Jerry is a legendary musician and songwriter (and actor) and one of the guitar greats. You don't even have to be a country fan to appreciate Jerry Reed.
Jerry Reed could entertain rocks and make them come back for more. He did a lot of sub groups with his music but the one I heard a lot growing up was the songs he had about trucking. My father enjoyed them so we heard them often. One of my favorites is “Caffeine, Nicotine, Benzedrine and Wish Me Luck.”
Listen, and you notice the primary song is "Westbound and down" when they are headed to Texas, and Eastbound and down once they flip-flop and head back to Georgia.
One of his very greatest roles. He really embodied the ignorant racist Southern jerk stereotype. It was balanced with all the good southern folk in this movie.
@@michaelschroeck2254 true, ANNIE HALL was released in April 1977, but word of mouth was slow-starting, with the film making most of its $44M after it won the Oscar for Best Picture.
CB radios were a craze in the mid-to-late 70s and spread far beyond truckers. I spent many an evening as a pre-teen yakkin' away with strangers on the CB. The truckers used the 10-codes and also developed their own slang, which was co-opted by society in general for several years. Several "trucker" genre movies out there, most notably the one named after the biggest "CB/Trucker song" of all time, "Convoy" by C.W. McCall. The movie starred Kris Kristofferson (music legend). Snowman wrote/played most of the music for this movie. HIs name's Jerry Reed, and he had a lot of country and crossover hits in the 70s, most of them had a humorous theme.
Even as late as the early '90s, I had a 'base station' at the house. Remember sitting at home in MS during a freak snow event, watching the Weather Channel, and sharing 'current conditions' for cities around the Southeast with professional drivers out there on the highway trying to get their cargo through to their destinations on time. "If you bought it..a truck brought it.", right?
Same here. My parents had CBs in the vehicles and a base station at home. Before I was chatting on BBSes and then the Internet, I was chatting on the CB radio. They were also better than radar detectors for avoiding speed traps, and were great for getting around traffic. The truckers were awesome.
My father and all of my uncles did. My friends mom and stepfather did - she was on it more than anyone else. It was a big sucker right in the living room
I had a CB in my 78 Buick Skylark, My dad had one in his 76 Ford Granada, and my mom had one in her 78 Oldsmobile 88. Pretty much a necessity when you drove on the highway as much as we did.
Second highest grossing film of 1977. It got beat by a little movie called Star Wars. BTW, Burt Reynolds was in a lot of movies as well as on TV (Gunsmoke, Evening Shade).
I was a 15 yr old when that movie was filmed & I was on the square in Covington Georgia when Burt landed his plane to get beer, I was one of the folks getting out of the way as it takes off {RUclips Cannonball Plane} & I was on the opposite side of the square in 1978 when the General Lee comes sliding onto the square in the first episode, me & my stepdad were in front of the red brick store {RUclips Dukes Of Hazzard : Chase From 1st Episode}! Before then we were living in Jonesboro 2 miles from Snowmans house so we got to see that part filmed
"Eastbound and Down", and "Westbound and Down" are actually 2 separate songs (or the same song with different lyrics). In one, the lyrics are for the drive West to Texas, and the other is just about the drive back East.
I'm sure someone my age already posted this but back then the CB was a craze. We all had them in our cars including my father. His handle was Ozark Ridge Runner. Mine was Dancing Machine. I was sixteen then.
one of the people involved in writing the movie had a dad who was FL state trooper and worked with a trooper named Bufard Justice. he was the inspiration for Jackie Gleasons character
White Lightening is awesome, but also Burt was a big time college football player for Florida State, so a great movie would be The Longest Yard, and of course the ultimate crime story Sharky's Machine........ but I believe he was nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe for Boogie Nights. All these movies AMAZING!
@@FlixTalk Just so ya know...there was a remake of The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Burt makes an appearance in that. So, you should start with the OG Longest Yard from 1974...my opinion it's definitely the better one. OH and fun fact...Burt and Sally met for the first time during this movie and dated for 5 years. One more recommendation for a great Burt Reynolds movie is "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" with Dolly Parton.
My buddies and I were 5 when this came out. We still quote it weekly. It would have been the #1 movie of 1977, if not for a little movie called StarWars. My childhood right there. GREAT REACTION!
When this came out in 1977 me and my younger brother watch it all day of course after paying the tickets the first time. Yes, most had CB radios in their car as well as in the trucks. What a fun time being a Gen X ✊🏾
I love your reaction!!! And, yes.. that Theme Song is popping!.... I pretty much only listen to R&B and 90's Hip Hop... but this joint gets me bobbing my head and dancing, too.
Texarkana is a town named that because half of the city is in Texas and the other half is in Arkansas. This movie came out in 1977. $80,000 back in 1977, with inflation would have had the buying power of $413,924.75 now in 2024 money.
I was 14, loved it. This was the best reaction to this movie I've seen. The second reactor to think that the silver tongue devil was part of the road block set up. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
This was the first movie that I can remember seeing that I just truly LOVED, I was 8 years old and my rural hometown had just gotten one of those fancy new fangled indoor movie theaters lol. I can remember still looking up, watching that Trans Am rolling out of the back of the truck up on that huge screen with the sound on the engine coming at me from all sides!
