Review Hooper (1978)

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Elliot Thomas

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Agreeable, knockabout action comedy; it highlights the risks of stuntmen in the cutthroat film business. Reynolds’ swagger more or less carries the film with Field having little to do as his irate girl.
 
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ant-mac

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I loved this film when I saw it in the cinema as a kid. I even read the novel.

However, I have been waiting for the opportunity to watch it again on TV or buy a copy of it for over thirty years.
 
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Elliot Thomas

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ant-mac said:
I loved this film when I saw it in the cinema as a kid. I even read the novel.

However, I have been waiting for the opportunity to watch it again on TV or buy a copy of it for over thirty years.
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Yeah, I don't think it's aged particularly well. It's rarely on TV- unlike SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.
 
ant-mac

ant-mac

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Elliot Thomas said:
Yeah, I don't think it's aged particularly well. It's rarely on TV- unlike SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.
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If I like a film, I don't care if it's aged well or not.

And I can't say that I can ever remember seeing SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT - or any of its sequels - on TV.

In the early 80s, I hired the videos out and copied them. Now, I own them on DVD.
 
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Elliot Thomas

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ant-mac said:
If I like a film, I don't care if it's aged well or not.

And I can't say that I can ever remember seeing SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT - or any of its sequels - on TV.

In the early 80s, I hired the videos out and copied them. Now, I own them on DVD.
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Maybe the film's vibe was just lost on me:emoji_confused:
 
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Elliot Thomas

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ant-mac said:
I was a particularly big fan of the SMOKEY AND THE BANDITs, HOOPER, THE CANNONBALL RUNs and so forth.

When I sit down to watch them, it's still about 1980 for me and I'm still a teenager.
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Unfortunately I wasn't a teenager in the 1980s!! Saying that, I did love the banter in SATB, but those films seem to be a product very much of their time. Would that be fair to say?
 
ant-mac

ant-mac

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Elliot Thomas said:
Unfortunately I wasn't a teenager in the 1980s!! Saying that, I did love the banter in SATB, but those films seem to be a product very much of their time. Would that be fair to say?
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I would imagine so.

And not just their time, but their geographic location.

America - from the mid 70s through to the mid 80s.
 
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