Capt_Redneck

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----Seems to me that you talked yourself into liking it BEFORE you even saw it.... But then, many have just as well talked themselves into hating it the same way. Personally, I`ll just say that it could have been much better--and the series was not done Justice in any way --except the car stuntwork. The movie is enjoyable as long as you can pretend that the series never happened and that this is the movie that "Moonrunners' wanted to be --but did not have the budget for.[/quote] Sorry..........Don't think so about talking myself into liking it. I have been very openminded about it since the beginning.I have been excited about a Dukes movie since there was talk of it back around 2002. And as far as not doing the series justice, I think it did a great job of capturing the spitit of the original without being an exact copy of the old.... I can't figure out why a lot of folks can't just move past the original series and look at a fresh take on it. Did people want a carbon copy movie version of the TV series? I am glad they changed it up the way they did... Last thing I got to say about the movie...YEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAAAA Darrell

----Seems to me that you talked yourself into liking it BEFORE you even saw it.... But then, many have just as well talked themselves into hating it the same way. Personally, I`ll just say that it could have been much better--and the series was not done Justice in any way --except the car stuntwork. The movie is enjoyable as long as you can pretend that the series never happened and that this is the movie that "Moonrunners' wanted to be --but did not have the budget for.[/quote] Sorry..........Don't think so about talking myself into liking it. I have been very openminded about it since the beginning.I have been excited about a Dukes movie since there was talk of it back around 2002. And as far as not doing the series justice, I think it did a great job of capturing the spitit of the original without being an exact copy of the old.... I can't figure out why a lot of folks can't just move past the original series and look at a fresh take on it. Did people want a carbon copy movie version of the TV series? I am glad they changed it up the way they did... Last thing I got to say about the movie...YEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAAAA Darrell

One Helluva Ride I have been preaching on here for the better part of a year to give this movie a chance. You know something , I did and the movie was better than what I expected. Hearing Waylon's Good Ol Boys in the opening I knew this would be a helluva good ride. I think the "spirit" of the original Dukes was there. The basic elements of the show were there - plot, characters, balladeer, cars - but a bit modernized to 2005 not 1979. Think of it as Moonrunners meets the Dukes with some Smokey & The Bandit thrown in.. I have said in numerous threads that if Bo & Luke were played like modern day Good Ol' Boys but just a bit more wild that would be fine. Well folks that is what they were. Johnny Knoxville & SWS did a good job on the Duke cousins. I liked the way they were in the film. I liked the way Boss Hogg and Roscoe were. More ruthless and serious than in the show . It seemed like the reverse from the show with Boss & Roscoe being serious in the movie than in the show and the same for Bo & Luke - more "fun" in the movie than in the show. I loved and so did the packed theater , Uncle Jesse's one liners . Like the fact that he was more "colorful" in the movie. The drug references weren't as bad as I had read. The suggestive stuff was normal since this isn't 1980's TV, it was mild compared to stuff on TV today. The addition of Junior Brown(been a fan of his for a long time) as the Balladeer and where they cut in his parts were too perfect. The music in the movie rocked. It was like the perfect songs at the right time. That made the movie an even better ride, especially Waylon's Good Ol' Boys at the beginning. All in all , the movie was just plain AWESOME to me. Sure I wasn't happy with some of the casting but on the big screen it worked . I grew up with the Dukes since it came on back in 79. I didn't go in expecting this to be a copy of the original, but a fresh take on the Dukes. Right now I am on cloud 9 at how good it was. I understand that all Dukes fans will not like this and have their opinion . That is their God given right and I respect that. Can't wait for the DVD . Can't wait for the sequel..... Darrell

