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Although made in 1981, you'll think you've made your way back to the early seventies watching this stinker, and not in a good retro kinda sense either.If you are an adolescent male, and up to wasting 90 minutes of your life listening to bad jokes, this could be the one. There's tons of gratuitous sexual references (nothing ever happens), really bad writing, a boring car chase, and a performance by Donald Sutherland that even his mom would cringe at. To be avoided, this movie bites.

Aside from a couple reviews which were probably jokes (giving the film 10s), nearly all the reviews give this Canadian film a 1 or 2 at best. Clearly, "Gas" is NOT a very good movie...which is odd, since it stars (among others) Donald Sutherland...who had just come off his great performance in the multi-Oscar winning "Ordinary People". According to IMDB, he needed money badly and so he made this clunker. It's a shame...he was a terrific actor but I guess even terrific actors make some bad films.

The story in "Gas" is VERY episodic--with lots of frequent edits and not a lot in the way of plot. A really WEIRD guy (Sterling Hayden) has bought up all the gas in town and has created an artificial shortage. Folks' reactions to this constitute most of the film.

This is a bad film....a really bad film. Much of it is because the script lacks real laughs...a problem when it's supposed to be a comedy. Additionally, the acting is generally bad. Sterling Hayden, a man who had been a truly fine actor, was in his late phase as an actor...when he honestly behaved (on and off screen) as if he'd lost his mind. He's supported by the untalented Peter Aykroyd...who sounds like his brother but lacks comedic talents in the movie. He also wrote "Nothing But Trouble"...'nuff said. Howie Mandel is also there (in his first film) and he's actually a bit better than I expected. But pretty much everyone else is at their worst...including the director.

So is this worth seeing? No. It's not bad enough to merit viewing by bad film buffs...it's just bad and incredibly broadly acted and written. Not fun...more like a long, extended migraine.

By the way, while this is a terrible movie, I can't quite give it a 1. This is reserved for the truly astoundingly awful movies...and this one narrowly missed this wretched score.

Unbelievable bad acting, writing, production, and director. I've seen B movies that were Oscar winners compared to this train wreck. No funny moments whatsoever. Just lame one-liners within a horrible script. The director should have been shot.

Where do I start? Is it the horrible writing? The atrocious acting? The unbelievably lame plot? If you want bad, this is your movie. I had the misfortune to be in the crowd of about 50 movie-goers when this assault on decently was released. By the end, about 10 people were left. There were no laughs. Unfortunately, unlike the classics such as Plan 9 from Outer Space, this one was not even schlocky enough to make it funny. Just a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad movie.

I am so happy for the internet because it provides an opportunity to comment about the absolutely worse movie I've ever seen. When I saw GAS I knew it was bad. Over the past 25 years I've watched a number of bad films, but nothing impresses like this.

This incoherent waste of someone's ability to raise funds for a "movie project" is meaningful only for those who can appreciate the irony of the highest level of self-indulgence that fund raisers might provide. If you are curious as to how low someone might sink in the business of film making - watch this film.

Maybe you're thinking - oh this would be fun to watch with a group of alcohol or drug enhanced friends. Promise me to write the website when you do, because I truly believe you will say - "Drunk as I was, this movie stunk".

And Don Sutherland must have been on a fairly serious bender.

Notable only as the screen debut for hyper-comic Howie Mandel, "Gas" is so unforgettable that not one moment of the movie stuck in my mind except for the scene where Sterling Hayden berates his two incompetent nephews and blows them away with his six-shooters that are then revealed to have been loaded with blanks. And that was the closest to a funny joke in "Gas." Donald Sutherland appears as a traffic reporter in what looks like a tacked-on (and pointless) cameo to add a "name" to the cast.

The writing is cheap and horrible, the jokes are pathetic, and I'll be nice about my opinion of the acting by not saying anything...

I saw this movie broadcast on television, and I found myself actually looking FORWARD to the commercials! The only thing I found half interesting was seeing Peter Aykroyd in a movie - one of the few he has made. His voice is almost identical to his brother Dan's voice.

