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  1. I think my sentiments on this "Dude where's my General Lee" movie are well documented now, but you have rasied a point that I only touched on in a previous post as to why this movie should and will tank. My first and primary concern about this movie is I am a proud Southerner,(At least I was born there, and my G,G,Granddady was a CS Veteran) and the Dukes of Hazzard was one of the only pro-Southern TV shows that I can ever think of, so much so, that back when the show aired there were kids all across this vast nation that were carrying lunch boxes to school with the Dukes of Hazzard on it as well as a Confederate Battleflag, and everything was COOL! Even James Best (Rosco) said recently, the DOH was a Southern show, made no apologies for it, it didn't offend anyone and people loved it. Well, all that changed somehow these days, and from the reviews I have read, and part of the script I have seen, they tear all that to shreds and the General Lee is now a big mistake or misunderstanding that Bo and Luke end up apologizing for. That is enough for me to puke, so they lost my family's $30 when that happend, but even if I forget that whole "Patronizing and making fun of Southerners" issue and I try to look at what this new movie is from purely an objective marketing stand point, the movie fails again, miserabley. This movie would be like a Star Wars movie that was geared towards a "Sea Biscuit" fandome. When a Star Wars or Star Trek movie comes out, you can always predict that those die hard fans dressed in space suits are going to be found sleeping out days before the movie, because it's THEIR movie, and sure the fans will judge it and compare it against the movies of the past. What we have in the this Dukes movie, or I forgot, the "Dude Where's my General Lee", is a total stray from gearing it towards the true fans of the series. If anything, they have offended and upset us to say the least, instead they hedge all their bets on a crowd that never watched the old series, and will somehow be "captured" by the great acting and antics of a attractive pop singer that is afraid to get a little dirt or mud on her, and the fine acting of a "Jack ass" and throw it together in some sort of Southern "Hillbilly" fast and the furious. It's a double loosing proposition, even a bad Star Wars movie will sell tickets to Star Wars fans. This movie is making no attempt to hold onto it's original fans, on the contrary they are alienating and trashing "us" and gearing for the under 20-something crowd that rather see a movie with a fast Mitsubishi not a fine tuned V8 muscle car. They think someone else is going to be sitting in the movie house on opening day, instead on depending on the faithful to be there because if they had really made a Dukes of Hazzard movie, we would have had to be there, even if it stinks up the place. I know some of you won't listen to the warnings from me and many on here, and sometime during the summer after this movie comes out many of you will be singing the same tune as me, that's all well and good, but by then, these people who have destroyed an "institution" will already have your money in their pockets and that is all they are really concerned about, not the posterity of the true "Dukes of Hazzard".
  2. I think my sentiments on this "Dude where's my General Lee" movie are well documented now, but you have rasied a point that I only touched on in a previous post as to why this movie should and will tank. My first and primary concern about this movie is I am a proud Southerner,(At least I was born there, and my G,G,Granddady was a CS Veteran) and the Dukes of Hazzard was one of the only pro-Southern TV shows that I can ever think of, so much so, that back when the show aired there were kids all across this vast nation that were carrying lunch boxes to school with the Dukes of Hazzard on it as well as a Confederate Battleflag, and everything was COOL! Even James Best (Rosco) said recently, the DOH was a Southern show, made no apologies for it, it didn't offend anyone and people loved it. Well, all that changed somehow these days, and from the reviews I have read, and part of the script I have seen, they tear all that to shreds and the General Lee is now a big mistake or misunderstanding that Bo and Luke end up apologizing for. That is enough for me to puke, so they lost my family's $30 when that happend, but even if I forget that whole "Patronizing and making fun of Southerners" issue and I try to look at what this new movie is from purely an objective marketing stand point, the movie fails again, miserabley. This movie would be like a Star Wars movie that was geared towards a "Sea Biscuit" fandome. When a Star Wars or Star Trek movie comes out, you can always predict that those die hard fans dressed in space suits are going to be found sleeping out days before the movie, because it's THEIR movie, and sure the fans will judge it and compare it against the movies of the past. What we have in the this Dukes movie, or I forgot, the "Dude Where's my General Lee", is a total stray from gearing it towards the true fans of the series. If anything, they have offended and upset us to say the least, instead they hedge all their bets on a crowd that never watched the old series, and will somehow be "captured" by the great acting and antics of a attractive pop singer that is afraid to get a little dirt or mud on her, and the fine acting of a "Jack ass" and throw it together in some sort of Southern "Hillbilly" fast and the furious. It's a double loosing proposition, even a bad Star Wars movie will sell tickets to Star Wars fans. This movie is making no attempt to hold onto it's original fans, on the contrary they are alienating and trashing "us" and gearing for the under 20-something crowd that rather see a movie with a fast Mitsubishi not a fine tuned V8 muscle car. They think someone else is going to be sitting in the movie house on opening day, instead on depending on the faithful to be there because if they had really made a Dukes of Hazzard movie, we would have had to be there, even if it stinks up the place. I know some of you won't listen to the warnings from me and many on here, and sometime during the summer after this movie comes out many of you will be singing the same tune as me, that's all well and good, but by then, these people who have destroyed an "institution" will already have your money in their pockets and that is all they are really concerned about, not the posterity of the true "Dukes of Hazzard".
