Day 241: "Fifty-five is fast enough to kill you, but slow enough to make you think you're safe."

Anyway....picked something goofy sounding and mindless for tonight, as I'm hitting another brick wall of apathy regarding this entire endeavor.  This Halloween, I decided to go with the cross country race movie The Gumball Rally.  Stupid to the nth degree, starring more classic, exotic cars than you con shake a stick at, and described with whatever cliches pop into my mind, The Gumball Rally was a brain-dead comedy about an illegal auto race from the right side of the United States map to the left, winner take all.  There's a lot of nice stunt work, fast driving, and goofy dialogue (best line in the movie: "What's behind me is not important.").  It's not a work of genius, but without this movie, there would have been no Smokey and the Bandit or Cannonball Run (not that that would have been a loss to American cinema, but there you have it).  It had a few funny moments, but I can't decide if this was a chase movie or a comedy, and that's what hurt it in my mind.

Starring Michael Sarrazin, Raul Julia, Gary Busey, Stephen Keats and Nicholas Pryor, Gumball was an ensemble of b-list talent, and it shows.  Only Busey and Julia went on to better things, and this is actually one of Raul Julia's funniest roles; and yes, I include Gomez Addams in that statement.

Not great, but a good time waster.  The car work is reason alone to see this, as the acting is mediocre at best.  So if you would like to see a long distance, hour and a half car chase of some of the best cars from the early to mid seventies, give The Gumball Rally a shot, if not, skip it and watch Smokey and the Bandit, which I had a much better time with.  4.5/10.

See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!