Please spare yourself the trouble. This one isn't even worth watching as a joke. It makes me cringe at being Canadian, as it's a Canadian movie!

I was lucky enough to see the set of this picture in Montreal(by the way, most of it are torn down these days, among these: the two gas stations became Medical Clinics, the viaduct on Mountain Street is thorn down and now has housing, and the climatic end scene shot on the old LaSalle Coke fields is now a shopping mall...). The story seems promising, but when I saw the end result... Disappointing !

A boring, badly acted movie, very unpredictable, full of sexist and racist overtones (even Arabs are trashed here !) and one of the most tiresome and annoying car pursuits ever shot...

I pity everyone who participated in this. Even Donald Sutherland has done better... And the others ???? Gone with the torn sets and buildings which served for this "running on empty" turkey...

Another sad attempt to pass Montreal as an American city... Noticeable cardboard English signs over French ones and the false "Health Spa" set next to the Gas Station and that stupid statue... Producers learned from then....

A movie to forget...

This Canadian-made crap is my vote for worst film of all time. I noticed that the writer never wrote anything after this -- that is a good thing, obviously Hollywood never beckoned after witnessing this witlessness. The director made a handful of films I never heard of -- fortunately for us, nothing since 1987. Perhaps he's retired and living off of his "Gas" royalties. The plot concerns some nonsense about a fake gas shortage, obviously trying to strike a chord with the U.S.-OPEC based gas shortage problems in the early-mid '70's. Stupid, not the least bit funny. I wonder what the actors were thinking of when they signed on? The same year Donald Sutherland made this he also did "Ordinary People." I wonder if he bothers to list this one on his resume?

Gas is downright amazing. I find it hard to believe that this was made over 20 years ago! It's still funny today! All it's jokes are absolutely pee your pants funny. It's kinda hard to find, I don't understand why. It should be in everyone's video library! I hope they release it on DVD sometime soon! BTW, if you loved Gas, I reccomend: Hog Wild Title S

Wretched. One of the least funny comedies ever made. I still kick myself for the night I visited the multiplex and chose this thing over "Arthur." I prefer to think Sterling Hayden needed the work and that Donald Sutherland was in it for the money -- either way, both are ill-served

Wacky send-up of the gas crisis. This stillborn political farce centers around milk prices driving up gasoline prices. Just close your eyes and I'm sure you can predict the idiotic Arab gags.

The "conscience" of the movie is supposed to be Donald Sutherland as "Nozzle Nick" a helicopter traffic reporter. His 10 minutes on screen negate every good thing Mr. Sutherland has ever done.

Everyone who appeared in this one is a bad, bad person.

Actually, Orson Welles probably sits back nowadays and WISHES he had made this film. To call this film a "movie" is to denigrate what a piece of art it is. It's so sublime and subtle, and the humor comes as much from its pathos as its slapstick. Yes, you'll laugh when you view it. But, you just almost may shed a tear. Some of us shed tears for different reasons. As a failed film maker, I shed tears whenever I see a film that is so rich and satisfying that I wish I had the artistic vision to have made it first. THIS is that film, for me. (Just as an aside, this has only happened ONCE with television; I cried like a baby after the premier of that classic sit-com "Small Wonder." Jerry Supiran, you are a master comedian.) There is absolutely nothing wrong with this film. GAS is as flawless as cinema gets.

A funny enjoyable movie. Sorry that it won't make the awards but all movies need not be an achievement. This is just what it wanted to be, an hour and a half of gags. Some great some So So. I just searched the web and was able to find an old rental copy that I purchased. While the rest of the reviewers found this the worst the obviously haven't seen Return to Bogey Creek or Blood Simple (a critics pick). Lighten up and enjoy. If you didn't LOL when he "shot" the boys then you better stock up on your anti depressants.

Give it a shot. Sit back and just enjoy. There is no need to delve into character developments or even pause the movie if you need to run and grab a snack.

All in all a pleasant romp of a movie.