  3. Let's put it this way, me and my wife are spending our HONNYMOON at Dukes Fest this year, and when we are in Tennessee, I'll ask the boys and Cooter what they really think and come back and report it. The original cast have pretty much already said in public that they hate the script. I don't need anyone else telling me about the movie to know what it's all about. If the real Dukes hate it, that's enouph info for me. Any real Duke fan, or anyone who cares about their Southern heritage and proud culture should think long and hard before putting money in these people's pockets. Listen, we know that Cooter in this movie is portrayed as a hillbilly who wears a bathrobe over his underwear and is a paranoid pervert who thinks he's being watched by the Government. If that isn't a negative Southern stereotype I don't know what is. This movie is going to flop and it should, when it does, I'll be in Gatlinburg Tennessee sharing a cold pepsi with Ben Jones and I have a feeling we will be sayin God save the South, and I TOLD YOU SO!
  4. I don't think any proud Southerner or faithful Dukes fan should put money in these peoples pockets to sit for 120 minutes and be patronized and made fun of, not for a second. But the reason for the way they made this movie is exactly because of the way these little pukes who wrote feedback on this review think. First off, most of the feedbacks on this review are written by a bunch of kids who have no understanding of what the Dukes of Hazzard is. Second, even if we had a good Dukes movie these little punks wouldn't get it anyways. For them to say it was a nothing TV show when it was on? Do they realize the Dukes had better ratings in season 5 when it was Coy and Vance, then most of the stupid shows that are on network TV right now? Do they realize this was a number 1 show for years? No, they don't so even if they made a true to the series movie, they still would hate it, so this is where these hollywood elites made their fatal mistake. Instead of apealing to us, the true fans of the Dukes of Hazzard, they sold us and the show out!! and tried to apeal to the "Dude where's my car" crowd who wouldn't like this movie anyways!!!! So now we're left with a "Dude where's my General Lee" and 120 minutes of offending and making fun of Southerners and trashing an institution. This just pisses me off, you didn't see them doing this to Star Trek, nope, they could make a Star Trek 37, and there would still be a line of geeks in space suits waiting in line to see it. But not us DOH fans, see this was a Southern show, so we don't count. As I was writing this I finally figured it out!!! This must be hollywood's revenge for Kerry loosing.....
