SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT RETURN TO BIG SCREEN!!!!
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OMG OMG OMG. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the movie's release, Smokey and the Bandit will be returning to the big screen on May 21 and 24. SO EXCITED, as this is one of my fave movies of all time and really deserves to be seen in all its big screen glory more often. Can't believe that I never realized it was released two days after Star Wars. Anyway, just wanted to give you folks a heads up as I might have missed it had not a friend reminded me. Tickets bought. Anyone got a recipe for a diablo sandwich?
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((Smuggling Coors beer))
((Smuggling Coors beer))
Diablo sandwich is slow cooked roast beef smothered with gravy on a toasted bun.....
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I loved that little touch
I loved that little touch from the Walking Dead.
I was thinking it was like a sloppy joe made with taco seasoning.
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This is a great movie.
This is a great movie.
So many great people in this movie. Jackie Gleason is the best!
Sally Field is hot!
And Jerry Reed is the perfect sidekick for Burt.
CB Radios! Crashing all those police cars!
I can still sing the theme song word for word.
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There's beer in Texarkana!
There's beer in Texarkana!
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Sally Field was SO hot.
Sally Field was SO hot.
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Jackie Gleason ad libbed a
Jackie Gleason ad libbed a ton of his super memorable lines. Funny fucker. I just hope they show the unedited version in all it's very not PC glory. i assume an entire generation (or 2) have never seen the original non-TV version. Hey, it was a different time.
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wow what a memory. seems like
wow what a memory. seems like two lifetimes ago.
>>Can't believe that I never realized it was released two days after Star Wars
I sure didn't remember that. Smokey came to the theater closest to my home, which was a rundown discount place. My buddy Joe and I saw it two or three times. I didn't see Star Wars for a couple months; a bunch of us went to Hollywood to the Chinese Theater that might still have been Grauman's.
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Great movie! I saw it in the
Great movie! I saw it in the theater originally too & I agree Alias, it needs to be shown unedited. Jackie Gleason just stole the show.
"There is no way, no way you came from my loins. Soon as we get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in the mouth."
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That's the best line in the
That's the best line in the movie chuck!
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HOLD ONTO YER ASS, FRED!!!!!!
my father's all-time number one fave
I'm so mother fucking excited!!!!!!!!
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Quinn, I had a similar
Quinn, I had a similar experience. Star Wars was out at the fancy theater in the new mall and was sold out for a bit, so we didn't see it for a couple weeks. The little theater near our house had Smokey and the Bandit for the whole summer. Also, as tremendous as Star Wars was, our world was way more Smokey-ish than a galaxy far far away, so it had way more immediate kid-culture impact. My two friends with dads who were truckers became neighborhood celebs, and a few kids got these little CB's that mounted on your bike handlebars. Shit for range but we talked CB for for a good year..
She insulted my town. She insulted my son. She insulted my authority. And that's nothing but pure and simple old fashioned communism. Happens ever' time one of those dancers starts poontingin' around with those show folk fags.
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" Imma get that summbitch.",
" Imma get that summbitch.", Gleason.
So perfect in every way and original that movie was. The sequels, meh.
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I'm actually going to see
I'm actually going to see Fast Times At Ridgemont High this summer which is also getting a theatrical re-release..should be a blast as well..Gleason's best lines are reserved for his son..hilarious.. never knew about the 2 days after Star Wars release..
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Fun movie
Fun movie
Sally did have a great ass
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how about the soundtrack?
how about the soundtrack?
pretty killer
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I was watching "Gator" last
I was watching "Gator" last night and recently watched part of "White Lightning", both Burt/Jerry Reed vehicles. I have now confirmed that in all 3 movies Jerry Reed says "Nice ass" at some point. Also, the writer and director of Smokey and the Bandit was Burt Reynold's stunt driver/double and buddy/roommate.
btw, "Gator" sucks. I remembered it for the big boat race in the swamp and that's pretty much the only good part, other than vintage location shots of 70's Savannah, a time and place I had occasion to get to know as a child.
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Turtle, you cannot go wrong
Turtle, you great Jerry Reed soundtrack. So many things went right in that movie.
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Cue up the East Bound & Down:
Cue up the East Bound & Down:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=east+bound+and+d...
Sterling Archer is creaming in his pants.
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Sally field was smokin' hot.
Sally field was smokin' hot.
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Yo Breaker, breaker....You
Yo Breaker, breaker....You people got yer ears on?...This here's Hoople*Head...and I'm here to tell You...
That Sally Field is still Smoking Hot!!...And Sally Field will always be Smoking Hot....You Got that?.....Over?
2017 Tony Awards...
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The original was a great
The original was a great movie. The sequels sucked. All three had scenes filmed in my home town of Hobe Sound. Burt grew up in Jupiter and had his house in Hobe Sound. I worked at his house and met him countless times and a bunch of others at the rehearsal studio at his house. I actually met Loni Anderson in a bikini. WOW I was a horny star struck 24 year old.
Turned my kids onto Smoky when they were 7 and 10. They LOVED it.
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T - You remember the Burt
T - You remember the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater in Jupiter?
Smokey and the Bandit is a classic. ,
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Burt got into a lot of
Burt got into a lot of financial troubles. I think most of it happened from his divorce from Loni.
The theater was sold/repoed and is now The Maltz. His house was auctioned off a few years ago and he lost all of his rental properties. (About 20) He lost his ranch and even his mausoleum where his Mom and Dad are buried. I did a/c work at all of these locations. They even took the Burt Reynolds museum down to built expensive retail stores and restaurants on the corner of Indiantown Road and US-1.
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Went there a few times in the
Went there a few times in the early 80's when my grandparents moved to St Lucie.
Burt was the man for years but unfortunately the fall is usually much steeper than the rise.
Saw a picture of him a few months back and he wasn't looking too good.
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I was at a FSU football game
I was at a FSU football game in Tallahassee in the late 80s (my parents are Gators but my uncle went there) when a helicopter swooped down during half time and dropped Burt Reynolds off on the 50 yard line. Burt, who had played for FSU, got out, ran around a bit waiving to the crowd, hopped back in the helicopter, and took off.
Anyone recall when Burt bitch slapped a reporter who was interviewing him and mentioned that he had never seen the original "Longest Yard."
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Coming on AMC at 5:30 for
Coming on AMC at 5:30 for those who get it. Channel is pretty good about not cutting movies up too bad.