Comedy Item ID: #1445Smokey and the Bandit – Special Edition NOW $0.00
Quantity: In Stock and Ready to Ship! Product Information:Product DescriptionTHE BANDIT IS A KING-OF-THE-ROAD TRUCKER HERO WHO ACCEPTS THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE: PICK UP A TRUCKLOAD OF COORS BEER IN TEXARKANA – THE CLOSEST PLACE IT CAN LEGALLY BE SOLD – & HAUL IT CROSS-COUNTRY TO ATLANTA IN 28 HOURS. THE REWARD? $80,000! THE RESULT? THE WILDEST SERIES OF CAR CHASES & CRASHES EVER [...] Item Description
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IF NOT FOR THE MUSIC? THIS MOVIE WOULD BE LEFT WANTING.
THE MOVIE GAVE JERRY THE INSPIRATION,
THE MUSIC GAVE THE MOVIE IT’S HEART.
JERRY’S MUSIC WILL LAST, LONG AFTER THE SHOW IS DONE!
Rating: 5 / 5
Burt Reynolds signature film but not as
funny to me after the first time I saw
it in the theatre. Number three is slightly
better than weird number Two that has Reed,
Reynolds, Sally and Dom DeLuise(!) tranporting
elephant to Dallas for Republican Party meeting!
Rating: 3 / 5
I was very disappointed when I received this DVD. It boasts a new-and-better image technology. But you have to download and install their driver to use it. It won’t play on my -fairly new – DVD player because I can’t install drivers on it. I will say my money was promtly refunded when I sent it back to Amazon. -Dennis in Richmond
Rating: 1 / 5
While HD-DVD is awesome, this movie is not.
I remember seeing his when I was a kid and just had to get it. Movie is o.k., but I didn’t get as big a kick out of it as I did when I was younger.
Picture is very good for a 30? year old movie. Sound is good but very front heavy. Did they even have surround back then?
Rating: 4 / 5
Being a huge fan, first in childhood when the Corvette and Trans Am were THE COOLEST cars, and later in teen years when I became a real car buff, I not only own several model Trans Ams, a real back/gold “Bandit” Trans Am, a Trans Am Firehawk, but also the VHS and first two DVD releases of this movie (Smokey I and Pursuit Pack)both of which are widescreen to my disgust.
Everyone knows the premise of this show by now. Certainly not a great movie by movie standards but a very fun and funny film with impressive car stunts.
I am firmly against converting old movies like this to so-called “widescreen” by chopping off the top and bottom in order to give it the wide aspect ratio. Watch it on cable or VHS and then the DVD and you’ll start to see you are losing part of the image. Observe the Trans Am ramp onto the football field and on the “widescreen” DVDs the car actually goes off the bottom part of the screen! If it was shot for full screen leave it that way!
I’d like to buy the Special Edition version for the attractive packaging and commentary but cringe as it appears to only be offered in widescreen. It would be nice if they ever included the additional footage that the cable broadcasts have as bonus footage or something.
It would also be nice if they discuss what this movie did for Pontiac Motor Division. It not only spiked Firebird sales significantly for 1977, more for ‘78, but in ‘79 drove them to a record high when more than 200,000 Firebirds were sold and over half were Trans Ams. Burt has been called their best salesperson. The newly kindled interest in performance cars brought about by this film helped Corvette and Camaro sales, too. Furthermore, had it not been for Smokey’s great success, it is likely there would have been no Dukes of Hazzard.
Rating: 5 / 5