You definitely want to see the Cannonballs. Gator and White Lightning are good action movies from the early 70s. The Longest Yard is also good. Don't waste your time on the Adam Sandler remake. Last but most certainly not least is Hooper. Another Hal Needham movie. Hal directed Smoky and Hooper. Hal was Burts stunt coordinator and best friend. Hooper is loaded with the best stuntmen in Hollywood at the time and all of Burts friends. Think of it as 90 minutes of "hey y'all. Watch this" oh and thanks for wading into my childhood. PS I would love to have the pleasure of introducing you to Jackie Gleason. You're welcome
In my "country" lovin' circle, we all had CBs in our vehicles back in the late 60's & 70's, with a base unit in the house, plus a police scanner, lol. Those were the days! 🚓🚑🚛
CB radio was huge throughout the 70's through to the 90's. I live in Australia and driving from the Gold Coast to Harvey Bay (400km) with an ex I started chatting to the truckies heading north, I jumped in behind one and sat about 3 feet off his back-door and another truck came up behind me so basically I was caught in the slip stream of the truck in front and being push by the one from behind I sat there for about 100 kms use next to no fuel, when they overtook cars i just went with them, i couldn't see the road in front of me, but they were chatting to trucks ahead of them for clear road to overtake, it didn't matter if it was a corner a hill we just went with them, awesome times back then. I've always loved this movie, cheers
I just realized that in a way CB radios were a little like the internet to us back in the 70's and early 80's as far as strangers connecting with each other. It wasn't just truck drivers that had them. Fun times then and a fun reaction video now.
Welcome to the movie that made hot rodding fun again. This movie was beat at the box office by Star Wars in 1977 and introduced people to good country music. This movie is for many of us our childhood.
This movie was made at the height of the CB craze in America, when everyone it seemed had a radio and spoke to people across the country. I personally found it funny that you could have someone like a company president who handled million-dollar deals on a regular basis, but stick a CB microphone in his hand and all of a sudden he spoke like Jed Clampett. ("Oh, mercy sakes, good buddy ...") What was most amusing about this movie was seeing all of the cars peeling out of the theater parking lots after the film by all of the drivers pretending to be Burt Reynolds as the Bandit. It was one of the most popular film of that era. I enjoyed your infectious reaction to the movie. It perfectly encapsulated the way movie goers felt when they watched it for the very first time. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, my friend.
"Stroker Ace" is another amazing one. Charlie Daniels wrote the theme song for that one.... Burt Reynolds Loni Anderson Ned Beatty bubba Smith, a whole host of NASCAR drivers..
The motorcycle coo is played by Sonny Shroyer who was also deputy Enos Straight in the Dukes of Hazzard. And John Schneider who went on to play Bo Duke was 17 years old and living in Atlanta where they filmed the movie. Him and a friend skipped school and snuck onto the movie set. John Schneider boldly walked up to one of the production crew and said I’m an extra where do you want me. And he would be put in the freeze frame at the end. When Buford T.’s wheel falls off and rolls to the crowd, it rolls up to John Schneider. He’s wearing a black cowboy hat. And the movie Smokey and the Bandit inspired the Dukes of Hazzard.
I initially did not want to see this movie because I thought it was about Smoky the Bear and fire safety. So when I was finally talked him into going to the theater to see it, it Blew my six-year-old mind.
3:20 Yup, this country was really weird back then when it came to beer.......some states still acted like it was prohibition era. Here in New Hampshire Coors was heard about but not seen for a long time.
Great reaction , loved it . I saw this when it came out in 1977 at the drive-in theatre when I was 10 years old. One of THE MOST CLASSIC MOVIES IN CINEMA HISTORY. Another great one from Burt Reynolds....well two actually , Hooper , and Stroker Ace. You will not be disappointed. Thanks again , and can't wait for the next video. Jim , Seattle Washington.
The sequals are not what you expect. You can almost skip 2. Its ok to watch but not gonna blow you away like 1 did. Now 3 shines. You gotta watch 3. 3 flows like 1 with comedy. The music in 3 is also epic.
C.B radio's were big back then ( think of it as the internet of the 1970s ) .....everyone and their mothers had one both in the car and also big base models. It was a blast talking with people up and down the East Coast and even out in the ocean. I remember way back one summer day... there was a guy out fishing alone, he had hooked a bluefin tuna that was huge ! He was fighting with this fish for 14 or more hours and talking with us when he could. We even got in touch with other fishermen who helped him reel it in and tie it to boat ( almost like the book/movie "Oldman and the Sea) Except this guy had a much bigger boat. ( This was many decades ago ) Turned out this Atlantic Bluefin tuna was about 10' feet long & 500+ pounds and we watched him come into the harbor with that wicked catch and everyone on the dock was checking it out ! Yes so C.B radio's were a riot as long as you followed the rules because if you strayed, other CB'ers would shut you down quickly. By the end of the 70s, they faded as fast as they showed up but still stayed popular with the truckers.
LOL I was actually doing this before the movie came out, I loved to just get out and drive and many times over 4 day weekends I would put 2000 or more miles on my car and never leave the state, The CB radio was a constant companion from my first car on. I had a ham radio license that I got back in the late 60s while in Junior High.
Burt & Sally hooked up during the filming of this movie and stayed together for about 5 yrs. Sally returns for more hijinks in Smokey and the Bandit II ✌️🙂
Reynolds was a great stuntman, learning from the likes of the great Dar Robinson. He then transitioned into acting, and became a huge presence and very successful in that role. His movies are legendary, and he did the original version of The Longest Yard which was remade by Adam Sandler.
Loved watching you enjoy this movie! It's one of my all-time favorites. A huge portion of it was filmed in and around my hometown of Jonesboro, GA. I've seen it more times than I can count and every time is like taking a trip back in time and seeing my hometown just as it was when I was a kid. I was nine years old the summer it was filmed in 1976 and I remember it well. It was a big deal having Burt Reynolds in town and I was lucky enough to get to watch some of the filming...specifically, them rolling into town to pick up the Coors. Some other Burt Reynolds movies you might enjoy are: White Lightning (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Gator (also with Jerry Reed - 1976), Semi-Tough (1977), Hooper (1978), The Cannonball Run (1981), and Sharky's Machine (1981) just to name a few. There's also a great documentary about the making of Smokey and the Bandit and the relationship between Burt and director/stuntman Hal Needham...The Bandit (2016).
