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Dale The Bold

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  1. broken lizard will make this movie a "macho" car movie and that is the only way it could be done, and thats a fact. there is no other direction you could go with the tv series. its going to be fun and awesome to see. their going to jump the general in every other scene, and jessica simpson in a bikini is worth the price of admission alone.

    The car will save the movie, it will be it's only saving grace. As far as this being a "macho" movie, that depends on the definition. If that means it will be chauvenistic and "dirty," then perhaps, but I think "neutered" or "compensting for a shortcoming" when I see those kinds of things. What set the series above all else was that it had great action and the whole Good vs. Evil battle, but they did so with their roots grounded in decency and integrity. If that's what you meant by "macho," then I have to agree with you.

    And Jessica Simpson is ugly with or without a bikini, unless it's covering her face. One word, Jessica...rhinoplasty.

  2. As for Jesse's marriage, I think he was actually married twice. In episodes like "Follow That Still," it's mentioned that his "misses passed on." But in "Return of the Ridge Raiders," Jesse mentions Aunt Lavinia, and Luke says to Bo that "Uncle Jesse ain't spoke to Aunt Lavinia in 20 years," which would mean Lavinia was his second wife because she was still living, and he obviously divorced her because they weren't on speaking terms anymore. This could have merely been a continuity error of course, but this is the explanation I've come up with.

    -Keith

    Or that she was his sister or sister-in-law.

  3. They should have gotten John Schneider to write the script. Maybe a collaboration with him and James Best. I think they could have created a great movie because they know the show inside and out and they know all the characters strong points. I know someone is going to say "but they're actors, not writers." Anyone can write, and they have. James Best runs a production company, as did John Schneider (don't know if he still does).

  4. Uncle Jesse had a wife named Lavinia, I believe.

    Gy Waldron said in an interview once that the parents of Bo, Luke, and Daisy were all killed in the same car accident and Jesse adopted them and raised them.

    Assuming that all the cousins were first cousins, then Jesse had at least five brothers, which isn't that unusual actually.

  5. sweet !

    many people may or may not like that because the drifiting move is heavily influenced by the tuner car world.

    And the drifting move is heavily influenced by the stunt masters of the original Dukes of Hazzard. It's funny how the tuner crowd is acting like they invented some kind of new thing when a 25 year old TV series had demostrated it perfectly years ago.

  6. The didn't actually use the same joke. In DUmb and Dumber, the line was like this.

    Woman: I'm from Austria

    Jim Carrey: Well then, G'Day mate...lets throw another shrimp on the barbie.

    What makes that funny is because the woman isn't from Australia at all.

    However, I won't write off your statement completely because the first time I saw the trailer and that part came up, my mind also went to dumb and dumber.

    Yeah, the Dumb and Dumber joke is slightly different, but it's actually funnier.

    This will be a fun movie, though. Seeing the General Lee in action is what will make it cool. Everything else needs improvement. At least they got the General Lee right. This movie will do well, and that car is the reason.

  7. Not too thrilled with the actors' scenes. "Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!" makes me think that a page from the script for Dumb and Dumber somehow got shuffled in since they use that EXACT same joke.

    However, the guys who said that this movie, even if it's bad, will deliver on the scenes with General Lee were right on! Man, that car is awesome and will be the movies saving grace.

  8. Bubba, they mention the seperate cars idea in the record piracy episode too, (atleast I think it was that one). Waylon Jennings says that "they had another car but the General Lee was their racing car and they only used it when they were in trouble... which was pretty much all the time." Or something along those lines...

    That "other car" was Daisy's Roadrunner.

  9. Well, look at the question. Who's "fresher" as Daisy Duke. Well, Catherine Bach IS Daisy Duke, so anyone who isn't Catherine Bach would be a "fresh" Daisy Duke. That includes everyone reading this, congratulations.

    They should have asked who is "prettier," "sexier," or who "has a profile the most different from that of Marlon Brando." Cathy Bach would have slam-dunked any of those polls.

  10. Wahahaha! You GOTTA post that article here, man!

    Actually, it was another person's post on the Ain't It Cool site. I just didn't want to take credit for their perfect comparison.

    I've posted the pic below before, but I'll post it again to prove my point. And a quick Google revealed this little site, which proves I ain't the only one who noticed that speed bump in the middle of her face: http://makemeheal.com/forum/viewThread.jsp?forum=35&thread=5718

    hook-nose.jpg

    Sadly, her sister has it even worse.

  11. For one thing if you don't think Jessica Simpson is hot I think you need to get your eyes checked out and another thing Johnny Knoxville is a Tennesse native and if anyone has seen Jackass the movie, you'd know that when he performs a couple of his stunts he's wearing a helmet that has a big Confederate flag on it. And by the Deirks Bentlely while a good singer has never acted before in his life not to mention he was born in the mid-west not the south.

    Anyone who thinks Jessica Simpson is "hot" needs to look a foot and half higher and see that big old broken nose on her face. One of the responses on the Ain't It Cool News site described her as Willem Dafoe in a blonde wig, and that's pretty much right on, only not quite as old yet.

