An interesting period piece.
Added 9/28/2009
I enjoyed watching this film again. I think the important thing to understand is that Burt represents the hard drinking, pill popping, reckless way of the "old school" stunt man, where as Jan Michael Vincent represents the non-drinking, non pill popping, cool ways of the "new school" stunt man...... and taken in that context the movie's rather blatant excesses become more relevant.
Obviously filmed on a rather limited budget, the stunts aren't spectacular, but still fun none-the-less. It's too bad this is only available in the full screen version.
Sally Field is exceedingly cute in this film and worth the price of admission!
Not a great film, but a fun film and worth a couple of bucks.
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Just Entertaining
Added 4/10/2009
Burt Reynolds has had a varied career. The Smokey & The Bandit series were well done and provided a lot of laughs.
HOOPER,on the other hand, had some excellent scenes, Jackie Gleason stole every scene he was in. Jerry Reed not only wrote the title song in less than 24 hours, he played a wonderful 'sidekick' to Burt. Fred the dog (who came from a local dog kennel) was a scene stealer without knowing he was doing it.
Hal Needham out did himself with the direction.
Good entertainment without one real swear word and nobody took their clothes off!!! Golly Wompers! Why don't other producers and writers give it a try.
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Stuntmen Have all the Fun
Added 2/21/2009
A look at stuntmen, the best part is when Burt is Riding his horse at night and Sally wakes up and goes outside and stands there just watching him ride while a country love song is playing in the background. Saw it on the bigscreen, twice, when it was released. Loved it then, Love it now, thes stunts looked awsome on the bigscreen.
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HOOPER - Funny - very funny
Added 10/8/2008
Ok, maybe not the best comedy out there but definitely one of the better ones. It's a good flick that has some funny scenes, like when they fight Terry Bradshaw in the restaurant.
This was the movie that when I first saw it in the theater back in '78, I wanted to be an actor, so badly but living in Connecticut and being as far from Hollywood as one can be before leaving the country, it was basically impossible to follow my dream.
Plus believe it or not, when I walked into the drama class back in '78-79 at Amity High School, the drama teacher at the time, didn't like me as a person so told me to leave. Didn't believe I was genuinly interested in learning about acting.
Unfortunately, it's been a prevailing theme in my life, people knocking me down a notch just because they see a happy person and are jealous. Or a hard worker at Yale University in Sterling Library where the co-workers would just assume stab you in the back as talk to you, I was told to slow down my work ethic because it was making them look bad.
Yea, but if every dream comes with a hard rode to travel, then my rode goes ever on. But hey, life goes on and these things happen to the best of us. Some win, some lose. No shame in that. I like who I am and people have trouble with that concept. Go figure. So, little 'ol me watches a comedy from time to time to make me feel a bit better then "Hooper" is one for the ages.
WE ARE THE UNIVERSE MADE MANIFEST, trying to understand itself. Who are you? What do you want? Where are you going? All very good questions. Except none of the answers are ever good ones. Know what I mean - jelly bean?
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Reynolds at his gum-smacking, wise-cracking, laugh-cackling best!
Added 5/3/2007
Burt Reynolds was bigger than big in the late 1970s and this 1978 Action-Comedy, coming off the success of Smokey & the Bandit the previous year, put Reynolds in the stratosphere after additional 70s hits like: Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Gator & Semi-Tough.
Reynolds plays Sonny Hooper, an aging, but not yet over-the-hill Hollywood stunt man being faced with the challenges of young, upstart Ski Chinski, played by Jan-Michael Vincent. The two play off one another and learn to "play together" and make nice while making life difficult for arrogant movie-director Roger Deal (a brilliantly obnoxious Robert Klein) to perform the worlds biggest car jump... ever!
This is probably Reynolds best role-- better than Bandit-- and Reynolds at his gum-smacking, wise-cracking, laugh-cackling best! Hooper is loaded with famous faces-- Sally Field, Brian Keith, then NFL Quarterback/now Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw, James Best & Adam West.
In addition to a story that still holds together almost 30 years later, are the wild & crazy stunts that precede the movies fantastic final finish.
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An interesting period piece.
Added 9/28/2009
I enjoyed watching this film again. I think the important thing to understand is that Burt represents the hard drinking, pill popping, reckless way of the "old school" stunt man, where as Jan Michael Vincent represents the non-drinking, non pill popping, cool ways of the "new school" stunt man...... and taken in that context the movie's rather blatant excesses become more relevant.
Obviously filmed on a rather limited budget, the stunts aren't spectacular, but still fun none-the-less. It's too bad this is only available in the full screen version.
Sally Field is exceedingly cute in this film and worth the price of admission!
Not a great film, but a fun film and worth a couple of bucks.
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Just Entertaining
Added 4/10/2009
Burt Reynolds has had a varied career. The Smokey & The Bandit series were well done and provided a lot of laughs.
HOOPER,on the other hand, had some excellent scenes, Jackie Gleason stole every scene he was in. Jerry Reed not only wrote the title song in less than 24 hours, he played a wonderful 'sidekick' to Burt. Fred the dog (who came from a local dog kennel) was a scene stealer without knowing he was doing it.
Hal Needham out did himself with the direction.
Good entertainment without one real swear word and nobody took their clothes off!!! Golly Wompers! Why don't other producers and writers give it a try.
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Stuntmen Have all the Fun
Added 2/21/2009
A look at stuntmen, the best part is when Burt is Riding his horse at night and Sally wakes up and goes outside and stands there just watching him ride while a country love song is playing in the background. Saw it on the bigscreen, twice, when it was released. Loved it then, Love it now, thes stunts looked awsome on the bigscreen.
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