I just found your reaction to my very favorite movie - see my profile picture, lol. You need some missing context for Snowman running over the motorcycles. That's actually the punchline to a very old trucker's joke, that I never even heard until decades after I'd seen the movie: A truck driver is sitting at the lunch counter at a truck stop, quietly eating his breakfast. A bunch of loudmouth bikers walk in and start harassing him - knocking his hat off his head, calling him all sorts of dirty names, screwing with his food, pouring his coffee out in the floor. He didn't say a word, just paid his bill and walked out the door. The bikers laugh heartily and slap each other's backs. One of them says to the waitress, "Well, he wasn't much of a man, was he?" The waitress, glancing out the front window, replies, "He's not much of a driver, either - he just ran over all your bikes." 😆 So when Snowman grinned that big grin right before he ran over the bikes, he would have been thinking to himself, "I can't believe it, it's just like the old joke." And yeah, Bandit went viral over a CB radio decades before there was the internet.
I was only 10 years old when this came out. Back then everyone had a CB. It was the In Thing. Even we have CBs. Even in the house. My handle was "Inspector Clouseau." My father was ' Papa Q" And mom was "Lady Green Thumb"
The Hal Needham and Reynolds partnership spawned some great movies, Hal was a ex stuntman so he knew how To plan out every single action and chase. Cannonball Run 1 and 2 are must watches just for the cast of guest stars.
Loved watching you genuinely enjoy this comedy classic! I was 8 when it came out and saw it with my dad and sister. For Christmas that year, I got the soundtrack - a double LP. It had dialog from the movie between music tracks. Home video wasn’t a thing yet, so that was the closest we could come to enjoying it at home. Great memories. 🍻
FYI: Burt Renalds was a stuntman in Hollywood. Sally Field's first big role was in the TV Series called the FLYING NUN. Jerry Reed is a Country music Hall of famer. Jackie Gleeson has his star on the HOLLYWOOD walk of fame.
Love seeing someone's first reaction to this film! Directed by Hal Needham, who was a stuntman...Burt also did stuntwork prior to being a big name in movies. For another Needham/Reynolds collaboration, "Hooper" is a must see. Also another on screen pairing of Burt and Sally field. Cars, stunts, and Reynolds doing his thing.
Heh. This is my very, very favorite movie, if you couldn't tell by my profile picture, and even among people like myself who love the movie, one of the biggest questions is always been, "Exactly when did the clock start on those 28 hours?"
Dude, he just took the plate from his old car. Twenty-two dollar fine for the misuse of plates and another twenty-two for the owner of the plate. Don't ask me how I know.
That same $80,000 in 1977, is the same as $405,314.85 today. This movie was a MASSIVE HIT at the theaters om 77. I had to see it at the theater 5 times just to catch everything. People were laughing so load the entire time. It was hard to catch it all. Skip Part3. 2 is ok.
Just found your channel. This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I first saw it when it came out in the '70s at a drive-in theater. My mother had a crush on Burt Reynolds. I remember one of my first jobs had a centerfold picture of Burt Reynolds in the bathroom. No joke. I think they're just too sequels and they are pretty good. Nothing is as good as the first one. The one with the elephant is really funny as well. I think that's number three. Great reaction. I'm going to subscribe today. I loved your reaction to the song. We had a CB in our car because we traveled a lot. My dad was in the military so we moved a lot and we traveled to my grandparents every summer. Our handle was the silver bullet. We had a silver Ford Granada. We would talk to the truckers and ask what time it was. We'd ask if anyone can hear us. There was like a special CB language. Loved your reaction.❤😂
In the old USFL days, there were the Tampa Bay Bandits of which Burt Reynolds was a minority owner. He would fly in for games with a bunch of his friends. There's a great pin-up poster of Loni Anderson (his girlfriend at the time) and you never truly knew what it is to almost die from laughing unless you've seen Dom Deluise joining the cheerleaders in dance routines!
There is also a Bandit II and III (#3 Burt only does a cameo and Snowman takes over doing a run in the Tans Am.) Another set of movies with Burt is Cannonball Run and the solution he used is how a prior real life winner win the real Cannonball Run. There also a line about this film.
Cannonball Run 1&2 Hooper Stroker Ace Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie Gator I’ll also mention the movie Hot Stuff. Burt isn’t in it but Jerry Reed is and it’s available free on You Tube.
Burt Reynolds movies I have seen and know of include. Smokey and the Bandit 1,2, and a small cameo at the end of 3. Cannonball Run 1 and 2. Hooper, Malone, Gator, Stroker Ace, The Longest Yard (original and remake), Sam Whiskey, White Lightning.
12:21 by "rolled past", Silver Tongue Devil was saying he got caught by the roadblock. The cop is holding up the traffic ticket for "Silver" to sign. He wasn't a Judas.
Recently watched a woman react to this movie, and didn't appreciate it quite as much, with all respect to her, it just proves guys love this kind of movie! 😅😅😅
Burt was the top box office drawl for 5 years in a row back in the day. The ladies loved him and the guys wanted to be him. I knew you would love this movie just like I knew you would love Bronson in Death Wish. Another great Burt Reynolds movie is called "The End." It's also has Sally Field in it along with Dom DeLuise, who is absolutely hilarious. Funny, funny movie. Hope you check it out.
I gotta say, I enjoyed your reaction as much as I Loved Smoky and the Bandit back when it first came out. Thank you. And for the record, that was the First car jump in cinema history. After which, Everyone had to have a Pontiac Trans Am. Oh, and in case you didn't notice. In the 70's and 80's, we use to make fun of racist. Which, and unfortunately, you cannot do anymore, as racism has become an intricate part of the government's control system. Which was first instituted by Bill Clinton who, to this day, still claims to be America's First Black President. But, that's another story. Anyway, Great reaction!
No i understand these are exaggerated characters. Just the "boy" sh*t I personally don't like and even though he was that way he was still my favorite character in the movie. Doesn't change how I felt about it overall
So much of Jerry Reed's music will leave you with a big grin on your face and is worth checking out. "Amos Moses", "Lord Mister Ford", "Tupelo Mississippi Flash", She got the goldmine I got the shaft" etc. All tell wacky stories with such charisma and his great voice and accent.