  5. THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I AGREE WITH BEN JONES! This is absolute BS! I thought for a second that we might have actually escaped hollywood political correctness long enough for us to actually have a Dukes movie that would bridge the gaps of me and my son's generation. But nope! not a chance. "The film has subtle nods to the TV show without excluding those who never saw it. For example, the confederate flag isn’t on the roof of the car for the first part of the film, it is added after their car is totaled and is given emergency repairs by a group of hillbillies. They also are unable to fix the doors, leaving them having to slide in and out through the side windows." HELLO PEOPLE! This explains that beat up weird looking General Lee in those pictures we seen not too long ago. They obviously must trash that car, and here we go with the "totally ok to offend Southerners" by having a "hillbilly" put the flag on the car without them knowing. Let me tell you folks something.. We now live in a country that it's almost a crime to offend anyone or any creed. EXCEPT SOUTHERNERS! That's right my friends, that is what this movie is about. It's not celebrating what the old Dukes were, IT's MAKING FUN OF THEM.. Once again, it's those backwards, stupid, redneck Southerners! AW Shucks! Well, this was the nail in the coffin why I am boycotting this movie. They could have had some courage like the makers of God's and Generals and make a pro Southern movie inspite of all the condemnation and attacks of the left, but no, they caved in and made a politically correct, let's make fun of this silly redneck Southerners movie. That is what this movie should be called, because it ain't the Dukes of Hazzard. Now if only there was a way for us to show these hollywood "elitists" they can't get away with it. But no, like sheep even real Duke fans and Southerners will go and actually put money in their pockets to sit there for 120 minutes and be patronized and made fun of.
  6. That looks really cool, I've got the 4 door, I was thinking maybe the 01 should be in the middle of the 2 doors, what do you think? I've already got the 12 note horn on the truck, my neighbors hate me as it is cause my Harley has straight pipes, now they really hate me....lol
  7. I want to take our almost new 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 to a custom paint shop, and have it painted like the General. (Attention all you Photoshop folks) Anyone that can do one in PhotoShop so I can see what it might look like, I need your help! Anyways, I put a 12 note Dukes horn on the truck a little while back and ever since then I've been thinkin about it. Cool idea, or bad?
  8. I want to take our almost new 2003 Dodge Ram 1500 to a custom paint shop, and have it painted like the General. (Attention all you Photoshop folks) Anyone that can do one in PhotoShop so I can see what it might look like, I need your help! Anyways, I put a 12 note Dukes horn on the truck a little while back and ever since then I've been thinkin about it. Cool idea, or bad?
  9. Has anyone heard anything? What kind of legal problems?
  10. I've been a LEO for 10 years and for two different agencies, both of which allowed Ghotees and close trimed facial hair. There are some that do allow it, and some that do not. The local department I worked for prior to the State even allowed make officers to have ear rings. It was allowed after male officers filed union suits against the departments because female officers where allowed to have them. It all depends on what State, small town, big city, etc.
  11. I think what Cooter is getting at, and a lot of us true DOH fans think, is that this movie will not have any real connection to the true fans or the original cast AND the true story of the DOH this especially shows when concerning the General. It's bad enough there is a scene in the film that degrades the flag on the General, it's the fact that Bo and Luke shy away from it. What Cooter is saying here is that they MOCK them, and such mocks the original DOH AND US, THE FANS in doing so. Let's not forget there were a lot more Pro-Confederate references made in the original DOH besides an orange 69 Charger with a Battle Flag on it. How about all the Confederate remarks that Bo and Luke would make in the original series? Like one when they are telling Uncle Jessie about how many guns these bad guys had and they would say stuff like " If we'd had that much artillery during the war, we wouldn't have lost Atlanta!" Or in another episode when they say " Atlanta?, why that place ain't been right since Sherman burned it down!" I'm sure you old timers like me remember them all, but that was part of what made the DOH, the Dukes of Hazzard! It was a Pro-Southern show, and made no apologies for it, and AMERICA loved it! I think it's just ridiculous and insulting that they find this offensive NOW but it was fine back then and everyone loved it. My answer to this is simple, if someone says something or does something that upsets you, a normal person will slowly overcome it over time and forget about it after even more time goes by. But when we talk about the DOH or the South or the Confederate flag, these PC freaks are going in the total opposite direction than what is normal human behavior. It was ok for the Dukes of Hazzard in 1980, but NOW your mad about it? Bottom line is I love the DOH way to much to go to a movie that mocks what was a huge and happy memory of my raizin. The PC police can be incharge of this movie if they want to, but I'm not encouraging anyone to see it. I'll just keep buyin up all the volumes of the original series on DVD and keep saving up for my own General Lee in a few years. OH, and I forgot going to Cooter's Place in Gatlinburg...
