Sure it is... You read it for the articles too huh?
Posted on 08/17/2005 9:48:29 PM PDT by goldstategop
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I always loathed the show.
perhaps the movie will be worth seeing - if it generates a few honest laughs.
This is encouraging.
Nobody can replace Waylon Jennings, though.
I saw it last week, and I really liked it. You're right that the car is the star of the show, although I really liked Bo and Luke too.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Sure it is... You read it for the articles too huh?
With Jessica you get 2 good reasons to see the movie :)
The TV series was based on a movie called "Moonrunners".
The studio was ordered to pay the maker of this film 17 million dollars before they could release the movie.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Jones complained about the langauge and the undermining of the wholesome values of the TV show.
Not having seen the movie I can't speak to the language issue, however I do know that a lot of people tried to have the original TV show censored off the air. Most of the protestors were (sadly) right wingers, especially from the religeous right.
IIRC there were complaints about the Duke boys, Daisy and Uncle Jessie all living together as well as complaints about Daisy's...uh...dukes. Cries about the moral decay on TV were not uncommon. So it's kinda ironic that a lefty like Jones would be making the same claims now regarding the movie.
Plus the TV show was loosely based on Moonrunners which was A LOT DARKER than the TV show although most of the elements were there. I have also heard there really were two re life cousins who were convicted felons for running shine and weren't allowed to have guns. That's how they came up with the dynamite on an arrow deal. BTW the pics I have seen of the supposed real life Dukes showed them as older, overweight, bald fellows who wore Oshkosh b' gosh overalls and lived by themselves deep in the NC woods.
I have seen the movie trailer and thought the movie looked better than I expected. Then I saw the Simpson "Boots are Made for Walkin'" (?! Waht's up wit dat?!) video and backpedeled. It's good to see you liked it...it's definately on my "see" list now.
The only things I don't think I'll like are Waylon's absence - he was almost as big a aprt of the show as The General - and the casting. The boys I can live with...liked Jessica's portrayal in the trailer..I can even let Willie slid as Uncle Jessie. But why the heck do I have to see Linda Carter mugging...Oh I guess I can tolerate that as long there isn't too much. Burt as Boss Hogg just doesn't make it for me though... I would much rather have seen William Shatner as Hogg.
prisoner6
no one in the show came across as anything other than an abject moron.
yanno, never really understood the noise about Jessica Simpson... until I saw that "boots are made for walkin'" video.
rrrrrrrrrrrrowf!
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Ah, geez....Not again....
This is the "Stars and Bars", the first national (and therefore political) flag of the Confederate States of America:
Note the resemblance to the "Politically Correct" new Georgia State flag. (Most liberals have the historical education of a pet rock.)
This is the Confederate Battle Flag, the symbol of the Confederate soldier. It adorns the top of the General Lee.
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dolts and retards and incompetent buffoons - with the good-guys only marginally sharper than the flatheads to whom they served comeuppance.
prisoner6
You know Hollywood (or conservatism) has reached the bottom of the barrel, when National Review is praising Deuce Bigalow and Townhall is giving high marks to the Dukes of Hazzard.
And our cultural entropy continues...
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