23:55 - Honestly, CB radios became HELLA popular after this movie came out. They were literally EVERYWHERE! In a way, they pioneered the way for cell phones in cars. It wasn't just the truckers who had them... but anyone with $75 had one (enough for the radio itself and an antenna with a magnetic base), either on their car, or as a "base station" (hooked up at home to an antenna on the home's roof). I still have my "CB Dictionary", which could be used to "translate" the slang terms used by CB Radio users with common English. Also, there was a section listing all of the "Ten Codes" popular at the time. As Bandit said, a 10-100 was stopping to pee, and a 10-200 was stopping to take a shit. Also, there were "trading cards/stickers" that were found in products at the time. CB-Jeebies were the ones I was most familiar with (and had a small collection of). Example: A "Roller Skate" was a slang term for a "Volkswagon Beetle", so the picture below the caption of "Roller Skate" was a pair of Volkswagon Beetles that were strapped to a kid's feet. Jokes like that, but made into pictures put onto a collectable sticker, and included with a loaf of bread. 30:30 - Bootlegging basically means transporting alcohol illegally. But yeah, Big Enos actually DID want all that beer for his celebration. Bandit and Snowman did the actual "Bootlegging" by transporting the beer across state lines without authorization. And yeah, if you think THIS movie was "fun"... the Cannonball Run movies (there are two of them) are even more fun!
This movie turns everybody who watches it into a trucker from Georgia -- Russians, Italians, Nigerians, Thais -- everybody! Now check out Hot Licks, Cold Steel, & Truckers Favorites, a 1972 album by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. Also, "Give Me 40 Acres and I'll Turn This Rig Around," a song recorded by a lot of groups over the years. Texarkana is the name of a city on the Texas-Arkansas state line. One side of it is in Texas, the other side in Arkansas. It's bisected by State Line Avenue. Before telephone switching systems got computerized, a call from the Texas side to the Arkansas side, or vice-versa, was long-distance, even if you were just calling across State Line Avenue. (You could save money by walking across the street and talking to your party in his shop.)
This is true art, today's Hollywood has all the technology but lacks the skill to make such a feel good action comedy. They are more worried about being PC or Woke to the point as Mel Brooks put it himself in his movie To Be or Not to Be "There is no comedy" If you can't laugh at yourself or anyone else the art is dead.
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You probably already know this by now, but the music was written specifically for this movie and performed by the Snowman himself (Jerry Reed).
I literally didn't know that Cletus was Jerry Reed until someone told me after lol what a talent
@@FlixTalk he also wrote the song us mail for Elvis
Jerry is a legendary musician and songwriter (and actor) and one of the guitar greats. You don't even have to be a country fan to appreciate Jerry Reed.
Jerry Reed could entertain rocks and make them come back for more. He did a lot of sub groups with his music but the one I heard a lot growing up was the songs he had about trucking. My father enjoyed them so we heard them often. One of my favorites is “Caffeine, Nicotine, Benzedrine and Wish Me Luck.”
Listen, and you notice the primary song is "Westbound and down" when they are headed to Texas, and Eastbound and down once they flip-flop and head back to Georgia.
Jackie Gleason aka "The Great One" absolutely stole the show with his portrayal of Sherrif Buford T. Justice, LOL!
One of his very greatest roles. He really embodied the ignorant racist Southern jerk stereotype. It was balanced with all the good southern folk in this movie.
The only movie in the summer of '77 to challenge STAR WARS at the box-office.
Ummmm…. The academy award winning “ Annie Hall.” 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
But to add to my comment….. Star Wars and Smokey and the bandit were the most entertains films that summer. I don’t get tired of either.
@@michaelschroeck2254 true, ANNIE HALL was released in April 1977, but word of mouth was slow-starting, with the film making most of its $44M after it won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Yupp went to both when they first hit Theaters!! Have been rewatching both ever since..
I was sixteen and saw Star Wars six times in the theater. And Smokey twice. From a girl that would only see a movie once until that year.
CB radios were a craze in the mid-to-late 70s and spread far beyond truckers. I spent many an evening as a pre-teen yakkin' away with strangers on the CB. The truckers used the 10-codes and also developed their own slang, which was co-opted by society in general for several years. Several "trucker" genre movies out there, most notably the one named after the biggest "CB/Trucker song" of all time, "Convoy" by C.W. McCall. The movie starred Kris Kristofferson (music legend).
Snowman wrote/played most of the music for this movie. HIs name's Jerry Reed, and he had a lot of country and crossover hits in the 70s, most of them had a humorous theme.
Yes me too regarding the CB radio. It was truly like the iPhone today 🇺🇸
Even as late as the early '90s, I had a 'base station' at the house. Remember sitting at home in MS during a freak snow event, watching the Weather Channel, and sharing 'current conditions' for cities around the Southeast with professional drivers out there on the highway trying to get their cargo through to their destinations on time. "If you bought it..a truck brought it.", right?
Oh i remember Convoy - and the song
Same here. My parents had CBs in the vehicles and a base station at home. Before I was chatting on BBSes and then the Internet, I was chatting on the CB radio. They were also better than radar detectors for avoiding speed traps, and were great for getting around traffic. The truckers were awesome.
The End and The Longest Yard (Original) are both great My dad was a NY State Trooper who loved Jackie Gleason. This was his all-time favorite movie.
Hooper also!!! ❤❤
In the late 70s almost everyone had a cb radio in their cars.
That's a 10-4 😅
My father and all of my uncles did. My friends mom and stepfather did - she was on it more than anyone else. It was a big sucker right in the living room
We had 1975 Lincoln Continental & a 1974 Chevy Suburban and we had a CB ìn both of them.
Even though there's hardly anyone on it locally these days, I've still got a CB in my car.
I had a CB in my 78 Buick Skylark, My dad had one in his 76 Ford Granada, and my mom had one in her 78 Oldsmobile 88. Pretty much a necessity when you drove on the highway as much as we did.