One Helluva Ride I have been preaching on here for the better part of a year to give this movie a chance. You know something , I did and the movie was better than what I expected. Hearing Waylon's Good Ol Boys in the opening I knew this would be a helluva good ride. I think the "spirit" of the original Dukes was there. The basic elements of the show were there - plot, characters, balladeer, cars - but a bit modernized to 2005 not 1979. Think of it as Moonrunners meets the Dukes with some Smokey & The Bandit thrown in.. I have said in numerous threads that if Bo & Luke were played like modern day Good Ol' Boys but just a bit more wild that would be fine. Well folks that is what they were. Johnny Knoxville & SWS did a good job on the Duke cousins. I liked the way they were in the film. I liked the way Boss Hogg and Roscoe were. More ruthless and serious than in the show . It seemed like the reverse from the show with Boss & Roscoe being serious in the movie than in the show and the same for Bo & Luke - more "fun" in the movie than in the show. I loved and so did the packed theater , Uncle Jesse's one liners . Like the fact that he was more "colorful" in the movie. The drug references weren't as bad as I had read. The suggestive stuff was normal since this isn't 1980's TV, it was mild compared to stuff on TV today. The addition of Junior Brown(been a fan of his for a long time) as the Balladeer and where they cut in his parts were too perfect. The music in the movie rocked. It was like the perfect songs at the right time. That made the movie an even better ride, especially Waylon's Good Ol' Boys at the beginning. All in all , the movie was just plain AWESOME to me. Sure I wasn't happy with some of the casting but on the big screen it worked . I grew up with the Dukes since it came on back in 79. I didn't go in expecting this to be a copy of the original, but a fresh take on the Dukes. Right now I am on cloud 9 at how good it was. I understand that all Dukes fans will not like this and have their opinion . That is their God given right and I respect that. Can't wait for the DVD . Can't wait for the sequel..... Darrell

One Helluva Ride I have been preaching on here for the better part of a year to give this movie a chance. You know something , I did and the movie was better than what I expected. Hearing Waylon's Good Ol Boys in the opening I knew this would be a helluva good ride. I think the "spirit" of the original Dukes was there. The basic elements of the show were there - plot, characters, balladeer, cars - but a bit modernized to 2005 not 1979. Think of it as Moonrunners meets the Dukes with some Smokey & The Bandit thrown in.. I have said in numerous threads that if Bo & Luke were played like modern day Good Ol' Boys but just a bit more wild that would be fine. Well folks that is what they were. Johnny Knoxville & SWS did a good job on the Duke cousins. I liked the way they were in the film. I liked the way Boss Hogg and Roscoe were. More ruthless and serious than in the show . It seemed like the reverse from the show with Boss & Roscoe being serious in the movie than in the show and the same for Bo & Luke - more "fun" in the movie than in the show. I loved and so did the packed theater , Uncle Jesse's one liners . Like the fact that he was more "colorful" in the movie. The drug references weren't as bad as I had read. The suggestive stuff was normal since this isn't 1980's TV, it was mild compared to stuff on TV today. The addition of Junior Brown(been a fan of his for a long time) as the Balladeer and where they cut in his parts were too perfect. The music in the movie rocked. It was like the perfect songs at the right time. That made the movie an even better ride, especially Waylon's Good Ol' Boys at the beginning. All in all , the movie was just plain AWESOME to me. Sure I wasn't happy with some of the casting but on the big screen it worked . I grew up with the Dukes since it came on back in 79. I didn't go in expecting this to be a copy of the original, but a fresh take on the Dukes. Right now I am on cloud 9 at how good it was. I understand that all Dukes fans will not like this and have their opinion . That is their God given right and I respect that. Can't wait for the DVD . Can't wait for the sequel..... Darrell

One Helluva Ride I have been preaching on here for the better part of a year to give this movie a chance. You know something , I did and the movie was better than what I expected. Hearing Waylon's Good Ol Boys in the opening I knew this would be a helluva good ride. I think the "spirit" of the original Dukes was there. The basic elements of the show were there - plot, characters, balladeer, cars - but a bit modernized to 2005 not 1979. Think of it as Moonrunners meets the Dukes with some Smokey & The Bandit thrown in.. I have said in numerous threads that if Bo & Luke were played like modern day Good Ol' Boys but just a bit more wild that would be fine. Well folks that is what they were. Johnny Knoxville & SWS did a good job on the Duke cousins. I liked the way they were in the film. I liked the way Boss Hogg and Roscoe were. More ruthless and serious than in the show . It seemed like the reverse from the show with Boss & Roscoe being serious in the movie than in the show and the same for Bo & Luke - more "fun" in the movie than in the show. I loved and so did the packed theater , Uncle Jesse's one liners . Like the fact that he was more "colorful" in the movie. The drug references weren't as bad as I had read. The suggestive stuff was normal since this isn't 1980's TV, it was mild compared to stuff on TV today. The addition of Junior Brown(been a fan of his for a long time) as the Balladeer and where they cut in his parts were too perfect. The music in the movie rocked. It was like the perfect songs at the right time. That made the movie an even better ride, especially Waylon's Good Ol' Boys at the beginning. All in all , the movie was just plain AWESOME to me. Sure I wasn't happy with some of the casting but on the big screen it worked . I grew up with the Dukes since it came on back in 79. I didn't go in expecting this to be a copy of the original, but a fresh take on the Dukes. Right now I am on cloud 9 at how good it was. I understand that all Dukes fans will not like this and have their opinion . That is their God given right and I respect that. Can't wait for the DVD . Can't wait for the sequel..... Darrell

