Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
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God stuntmen are so fucking cool
Seduces you with the amazing practical stunts and the low-stakes we’re-just-having-a-good-old-time vibe and then sucker punches you when it suddenly becomes a shockingly personal meditation on mortality. There’s this amazing scene where Burt Reynolds, clad in nothing but tiny briefs, inspects his body with total disgust. No dialogue; just withering self-critique.
Hooper is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen about entering middle age. You’re not “old” yet, but you’re getting there, and knowing it’s coming makes it so much worse. Plus, there’s an absolutely ludicrous final stunt sequence where they appeared to blow up half of Southern California. That took some of the sting out of the melancholy subtext — by design, clearly. What is stuntwork but the…
We did not need sequels to Smokey and the Bandit (a movie I love) or Cannonball Run (a movie I don’t), but we did need one for Hooper. Another 100 minutes of Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds having a grand old time celebrating the beauty and lunacy of practical stunts and 1970s men’s fashion.
It would have been called 2ooper.
When I saw that this was available on an airplane in-flight entertainment system, I smashed the Play button so hard I nearly crashed the whole aircraft. A great-vibes classic! Burt in full Norm-impression mode. Great stunts! Robert Klein as Peter Bogdanovich! Hal Needham gives the movie a really bright and easy-to-look-at neutral style that probably really popped on a drive-in screen. Extra points for imagining a better world where Adam West (as himself) is the biggest movie star in the world.
Cannot express to you how much I adore the scene where Burt Reynolds looks at himself in the mirror with utter disgust and then jiggles his belly. (The stunts are incredible too.)
The greatest 99 minute beer commercial ever made. Sonny Hooper with his surgically repaired knees, his turquoise pinky ring, a coffee mug full of John Daniel's to wash down his Percocet, and a yellow striped black leather moto suit with yellow helmet straight out of Kill Bill. That opening scene from The Spy Who Laughed at Danger is a stone cold banger. Fucking print it says the thinly veiled parody of Peter Bogdanovich.
This introduction to stuntman greatness is topped only by the the grand finale in which Burt drunk drives a fucking rocket car then returns to set the next day sweating profusely (and probably smelling like a raccoon's asshole) only to jump the cherry red missile-propelled Trans Am…
If my ding dong ain't gonna work, I don't wanna live.
Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham tribute to the unsung heroes of the movies who risk their lives for that perfect shot! Burt is Sonny Hooper an aging stuntman who knows his glory days are behind him and a new generation of stunt performers are on the horizon. Sonny has to resort to popping pills and getting shots to get through the day to keep up with the younger generation - enter Ski (Jan- Michael Vincent) who parachutes into Sonny's world. With this young more daring stuntman on the block, Sonny against doctors' orders is willing to push his body even further and attempt even riskier stunts than he has…
So there isn't much of a story to this just some loose threads that dangle like patio lanterns that are set to really illuminate the hangout vibe and conversations amongst friends that we get here and that is not a condemning remark. This is obviously a warm love letter to the stunt workers in the Hollywood field plus when you get such charming leads as Sally Fields and Burt Reynolds with his infectious train whistle like laugh it's easy to gloss over some of these potholes. There are actual moments of heart in here but they do feel cobbled in to a poor framework. This all be said I still love ya Burt and even though you past away four years ago to the day you are always aces in my books.
Kind of amazed at how much I enjoyed this. I’m tempted to say I loved it, but that’ll probably happen on a rewatch. Hooper somehow manages to be silly and fun, while also being a really beautiful and sincere love letter to the stunt crews and all the work they do.
Love that Needham and Reynolds followed up the mega success of Smokey and the Bandit and just said, “Let’s make an awesome tribute to stuntmen.” The stunts are really great and the movie is charming as hell.
....and now I think this is going to send me on a Burt Reynolds kick. It’s so clear to see why the guy was such a huge star, he’s got charm and charisma for days.
Silly and beautiful. Greatest stunt reel movie ever made.
"Nothing hurts when you're numb." Holy hell, did Burt Reynolds invent the Quentin Tarantino movie before Quentin Tarantino? This is totally a 'hangout flick,' except all the guys hanging out have one of the most dangerous jobs in America, so they tend to spend their downtime drinking to excess, engaging in bar brawls, and waxing nostalgic about the good 'ol days.
I love that Jan-Michael Vincent plays the new young buck on the stuntman scene and yet this manages to avoid most of the cliches involving such a storyline (Vincent is actually professional, courteous, and isn't trying to usurp Burt Reynolds' place in the industry); also love that this is a story about aging masculinity, with a 42 year-old Reynolds…
Find me a better film this grotesquely irresponsible.
