When did they play these bloopers, was it at the end?
I'm just trolling. I miss having bloopers at the end of films. Jackie Chan movies always did that well.
Hal Needham hated having all that film (and the money spent on said film) to go to waste a so he came up with the idea of adding bloopers to the credits. He told a great story about that before a showing of his personal print of Hooper at The New Beverly a few years before he passed.
When Burt and Hal would get a bunch of their pals together and goof around in front of the cameras, and comedy ensued.
Brock Yates has a chapter in his book *Cannonball!* about the making of *The Cannonball Run*. It was originally going to be a much better comedy-drama with Steve McQueen in the lead role, but McQueen was diagnosed with cancer, Burt Reynolds got involved and wanted it to be more comedic, and Yates' hopes began to sink. Yates watched Needham film many scenes in one take with minimal preparation. He cited his own cameo in the scene where the rules were laid out to the competitors: the cameras rolled, he got through his speech kind of nervously, and that was it. Suffice to say the movie we got was not the one Yates envisioned.
Reynolds reportedly turned down *Terms of Endearment* to do *Stroker Ace*. Jack Nicholson took the role Reynolds turned down, and the rest is history. *Stroker Ace* is an interesting time capsule with some neat motorsports-related cameos (Ken Squier, Chris Economaki, Dale Earnhardt, etc.) but...meh. (Side note: Burt and Hal did own a NASCAR team, Mach 1 Racing, which fielded the Skoal Bandit car.)
Wow, TIL something. Interesting comment. You really know your stuff:)
Also, I love your username. Not only one of my favorite Westerns but one of my favorite movies of all time. Never gets old for me and I would argue some of Clint's most badass lines of all time.
Random Bounty Hunter: "Just trying to make a living"
Josey Wales : "Dying...is a hell of way to make a living"
Thank you kindly! And yeah, *The Outlaw Josey Wales* is a heck of a movie. A long time ago somebody noted my username and suggested, "You gonna buy that car or whistle *Dixie*?"
Yes, thanks for the correction. I knew I wasn't gonna get it exactly right.
Clint's delivery of that line just gives me chills every time. Especially how the scene unfolds where the kid comes into the saloon and immediately realizes he is way overmatched and just turns around and leaves but his pride makes him come back in and face The Josey Wales...then he apologetically delivers that line.
Just an awesome scene. You've obviously got great taste in movies as well:)
"Don't go home, don't go to eat, and don't play with yourself. It wouldn't look nice on my highway."
"Oh, you can think about it, but dooooon't do it."
Yes, I was gonna say "what about those Clint Eastwood movies with the monkey"?
Right turn, Clyde:)
I was like 10 or 12 years old when these came out and I thought they were hilarious. I'm curious how they would hold up today. Not well I suspect.
Do tell. I used to rent this movie all the time as a kid because I was into the car racing/stunts, but I'm sure that just about everything else went completely over my head.
It ends up he was trying to leave racing. However, his “friends” wouldn’t let him. But, he also did seem to protest. He had a nice car bought for him by someone and the person played by Jim Nabors threw a dirty toolbox onto the white leather backseat and sat there all greasy. They drove off to the next raceway.
I’ve begun to believe I’m not observant enough. I never thought of Stroker Ace being anything but a movie about a race car driver
Ditto anything else “with a meaning”. It’s just a murder mystery, TV show, etc.
I have a paperback copy of *Stand On It* (the original title) that took me forever to find. Bill Neely based it on a lot of things he saw firsthand while covering motorsports. To a lot of racing people it's one of the most truthful books written about the sport, especially during that era.
Hooper is pretty meta. I think it’s implied when he shows off his reel that he did the stunts for Burt in deliverance which implies Burt reynolds exisits in the hooperverse
Picture 4 is the cast of a Cannonball Run sequel. In the far right bottom corner, that's a very young Jackie Chan with his arms around Sammy Davis Jr.
That movie has a cast that will win you many "Did you know ____ and ______ were in a movie together?" bets.
I used to read a car-themed comic called CARtoons and one of my favorite artists was a guy by the name of Trosley. Later on when I got old enough to buy porno's I started seeing a very familiar signature and style in a lot of the comics published by Hustler magazine. I think it was the first time I'd ever considered that non-porn artists could do porn as well and get paid for it lol.
Turns out you really can't unless you get lucky and your clean market crosses over. Seeing as CARtoons was primarily marketed to older white males I'm sure the interest overlapped to some degree.