Awesome...........I haven't seen that in a long time..... Much appreciated.... Darrell

Awesome...........I haven't seen that in a long time..... Much appreciated.... Darrell

EXACTLY...........To Hell with the dang critics. We are the ones who will be the judge of this movie. I still can't believe that was actually published. That writer might not have gotten a General Lee or a Dukes toy when he was a kid and still holds a grudge. Then again he might not get the basics of the show either. Damn fool... I'm gone Darrell

EXACTLY...........To Hell with the dang critics. We are the ones who will be the judge of this movie. I still can't believe that was actually published. That writer might not have gotten a General Lee or a Dukes toy when he was a kid and still holds a grudge. Then again he might not get the basics of the show either. Damn fool... I'm gone Darrell

I can live with this review...I think this one is pretty , after all they gave it a B+..... http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1089289_1_0_,00.html The Dukes of Hazzard Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman GOOD OL' JOYS Daisy, Bo, and Luke are back in The Dukes of Hazzard, a free-wheelin' TV upgrade Whenever Bo Duke (Seann William Scott) and Luke Duke (Johnny Knoxville), the rowdy, horny, and profoundly literal-minded good-ol'-boy cousins of The Dukes of Hazzard, get into a car chase, which happens to them about as often as most people pull up to a stoplight, you can be relatively certain of one thing: the General Lee, their orange hot rod with the Confederate flag painted on top, will careen down the road or (more likely) through the woods with such loosey-goosey, no-holds-barred abandon that it zooms ahead at a razory diagonal angle, perpetually in mid-swerve. The movie, likewise, guns forward at a sustained zigzag. It's trash, all right, but perfectly skewed trash — a comedy that knows just how smart to be about just how dumb it is. Bo and Luke, who sell jars of moonshine manufactured by their grizzled Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), want nothing more out of life than to fight, party, race cars, and chase curvalicious Dixie chicks. The two are loopy cornpone hedonists devoted to the American dream: the pursuit of happiness, white-trash yokel style. Somehow, though, the law has a way of always squashing their freedom, and fighting back is no simple trick. It takes lots of schemes and plans; it takes entire convoluted episodes. When Luke, with his scuzzy scowl, and Bo, with his maniacal infantile gleam, attempt to break into the safe of Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds, a-twinkle with sin), the corrupt commissioner who is plotting to strip-mine Hazzard County, it's a job as tricky as splitting the atom, albeit with somewhat more primitive means. The safe gets dragged by tow truck through the office window, then down the road, where it smashes a bunch of mailboxes, then down the road farther, with Luke pulled along on top of it. A few strategically placed explosives, along with a flaming arrow, finally do the trick, but what gives the sequence its nuthouse kick is that it's staged with utter demented conviction, as the epitome of common sense. In Hazzard County, this is how you bust open a safe, dammit. By any idiotic means necessary. When it premiered in 1979, The Dukes of Hazzard looked like the final chapter in the schlockification of TV. It drew on the corporate jiggle of Charlie's Angels, the how-low-can-you-go cheesiness of Fantasy Island, but what gave Dukes its unique doltish appeal was the innocuous ease with which it co-opted the dregs of '70s outlaw culture. Bo and Luke may have been Ken dolls in Stetsons, but the series, which drew on the New South kitsch of CB radios, Smokey and the Bandit, and the lame-duck aimlessness of the late Jimmy Carter era, had the brain-dead temerity to insist that these plastic hicks were true-blue ''rebels.'' On TV, at least, this is what bad-boy insouciance had come to: beefcake ciphers with paste-on accents sticking it to the man between station breaks. As a movie, The Dukes of Hazzard is more fun than it has any right to be, perhaps because it's not a cynical hipster campfest. Unlike, say, the strenuously tongue-in-cheek buddy movie that was fashioned out of Starsky & Hutch, it doesn't condescend to the original show. It hardly needs to: The condescension is built into the material, and so the director, Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers), out-hips the hipsters by playing it straight, italicizing the dopiness ever so slightly, letting the throwaway chicanery of The Dukes of Hazzard wink at itself. He makes the chintzy pleasures of one-dimensional storytelling seem like hog-wild innocence rather than an insult. Then, too, Chandrasekhar kicks up the series' sexy energy. The car chases are blissful celebrations of movement and flight, cued to the burnt-rubber scorch of '70s Southern-rock chestnuts like the Allman Brothers Band's ''One Way Out'' and Molly Hatchet's ''Flirtin' With Disaster,'' and Scott and Knoxville are a rudely charming pair of low-down freewheelers. When they sneak into a lab at a university in Atlanta, pretending to be Japanese science geeks, the film cuddles up to racism without quite crossing over into it. Bo and Luke are such ingenuous nitwit tricksters that they turn xenophobia into a half-cocked state of grace. And then, of course, there's Daisy Duke, their perversely wholesome sex-bomb cousin, who uses her willowy assets to ease them out of tight spots. On the show, Catherine Bach got famous for mainstreaming a disco fashion trend, but apart from those butt-cleaving cutoffs, she was a flavorless wedge of cheesecake. Jessica Simpson, with skin as tawny as melted caramel and a smile of joy to rival Julia Roberts', turns Daisy into a vibrantly luscious comic tease. She's Little Annie Fanny as the world's most self-mocking Hooters waitress, and it will be no surprise if Simpson's star keeps rising long after she has hung up her short shorts. To post comments to this article, you must be an EW Subscriber, EW Newsstand Buyer, or AOL Member. Please log in or subscribe. (Posted:08/02/05)