    Dierks Bentley acts in his music videos and does just fine (yes, he delivers lines). And he's not known for other roles, which makes him perfect. Now, I have to point out that I said they needed actors that had a rural/Southern feel to them, NOT a rural AND Southern feel to them. They need to be country, which sometime people think needs to be Southern. There are plenty of great country singers from Canada, so being Southern has nothing to do with it, but since the Dukes of Hazzard takes place in the South, you need to give it that rural feel. Now, back to Dierks Bentley, if you wanted him to "act" like Bo Duke, in a worst case scenario he screws up and acts like himself...which would be a perfect Bo Duke!

  12. "Daisy is an all-American girl," says Simpson. "It's very empowering for a woman, she's a badass but can use her body at the same time," defends Simpson. "I think that's a really cool image to put out there for women."

    Yeah, because more women need to learn to "use their bodies" to their advantage. :roll:

    Of course, in Jessica's case, she can't use her mind or her face, so I guess that's all she's got. Not sure how that's "empowering." Hopefully, she at least outsmarts the baddies, that's a positive message.

    I know, I know, Cathy Bach's Daisy used to seduce and distract the baddies, but I always attributed that to the baddies being so easily distracted and not having the decency to turn away like ol' Enos. Besides, even when sweeeeet Daisy found herself caught by the baddies, she'd figure some way to shuck and jive them.

  13. i wouldntve picked Anyone else to portay Jesse's part!

    im gone.

    I was actually hoping for Willie Nelson for this role long before they cast him. He's the ONE human cast member they got right (unless he smokes pot as Uncle Jesse, then I've lost nearly all respect for the man). Not only is Willie a long time friend of the legendary Waylon Jennings, his face bears a striking resemblance to Denver Pyle.

  14. But the main point for me being excited about this movie is that I'm not asking for much from it, but what I have asked for they seem to have done. The General Lee looks same, they got a hot girl to play daisy, and the stunt scenes are real(no CGI).

    They're gonna need CGI if Jessica Simpson is going to be hot! But you're right about one thing, you're not asking much from it.

    The one thing that it appears this movie won't have is a positive portrayal of rural/Southern America. I hope I'm wrong, but the main cast (a.k.a. the Duke family minus Willie) doesn't have a country bone in their bodies. And it's a shame, there's a lot of good ol' boys and girls that could have done it. They should have gotten Dierks Bentley to play Bo, it wouldn't be a John Schneider clone, like so many of you think I seem to want, but he would have been a country boy. THAT is all I ask out of a Dukes of Hazzard movie, but they've cast the film as "The Dudes of Suburbia."

  15. It doesn't matter how much or how little faith a studio has in a movie, if they have the chance to put a bunch of famous people in a movie they'll go ahead and do it...

    If they would've used actors who would mearly impersonate the original cast the movie would seem like a cheap knock-off and would suck...

    I completely disagree with both of these statements.

    First off, studios always want to attach a famous name to a film. Just look at movie posters, often times they will put the actor's name above the movie title. Look at most of the Schwarzenegger movie covers after he became a famous face, and you'll see that his face fills the cover art. It's all about marketing. They could probably find a body builder would would jump at the chance to star in an action film for about $20 million less than a big name actor, but the studio believes that people want to see another Schwarzenegger movie (and they'd be right). But with something like the Dukes of Hazzard, they should have had the courage to use good actors for the main characters and spend the extra cash on a big name like Devito as Boss Hogg.

    The word "impersonator" implies a bad impersonation. Many of the undiscovered actors are just as good as, if not better, than the big names. If you get a starving young actor to play the role, you're going to get someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes your movie and you'll get a more dedicated performance out of them. You wouldn't have to suffer through the pretentious actors who constantly want to "reinterpret" something to make it their own.

    They don't need to "update" the Dukes of Hazzard. Its appeal is that it is timeless. When TNN and now CMT brought the show back, young audiences could hardly tell it was an old show. It has a natural timelessness to it. An "update" is only going to serve to make it feel like a cheap knock-off. And shoe-horning famous names into famous roles that aren't them is just going to make it look like a bunch of bad impersonations.

  16. IS THERE A REBEL FLAG ON THE GENERAL: Yes, however the boys defend it in a scene.

    From what I heard, it's more like they play ignorant than actually "defend" it.

    IS IT GOING TO BE LIKE STARSKY AND HUTCH WAS: Thank God no, according to the actors, and producers it is more like Smokey and the Bandit, and the Blues Bros.

    They should remake Smokey and the Bandit and the Blues Brothers, because then there'd be an excuse to make something that was LIKE THE DUKES OF HAZZARD! (I am aware that these are Duke-ish movies and not bad for some new concept, but why set out to make it like something similar instead of making it like the original?).

  17. I thought all summer movies were suppose to be blockbusters. ??

    I mean isnt that how they market them usually?

    August is still in summer, and they probably want to push it back so that they arent' going up against the big dogs. WB probably still doesn't have a whole lot of faith in The Dukes of Hazzard (just look at how they felt the need to pad it with famous names), so the less competition the better.

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