Second highest grossing film of 1977. It got beat by a little movie called Star Wars.
BTW, Burt Reynolds was in a lot of movies as well as on TV (Gunsmoke, Evening Shade).
You know who likes cannonball run... him....
I was a 15 yr old when that movie was filmed & I was on the square in Covington Georgia when Burt landed his plane to get beer, I was one of the folks getting out of the way as it takes off {RUclips Cannonball Plane} & I was on the opposite side of the square in 1978 when the General Lee comes sliding onto the square in the first episode, me & my stepdad were in front of the red brick store {RUclips Dukes Of Hazzard : Chase From 1st Episode}! Before then we were living in Jonesboro 2 miles from Snowmans house so we got to see that part filmed
Da - Da - Daaaaaaaaah!
CAPTAIN... U.S.A.?
@@minnesotajones261It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it!
Damn it, I don't wanna talk about him!
I love these old movies, all the stunts are REAL, no CGI here!
Yes Cannonball is good. he has a small part in Mel Brook's Silent Movie, watch that one
Actually the first truck driver was warning him about the roadblock
"Eastbound and Down", and "Westbound and Down" are actually 2 separate songs (or the same song with different lyrics). In one, the lyrics are for the drive West to Texas, and the other is just about the drive back East.
The actor that plays the snowman made that song east bound and down for the movie
I'm sure someone my age already posted this but back then the CB was a craze. We all had them in our cars including my father. His handle was Ozark Ridge Runner. Mine was Dancing Machine. I was sixteen then.
Sales of Pontiac Trans Ams skyrocketed after this movie!
I looked up the cost of the car from that time. $7,200 including tax. 😳
@@rustybarrel516 Seems cheap to us now! But back then that was expensive.
@@rustybarrel516 Paid $6800 for mine
one of the people involved in writing the movie had a dad who was FL state trooper and worked with a trooper named Bufard Justice. he was the inspiration for Jackie Gleasons character
Hooper is a fun movie about a Hollywood stuntman. The last scene with the rocket car is pretty good.
"if you take this jump everything from the waist down will stop working. ... Yes, even that "
White Lightening is awesome, but also Burt was a big time college football player for Florida State, so a great movie would be The Longest Yard, and of course the ultimate crime story Sharky's Machine........ but I believe he was nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe for Boogie Nights. All these movies AMAZING!
Thanks for the recommendations!
@@FlixTalk Just so ya know...there was a remake of The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Burt makes an appearance in that. So, you should start with the OG Longest Yard from 1974...my opinion it's definitely the better one. OH and fun fact...Burt and Sally met for the first time during this movie and dated for 5 years. One more recommendation for a great Burt Reynolds movie is "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" with Dolly Parton.
@islandgreenstrong I've seen the Adam Sandler remake...never the original
Definitely should do Sharky's Machine!
SHARKY’S MACHINE is a classic
Also, check out the movie STICK. In my opinion, it’s very underrated Burt Reynolds movie
My buddies and I were 5 when this came out. We still quote it weekly. It would have been the #1 movie of 1977, if not for a little movie called StarWars. My childhood right there. GREAT REACTION!
When this came out in 1977 me and my younger brother watch it all day of course after paying the tickets the first time. Yes, most had CB radios in their car as well as in the trucks. What a fun time being a Gen X ✊🏾
I love your reaction!!! And, yes.. that Theme Song is popping!.... I pretty much only listen to R&B and 90's Hip Hop... but this joint gets me bobbing my head and dancing, too.
Haha I love 90s rnb and hip hop! My era of music
Texarkana is a town named that because half of the city is in Texas and the other half is in Arkansas.
This movie came out in 1977. $80,000 back in 1977, with inflation would have had the buying power of $413,924.75 now in 2024 money.
Hooper staring
Burt Reynolds, Jan, Michael Vincent, and Sally Fields
Definitely. Ignore the so-called sequels, Hooper has more great Burt Reynolds-Sally Field fun.
I'm old enough lmfao to remember Hooper
Hooper is 1000 times better than those Smokey And The Bandit sequels
Now imagine if you had seen this when you were 10-12 years old. Coolest movie out there!
I was 14, loved it.
This was the best reaction to this movie I've seen.
The second reactor to think that the silver tongue devil was part of the road block set up.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
One of my favorite movies. I can quote it word for word. Smokey and the Bandit 2 is worth a watch as well.
Also, the "Boss Hog" is played by the legendary Jackie Gleason who had one of the first sitcoms on TV, " The Honeymooners."
actually Boss Hog was played by Sorrell Booke
This was the first movie that I can remember seeing that I just truly LOVED, I was 8 years old and my rural hometown had just gotten one of those fancy new fangled indoor movie theaters lol. I can remember still looking up, watching that Trans Am rolling out of the back of the truck up on that huge screen with the sound on the engine coming at me from all sides!
Watching this movie with my dad was a tradition.
You definitely want to see the Cannonballs. Gator and White Lightning are good action movies from the early 70s. The Longest Yard is also good. Don't waste your time on the Adam Sandler remake. Last but most certainly not least is Hooper. Another Hal Needham movie. Hal directed Smoky and Hooper. Hal was Burts stunt coordinator and best friend. Hooper is loaded with the best stuntmen in Hollywood at the time and all of Burts friends. Think of it as 90 minutes of "hey y'all. Watch this" oh and thanks for wading into my childhood. PS I would love to have the pleasure of introducing you to Jackie Gleason. You're welcome
the greatest car chase movie ever is Dirty Mary Crazy larry. Watch that one please. Trust you'll love it
Little Enos is singer/songwriter Paul Williams. Big Enos is comedian Pat McCormick. Snowman is country music star Jerry Reed.
I never knew that. I had to look him up (Williams that is)
In my "country" lovin' circle, we all had CBs in our vehicles back in the late 60's & 70's, with a base unit in the house, plus a police scanner, lol.
