burt reynolds smokey and the bandit on cb radio

#BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT ON CB RADIO MOVIE#

The reward to the Bandit of $80,000 seems ludicrous to anyone outside that current location at that current time.

#BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT ON CB RADIO MOVIE#

This movie is dated to its time in multiple ways first is the actual premise: the reason this is dangerous is because over the state lines in Georgia running that kind of beer without a permit was bootlegging at the time. It’s about a former outlaw trucker who goes by the handle Bandit (Burt Reynolds) taking a ridiculous offer to run to Texarkana to pick up 400 cases of Coors beer and bring them over state lines into Georgia in twenty-eight hours. Smokey and the Bandit is a short, fun movie that features a lot of comedic scenes and a lot of car stunts. It’s probably what’s going to endure the ages and be relevant far into the future when Amazon drones drive our big-wheelers. You’ve got your gimmicks used to cash in on the fad from back in the day (god, do I need to explain what a CB radio is in this review?) but Smokey and the Bandit is way more than a cash-in. Every time I see this film the language and culture of the old American highway comes through my fingers and into the keyboard. The car in front of me was some ol’ dung beetle and I knew it’d be my luck if I passed him and put my pedal to the floor and I feared a kojak with a kodak was gonna see me and snatch me up good. Heck, even his character's name alone is awesome to write and pronounce repeatedly! He has the best lines, allegedly a large part of them were ad-libbed, like when he says to his slow and unintelligent son: 'the first thing I'm going to do when we get home, is punch your mother in the face' (referring that the son can't possibly have inherited his stupidity from him).I just got outta the cheapest choke n’ puke I could find and hopped in my Jimmy and barreled down the highway sipping on hundred mile coffee. Sally Field and Burt Reynolds definitely have on-screen chemistry, but the show is undeniably stolen by Jackie Gleason as the persistent and downright obsessive Sheriff Buford T. Jerry Reed is excellent as the lesser cool sidekick Snowman and he also provides the film with a sublimely irresistible hillbilly soundtrack, including the fantastically catchy songs 'East Bound and Down' and 'The Legend'. Former stuntman Hal Needham delivers a fast- paced script and taut direction (his other film 'MegaForce', on the other hand is a terribly boring turkey) whilst all his cast members are having the time of their lives.

You easily forgive 'Smokey and the Bandit' for its lack of originality and ideas, simply because everyone involved in the film seems to be so very enthusiast and cheerful.

During the wild and time-pressured ride, Bandit picks up the hyperactive runaway bride Carrie and becomes involved in a testosterone showdown with the fearsome Texan Sheriff Buford T.

Bandit develops a nifty plan where his buddy Snowman drives the beer truck and he drives a Trans-Am in front to divert the attention of the coppers. Two Texan big shots hire the notorious trucker Bandit to illegally transport a lorry of Coors Beer from Texarkana to Georgia in barely 28 hours. 'Smokey and the Bandit' is basically a very simplistic story and approximately three quarters of the film seems improvised at the spot, but a premise like this just can't fail. Movies like 'White Lightning', 'Hooper', The Cannonball Run', 'Sharky's Machine', 'Gator' and of course the 'Smokey and the Bandit' trilogy and I can't help the fact they all star Burt Reynolds. We're talking about movies with charismatic macho man protagonists, fast cars, trucks so large they seem to be overcompensating for something else, infantile comedy and flamboyant action stunts. I've never been much of a fan of Burt Reynolds fan, but he happens to star in many 70's and early 80's movies that are right up my alley.

Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit on cb radio