RIP Burt Reynolds

[guyver1]

Smokey and the Bandit was my classic film

 

[kiwiatlarge]

We're all getting old. I just watched a clip of outtakes from Cannonball Run. In the final clip, most of the people in it have passed. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Burt Convey, Jack Elam, Mel Tillis, and Hal Needham. Most of our childhood is going or gone. Sad day today is.

Life's funny. I remember thinking how my grandparents were one of the last couples within their friends/siblings. Now I watch as my parents' generation drops in number. Having lost my mother and three of her siblings or in-laws in an 18 period between 2015-17 it starts creeping up on you...

On the celebrity topic, yep again, those 80s stars are also starting to age and dwindle. The worst is pro-wrestling. How many of them are left from that Wrestlemania IV/V era of my childhood?

 

[LIBBY1957DOG]

RIP. Its going to be terrible when all my heroes like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, JCVD are no longer with us. At least we will still have all their great films.

give this one a watch if you can ,burts last film ,its a great farewell and now super poignant after his passing



The Last Movie Star
2017 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 43m
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6.8/10
IMDb
48%
Rotten Tomatoes
46%
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An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
Initial release: 30 March 2018 (USA)
Director: Adam Rifkin
Box office: 14,410 USD
Screenplay: Adam Rifkin
Producers: Adam Rifkin, Neil Mandt, Brian Cavallaro, Gordon Whitener
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[LIBBY1957DOG]

What we have here isn’t much of a movie. In fact, it would be generous to dismiss it as threadbare. But The Last Movie Star stars Burt Reynolds in the title role. It’s perfect casting. Reynolds rode the box-office pinnacle in the 1970s and 1980s in vehicles as diverse as Smokey and Bandit and Deliverance, still his best screen performance tied with his comeback turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 landmark, Boogie Nights, for which the actor received his first and only Oscar nomination. Reynolds never much liked his porn master role in Boogie Nights, which proves again that actors are rarely the best judge of their own work.

In The Last Movie Star, Reynolds looks frail at 82, but his eyes are alive with witty challenge as he plays Vic Edwards, a superstar who started as a stuntman, much like Reynolds himself. Now a virtual recluse, Vic is coached out of his shell by his friend Sonny (Chevy Chase) to accept a Life Achievement Award at a Nashville festival of his films.

Instead of getting A-lister treatment, Vic is put up at a dump motel and taken to a bar where fanboy amateurs (Clark Duke, Ellar Coltrane) run the “big” show. Vic spars with Lil (Ariel Winter), a Goth millennial assigned as his personal assistant. A few good jokes sneak in, and it’s fun to watch Reynolds comment wryly on clips from his golden oldies, from Gunsmoke to talk show appearances with the likes of David Frost.

But as soon as Vic decides to hit the road to Knoxville, his birthplace, sentiment infects the film like a virus. Writer-director Adam Rifkin clearly has affection for his star, but he’s put him in a leaky vehicle that sinks way before the journey ends.

Sam Elliott handled a similar role with more style, emotion and dramatic heft in last year’s The Hero. But Reynolds, let’s not forget, really is a movie star. And a great one. The pleasure of his company is still an exuberant gift. He deserves more than an opportunity missed.

rolling stone review

 

[csutkakoma]

RIP. Its going to be terrible when all my heroes like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, JCVD are no longer with us. At least we will still have all their great films.

Ah man don't even tell me that. It will be a sad day indeed. You know when you are all grown up (I am 33 soon.) and basically a geek right now because you grow up on all these great movies and action stars, actors...it is a sad and somewhat scary thing to realize they are old now and soon they won't be with us anymore.

We're all getting old. I just watched a clip of outtakes from Cannonball Run. In the final clip, most of the people in it have passed. Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Farrah Fawcett, Roger Moore, Burt Convey, Jack Elam, Mel Tillis, and Hal Needham. Most of our childhood is going or gone. Sad day today is.

Yes I can feel you man.

 

[xipotec]

I dont think another film will be made where they had as much fun as CannonBall...

Still has the most hilarious bloopers ever....

Sent from the inside of a giant slug in outer space.....

 

[Bocephus Jones]

My parents took me to see Smokey and the Bandit when I was 10. 7 Years later, in 1984, I bought my first car; a 1978 Bandit Trans Am. I had that car for 6 years and still miss it to this day. I would say that the movie made an impression on me.

RIP Burt

 

[Darth Waller]

I dont think another film will be made where they had as much fun as CannonBall...

Still has the most hilarious bloopers ever....

Agreed. Good stuff!

 

[tys1977]

Smokey and the Bandit 1+2 Cannonball Run 1+2 are some of my favourite movies of all time,
Born '71 these films accompanied some of the best times growing up...

Rest well Burt, thank you for a lifetime of laughs

 

[dharper]

RIP Bandit.

 

[karamazov80]

I know there was speculation that he could have been a Harrison Ford-level icon if had made some different decisions with his movie choices in the '70s and early '80s, but he certainly left his mark. Deliverance and Boogie Nights are the only films of his I really like, but they are a great ones. No denying he had charisma oozing out of his ears.

And I'll forever be grateful to him for this:



I've probably seen it 20-30 times, and I always get a kick out of it.

 

[xipotec]

 

[punisher1974]

I know there was speculation that he could have been a Harrison Ford-level icon if had made some different decisions with his movie choices in the '70s and early '80s, but he certainly left his mark. Deliverance and Boogie Nights are the only films of his I really like, but they are a great ones. No denying he had charisma oozing out of his ears.

And I'll forever be grateful to him for this:



I've probably seen it 20-30 times, and I always get a kick out of it.

I will miss Burt. Loved a lot of his movies and I always liked the Jeopardy skits on snl.

 

[Spartan Rex]

 

[guyver1]

Amazon Prime video is showing most of his hits