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  • Convoy

    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sun Jul 18 20:24:00 2021
    I've started watching films that were directed by Sam Peckinpah after
    watching a 70's movie the other night on the streaming service called Pluto
    TV.

    The film was called The Killer Elite and it's a a rather slow and slightly
    gory flick with a limited plot. So after watching that I opted to look for
    some of his other films. I then watched the movie Convoy which was no where as good as Smokey and the Bandit. I guess because it didn't have the humor of
    the Burt Reynolds film but also because the cop played by Ernest Borgnine was just plain mean to the truckers.

    I've found the movies show their age with respect to the way women are
    treated and portrayed. Times have moved on and I think for the better. Time
    has moved on for the actors too. The lead actress in Convoy is now 82 while
    the lead actor (Kris Kristofferson) is 85 ... Wikipedia tells me the guy was married three times and has eight kids - yipes :)

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  • From Otto Reverse@21:1/225 to Avon on Thu Jul 22 12:15:01 2021
    I tried to watch Convoy last year and ended up turning it off for much of the same reasons. I'd watched (well, re-watched) Smokey and the Bandit with my teenage son and was checking out Convoy (without him) and just couldn't get into it. Some things just don't hold up.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Otto Reverse on Fri Jul 23 19:44:13 2021
    On 22 Jul 2021 at 12:15p, Otto Reverse pondered and said...

    I tried to watch Convoy last year and ended up turning it off for much
    of the same reasons. I'd watched (well, re-watched) Smokey and the
    Bandit with my teenage son and was checking out Convoy (without him) and just couldn't get into it. Some things just don't hold up.

    No I agree it was a painful watch but I persevered because after watching 70% of it I wanted to know how bad it got... it did get worse :)

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