Man, this was bad!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Cannonball Run
rabiddog67 — 11 years ago(July 12, 2014 04:31 PM)
I saw this back in the theater in 1981 when I was in junior high and liked it then. I had not seen it again until today and, wow, what a stinker. The first 30 minutes are painful to watch as the movie builds up to the race. Still, a few chuckles, especially when Adrienne Barbeau is pulled over by the female cop. I never saw the sequel and now I don't want to.
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PrimeMinisterOfTheSinister — 10 years ago(February 22, 2016 12:09 AM)
I finally got around to watching it today after all these decades. I don't know why I had never actually seen it before. I was pretty stunned at how awful it is. The jokes are corny as hell. They don't start racing until the movie is almost halfway over. The Captain Chaos thing was stupid. The worst part was Farrah Fawcett's character getting kidnapped and drugged and being totally fine with it. It's a pretty racist movie, too. The busty cop scene was pretty good and the Roger Moore stuff was alright, but that's about it. It's a big disappointment.
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arthurab — 10 years ago(March 09, 2016 08:27 PM)
It's a movie of its time. 1981 was a fun year, but that kind of fun doesn't really translate into 2016, where we are uber PC and are uptight abt everything.
In some ways, I miss this time. No terrorism worries and some decent movies in the theater. I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in the summer of '81 and it was fantastic. Nowadays, I avoid going to the theater altogether.