I can live with this review...I think this one is pretty , after all they gave it a B+..... http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1089289_1_0_,00.html The Dukes of Hazzard Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman GOOD OL' JOYS Daisy, Bo, and Luke are back in The Dukes of Hazzard, a free-wheelin' TV upgrade Whenever Bo Duke (Seann William Scott) and Luke Duke (Johnny Knoxville), the rowdy, horny, and profoundly literal-minded good-ol'-boy cousins of The Dukes of Hazzard, get into a car chase, which happens to them about as often as most people pull up to a stoplight, you can be relatively certain of one thing: the General Lee, their orange hot rod with the Confederate flag painted on top, will careen down the road or (more likely) through the woods with such loosey-goosey, no-holds-barred abandon that it zooms ahead at a razory diagonal angle, perpetually in mid-swerve. The movie, likewise, guns forward at a sustained zigzag. It's trash, all right, but perfectly skewed trash — a comedy that knows just how smart to be about just how dumb it is. Bo and Luke, who sell jars of moonshine manufactured by their grizzled Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), want nothing more out of life than to fight, party, race cars, and chase curvalicious Dixie chicks. The two are loopy cornpone hedonists devoted to the American dream: the pursuit of happiness, white-trash yokel style. Somehow, though, the law has a way of always squashing their freedom, and fighting back is no simple trick. It takes lots of schemes and plans; it takes entire convoluted episodes. When Luke, with his scuzzy scowl, and Bo, with his maniacal infantile gleam, attempt to break into the safe of Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds, a-twinkle with sin), the corrupt commissioner who is plotting to strip-mine Hazzard County, it's a job as tricky as splitting the atom, albeit with somewhat more primitive means. The safe gets dragged by tow truck through the office window, then down the road, where it smashes a bunch of mailboxes, then down the road farther, with Luke pulled along on top of it. A few strategically placed explosives, along with a flaming arrow, finally do the trick, but what gives the sequence its nuthouse kick is that it's staged with utter demented conviction, as the epitome of common sense. In Hazzard County, this is how you bust open a safe, dammit. By any idiotic means necessary. When it premiered in 1979, The Dukes of Hazzard looked like the final chapter in the schlockification of TV. It drew on the corporate jiggle of Charlie's Angels, the how-low-can-you-go cheesiness of Fantasy Island, but what gave Dukes its unique doltish appeal was the innocuous ease with which it co-opted the dregs of '70s outlaw culture. Bo and Luke may have been Ken dolls in Stetsons, but the series, which drew on the New South kitsch of CB radios, Smokey and the Bandit, and the lame-duck aimlessness of the late Jimmy Carter era, had the brain-dead temerity to insist that these plastic hicks were true-blue ''rebels.'' On TV, at least, this is what bad-boy insouciance had come to: beefcake ciphers with paste-on accents sticking it to the man between station breaks. As a movie, The Dukes of Hazzard is more fun than it has any right to be, perhaps because it's not a cynical hipster campfest. Unlike, say, the strenuously tongue-in-cheek buddy movie that was fashioned out of Starsky & Hutch, it doesn't condescend to the original show. It hardly needs to: The condescension is built into the material, and so the director, Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers), out-hips the hipsters by playing it straight, italicizing the dopiness ever so slightly, letting the throwaway chicanery of The Dukes of Hazzard wink at itself. He makes the chintzy pleasures of one-dimensional storytelling seem like hog-wild innocence rather than an insult. Then, too, Chandrasekhar kicks up the series' sexy energy. The car chases are blissful celebrations of movement and flight, cued to the burnt-rubber scorch of '70s Southern-rock chestnuts like the Allman Brothers Band's ''One Way Out'' and Molly Hatchet's ''Flirtin' With Disaster,'' and Scott and Knoxville are a rudely charming pair of low-down freewheelers. When they sneak into a lab at a university in Atlanta, pretending to be Japanese science geeks, the film cuddles up to racism without quite crossing over into it. Bo and Luke are such ingenuous nitwit tricksters that they turn xenophobia into a half-cocked state of grace. And then, of course, there's Daisy Duke, their perversely wholesome sex-bomb cousin, who uses her willowy assets to ease them out of tight spots. On the show, Catherine Bach got famous for mainstreaming a disco fashion trend, but apart from those butt-cleaving cutoffs, she was a flavorless wedge of cheesecake. Jessica Simpson, with skin as tawny as melted caramel and a smile of joy to rival Julia Roberts', turns Daisy into a vibrantly luscious comic tease. She's Little Annie Fanny as the world's most self-mocking Hooters waitress, and it will be no surprise if Simpson's star keeps rising long after she has hung up her short shorts. To post comments to this article, you must be an EW Subscriber, EW Newsstand Buyer, or AOL Member. Please log in or subscribe. (Posted:08/02/05)

