.  Maybe my concept of "master thief" is different than director Sam Peckinpah's, since in my world master thieves are the ones that don't get caught.  Crooked Sheriff sends Steve off to rob the bank with two random dudes; one is completely forgettable and the other is a dyed-in-the-wool psychopath.  Guess what happens?

/Final Jeopardy music

If you said "The forgettable guy gets capped when the heist goes wrong and the psychopath goes all psychopathy" congratulations!  /confetti cannon

Now Steve and his hot estranged wife take their marital problems on the run with a half million dollars in loot.  The Crooked Sheriff's goons and Rudy the Psychopath pursue, all the way to a hotel in El Paso...which was a terrible idea since nothing good ever happens in El Paso.

I'm already bored and I'm just trying to write a synopsis.  Bottom line:  everyone dies except Steve and Hot Wife and they patch up their differences over the border in Mexico.  The End.

/yawn

The only reason to watch this movie at all is the trainwreck that is Sally Struthers.  Oh, yes, the "won't someone feed the children and pass me another bucket of chicken" lady from the TV ads.  She gets involved as the ditzy vet assistant who takes up with Rudy the Psychopath.  It is never clear whether she's a hostage with Stockholm Syndrome or just too stupid to realize that Rudy is not a warm-and-fuzzy kind of guy.  Even if he does like kittens.

Plus, no boobs.  There is absolutely no reason why at least one of the chicks in this movie couldn't have shown something.  Hot Wife goes braless the entire film but never actually shows anything (which should be freakin' impossible.  I have only ever gone out braless twice and both times I was terrified of slippage and ended up taping my clothes to me).  Stupid Sally has no reason to be on-screen if not to display some ta-tas.  But no.  You get a flash of side-boob and that's it.  Lame.

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