Those were the days! 🚓🚑🚛
CB radio was huge throughout the 70's through to the 90's. I live in Australia and driving from the Gold Coast to Harvey Bay (400km) with an ex I started chatting to the truckies heading north, I jumped in behind one and sat about 3 feet off his back-door and another truck came up behind me so basically I was caught in the slip stream of the truck in front and being push by the one from behind I sat there for about 100 kms use next to no fuel, when they overtook cars i just went with them, i couldn't see the road in front of me, but they were chatting to trucks ahead of them for clear road to overtake, it didn't matter if it was a corner a hill we just went with them, awesome times back then. I've always loved this movie, cheers
$80,000 in 1975 would be $565,890.09 today!!
I just realized that in a way CB radios were a little like the internet to us back in the 70's and early 80's as far as strangers connecting with each other. It wasn't just truck drivers that had them. Fun times then and a fun reaction video now.
Welcome to the movie that made hot rodding fun again. This movie was beat at the box office by Star Wars in 1977 and introduced people to good country music. This movie is for many of us our childhood.
Eastbound and Down sung by Jerry Reed driving the truck in the movie! Song never gets old!! GREAT JOB REACTING TO THIS!👍🏻
Anyone else notice that those coors boxes snowman fell over on the top were empty
Pretty sure if they were full that would be a dangerous stunt lol
I miss the old days of CB use... watching this movie makes me want to have one again, but figure no one to talk to on there now
This movie was made at the height of the CB craze in America, when everyone it seemed had a radio and spoke to people across the country. I personally found it funny that you could have someone like a company president who handled million-dollar deals on a regular basis, but stick a CB microphone in his hand and all of a sudden he spoke like Jed Clampett. ("Oh, mercy sakes, good buddy ...")
What was most amusing about this movie was seeing all of the cars peeling out of the theater parking lots after the film by all of the drivers pretending to be Burt Reynolds as the Bandit. It was one of the most popular film of that era.
I enjoyed your infectious reaction to the movie. It perfectly encapsulated the way movie goers felt when they watched it for the very first time. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane, my friend.
22:06 your face is so funny 😂
Haha
"Stroker Ace" is another amazing one. Charlie Daniels wrote the theme song for that one.... Burt Reynolds Loni Anderson Ned Beatty bubba Smith, a whole host of NASCAR drivers..
Absolutely one of the best feel-good movies ever.
This movie is awesome
Great casting
Sally Field is perfect
The motorcycle coo is played by Sonny Shroyer who was also deputy Enos Straight in the Dukes of Hazzard. And John Schneider who went on to play Bo Duke was 17 years old and living in Atlanta where they filmed the movie. Him and a friend skipped school and snuck onto the movie set. John Schneider boldly walked up to one of the production crew and said I’m an extra where do you want me. And he would be put in the freeze frame at the end. When Buford T.’s wheel falls off and rolls to the crowd, it rolls up to John Schneider. He’s wearing a black cowboy hat. And the movie Smokey and the Bandit inspired the Dukes of Hazzard.
I initially did not want to see this movie because I thought it was about Smoky the Bear and fire safety. So when I was finally talked him into going to the theater to see it, it Blew my six-year-old mind.
3:20
Yup, this country was really weird back then when it came to beer.......some states still acted like it was prohibition era.
Here in New Hampshire Coors was heard about but not seen for a long time.
Great reaction , loved it . I saw this when it came out in 1977 at the drive-in theatre when I was 10 years old. One of THE MOST CLASSIC MOVIES IN CINEMA HISTORY. Another great one from Burt Reynolds....well two actually , Hooper , and Stroker Ace. You will not be disappointed. Thanks again , and can't wait for the next video. Jim , Seattle Washington.
The sequals are not what you expect. You can almost skip 2. Its ok to watch but not gonna blow you away like 1 did. Now 3 shines. You gotta watch 3. 3 flows like 1 with comedy.
The music in 3 is also epic.
C.B radio's were big back then ( think of it as the internet of the 1970s )
.....everyone and their mothers had one both in the car and also big base models.
It was a blast talking with people up and down the East Coast and even out in the ocean.
I remember way back one summer day... there was a guy out fishing alone, he had hooked a bluefin tuna that was huge !
He was fighting with this fish for 14 or more hours and talking with us when he could. We even got in touch with other fishermen who helped him reel it in and tie it to boat ( almost like the book/movie "Oldman and the Sea)
Except this guy had a much bigger boat. ( This was many decades ago )
Turned out this Atlantic Bluefin tuna was about 10' feet long & 500+ pounds and we watched him come into the harbor with that wicked catch and everyone on the dock was checking it out !
Yes so C.B radio's were a riot as long as you followed the rules because if you strayed, other CB'ers would shut you down quickly. By the end of the 70s, they faded as fast as they showed up but still stayed popular with the truckers.
Burt and Sally end up a couple through this movie. They make 4 movies together.
LOL I was actually doing this before the movie came out, I loved to just get out and drive and many times over 4 day weekends I would put 2000 or more miles on my car and never leave the state, The CB radio was a constant companion from my first car on. I had a ham radio license that I got back in the late 60s while in Junior High.
9 years old I remember seeing it with my family at the drive inn theater. 👍
Burt & Sally hooked up during the filming of this movie and stayed together for about 5 yrs.
Sally returns for more hijinks in Smokey and the Bandit II ✌️🙂
Reynolds was a great stuntman, learning from the likes of the great Dar Robinson. He then transitioned into acting, and became a huge presence and very successful in that role. His movies are legendary, and he did the original version of The Longest Yard which was remade by Adam Sandler.
