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Written by James M. Tate / 8/30/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , alfie wise , burt reynolds , cop , hal needham , jackie gleason , mike henry , paul williams , road movie , sally field , seventies

BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEFwEIBTWrD0aumiMkX0bnzbOaNATUsmGETiOqyOz2rj7ha2YHhFrC6I5cS1XHN8W8PJkh2-VHZ5n6YTW5PbFe4h0ZoFDbESplJA7pgjklUBMZPFmYno2Dd70c32XvF6PFV3kjsZWvuckvGJ4R89Z8bvps8zQ8Wz6piw_3PodeXFtwsEgOIIHlh3zuDuF/s1852/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-03%20at%206.53.59%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1852" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLEFwEIBTWrD0aumiMkX0bnzbOaNATUsmGETiOqyOz2rj7ha2YHhFrC6I5cS1XHN8W8PJkh2-VHZ5n6YTW5PbFe4h0ZoFDbESplJA7pgjklUBMZPFmYno2Dd70c32XvF6PFV3kjsZWvuckvGJ4R89Z8bvps8zQ8Wz6piw_3PodeXFtwsEgOIIHlh3zuDuF/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-11-03%20at%206.53.59%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds to continue his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/deliverance.html">DELIVERANCE</a> style of worthwhile acting, it should be complimented for finally perfecting the good-old-boy persona/rural car-chase action he ignited in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a>...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Mostly thanks to the director, who was already a veteran stuntman, as Hal Needham brought the action up front to where the characters — from Jerry Reed's trucker Snowman to Burt's Trans-Am driving cop-blocking Bandit — flows smoothly along with the trek and the reason behind it...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, alfie wise, burt reynolds, cop, hal needham, jackie gleason, mike henry, paul williams, road movie, sally field, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED IN 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT'

Burt Reynolds in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT Year: 1977 Rating: **** While SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has been maligned for not allowing Burt Reynolds ...

HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' WITH HARRISON FORD

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mental institution in New York City, travels across country, energized by bizarre plans to build a worm 
farm in Eureka, California, with the (hopeful) help of his fellow vets... <br>
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Along the way, via bus, while pestering put-upon driver Val Avery, Winkler's Jack Dunne meets
 lonely, single, soon-to-be-wed Sally Field as Carol (the same year she'd be a reluctant fiance in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT), and the first of his "Nam "
cronies played by soon-to-be-famous Harrison 
Ford, the same year he'd help The Rebel Alliance rescue a princess, here basically rehashing his AMERICAN GRAFFITI "Bob Falfa" character: 
but with issues, and zero backbone...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

al rubin, dennis burkley, harrison ford, henry winkler, john cassavetes, mental ward, road movie, sally field, seventies, val avery, vietnam

HENRY WINKLER & SALLY FIELD IN 'HEROES' WITH HARRISON FORD

Harrison Ford in HEROES Year: 1977 Rating: *** Wanna see Henry Winkler beat up a barroom full of bikers without the use of his magical leat...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES 'HOOPER' WITH JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs5o3Ov_wtQzeFl3a7D3bjVZFmstyAegVDzN5jUVDBN04NSd0BYOnTMXtCzGRjWrI5dYaXfJIplp8rY2cjLZGuJ5fDRlt1kZuY84-_tnJiNOzdbY0OsGX0LnSv3iufnt76jtNgo0AWkMcYBAk9VP4FTLaSe7Rr_j4sszGDM_PwwwYdyuI6rT6q2mI5Q/s1769/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="1769" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUs5o3Ov_wtQzeFl3a7D3bjVZFmstyAegVDzN5jUVDBN04NSd0BYOnTMXtCzGRjWrI5dYaXfJIplp8rY2cjLZGuJ5fDRlt1kZuY84-_tnJiNOzdbY0OsGX0LnSv3iufnt76jtNgo0AWkMcYBAk9VP4FTLaSe7Rr_j4sszGDM_PwwwYdyuI6rT6q2mI5Q/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent in HOOPER Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time HOOPER hit theaters, star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham were already reeling from the blockbuster success of SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, a car-chase movie with a lot of stunts — so it made sense to have their next literal vehicle be a tribute to stuntmen...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Plus the fact Burt liked doing his own, and Needham was a genuine Hollywood fall guy for decades, making this a doubled-down labor-of-love that mostly strays from the intentional silliness of SMOKEY... with a few exceptions...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, adam west, brian keith, burt reynolds, car, hal needham, hollywood satire, james best, jan-michael vincent, sally field, seventies

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVES 'HOOPER' WITH JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

Burt Reynolds and Jan-Michael Vincent in HOOPER Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 By the time HOOPER hit theaters, star Burt Reynolds and director H...