  12. These seem to be the biggest clues about the film that has me concerned, I take from this Cooter does not like it, and frankly I can't disagree with him.... "I have to tell you right up front I’m concerned about the movie. In the script I saw, there’s profanity and sexual situations that just have no place in The Dukes of Hazzard. They had no respect for the original cast. They had no respect for the original audience. They are making a movie which mocks us. When I was a kid and I went to see a Roy Rogers movie, I wanted to see Roy Rogers, not Alan Ladd or Humphrey Bogart. People want to see us." About the Battle Flag on the General: "There was a part in the script I read where they made a big thing of it. For them to even bring it up is foolish. That’s knee-jerk liberalism. I think that debate is over and the bigots lost."
  13. Hello fellow DOH lovers! I wish my first post could have been more of a positive one, but when I seen this article with an interview with Ben Jones, I had to post it. I apologize if this has already been reported but I had to let you faithful fans know that Ol'Crazy Cooter does not seem to like this new film at all from what he said in this interview. I really hope it isn't as bad as it seems it's going to be, can't political correctness get a little less out of our lives so much? Here is the URL for the interview:http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=Style&storyid=111875 Here is the text of it: BEN JONES In 1989, Ben Jones cleaned out his fingernails and shaved his "Cooter" stubble, leaving his aw-shucks role on The Dukes of Hazzard behind to represent Atlanta in Congress. Riding the wave of a Dukes revival — personal appearances, a thriving memorabilia museum near Dollywood and reruns bringing a ratings boon for CMT — Jones returns to talk about the staying power of good old boys and the hazards of bringing the show to the big screen. Q. In The Dukes of Hazzard movie, we’ll have MTV’s Jackass and the gross-out guy from American Pie playing Bo and Luke. Who’s playing you? A. I think it was a David somebody [David Koechner, who appeared in Anchorman with Will Ferrell]. I’d never heard of him. I have to tell you right up front I’m concerned about the movie. In the script I saw, there’s profanity and sexual situations that just have no place in The Dukes of Hazzard. They had no respect for the original cast. They had no respect for the original audience. They are making a movie which mocks us. When I was a kid and I went to see a Roy Rogers movie, I wanted to see Roy Rogers, not Alan Ladd or Humphrey Bogart. People want to see us. Q. I’m surprised the movie version of the General Lee will have the rooftop Rebel flag intact. Let’s just say you don’t see a lot of Confederate symbolism in the car makeovers on Pimp My Ride. A. There was a part in the script I read where they made a big thing of it. For them to even bring it up is foolish. That’s knee-jerk liberalism. I think that debate is over and the bigots lost. Q. In today’s terms, wasn’t The Dukes of Hazzard a red-state show? A. I think that red-state, blue-state stuff is a lazy shorthand to symbolize a larger cultural divide. I’m an old-line Democrat, but I feel that the Democratic Party has lost its resonance in the heartland of America. The Democrats have become the party of urban America. But, the biggest turn-out we’ve had in the last two years for Cooter and the General Lee was in Boston. Their politics are a little off, but they love The Dukes of Hazzard. It’s a whole lot more complicated than red and blue. Q. Were you this serious and politically aware back when you were playing Cooter? A. Yeah, sure. I’m an actor. I loved playing Cooter. But I’m also a rural Southerner who’s lived through this stuff. Q. As a backwoods, do-it-yourself vice, would today’s Duke boys be manufacturing meth? A. I don’t see the connection at all because moonshine has been part of the culture for a thousand years. Meth is a terrible chemical concoction. There’s nothing romantic about it. Q. What was Cooter’s legislative legacy? A. Most of it was nuts-and- bolts stuff, constituent services. I was in Congress when the Cold War ended. I took a pick ax to the Berlin Wall. I held up a banner in Tiananmen Square. I kept my ’ 60s activist thing going on. Q. Who was the better TV actor turned congressman: you, Gopher from The Love Boat, or that dude from Law & Order? A. Probably Gopher. Fred Grandy was very effective. He was efficient and serious. He served four terms and I only had two. I’d never had any background in it. Politics has its rewards, but show business is a lot more fun.
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