After reafdng their review online , I have decided not to renew my subscription. This is the worst review I have ever reaf....Rolling Stone can kiss my butt...... http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/_/id/6823644?rssfeed=moviereviews&rnd=1123200200984&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872 The Dukes of Hazzard Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar 2005 All Movies Rated PG-13 There's a stink coming off the big-screen Dukes of Hazzard that even fans of the TV series (1979 to 1985) won't be able to shake out of their nostrils. With Bo Duke (Seann William Scott) and his Georgia cousin Luke Duke (Johnny Knoxville) behind the wheel of the General Lee, that orange-colored 1969 Dodge Charger still flies. Everything else lands with a thud. I have no problems with the jokes being lowbrow and moronic. Hey, it's still summer. But the film oozes the desperation of people sweating hard to create the illusion that if you yell "yee-haw" long enough you'll have a good time. It's not happening. The big news is the casting of pop princess Jessica Simpson as sexpot cousin Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach created the role for TV). Simpson had never acted in a movie before squeezing into Daisy's short-shorts. As far as I'm concerned, her record is clean. Simpson's body is unimpeachable, but her thespian talent is still undiscovered country. It's as if director Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) told her to treat her performance like a photo shoot: Turn. Smile. Pout. Primp. Her stiff line delivery could be a reaction to John O'Brien's labored, laugh-free script. Let Meryl Streep try to get a redneck to fix her car by sticking out her boobs and saying, all flirty-like, "I think something bounced up into my undercarriage." Simpson's star billing is misleading. She merely visits the movie from time to time, letting the camera photograph her like a prize heifer. The heavy lifting falls to the boys. Scott does his Stifler thing, and Knoxville does his Jackass thing. Nothing there to erase the memory of the TV Bo (John Schneider) and the TV Luke (Tom Wopat). For Schneider, who has a gig on Smallville, and Wopat, who is a strong stage actor (Glengarry Glen Ross), Hazzard hasn't been a career hazard. Scott and Knoxville, who expend their energy climbing in and out of the General Lee, should be so lucky. The other actors must fight over the script's slim pickings. As Boss Hogg, Burt Reynolds carries what passes for a plot. Hogg uses the auto race that ends the film as a decoy to win court permission to strip-mine Hazzard County and steal the farm where Uncle Jesse Duke (Willie Nelson) makes his moonshine. Nelson shuffles through the movie cracking jokes: "What do you call a hillbilly carrying a sheep under each arm?" Answer: "A playboy." As Dukes drags to a close, you might ask yourself how many car chases you can watch before your eyes glaze over. At one point, the film's narrator says, "If you have to go to the bathroom, now would be the wrong time." I beg to differ. There is no wrong time to flush this turd. The only bright spot comes during the outtakes over the final credits. Suddenly, the actors seem loose, Simpson's smile is warm and natural, and we watch the stunt drivers ply their trade like kids with the world's best toys. For a few minutes, the movie flickers with a party spirit. It's too little and too late. PETER TRAVERS (Posted Aug 04, 2005)

