Smokey and the Bandit 2/3 + trilogy set - Fabulous Films November 2016 pre-orders

[Scott in UK]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jonezzz...

I just ended up keeping both. I’ll need to rip the discs if I want to use the older master with the mono, but I really prefer the relatively unmolested UK transfer and I also think the US transfer looks vertically squished. I’m actually completely ignorant to the audio changes, so I’m not sure I’d even notice the benefits of the mono track!

Oh ok, well there ya go, if the audio isnt a biggie for you then it's ok for you to be fine with the UK release. Smokey & the Bandit is just one of those films where iv seen it so many times growing up and so ingrained in me, that the change in sound would be jarring to me.

Same thing goes with The Cannonball Run. I only got that on Blu-Ray a few months ago, and i hadnt seen it probably for at least 25 years, but because i watched it quite alot when younger and it's printed in my head, the changed audio on the Blu-Ray stuck out like a sore thumb to me. Altho it didnt seem to have to many changes, apart from 2 or 3 dialogue related changes i noticed, it was the engine noises that had the most consistent change.

[The Fallen Deity]

Thanks for responding guys. I appreciate it.

I'll pick up this set as well as the U.S. BD for the first film.

[drush9999]

Just ordered the US of the first and the UK of the second, because of the sad news, guy was a legend

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jonezzz...

I just ended up keeping both. I’ll need to rip the discs if I want to use the older master with the mono, but I really prefer the relatively unmolested UK transfer and I also think the US transfer looks vertically squished. I’m actually completely ignorant to the audio changes, so I’m not sure I’d even notice the benefits of the mono track!

I did just that a few months back, remuxed the mono audio with the older UK transfer. Needed a tiny bit of tweaking to match up but once done I was very happy with it. R.I.P. Bandit.

[Indiana Jonezzz...]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I did just that a few months back, remuxed the mono audio with the older UK transfer. Needed a tiny bit of tweaking to match up but once done I was very happy with it. R.I.P. Bandit.

Yeah, I remember you said you did that in the US thread. I probably won’t ever bother, I’m not familiar enough with the audio on this, so I’m not sure I’d notice the changes in the 5.1 track. But it’s nice to have both options there, if I ever wanted to.

[indisposed]

I had a feeling this thread would get a bump today... I just ordered Hooper from the States.

R.I.P Mustashioed One.

[Hawkmonger]

Just helped myself to the bandit trilogy. Never seen the sequels but feel i owe it to the mighty Burt as homage. Love the original.

[CrockettandTubbs]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

Just helped myself to the bandit trilogy. Never seen the sequels but feel i owe it to the mighty Burt as homage. Love the original.

2 is pretty funny - the

[Show spoiler]rollercoaster falling down

is a highlight.

I haven't seen it for a while (it's an

[Show spoiler]elephant

they're transporting this time), but I seem to remember I liked it better than the first one (it's funnier, I think).

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by CrockettandTubbs

2 is pretty funny - the

[Show spoiler]rollercoaster falling down

is a highlight.

I haven't seen it for a while (it's an

[Show spoiler]elephant

they're transporting this time), but I seem to remember I liked it better than the first one (it's funnier, I think).

Just try not to notice the air of seething dislike between the certain main cast members. Or that everything which comes out of Field's mouth directed at Reynolds is loaded with venom. Or how Dom DeLuise was brought in to ease the tension between them. Or that the performances and writing are much more broad this time.

Apart from that...

[Sky_Captain]

I picked up the Fabulous release of the first film from a charity shop, and it's a direct port of Universal's disc.

And when I say 'direct port', I mean they changed nothing, not even the crap Universal symbols menu.

[Scott in UK]

Originally Posted by CompleteCount

Just try not to notice the air of seething dislike between the certain main cast members. Or that everything which comes out of Field's mouth directed at Reynolds is loaded with venom

I dont actually know if this is rumour or truth, or where this was sourced from originally, it's something iv only seen written in recent months, and it might of only been on this very site that i saw it written.

But for someone like myself who's seen this film tons of times and that i wasnt ever aware of this supposedly looming within the movie during all my years of my familiarity with the film, then as far as im concerned it doesn't have to affect the movie at all.

Even tho there is times during the movie where she behaves moody or flippant towards him, iv just always looked at it as that's just how her character was written, and doesn't have to be viewed or tainted at all with thinking that it's reality crossing into fiction.

Or im sure there's a huge chance the reason why she could possibly be described as seeming lets say....'blunt' during the movie is because maybe she was just complacent or comfortable with everyone by that time. When they did 'Smokey 2' she would of already of been seeing Burt for 3 years by then, and it also would of been at least her 3rd movie with him (and 3rd with director Hal Needham, Hooper being the 2nd movie before it)

Im sure if she hated Burt that much she wouldn't of even done the movie. They was also still together in their relationship for another year or 2 after.

[ZombieTwin2]

Originally Posted by Scott in UK

Im sure if she hated Burt that much she wouldn't of even done the movie

None of them wanted to be in a sequel - they all appeared because they were contractually obligated.

This is similar to Roy Scheider not wanting to be in Jaws 2, but had to be because the possibility of a sequel was included in his contract for the first film (Richard Dreyfuss dodged a bullet on the sequel because the contract he signed was based on the film having the original ending where Hooper died).