Loved watching you enjoy this movie! It's one of my all-time favorites. A huge portion of it was filmed in and around my hometown of Jonesboro, GA. I've seen it more times than I can count and every time is like taking a trip back in time and seeing my hometown just as it was when I was a kid. I was nine years old the summer it was filmed in 1976 and I remember it well. It was a big deal having Burt Reynolds in town and I was lucky enough to get to watch some of the filming...specifically, them rolling into town to pick up the Coors. Some other Burt Reynolds movies you might enjoy are: White Lightning (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Gator (also with Jerry Reed - 1976), Semi-Tough (1977), Hooper (1978), The Cannonball Run (1981), and Sharky's Machine (1981) just to name a few. There's also a great documentary about the making of Smokey and the Bandit and the relationship between Burt and director/stuntman Hal Needham...The Bandit (2016).
I just found your reaction to my very favorite movie - see my profile picture, lol. You need some missing context for Snowman running over the motorcycles. That's actually the punchline to a very old trucker's joke, that I never even heard until decades after I'd seen the movie:
A truck driver is sitting at the lunch counter at a truck stop, quietly eating his breakfast. A bunch of loudmouth bikers walk in and start harassing him - knocking his hat off his head, calling him all sorts of dirty names, screwing with his food, pouring his coffee out in the floor. He didn't say a word, just paid his bill and walked out the door.
The bikers laugh heartily and slap each other's backs. One of them says to the waitress, "Well, he wasn't much of a man, was he?" The waitress, glancing out the front window, replies, "He's not much of a driver, either - he just ran over all your bikes." 😆
So when Snowman grinned that big grin right before he ran over the bikes, he would have been thinking to himself, "I can't believe it, it's just like the old joke."
And yeah, Bandit went viral over a CB radio decades before there was the internet.
Mad respect for the physical media collection.
Appreciate it!
I was only 10 years old when this came out. Back then everyone had a CB. It was the In Thing. Even we have CBs. Even in the house. My handle was "Inspector Clouseau." My father was ' Papa Q" And mom was "Lady Green Thumb"
The Hal Needham and Reynolds partnership spawned some great movies, Hal was a ex stuntman so he knew how To plan out every single action and chase. Cannonball Run 1 and 2 are must watches just for the cast of guest stars.
Loved watching you genuinely enjoy this comedy classic! I was 8 when it came out and saw it with my dad and sister. For Christmas that year, I got the soundtrack - a double LP. It had dialog from the movie between music tracks. Home video wasn’t a thing yet, so that was the closest we could come to enjoying it at home. Great memories. 🍻
FYI: Burt Renalds was a stuntman in Hollywood. Sally Field's first big role was in the TV Series called the FLYING NUN. Jerry Reed is a Country music Hall of famer. Jackie Gleeson has his star on the HOLLYWOOD walk of fame.
Actually, Sally's first big role was the TV version of "Gidget", then "The Flying Nun".
Love seeing someone's first reaction to this film! Directed by Hal Needham, who was a stuntman...Burt also did stuntwork prior to being a big name in movies.
For another Needham/Reynolds collaboration, "Hooper" is a must see. Also another on screen pairing of Burt and Sally field. Cars, stunts, and Reynolds doing his thing.
My dad is from Colorado and back in the day his mom would send him Coors beer in the mail when we were living in Florida.
OH HELL YEAH!!!! You just reacted to my Fav movie of all time?? Oh.. I can't wait to watch this reaction!!!!
Plot hole: how did the Bandit get that custom license plate from DMV so fast?
Movie magic
Heh. This is my very, very favorite movie, if you couldn't tell by my profile picture, and even among people like myself who love the movie, one of the biggest questions is always been, "Exactly when did the clock start on those 28 hours?"
Dude, he just took the plate from his old car. Twenty-two dollar fine for the misuse of plates and another twenty-two for the owner of the plate.
Don't ask me how I know.
Burt Reynolds’s teamed up with Clint Eastwood for a ‘20’s crime comedy called city heat.
the song is catchy as fuck
Love that you like this! Always good to revisit these great classics. If you're a fan, you'll love them all. Hope to see you here.
Great reaction! I've watched this movie 100 times, at least. And now... I'm watching someone watch this movie! That's how frickin great it is...
That same $80,000 in 1977, is the same as $405,314.85 today. This movie was a MASSIVE HIT at the theaters om 77. I had to see it at the theater 5 times just to catch everything. People were laughing so load the entire time. It was hard to catch it all. Skip Part3. 2 is ok.
Just found your channel. This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I first saw it when it came out in the '70s at a drive-in theater. My mother had a crush on Burt Reynolds. I remember one of my first jobs had a centerfold picture of Burt Reynolds in the bathroom. No joke. I think they're just too sequels and they are pretty good. Nothing is as good as the first one. The one with the elephant is really funny as well. I think that's number three. Great reaction. I'm going to subscribe today. I loved your reaction to the song. We had a CB in our car because we traveled a lot. My dad was in the military so we moved a lot and we traveled to my grandparents every summer. Our handle was the silver bullet. We had a silver Ford Granada. We would talk to the truckers and ask what time it was. We'd ask if anyone can hear us. There was like a special CB language. Loved your reaction.❤😂
Welcome to the Flix Talk Family! Thank you for the great memories in your comment and thanks for enjoying
2:33 it was…. At that time. I lived in North Carolina at this time and had never heard of Coors because of this restriction.
3 of my friends and I uses to ride our bikes as characters in the movie. I had a 10 speed, so naturally I was Snowman...😂
Heh. Within two years of this movie coming out, Huffy released the Bandit BMX bike. Of course I had one. They saw me coming a mile away. LOL
In the old USFL days, there were the Tampa Bay Bandits of which Burt Reynolds was a minority owner. He would fly in for games with a bunch of his friends. There's a great pin-up poster of Loni Anderson (his girlfriend at the time) and you never truly knew what it is to almost die from laughing unless you've seen Dom Deluise joining the cheerleaders in dance routines!
I lol’d when you commented on characters before Jackie Gleason makes an appearance.
There is also a Bandit II and III (#3 Burt only does a cameo and Snowman takes over doing a run in the Tans Am.) Another set of movies with Burt is Cannonball Run and the solution he used is how a prior real life winner win the real Cannonball Run. There also a line about this film.