After reafdng their review online , I have decided not to renew my subscription. This is the worst review I have ever reaf....Rolling Stone can kiss my butt...... http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/_/id/6823644?rssfeed=moviereviews&rnd=1123200200984&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872 The Dukes of Hazzard Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar 2005 All Movies Rated PG-13 There's a stink coming off the big-screen Dukes of Hazzard that even fans of the TV series (1979 to 1985) won't be able to shake out of their nostrils. With Bo Duke (Seann William Scott) and his Georgia cousin Luke Duke (Johnny Knoxville) behind the wheel of the General Lee, that orange-colored 1969 Dodge Charger still flies. Everything else lands with a thud. I have no problems with the jokes being lowbrow and moronic. Hey, it's still summer. But the film oozes the desperation of people sweating hard to create the illusion that if you yell "yee-haw" long enough you'll have a good time. It's not happening. The big news is the casting of pop princess Jessica Simpson as sexpot cousin Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach created the role for TV). Simpson had never acted in a movie before squeezing into Daisy's short-shorts. As far as I'm concerned, her record is clean. Simpson's body is unimpeachable, but her thespian talent is still undiscovered country. It's as if director Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) told her to treat her performance like a photo shoot: Turn. Smile. Pout. Primp. Her stiff line delivery could be a reaction to John O'Brien's labored, laugh-free script. Let Meryl Streep try to get a redneck to fix her car by sticking out her boobs and saying, all flirty-like, "I think something bounced up into my undercarriage." Simpson's star billing is misleading. She merely visits the movie from time to time, letting the camera photograph her like a prize heifer. The heavy lifting falls to the boys. Scott does his Stifler thing, and Knoxville does his Jackass thing. Nothing there to erase the memory of the TV Bo (John Schneider) and the TV Luke (Tom Wopat). For Schneider, who has a gig on Smallville, and Wopat, who is a strong stage actor (Glengarry Glen Ross), Hazzard hasn't been a career hazard. Scott and Knoxville, who expend their energy climbing in and out of the General Lee, should be so lucky. The other actors must fight over the script's slim pickings. As Boss Hogg, Burt Reynolds carries what passes for a plot. Hogg uses the auto race that ends the film as a decoy to win court permission to strip-mine Hazzard County and steal the farm where Uncle Jesse Duke (Willie Nelson) makes his moonshine. Nelson shuffles through the movie cracking jokes: "What do you call a hillbilly carrying a sheep under each arm?" Answer: "A playboy." As Dukes drags to a close, you might ask yourself how many car chases you can watch before your eyes glaze over. At one point, the film's narrator says, "If you have to go to the bathroom, now would be the wrong time." I beg to differ. There is no wrong time to flush this turd. The only bright spot comes during the outtakes over the final credits. Suddenly, the actors seem loose, Simpson's smile is warm and natural, and we watch the stunt drivers ply their trade like kids with the world's best toys. For a few minutes, the movie flickers with a party spirit. It's too little and too late. PETER TRAVERS (Posted Aug 04, 2005)

Bubba.... What I wouldn't give to see it at the Badin Road Drive-In......That sounds awesome. Do they still play bingo between movies? ... Have fun Saturday night.. Darrell

Bubba.... What I wouldn't give to see it at the Badin Road Drive-In......That sounds awesome. Do they still play bingo between movies? ... Have fun Saturday night.. Darrell

