"Mark Tucker" (markbt73)
09/19/2020 at 23:05 • Filed to: None
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"Mark Tucker" (markbt73)
09/19/2020 at 23:05 • Filed to: None | 2
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Re-watching Smokey & the Bandit and noticing a few things...
- The sped-up film sticks out like a sore thumb.
- The cop cars, except for Buford’s, keep changing from Plym
ouths to Pontiacs and back again. It’s really distracting.
- Man, cars in the 70s handled like shit.
- Did the math: they only had to average a little over 64 mph to make the run in time. Doesn’t sound all that fast, but you lose a lot of time stopping to make out with Sally Field...
- ... But really, how could you not?
- Buford’s scenes are almost unwatchable in this day and age.
- You keep hearing gear changes, but the Trans Am is an automatic.
- Seatbelts. Ever heard of them?
- “Eastbound and Down” is the only good song in the whole thing. The others are really, really bad. (Sorry, Mr Reed)
wafflesnfalafel
> Mark Tucker
09/19/2020 at 23:42 |
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jminer
> Mark Tucker
09/19/2020 at 23:44 |
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There are few movies from that point in time that hold up when watched again today.
ranwhenparked
> jminer
09/20/2020 at 00:03 |
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You do realize Star Wars, The Deep, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever, A Bridge Too Far, Annie Hall, Roots, and The Spy Who Loved Me all came out the same year, right?
Damn, 1977 was actually a pretty decent year for classic movies and TV.
shop-teacher
> Mark Tucker
09/20/2020 at 00:13 |
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Even back then Buford was painted like the hopelessly stupid and ignorant racist that he was.
barnie
> shop-teacher
09/20/2020 at 00:21 |
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And back then we could have obviously racist, misogynistic , etc characters in movies , know it and laugh at them. Not so possible these days. Folks get so outraged that movies don’t even try.
Bandit
> Mark Tucker
09/20/2020 at 00:22 |
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You are entitled to your wrong opinions, even if they are wrong.
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ranwhenparked
> shop-teacher
09/20/2020 at 00:37 |
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Exactly, he was the villain, you were supposed to hate him, and he was supposed to be an ignorant, bumbling moron. I think it's pretty obvious that his prejudices were intended as objects of ridicule.
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jminer
> ranwhenparked
09/20/2020 at 00:48 |
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I’ve spent a fair bit of time during quarantine watching old movies from the 60s and 70s and while a many a re entertaining few hold up today.
Many of those were excellent in their time, but about half are pretty bad today.
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ranwhenparked
> jminer
09/20/2020 at 01:00 |
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Hollywood's always produced a lot of crap with a few gems mixed in, there's movies being released now that won't hold up after a few months, you have to sift through it to get to the true classics.
Goggles Pizzano
> Mark Tucker
09/20/2020 at 01:10 |
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- Did the math: they only had to average a little over 64 mph to make the run in time. Doesn’t sound all that fast, but you lose a lot of time stopping to make out with Sally Field...
And all without piss jugs.
Jayvincent
> Mark Tucker
09/20/2020 at 08:16 |
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D on’t forget back in 1977, interstate highway speed limits were 50 or 55mph, so averaging 64mph means driving 75+ mph which is 20 over and definitely going to get the attention of every trooper you pass.
That said, Jackie Gleason’s performance is dead on and if it’s a parody of misogyny, racism and bullying in the 1970s then it’s a sad understatement of the reality that such attitudes still exist today, despite the public lampooning.
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shop-teacher
> ranwhenparked
09/20/2020 at 09:13 |
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Bingo.
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shop-teacher
> barnie
09/20/2020 at 09:13 |
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Exactly.
My bird IS the word
> Mark Tucker
09/20/2020 at 10:00 |
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You can also see where they had to piece enough cars together to finish the movie, and the front subframe is smashed up. No way a stock f body can take a single one of those jumps.
Thisismydisplayname
> ranwhenparked
09/20/2020 at 22:12 |
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Similar to Blazing Saddles.