Smokey and the Bandit was a 1977 feature film that was Not Star Wars. It was a sober (!) meditation on many of American society's ills at her bicentennial. Some of the topics covered were

1) Alcohol abuse

I'm with MacGruff here. This is a fucking crime.

2) Seatbelts

It was a different time.

3) Police fitness for duty

Some things are timeless.

4) American cars and cornering

Some things are timeless.

5) Trolls

It was a diff--............

6) Racism

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN

8) Mustaches

It was a different time.

9) Class warfare

A malignant narcissist with a dipshit son this is quite the leap of the imagination in the year-of-our-lord 2018

10) The peak of American masculinity and attractiveness

FRED!

I am my dog's thundershirt.

This is the man who raised me.

Not pictured: me

This is the man who loved me.

I didn't have them at the same time, but I got them both eventually.

Ocean's 11 was a movie made in 1960 about the GI Bill. For some reason it starred a bunch of singers and entertainers and......Peter Lawford?

Dress for the job you want

Frank SInatra plays the partial title character of Danny 11, a washed up sweater model who is longing for the action of opening and closing doors in a building.

Dress for the job you have

Dean Martin plays Dean Martin's mother and you just know he's hitting that HARD

They cause what now?

The plot revolves around the wacky hijinks these wonderful scamps get up to on their way to a funeral

..........

I know about the Wilhelm Scream  but is there a Wilhelm Whiny? #TooManyCowboyMovies

I could only hope to look this good

Recently I watched an educational filmstrip about insurance adjusting called "The Thomas Crown Affair". It plays as a metaphor for how hard it was in the olden days to get by on just four (4!) millions.

He is totally innocent -- rich people have no reason to steal.

The heroes of this teleplay really are the hard working men who came together against a few odds (fucking Erwin) and got the job done. IT'S CALLED TEAMWORK PEOPLE.