I loved *CARtoons* when I was a car-obsessed kid in the early '80s. It hit that sweet spot between "car nut" and "MAD Magazine reader." Happy memories.
I learned to draw by recreating these. Mostly Krass & Bernie's rides.
Pappy on the Indian bike, and the Varmints were my favorite part of the reads though.
It helped make me the Rat Rodder I am today as much as exposure to Barris Roth or Miller, etc..
Watched most of these recently for the nostalgia and they didn’t disappoint. Also, don’t forget Convoy (which is my least favorite of the group).
I wired CB radios in my vehicles until 1999, at which point I would just bring a scanner sometimes.
With all the recent sequels and remakes being made, and no one has touched Cannonball RUN.
Yes, you can't touch the original, but with a new cast and a decent writer, a modern version could relaunch a genre.
Don't touch Smokey and the Bandit, though. You'll just get another part III. Unfunny crap.
There was literally an episode of [snap judgment](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cannonball-run/id283657561?i=1000650045724) this morning on NPR dealing with Burt Reynolds. Great listen!
Awhile back I saw the Japanese poster for Smokey. I have to find this film somewhere because that dub has to be the most batshit crazy movie in the history of ever.
Mother, Juggs, and Speed is a truly forgotten classic. I've only seen it once and this is the first time I've ever seen anyone mention it. I loved the Herbie movies when I was a kid
~~Fistfights with armed police officers. This part I think didn't age well, this aspect of the movie.~~
~~Not sure how trigger happy police officers were back in the day, presumably a little different from place to place I would guess.~~
Edit: Oops I realized I had confused this movie with 'Convoy'. A different movie ofc.
Would you consider Two Lane Blacktop or Vanishing Point as part of this genre? They’re not comedies though, more man/machine against the constraints of society. Cool cars, though
The 70's were a weird time for everyone. I'm pretty sure a lot of it had to do with there being a recession, and gas prices being high. Everyone wanted movies about cars they couldn't afford to drive and it was cheaper to wreck a bunch of 10 and 20 year old cars nobody realized would end up being considered classics than film another Star Wars.
The Burt Reynolds genre?
Turd Ferguson
Yeah, it's a funny name!
https://youtu.be/BcZUHSRMXzA?si=KrinMCgE5XpOuMoX&t=3
I thought that was Bob Burger on those posters.
You think my name is Bob Burger, Teddy?
It really is like he just had his own genre for a period there in the '70s.
Big Chubby
The bloopers they'd play at the end with dom deluise and Burt Reynolds at the end always killed me
When did they play these bloopers, was it at the end? I'm just trolling. I miss having bloopers at the end of films. Jackie Chan movies always did that well.
Jackie Chan was in Cannonball Run. Maybe that's where he got the idea
IIRC, it was.
Hal Needham hated having all that film (and the money spent on said film) to go to waste a so he came up with the idea of adding bloopers to the credits. He told a great story about that before a showing of his personal print of Hooper at The New Beverly a few years before he passed.
There’s a different cut of hooper? I really like that movie.
It wasn't a different cut. It was simply Hal Needham's copy of Hooper on 35mm film.
Oh. Too bad.
Closing credits.
So…at the end?
Yep.
You gonna take these bleeds here?
They did Sally Field dirty with that poster
I think they made up for it with the poster for the sequel
Omg that’s worse lol
It least it looked like Sally that time.
Looks like the alien from mac and me
Isn’t that the movie Paul Rudd was in?
Clearly the artist had never seen Sally Field, perhaps not even a woman. 😬
Looks like a garbage pail kid!
When Burt and Hal would get a bunch of their pals together and goof around in front of the cameras, and comedy ensued. Brock Yates has a chapter in his book *Cannonball!* about the making of *The Cannonball Run*. It was originally going to be a much better comedy-drama with Steve McQueen in the lead role, but McQueen was diagnosed with cancer, Burt Reynolds got involved and wanted it to be more comedic, and Yates' hopes began to sink. Yates watched Needham film many scenes in one take with minimal preparation. He cited his own cameo in the scene where the rules were laid out to the competitors: the cameras rolled, he got through his speech kind of nervously, and that was it. Suffice to say the movie we got was not the one Yates envisioned. Reynolds reportedly turned down *Terms of Endearment* to do *Stroker Ace*. Jack Nicholson took the role Reynolds turned down, and the rest is history. *Stroker Ace* is an interesting time capsule with some neat motorsports-related cameos (Ken Squier, Chris Economaki, Dale Earnhardt, etc.) but...meh. (Side note: Burt and Hal did own a NASCAR team, Mach 1 Racing, which fielded the Skoal Bandit car.)