On to the "Brickyard" this weekend...... Can't wait for it. Would love to see if Tony can do it as this is THE track for him to try to win on..... http://www.optonline.net/Sports/Article/Feeds?CID=type%3Dxml%26channel%3D33%26article%3D15413124 Stewart Would Give Up All to Win at Indy Tony Stewart isn't kidding when he says he'd trade every win and every trophy for just one victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As a budding young racer growing up in Indiana, it was the only track that really mattered. Now 34 years old, that hasn't changed for Stewart. He's won championships in sprint cars, stock cars and an open-wheel series, but he's never kissed the bricks at Indy. He's come plenty close in 14 appearances, winning two poles and leading tons of laps. But he's always come up short in the end. Indy, his shrine, is also Stewart's demon. He would give anything to change that, and will try to again this Sunday in the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. "Take the one thing in your life that you're the most passionate about and you'll have a good understanding of what Indy means to me," he said. "If I could give away my championship and just get one win at Indy, I would do it in a heartbeat." This season might be his best shot at ending his curse at Indy. He heads into the race on a roll, winning three of NASCAR's last five events. His team is clicking and the temperamental Stewart has never been more at peace. Everyone around him attributes his relaxed approach this season to Stewart's decision to leave North Carolina and move back into the home he grew up in Columbus, Ind. There he's not a famous race car driver, he's just a regular guy in the community. "The neighbors on both sides and across the street and behind me are all the same neighbors, they're just older now," he said. "They don't treat me any differently than they did when I was a kid. I'm still the kid who used to hit the baseball through their windows." All grown up now, Stewart says he joined the Moose Lodge and the Eagles Lodge to gain a sense of community. He has keys to the neighbors' homes and can be counted on to take care of their pets. They all return the favor. Stewart now blends in at the local restaurants, goes unnoticed at Dairy Queen, and is just another guy out bowling with his buddies on a weeknight. Everyone around him has noticed the calming effect it's had on Stewart. "He's very comfortable in that element and that's probably the most important thing," crew chief Greg Zipadelli. "He's relaxed during the week. He doesn't get bothered by a lot of people and just gets to hang out with people who were friends with him before he got to where he is today." But Zipadelli knows that when Stewart pulls into Indy for Friday's first practice, everything will probably change. The calmness will likely be gone and Stewart will be on edge, ready to snap at the slightest thing. "You just know he's going to be at wit's end with people and with our guys and everything else because of the pressure and stress that he feels," Zipadelli said. "It's hard for me to understand." That's just how it is with Indy and Stewart. The track always gets the best of him. He's led a total of 122 laps in his five Indianapolis 500 starts, but never at the end. Mechanical failures ended his day twice, including the time his engine blew right after he took the lead in 1998. The NASCAR races haven't been any smoother. He challenged for the win late in 2001, only to hit the wall as he raced for the lead. "I was just trying too hard," he said at the end. He started from the pole in 2002 and led four times for 43 laps, but he faded at the end and finished 12th. Frustrated as he left the track, he punched a photographer in the lowest moment of his career. He came back to challenge again in 2003, leading three times for 60 laps, but a slow final pit stop and a late caution combined to give him another 12th place finish. His struggles don't yet rival the heartbreak that Michael Andretti has suffered at Indianapolis _ he failed in 21 years to score a win there as a driver. Stewart only has to look to Andretti's cruel breaks to feel better about his own shortcomings. "No race track ever owes you anything. I've heard that from drivers, but Michael Andretti was the one who straightened a lot of people out on that one," Stewart said. "He said that all those years that he led laps at Indy 500s and didn't win _ it's a place that you have to earn victories. They're not given to you. Indy doesn't owe me anything." © Copyright 2005 CSC Holdings, Inc. #20 - Tony Stewart