Kev W

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by Scott in UK

I dont actually know if this is rumour or truth, or where this was sourced from originally, it's something iv only seen written in recent months, and it might of only been on this very site that i saw it written.

But for someone like myself who's seen this film tons of times and that i wasnt ever aware of this supposedly looming within the movie during all my years of my familiarity with the film, then as far as im concerned it doesn't have to affect the movie at all.

Even tho there is times during the movie where she behaves moody or flippant towards him, iv just always looked at it as that's just how her character was written, and doesn't have to be viewed or tainted at all with thinking that it's reality crossing into fiction.

Or im sure there's a huge chance the reason why she could possibly be described as seeming lets say....'blunt' during the movie is because maybe she was just complacent or comfortable with everyone by that time. When they did 'Smokey 2' she would of already of been seeing Burt for 3 years by then, and it also would of been at least her 3rd movie with him (and 3rd with director Hal Needham, Hooper being the 2nd movie before it)

Im sure if she hated Burt that much she wouldn't of even done the movie. They was also still together in their relationship for another year or 2 after.

The most passionate of relationships are usually the ones which turn the most toxic, and this was the case when S&TB2 was filming. Their relationship limped on for a couple of years after, but was bitter. Reynolds had been screwing around on her ("You were dilly-dallying around while we were still together...") and Field was reaching breaking point. This is what led her to write the dialogue during the 'breakup' scene, with the words being exactly what she thought of Reynolds. There are frequent jibes aimed at Reynolds, which exactly fit the confines of their dying relationship. Taking their off-screen relationship away from the movie, Frog just seems like a spiteful b*tch this time around, and you can well believe that the two of them never spoke again after they split up.

Field only did the movie due to contractual obligation, and probably with a huge pay-rise to take the sting out of it. Sequel clauses are almost impossible to break, with the underlying threat of career destruction or being sued into the poorhouse taming even the most staunch of firebrands. Sure, she had fun on the first S&TB, but she immediately regretted it, saying: "I just thought it was, you know, the end of everything that I had worked so hard to achieve..." This feeling was cemented when she was assured of winning Best Actress for Norma Rae, a film which signaled her transition to from box-office star to serious thespian, and all when S&TB producer Mort Engleberg came knocking again. Being legally arm-twisted into another Smokey & the Bandit film was exactly what she didn't want, but had no choice. Sure enough, just after filming started, she was nominated and went on to collect the Oscar on the very last day of shooting.

Her two S&TB films are night and day in atmosphere. The first has an infectious sense of fun that permeated its very celluloid, sweeping along even the most miserable of viewers. The second is leaden, with an air of hostility and forced joviality that sucks the joy out of it. There are (possibly) three scenes where there is some of the old chemistry, but this is purely because the script called for them. During the famous outtakes, the actor whom laughs the least is Field, looking various degrees of irritated in most of them. It all adds up to an awkward feeling throughout the proceedings, with the overriding theme being that of "Can't we just be friends...?"

[blueman_Richie]

Originally Posted by WilsonBros

I'll see your link and raise you this:

http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/smokey-and-the-bandit-the-complete-collecion.html

If it's Smokey IS the Bandit Part 3 information you want as well, this covers the lot.


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Is that linked dvdactive review available to read anywhere as the link takes you to a completely different site?

[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by blueman_Richie

Is that linked dvdactive review available to read anywhere as the link takes you to a completely different site?

Sadly, DVDActive closed its doors back in January. All their links now go to that other site (presumably the new owner of the dvdactive domain name).

[blueman_Richie]

Oh, okay, thanks. I didn’t realise they’d gone.

[ZombieTwin2]

Yeah, DVDActive became DVDInactive earlier this year.

Kev W

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by zombietwin2

yeah, dvdactive became dvdinactive earlier this year.

kev w

There were only about three contributors whom actually gave a s**t in the last two years, as opposed to those that just pocketed the review discs and did "technical" ones, putting in the least amount for effort for a free copy.

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[Geoff D]

Shame another good one's gone. I did a couple of reviews for them, albeit a good few years ago now. You guys did way more obviously but I think that whole style of lengthy, detailed reviews is going the way of the dodo, at least when it comes to having any kind of large viewing audience.

After I quit The Digital Fix - under no pressure from anyone as I simply felt that my monolithic wall of text style just wasn't a good fit for the site any more - I was told by another contributor that the analytics showed that most people didn't make it beyond the first two paragraphs of any given review or article! I have to say I felt entirely vindicated after that, as well as feeling like a doddery old dinosaur at the same time.

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by BudBaxter

Sadly, DVDActive closed its doors back in January. All their links now go to that other site (presumably the new owner of the dvdactive domain name).

Closed due to mysterious circumstances...

Originally Posted by CompleteCount

There were only about three contributors whom actually gave a s**t in the last two years, as opposed to those that just pocketed the review discs and did "technical" ones, putting in the least amount for effort for a free copy.

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There was one guy there called Gabriel Powers who I couldn't stand. His points about The Force Awakens were valid but most of the time he just seemed so disinterested in everything he reviewed. The site was also getting more woke in it's user comments as it progressed so I guess get woke, go broke.