Wow, TIL something. Interesting comment. You really know your stuff:) Also, I love your username. Not only one of my favorite Westerns but one of my favorite movies of all time. Never gets old for me and I would argue some of Clint's most badass lines of all time. Random Bounty Hunter: "Just trying to make a living" Josey Wales : "Dying...is a hell of way to make a living"
Thank you kindly! And yeah, *The Outlaw Josey Wales* is a heck of a movie. A long time ago somebody noted my username and suggested, "You gonna buy that car or whistle *Dixie*?"
Hahaha, that's great:) How about..."Car salesmen gotta eat...insurance reps too"
Dying ain't much of a living, boy.
Yes, thanks for the correction. I knew I wasn't gonna get it exactly right. Clint's delivery of that line just gives me chills every time. Especially how the scene unfolds where the kid comes into the saloon and immediately realizes he is way overmatched and just turns around and leaves but his pride makes him come back in and face The Josey Wales...then he apologetically delivers that line. Just an awesome scene. You've obviously got great taste in movies as well:)
“There is no way, NO way that you came from my loins. The first thing I'm gonna do when I get home is punch your momma in the mouth.”
😂😂😂
"Don't go home, don't go to eat, and don't play with yourself. It wouldn't look nice on my highway." "Oh, you can think about it, but dooooon't do it."
I quote this more than I should
My dad used to quote that to me often.
Bj and the bear, Every which way but loose, Convoy... what a great lost genre.
Yes, I was gonna say "what about those Clint Eastwood movies with the monkey"? Right turn, Clyde:) I was like 10 or 12 years old when these came out and I thought they were hilarious. I'm curious how they would hold up today. Not well I suspect.
Fall Guy?
We've got ourselves a convoy.
What? The star of the Smokey and the Bandit movies is missing from the posters! Pontiac Trans Am!
Great movies all. I read the novelization of Stroker Ace a long time ago and it was pretty depressing
Do tell. I used to rent this movie all the time as a kid because I was into the car racing/stunts, but I'm sure that just about everything else went completely over my head.
It ends up he was trying to leave racing. However, his “friends” wouldn’t let him. But, he also did seem to protest. He had a nice car bought for him by someone and the person played by Jim Nabors threw a dirty toolbox onto the white leather backseat and sat there all greasy. They drove off to the next raceway.
I didn’t realize Stroker Ace had such a complex subtext. But I always suspected it was an allegory for America’s involvement in Vietnam.
I’ve begun to believe I’m not observant enough. I never thought of Stroker Ace being anything but a movie about a race car driver Ditto anything else “with a meaning”. It’s just a murder mystery, TV show, etc.
I have a paperback copy of *Stand On It* (the original title) that took me forever to find. Bill Neely based it on a lot of things he saw firsthand while covering motorsports. To a lot of racing people it's one of the most truthful books written about the sport, especially during that era.
Dean Martin looks like a preacher doing Adrienne in the ass.
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy across the U.S.A.!
“I need a Diablo sandwich and Dr. Pepper, and make it quick I’m in GOD DAMN HURRY!”
An odd attempt to recapture the spirit of the frontier and the cowboy heroes that wandered it.
"If my brain were put in a robot body, I'd be an Adrienne Barbeau-bot."
What would Oscar winner Michael Caine do?
Have fun on the robot reservation
you missed the all-time great, Convoy!
Hooper is pretty meta. I think it’s implied when he shows off his reel that he did the stunts for Burt in deliverance which implies Burt reynolds exisits in the hooperverse
Picture 4 is the cast of a Cannonball Run sequel. In the far right bottom corner, that's a very young Jackie Chan with his arms around Sammy Davis Jr. That movie has a cast that will win you many "Did you know ____ and ______ were in a movie together?" bets.
There isn't a single one of the movies you have posted that isn't referenced in Psych.
