Man I love that movie.
That one is neck and neck w/ The Longest Yard (original) for favorite Buddy Reynolds movies ever.
That one is neck and neck w/ The Longest Yard (original) for favorite Buddy Reynolds movies ever.
Watched Smokey and the Bandit again last night...
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I watch it every time it's on. Can't NOT watch it. And Sally Field is even more beautiful in HD!
I can only watch the uncensored version. Censoring all of Jackie Gleason's best lines (for network and cable tv) is a crime.
I wish they would play "East bound and down" at every game with the lyrics on the scoreboard. That would be a great tradition.
"who you chasin' Sheriff? Somebody chasin' you?"
"Nobody chases me, Boy..."
"Sorry...what's he wanted for? Bank robbery?"
"BANK ROBBERY???? Bank robbin's baby shit along side what this dude's doin'....drivin' through peoples yards, knockin' down mailboxes...got a girl in the car with him, don't believe he got her permission, that's kidnappin'...took her across the state line..that's the Mann Act! How's that for highjinx????"
Seen it a time or two myself.....
"Nobody chases me, Boy..."
"Sorry...what's he wanted for? Bank robbery?"
"BANK ROBBERY???? Bank robbin's baby shit along side what this dude's doin'....drivin' through peoples yards, knockin' down mailboxes...got a girl in the car with him, don't believe he got her permission, that's kidnappin'...took her across the state line..that's the Mann Act! How's that for highjinx????"
Seen it a time or two myself.....
I was an extra in that movie! It was the scene where the trans am comes onto a football field where a pee wee football game is in progress. I have a story about how the trans am almost killed a whole group of us, including my sister who was a cheerleader, and then crashed into an occupied dugout. Two kids sitting in the dugout were injured, but not critically. When you watch the movie, they show the trans am exiting the back of the dugout. But that didn't happen. I still have the belt buckle given to me by stunt director, Hal Needam.
Gleason was turned on to a huge group of young viewers st the time. Kids like me who thought the Honeymooners was for their parents. This is my only real memory of Gleason, and what a great one.
Gotta do something about the "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there's beer in Texarkana" line though. Doesn't make much since for a game in Tally.
"The boys are thirsty in Tally and there's been in ??????"
I was hoping the Chiefs would get this going. Make it a tradition at the start of the second quarter in Doak as they change end zones.
This. I love me some Smokey and the Bandit but Deliverance is one of my alltime favorites.
We've seen Smokey so many times at my house that my two young boys will quote some of the lines at times. "Hey where's the can, I gotta take a squirt."
A bad movie to today standards but humor was just different back then. It's a classic, I wouldn't expect today's generation to like it, they probably wouldn't like blazing saddles either
Yep, I like that movie as well. Pure Florida!He has a lesser known movie named Stick that I think is terrific.
"Nobody makes Sherif Buford T. Justice look like a possum's pecker! Decoratin' up a whole town at a cost of $40???" And she goes runnin' back down the aisle...no, she was dancin' down that aisle! And that's only one thing....pure ol' fashioned communism!"
Would a 20 year old? I would venture to say a lot wouldn't, compared to when you were 20
No you are right - humor is very, very difficult to maintain over time. What's funny today likely won't be funny in 20 years. Blazing Saddles would never get made today.
As an example, we watched Ghostbusters with my 9 year old the other day, and it struck me that what was SO funny then, like "he slimed me," didn't even register as an attempt at humor for him.
However, some movies hold up better than others.
These old movies and comedies have to be watched with some perspective of the era when they were made. I still love many movies from the 40s and 50s, before I was born but I still get it, they were great movies.
Smokey & the Bandit probably doesn't have that kind of reverence everywhere, but I think its a very good comedy from the era. Not everyone these days will get it.... but it was a perfect loony/safe comedy for the late 70s.
Smokey & the Bandit probably doesn't have that kind of reverence everywhere, but I think its a very good comedy from the era. Not everyone these days will get it.... but it was a perfect loony/safe comedy for the late 70s.
Hey boy, where's Sheriff Branford??
I AM Sheriff Branford.
Oh, heh heh...for some reason you sounded a little taller on the radio...
I AM Sheriff Branford.
Oh, heh heh...for some reason you sounded a little taller on the radio...
