Comments on: The Cannonball Run (1981)

By: In which I attempt to take over the internet | all that comes with it

In which I attempt to take over the internet | all that comes with it — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:17:32 +0000

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By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:47:58 +0000

the great thing about this place, apart form the fabulous commentary of course, is that i don’t have to watch shit films to know i wont like them. Thank you for saving me two hours of my life.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:15:22 +0000

@Dan, remember this is the man who defends Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 – he may actually like this

By: Kevin Spencer

Kevin Spencer — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:33:17 +0000

So many of the classic movies from my youth have turned out to be big piles of poo upon recent viewing. I’m looking at *you* Karate Kid. I’m almost scared to watch any movie that I liked growing up. Maybe those good memories should be left just how they are.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:28:39 +0000

@JJ Daddy-O, if you'll forgive me for saying so - there are a lot of things that Americans consider as their god given rights that completely baffle other nations. smokey and the Bandit and Hooper were far better films than this, believe me.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:27:18 +0000

@Rol, I obviously had a far more sophisticated sense of humor about such things than you or Lee.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:26:41 +0000

@Arjan, whatever you do, don't watch it. It's not even in the "so bad it's good" category.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:26:03 +0000

@Jeff, I really wanted it to be god. I was so looking forward to watching it again, but at the end of the day it's just complete and utter pants. Very very disappointing.

By: JJ Daddy-O

JJ Daddy-O — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:57:24 +0000

It’s kind of funny how the national 55 mph speed limit was at one time considered by some an abridgment of our god-given rights. Then again, if I had had to drive across Kansas at 55 I would have been pretty pissed too.
I remember this picture being very much a Reynolds/ Needham style production, like Smokey and the Bandit or Hooper. I always got the impression there was lot of Hollywood excess going on during the production and nobody taking their oeuvre too seriously.
Cannonball and Gumball Rally (movies about the same race) were marginally better as I remember.

By: Rol

Rol — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:47:00 +0000

Oh dear. I think I’ll avoid rewatching this. But Lee’s right, even in my rose-tinted memories, Dom DeLouise was always supremely unfunny.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:46:47 +0000

@Arjan, I remembered it as being fun too, I was wrong.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:57:01 +0000

hmm I guess I might have go through the agony of rewatching this..I’m with Jeff on this.. I remember it being fun haha.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:40:43 +0000

@Jeff, it is not. I personally thought the trailer actually painted the film in a good light so imagine what the film is actually like!!! It does feel like a lot of random scenes strung together.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:46:45 +0000

Oh, man… this is a classic of the silver screen… isn’t it? Don’t tell me this movie isn’t as awesomely stupidly funny as I remember it. It has to be better than Rat Race, at least, doesn’t it?

Sadly, I think the trailer may bear witness to your review. I watched that thinking “seriously? This looks similar to the movie I remember, but without the charm. Did they switch the real film for a collection of the discarded takes?”