Big Bad Dad as Movie Reviewer
For the first time in a while, the wife and I decided to rent some movies over the weekend:
"Dukes of Hazzard" was hysterical, altough the characters in the movie in no way resembled those in the TV show. In my humble opinion, the characters in the movie were much truer to many of the rednecks I've known in my life...
1. Boss and Rosco were corrupt (as they were in the TV show), but their characters were much more malicious in the movie.
2. Bo and Luke were still the good guys but much of their interaction was geared towards practical jokes and pranks on each other. Bo was much more the "Hey, y'all, watch this!" kinda feller.
3 Uncle Jesse still provided sage advise to his boys but it was in the form of jokes and one-liners. Willie Nelson was off-the-hook in this movie. He had, undoubtedly, some of the funniest lines.
4. Cooter was full-out white trash...which is really what you would expect a greasemonkey in a small southern town to be. No wonder Ben Jones got his panties into such a twist when this movie came out.
5. Finally, Daisy was a blonde. Otherwise, there were few differences between TV Daisy and Movie Daisy...
The reviews of the movie, of course, sucked, but I don't believe that the producers and director were aiming for that "Best Movie" Oscar. The poor reviews, in my opinion, were more a reflection on the reviewers themselves. I've watched plenty of critically acclaimed films and, nine times out of ten, would prefer a movie which caters to the lowest common denominator with lots of fart humor, fast cars and Jessica Simpson in shorty-shorts.
Also caught "Havoc". My review would be something like this:
"A scathing indictment of over-privledged kids in Southern California, Havoc explores the lives of wealthy teenagers and their struggle to create new identities for themselves which are in diametric opposition to those identities which are so often assigned to children of their particular socio-economic station.
Turning their backs on "white culture", these children assume an urban persona, comprised of ghetto clothing, gansta rap and a manner of speech that could best be defined as "Eminem Ebonics".
The film takes a dramatic turn when our protagonists seek the acceptance of those whom they emulate; lower middle class hispanics who, because of societies prejudices, have turned to a life of crime."
OK, even I can't keep up this line of crap...
It's a straight-to-video release that I only rented because I knew Anne Hathaway (previously of "The Princess Diaries") got her fun bags out...several times.
Turns out it wasn't all that bad. It's kind of like a "Less Than Zero" for today's generation.
Wedding Crashers is next. That is, once I can wrestle the television away from my 2 year-old. It's a holiday and there's a Dora and Diego marathon going on.
"Dukes of Hazzard" was hysterical, altough the characters in the movie in no way resembled those in the TV show. In my humble opinion, the characters in the movie were much truer to many of the rednecks I've known in my life...
1. Boss and Rosco were corrupt (as they were in the TV show), but their characters were much more malicious in the movie.
2. Bo and Luke were still the good guys but much of their interaction was geared towards practical jokes and pranks on each other. Bo was much more the "Hey, y'all, watch this!" kinda feller.
3 Uncle Jesse still provided sage advise to his boys but it was in the form of jokes and one-liners. Willie Nelson was off-the-hook in this movie. He had, undoubtedly, some of the funniest lines.
4. Cooter was full-out white trash...which is really what you would expect a greasemonkey in a small southern town to be. No wonder Ben Jones got his panties into such a twist when this movie came out.
5. Finally, Daisy was a blonde. Otherwise, there were few differences between TV Daisy and Movie Daisy...
The reviews of the movie, of course, sucked, but I don't believe that the producers and director were aiming for that "Best Movie" Oscar. The poor reviews, in my opinion, were more a reflection on the reviewers themselves. I've watched plenty of critically acclaimed films and, nine times out of ten, would prefer a movie which caters to the lowest common denominator with lots of fart humor, fast cars and Jessica Simpson in shorty-shorts.
Also caught "Havoc". My review would be something like this:
"A scathing indictment of over-privledged kids in Southern California, Havoc explores the lives of wealthy teenagers and their struggle to create new identities for themselves which are in diametric opposition to those identities which are so often assigned to children of their particular socio-economic station.
Turning their backs on "white culture", these children assume an urban persona, comprised of ghetto clothing, gansta rap and a manner of speech that could best be defined as "Eminem Ebonics".
The film takes a dramatic turn when our protagonists seek the acceptance of those whom they emulate; lower middle class hispanics who, because of societies prejudices, have turned to a life of crime."
OK, even I can't keep up this line of crap...
It's a straight-to-video release that I only rented because I knew Anne Hathaway (previously of "The Princess Diaries") got her fun bags out...several times.
Turns out it wasn't all that bad. It's kind of like a "Less Than Zero" for today's generation.
Wedding Crashers is next. That is, once I can wrestle the television away from my 2 year-old. It's a holiday and there's a Dora and Diego marathon going on.
posted by Big Bad Dad at 11:56 AM
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