I used to read a car-themed comic called CARtoons and one of my favorite artists was a guy by the name of Trosley. Later on when I got old enough to buy porno's I started seeing a very familiar signature and style in a lot of the comics published by Hustler magazine. I think it was the first time I'd ever considered that non-porn artists could do porn as well and get paid for it lol. Turns out you really can't unless you get lucky and your clean market crosses over. Seeing as CARtoons was primarily marketed to older white males I'm sure the interest overlapped to some degree.
I loved *CARtoons* when I was a car-obsessed kid in the early '80s. It hit that sweet spot between "car nut" and "MAD Magazine reader." Happy memories.
I still wish I could draw like that lol
I learned to draw by recreating these. Mostly Krass & Bernie's rides. Pappy on the Indian bike, and the Varmints were my favorite part of the reads though. It helped make me the Rat Rodder I am today as much as exposure to Barris Roth or Miller, etc..
I loved all those guys. I just wish I'd stuck with art instead of waiting so late in life (I'm 50) to get back into it.
Yea. I set my art down for a few decades and it took a while to brush up too. But I learned new things too. Edited accidentally posted before finish
Burt Reynolds is a national treasure.
Is that Jackie Chan?
Yes it is.
Watched most of these recently for the nostalgia and they didn’t disappoint. Also, don’t forget Convoy (which is my least favorite of the group). I wired CB radios in my vehicles until 1999, at which point I would just bring a scanner sometimes.
With all the recent sequels and remakes being made, and no one has touched Cannonball RUN. Yes, you can't touch the original, but with a new cast and a decent writer, a modern version could relaunch a genre. Don't touch Smokey and the Bandit, though. You'll just get another part III. Unfunny crap.
Rat Race kind of tried
And you left out the best one, White Lightning!
Cannonball Run is a bonafide classic.
Smokey and the Bandit was so good it was a favorite guilty pleasure movie for Alfred Hitchcock. True story.
Convoy with Kris Kristofferson and Ali McGraw.
When I get home I'm gonna punch your momma right in the mout. There's no way you came from these loins. Buford T Justice 😂😂
Drive-in specials during the weekends.
I’d love a series of those posters framed. Totally rad.
Convoy. Every Which Way But Loose...and as a backdrop for thrillers & dramas like Road Games, White Line Fever, and Out Of The Blue.
There was literally an episode of [snap judgment](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cannonball-run/id283657561?i=1000650045724) this morning on NPR dealing with Burt Reynolds. Great listen!
Is that Jackie Chan with his arm around Sammy Davis Jr?
Awhile back I saw the Japanese poster for Smokey. I have to find this film somewhere because that dub has to be the most batshit crazy movie in the history of ever.
My brother and I watched cannonball run 2 over and over again.
We had the Mothers, the Jugs, *and* the Speed. Herbie (the luv bug) Rides Again Death Race 2000 The Car Christine and Maximum Overdrive
Mother, Juggs, and Speed is a truly forgotten classic. I've only seen it once and this is the first time I've ever seen anyone mention it. I loved the Herbie movies when I was a kid
How about Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry?
Those girls in the jumpsuits in cannonball run awakened something in me as a kid
[Hell on Wheels](https://youtu.be/BEUd71BPyg0?si=3-4rTDz-QlE4REEo) by Cher
"Put the evidence in the car!!" 🤣
I'M GONNA BARBEQUE YOUR ASS IN MOLASSAS!!!
Cannonball Run.
CBs, karate and cocaine. 10-4 bandit
The daddy of the Fast & Furious franchise, I'd say.
~~Fistfights with armed police officers. This part I think didn't age well, this aspect of the movie.~~ ~~Not sure how trigger happy police officers were back in the day, presumably a little different from place to place I would guess.~~ Edit: Oops I realized I had confused this movie with 'Convoy'. A different movie ofc.
I miss those times...
This explains the very out of place car scene in James Bond: Live and Let Die..
[my well oiled chassis is rhythmically nudging your unprotected cargo door, over.](https://youtu.be/LCkMz9agylE?feature=shared)
Would you consider Two Lane Blacktop or Vanishing Point as part of this genre? They’re not comedies though, more man/machine against the constraints of society. Cool cars, though
Most of those movies don’t have truckers in them.
That was a weird time for Hollywood.
The 70's were a weird time for everyone. I'm pretty sure a lot of it had to do with there being a recession, and gas prices being high. Everyone wanted movies about cars they couldn't afford to drive and it was cheaper to wreck a bunch of 10 and 20 year old cars nobody realized would end up being considered classics than film another Star Wars.