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Jun 16, 2010 - 02:02 PM |
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Polk County Pot Plane |
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Somewhere in Georgia, 1975: pot smugglers land a huge plane in a clearing they had bulldozed in the middle of a forest. Unfortunately, that plane needs twice as much runway to take off as it does to land. It ended up stuck out there with no one exactly sure what to do. The police confiscated everything and eventually auctioned off the airplane.
Being Georgia, this event is all anyone could talk about for years to come. "Sum'budy aughta make a moovy bout dat pot plane." So the state legislators of Polk County gathered up a meager amount of money and made a chase movie! It stars two ACTUAL criminals from a local prison as the two main dope smugglers, Oosh and Doosh. Their hickish charm is matched only by their bulging penises.
This movie is fantastic. Not one person in this movie is acting. Some people don't even seem to know their lines, and just give up halfway through. Cars spin out for no reason, everybody talks like Boomhower from King of the Hill, and there was apparently never a good enough reason to re-shoot a scene. I don't even understand what a state county stands to gain out of making their own movie, but I'm sure glad one gave it a shot.
Still need convincing? Read this one star review from Amazon.com:
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"In Hot Pursuit," originally released as "Polk County Pot Plane" is one of the worst excuses for a movie ever to emerge from the fetid cinematic decade of the seventies. Starring Don Watson and Bobby Watson as Oosh and Doosh respectively, the film essentially exists as a vehicle for chase scenes.
Oosh and Doosh work picking up pot from a DC-4 cargo plane near Atlanta. The cast, overrun with rednecks, constantly finds themselves in car chases with the police: a large number of vehicles were pointlessly sacrificed for this film. Some of the chases boggle the mind (mostly because of their interminable length), and involve such things as campers, bulldozers, tractor trailers, and of course a variety of cars. Of all the chase scenes I think the best involves driving a tractor trailer through a mobile home.
Oosh and Doosh aren't the smartest characters, and as soon as they are broken out of jail following the camper fiasco in a totally implausible subplot involving a helicopter, they are back to smuggling. It's hard to believe but the drug lord turns out to be unscrupulous, making Oosh and Doosh rob an armored car in yet another excuse to drive vehicles inappropriately. Lovers of subtle humor take note: the "new car" gag is so hilarious that it ends up with both a woman fainting and a man wearing a babushka! Oh, my ribs!
Of special note are the music and the acting. The music ranks among the least appropriate in film history. The score relies heavily on a Spike Jones theme, complete with slide whistle, while the acting relies heavily on a high school drama club theme, in that every single performance in the film is utterly wretched. This film has no redeeming qualities that I could discover, save an excellent credit line which reads "Big Bird Played by N8703B (DC-4)." You be the judge of whether that's enough to satisfy you.
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A few of us watched this at the meet, but not enough of you were there. You all have missed out an a real gem. This would make an excellent Drink On flick, but even if that doesn't happen, get this movie, get drunk, and laugh your ass off.
Special thanks to sprout for ripping and hosting
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