Review Hooper (1978)

[High Plains Drifter]

Fun movie to watch.

Love this part in the movie.

 

[Elliot Thomas]

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.

 

[ant-mac]

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.

 

[Elliot Thomas]

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.

Yeah, I don't think it's aged particularly well. It's rarely on TV- unlike SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.

 

[ant-mac]

Yeah, I don't think it's aged particularly well. It's rarely on TV- unlike SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT.

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.

 

[Elliot Thomas]

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.

Maybe the film's vibe was just lost on me

 

[ant-mac]

Maybe the film's vibe was just lost on me

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.

 

[Elliot Thomas]

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.

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]

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?

I would imagine so.

And not just their time, but their geographic location.

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

 

[Doctor Omega]

 

[Doctor Omega]

Nice article on HOOPER.....

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/58006