Glad you liked it.
In this context, bootlegging refers to smuggling illegal alcohol. In those days, taking Coors Beer East of the Mississippi was illegal.
My dad got a Trans Am two years after this movie we had it for a while the car was supposed to be passed down to the rest of us but it got wrecked
Classic! Thanks for sharing your reaction, I’ll catch it after work
The driver of the yellow car carrier truck that yelled banzai and hit Sheriff Bufords car door was Roy Rogers a cowboy singer and actor
Another great car movie with a classic soundtrack and famous cast members before they were famous is THE WRAITH in 86
I am surprised that only few Americans these days get the Smokey Bear reference/code for the cops.
Cannonball Run 1&2
Hooper
Stroker Ace
Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie
Gator
I’ll also mention the movie Hot Stuff. Burt isn’t in it but Jerry Reed is and it’s available free on You Tube.
Filmed almost entirely in my hometown in Georgia.
Burt Reynolds movies I have seen and know of include. Smokey and the Bandit 1,2, and a small cameo at the end of 3. Cannonball Run 1 and 2. Hooper, Malone, Gator, Stroker Ace, The Longest Yard (original and remake), Sam Whiskey, White Lightning.
All of the songs in this movie is sung by Jerry Reed a country Western singer in the 60's and 70's and played Cletus so also "THE SNOWMAN".
After the movie Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields ended up dating for awhile.
12:21 by "rolled past", Silver Tongue Devil was saying he got caught by the roadblock. The cop is holding up the traffic ticket for "Silver" to sign. He wasn't a Judas.
Burt Reynolds did Gator, White Lightning, the OG The Longest Yard, and Boogie Nights. You can also go way back to the TV series Gunsmoke to see him.
STILL one of the best soundtrack EVER
The Actor Billy Bob Thornton said to Burt Reynolds that in the South "Smokey And The Bandit" is considered a Documentary.
Great Review
Recently watched a woman react to this movie, and didn't appreciate it quite as much, with all respect to her, it just proves guys love this kind of movie! 😅😅😅
Which is weird because theirs just as much woman IN THE ACTUAL movie as men having a good time. Weird
Burt was the top box office drawl for 5 years in a row back in the day. The ladies loved him and the guys wanted to be him. I knew you would love this movie just like I knew you would love Bronson in Death Wish.
Another great Burt Reynolds movie is called "The End." It's also has Sally Field in it along with Dom DeLuise, who is absolutely hilarious. Funny, funny movie. Hope you check it out.
I gotta say, I enjoyed your reaction as much as I Loved Smoky and the Bandit back when it first came out. Thank you.
And for the record, that was the First car jump in cinema history. After which, Everyone had to have a Pontiac Trans Am.
Oh, and in case you didn't notice. In the 70's and 80's, we use to make fun of racist. Which, and unfortunately, you cannot do anymore, as racism has become an intricate part of the government's control system. Which was first instituted by Bill Clinton who, to this day, still claims to be America's First Black President. But, that's another story.
Anyway, Great reaction!
No i understand these are exaggerated characters. Just the "boy" sh*t I personally don't like and even though he was that way he was still my favorite character in the movie. Doesn't change how I felt about it overall
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"that was the First car jump in cinema history."
No... not even close.
So much of Jerry Reed's music will leave you with a big grin on your face and is worth checking out.
"Amos Moses", "Lord Mister Ford", "Tupelo Mississippi Flash", She got the goldmine I got the shaft" etc. All tell wacky stories with such charisma and his great voice and accent.
23:55 - Honestly, CB radios became HELLA popular after this movie came out. They were literally EVERYWHERE! In a way, they pioneered the way for cell phones in cars. It wasn't just the truckers who had them... but anyone with $75 had one (enough for the radio itself and an antenna with a magnetic base), either on their car, or as a "base station" (hooked up at home to an antenna on the home's roof). I still have my "CB Dictionary", which could be used to "translate" the slang terms used by CB Radio users with common English. Also, there was a section listing all of the "Ten Codes" popular at the time. As Bandit said, a 10-100 was stopping to pee, and a 10-200 was stopping to take a shit.
Also, there were "trading cards/stickers" that were found in products at the time. CB-Jeebies were the ones I was most familiar with (and had a small collection of). Example: A "Roller Skate" was a slang term for a "Volkswagon Beetle", so the picture below the caption of "Roller Skate" was a pair of Volkswagon Beetles that were strapped to a kid's feet. Jokes like that, but made into pictures put onto a collectable sticker, and included with a loaf of bread.
30:30 - Bootlegging basically means transporting alcohol illegally. But yeah, Big Enos actually DID want all that beer for his celebration. Bandit and Snowman did the actual "Bootlegging" by transporting the beer across state lines without authorization.
And yeah, if you think THIS movie was "fun"... the Cannonball Run movies (there are two of them) are even more fun!
CB's were already at the peak of their popularity, before "Smokey & the Bandit", although I'm sure, that it extended their popularity
This movie turns everybody who watches it into a trucker from Georgia -- Russians, Italians, Nigerians, Thais -- everybody!
Now check out Hot Licks, Cold Steel, & Truckers Favorites, a 1972 album by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.
Also, "Give Me 40 Acres and I'll Turn This Rig Around," a song recorded by a lot of groups over the years.
Texarkana is the name of a city on the Texas-Arkansas state line. One side of it is in Texas, the other side in Arkansas. It's bisected by State Line Avenue. Before telephone switching systems got computerized, a call from the Texas side to the Arkansas side, or vice-versa, was long-distance, even if you were just calling across State Line Avenue. (You could save money by walking across the street and talking to your party in his shop.)
This is true art, today's Hollywood has all the technology but lacks the skill to make such a feel good action comedy. They are more worried about being PC or Woke to the point as Mel Brooks put it himself in his movie To Be or Not to Be "There is no comedy" If you can't laugh at yourself or anyone else the art is dead.