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNING FOR 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2'

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burt reynolds, comedy. sequel, eighties, franchise, jackie gleason, jerry reed, race against time, road movie, sally field

BURT REYNOLDS RETURNING FOR 'SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2'

Title: SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT 2 Year: 1980 Rating: *** One scene in this sequel to SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT has Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, ...

CAINE VERSES SAVALAS IN 'BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE'

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While not as bad a sequel as you might have been led to believe, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is so blasphemous a followup to the classic original THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, it either begs the viewer to stop watching after less than five minutes...<br>
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Or, if you can muddle past the muddled fifteen-minute mark, after which, mirroring the first film in having a group of survivors... that didn't follow Gene Hackman the first time... head to the bottom that's really the top of the ship, upturned above water, only with less dangerous tiers, fewer obstacles, and a subplot involving Telly Savales doing what he did best before KOJAK made him a cool good guy...<br>

disaster, ensemble, jack warden, michael caine, peter boyle, sally field, sequel, shirley jones, telly savalas, veronica hamell

CAINE VERSES SAVALAS IN 'BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE'

Villains of Beyond The Poseidon Adventure While not as bad a sequel as you might have been led to believe, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE...

SALLY FIELD IN HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sally Field returns to the romantic comedy genre but with a few dozen twists and turns... one being her age</u></td></tr>
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Boy oh boy, man oh man, girl oh girl, old bag oh bag... Okay, not really... GIDGET'S FLYING NUN has gotten pretty old, but she doesn't look too bad, and for a chick-flick made for the elderly but trying hard for both the millennials and middle-aged, HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS, the title sounding like a melodrama about an alcoholic, is yet another big star in a relatively low-budget indie: Where Sally plays a frazzled, eccentric older lady working at... one of those jobs that never has a clear description yet for entertainment purposes, employees can walk around doing anything they want, as if they were drinking at CHEERS...<br>

arthouse, quirky, sally field

SALLY FIELD IN HELLO MY NAME IS DORIS

Sally Field returns to the romantic comedy genre but with a few dozen twists and turns... one being her age Boy oh boy, man oh man, girl...

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2012 cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen, Sally Field rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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In one scene, right after a spider in the Oscorp Laboratories bites Peter Parker, he falls asleep in a subway only to be awakened by a random loser who (for some strange reason) places a beer bottle on Parker’s head. A drop of water from the bottle rolls down onto Peter’s face, causing him to fling to the top of the car and stick to the ceiling – like a spider. Over a dozen people witness this spectacular feat... and what happens next? A lady gets angry because some of the beer spilled on her clothes, and, this reaction sums up how<i> amazing </i>the entire film is.<br />
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After fully realizing his powers and using them to skateboard with furious bravado outside his high school, Peter Parker (much too) quickly dons the Spidey outfit that seems more like a surfer’s wetsuit than a real transformation. He seeks his uncle's murderer from the supposedly pivotal scene lacking the tragic fate of the protagonist's mentor in Sam Raimi’s version. This doesn’t perpetuate Parker into a vigilante misusing his powers, but gives him reason to fly around wielding his skills that actor Andrew Garfield never seems in any particular awe about.<br />
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The SOCIAL NETWORK star, resembling Anthony Perkins had he become a melancholy hipster, doesn’t give Peter Parker the underdog value Tobey Maguire successfully conveyed – but that’s the script's fault. Parker’s not a nerd or even an outcast; having lost his parents for mysterious reasons, he’s simply not a happy camper. Other than the rushed changeling into the titular superhero, wherein Garfield acts like a cocky street-fighter behind the mask, there’s hardly any character arc for the good guy <i>or</i> the villain.<br />
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Osco’s resident genius Dr. Curt Conners transforms into The Lizard so quick, running amok New York City like a raptor on steroids, there’s not much reason, or worthy motivation, for his actions. But this lack of purpose fits a movie that, when not wallowing in romantic melodrama between Parker and girlfriend Gwen Stacey… whose hard-nosed cop father is a weak replacement for the much-needed human antagonist J. Jonah Jameson…  doesn’t live up to the original film or the comic books that, for better or worse, had a good time.<br />
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But the real problem is the Origin Story, so rushed and uncreative it's amazing they even went there at all.

2012, andrew garfield, blockbuster, comic book, martin sheen, marvel, sally field