Hooper (1978)
Ain’t nobody can fly a car like HOOPER! He’s the greatest stuntman alive. This week the Boyz pay tribute to the great Burt Reynolds and talk all about his love letter to stuntmen.
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This film is a love letter to drunk driving.
Hell yeah
Who’s going to gift this to Rodgers? https://www.theleathercity.com/product/hooper-sonny-hooper-silver-jacket/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=free-listing&utm_campaign=free-listing&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2vKx4r6B-AIVgojICh0Jjw0_EAQYAyABEgLIGvD_BwE
He can afford it.
If you are looking for a hatmaker and for some reason hit up the Midwest wichita has a place called hatman Jack's they size you up and you can watch em make hats. I love just watching the craft. They made hats for the quick and the dead so you get some sweet abz crossover
Hooper should have died at the end. Gwen punches out the director. Now we've got ourselves a movie.
What order should I watch these Burt Reynolds movies in: Malone Gator White Lightning
Gator is the sequel to white lightning, Malone is a standalone
Thanks to the Action Boyz-Burt Reynolds, Stanger and John C. McGinley are inexorably linked in my mind forever.
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Many people are saying that Stanger has been killing it lately.
What movie made around the same time should have given the role to JMV? I’m thinking The Hunter, An Eye for an Eye, or maybe even Sharkys Machine could have been interesting.
They should kiss him. Kiss Stanger.
Stanger should run down all the movies.
‘It’s like talking to a 5 dollar bill,’ is an incredible simile.
Talking about abs in modern movies. Miles Teller's body looks like nerds rope in the Top Gun trailer.
Like most of the Divergent cast there’s something about his mug I can’t stand. Maybe it was how bad the film was…?
With all the Rip Torn talk, ‘Payday’ would be a good Shadow Wolves movie; and ‘White Lightning’ would be another solid Burt Reynolds one to do.
Great pull. I'm a huge fan of Don Carpenter who penned this. He wrote around Hollywood for years but this was the only thing that got made. 'Hard Rain Falling' from '66 is some primo ABZ pulp goodness. His short story collection 'The Murder of the Frogs' just got a reprint too and is solid.
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Another Burt lookalike (Besides Gabrus) is Harold Snepts of Vancouver Canucks 80s fame. An incredible look.
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There ain’t nothin’ like the life of a Hollywood stuntman. Best end credits in ABZ history.
Yay, live show in Atlanta!
Ben and Stanger may already know these, but Australia's Brian Trenchard-Smith made a number of exploitation films about stunt performers, like DEATHCHEATERS and STUNT ROCK. They're not exercises in great cinema, but they're certainly a lot of fun.
John C McGinley's enthusiasm is great on this episode, you can tell how much he loves burt and it's infectious.
Hell yeah Hustle is fun, saw it the other day going down the Burt rabbit hole. Gritty pulpy detective yarn, problematic 70's dialogue, Paul Winfield good casting as Burt's partner, crazy cast in general
The black and yellow jackets look like X-Men costumes.
When the car lands at the end and skids to a stop it was so insanely close to that huge group of unprotected people
West was offered the Bond role at one point, and apparently Burt but both turned it down cuz why make Bond American https://www.handitv.com/stories/adam-west-almost-became-james-bond-perhaps-thanks-to-a-chocolate-milk-ad
How much fun would it be if bar fights in real life were like bar fights in this movie. No brain damage, no reconstructive surgery, and the bar just lets you back in the week after you completely destroy it.
It was a better time back then. Humans brains were stronger before all the soy entered our lives.
Damn I got more hyped than I expected when Burt was rocking the Florida State shirt for like half the movie. I just recently graduated from there and he's such a legend on campus.
Didn't Burt think Stanger was John Cena?
He thought Stanger was John c mcginley
What a treat
Two nipples for a dime kind of sounds like two nickels for a dime
As a washed up stuntman I gotta say that Reynolds is revered by stunt people. At least the older crowd. He did a lot to get stunt people recognized in Hollywood. Before him a lot of movies didnt even credit the stuntmen. They wanted people to think John Wayne or whoever was doing it all for real. So all hail St Burt, patron saint of stunt performers!
Which horse do you think has a nicer life, Hooper's horse or Dr. Coldiron's horse? I'm going with Hooper's, because they drink beer and do fun pranks together, even if getting up to ride around at night when Hooper's frustrated is probably a pain the ass for a horse.
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Hell yeah man