And Hollow-wood can't understand why attendance and $$$$ are down.
After all, if you make, they will come.....won't they???? Apparently not.
I'm not sure I'm on board with this...at least not the Dukes remake. Of course I haven't seen the movie, and the cast (Jessica, Willie, Bert and Linda Carter) turned me off. But then I saw the trailer and was pleasantly surprised.
In fact the clips with Jessica at the Boar's Nest looked pretty good. The more I watched the trailer the more I figured they didn't really make a remake, but instead took the Dukes legend (the story IS based in a real life story of 2 brothers) and did a retelling, albeit updated a bit.
As to foul langauge...perhaps there is but not in the trailer. I'll have to wait and see the movie before I can say whether it's overboard or not.
Thing is the TV show was actually a remake of "The Moonrunners" which featured a lot of the icons from the TV show but was WAY darker. And the language - and storyline - in The Moonrunners wasn't exactly the cartoon cliche style that the TV show evolved into.
Now the kicker...at least to me. Doesn't ANYONE remember how the religeous right squawked about the TV series? There were efforts underway to have the show pulled from the CBS lineup because Daisy, the Duke Boys and Uncle Jessie were all living together and there was implied incest. They zealots weren't happy with Daisy Duke shorts either.
Ironic isn't it that decades later some of those same people are critical of the movie, and use the TV show they once critisized as immoral as a yardstick for American wholesomeness.
YEE-HAA! That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.
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My friend and I went to see the Bad News Bears this past Tuesday (free popcorn on Tuesday's). I was just entering high school when the original came out and thought it was hilarious and outrageous. I had just begun a job scorekeeping Little League games and was very familiar with the kids and coaches out on the diamond. So it was all the more fun for me back then to see the movie.
I was disappointed in many ways with the remake. The language was just out of control (I have two sons 14 & 18 so I would say I am in the trenches) it was just distracting after a short time. A few choice words would have had more impact and levity. Also the acting on the part of the children was like that of the local middle school. Stilted and stiff acting. Billy Bob made reference to dating a German girl that I just did not get and know that the 13 year olds wouldn't have a clue about either. Also the young lady is supposed to be 12 but looks 15 in size and build. The rebel Kelly is also very affected in his acting like he is trying too hard to be the cool dude.
Good points tho were the African American boy, the Indian boy, Toby the son of Marcia Gay Harden's character. Greg Kennear as the over the top opposing coach. The Yankees team seem to be real Little Leaguers in age and demeanor. But still the film could have been easily PG if they had pulled back a bit and then the kids who were in the movie could have seen the finished film. Or they should have just gone all the way and made it a R and had the kids drinking the beer like in the original and made it for the adults who remember the Walter Matthau movie.