On to the "Brickyard" this weekend...... Can't wait for it. Would love to see if Tony can do it as this is THE track for him to try to win on..... http://www.optonline.net/Sports/Article/Feeds?CID=type%3Dxml%26channel%3D33%26article%3D15413124 Stewart Would Give Up All to Win at Indy Tony Stewart isn't kidding when he says he'd trade every win and every trophy for just one victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. As a budding young racer growing up in Indiana, it was the only track that really mattered. Now 34 years old, that hasn't changed for Stewart. He's won championships in sprint cars, stock cars and an open-wheel series, but he's never kissed the bricks at Indy. He's come plenty close in 14 appearances, winning two poles and leading tons of laps. But he's always come up short in the end. Indy, his shrine, is also Stewart's demon. He would give anything to change that, and will try to again this Sunday in the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. "Take the one thing in your life that you're the most passionate about and you'll have a good understanding of what Indy means to me," he said. "If I could give away my championship and just get one win at Indy, I would do it in a heartbeat." This season might be his best shot at ending his curse at Indy. He heads into the race on a roll, winning three of NASCAR's last five events. His team is clicking and the temperamental Stewart has never been more at peace. Everyone around him attributes his relaxed approach this season to Stewart's decision to leave North Carolina and move back into the home he grew up in Columbus, Ind. There he's not a famous race car driver, he's just a regular guy in the community. "The neighbors on both sides and across the street and behind me are all the same neighbors, they're just older now," he said. "They don't treat me any differently than they did when I was a kid. I'm still the kid who used to hit the baseball through their windows." All grown up now, Stewart says he joined the Moose Lodge and the Eagles Lodge to gain a sense of community. He has keys to the neighbors' homes and can be counted on to take care of their pets. They all return the favor. Stewart now blends in at the local restaurants, goes unnoticed at Dairy Queen, and is just another guy out bowling with his buddies on a weeknight. Everyone around him has noticed the calming effect it's had on Stewart. "He's very comfortable in that element and that's probably the most important thing," crew chief Greg Zipadelli. "He's relaxed during the week. He doesn't get bothered by a lot of people and just gets to hang out with people who were friends with him before he got to where he is today." But Zipadelli knows that when Stewart pulls into Indy for Friday's first practice, everything will probably change. The calmness will likely be gone and Stewart will be on edge, ready to snap at the slightest thing. "You just know he's going to be at wit's end with people and with our guys and everything else because of the pressure and stress that he feels," Zipadelli said. "It's hard for me to understand." That's just how it is with Indy and Stewart. The track always gets the best of him. He's led a total of 122 laps in his five Indianapolis 500 starts, but never at the end. Mechanical failures ended his day twice, including the time his engine blew right after he took the lead in 1998. The NASCAR races haven't been any smoother. He challenged for the win late in 2001, only to hit the wall as he raced for the lead. "I was just trying too hard," he said at the end. He started from the pole in 2002 and led four times for 43 laps, but he faded at the end and finished 12th. Frustrated as he left the track, he punched a photographer in the lowest moment of his career. He came back to challenge again in 2003, leading three times for 60 laps, but a slow final pit stop and a late caution combined to give him another 12th place finish. His struggles don't yet rival the heartbreak that Michael Andretti has suffered at Indianapolis _ he failed in 21 years to score a win there as a driver. Stewart only has to look to Andretti's cruel breaks to feel better about his own shortcomings. "No race track ever owes you anything. I've heard that from drivers, but Michael Andretti was the one who straightened a lot of people out on that one," Stewart said. "He said that all those years that he led laps at Indy 500s and didn't win _ it's a place that you have to earn victories. They're not given to you. Indy doesn't owe me anything." © Copyright 2005 CSC Holdings, Inc. #20 - Tony Stewart

8 of 10 this morning.......I forget to answer 2 questions . I haven't had my coffee yet ( that is my excuse for today) I'm gone Darrell

8 of 10 this morning.......I forget to answer 2 questions . I haven't had my coffee yet ( that is my excuse for today) I'm gone Darrell

Best thing to do .........GO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF...... The movie porbably won't be a critics favorite. But it probably will be one heck of a moneymaker. I have said over and over to give this movie a chance . Go see it with an open mind as a different take on our beloved show . I really didn't expect the characters to be exactly the same as in the TV show, which some of ya'll seem to want. This is someone else's interpretation of the Dukes, not ours. This is the same discussion that has been going on since the movie was starting to be filmed. Many of you on here came aboard because of the movie and expressed your opinions about it. How many of you will still be around after the movie comes out and it dies down ? That remains to be seen. Right now the DOH is at it's most popular with everything going on - movie, specials, CMT airing the show, DVD's, etc... The movie opens tomorrow. Who knows I might not like it at all. But then again I might. I have been waiting to see it for myself. . I'm gone Darrell

Best thing to do .........GO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF...... The movie porbably won't be a critics favorite. But it probably will be one heck of a moneymaker. I have said over and over to give this movie a chance . Go see it with an open mind as a different take on our beloved show . I really didn't expect the characters to be exactly the same as in the TV show, which some of ya'll seem to want. This is someone else's interpretation of the Dukes, not ours. This is the same discussion that has been going on since the movie was starting to be filmed. Many of you on here came aboard because of the movie and expressed your opinions about it. How many of you will still be around after the movie comes out and it dies down ? That remains to be seen. Right now the DOH is at it's most popular with everything going on - movie, specials, CMT airing the show, DVD's, etc... The movie opens tomorrow. Who knows I might not like it at all. But then again I might. I have been waiting to see it for myself. . I'm gone Darrell

10 for 10 in 88 seconds.....I went over my answers before I submitted it( that's the excuse I will use for now ) Pretty fun.Thank you for sharing that with us on here I'm gone Darrell

10 for 10 in 88 seconds.....I went over my answers before I submitted it( that's the excuse I will use for now ) Pretty fun.Thank you for sharing that with us on here I'm gone Darrell