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stevew
08-04-2006, 06:32 AM
Hopefully I'll be able to get to this within the next week. Trailer had some hilarious moments, reviews seem to be generally favorable as well. Plus I usually like John C. Reilly.
st.cronin
08-04-2006, 08:37 AM
Definitely looking forward to this one.
Subby
08-04-2006, 08:37 AM
I am cooming for yoo Rick-ee Booby.
Galaxy
08-04-2006, 10:36 AM
Man, Wonder and Old Spice are getting a ton of advertising. Will likes to wear the Wonder racing suit on his TV rounds and in a Sprint commerical.
Hammer755
08-04-2006, 10:48 AM
Man, Wonder and Old Spice are getting a ton of advertising. Will likes to wear the Wonder racing suit on his TV rounds and in a Sprint commerical.
Sporting News also featured a mock-cover ad this week for the movie which looks like it is the genuine thing at first glance.
Swaggs
08-04-2006, 11:13 AM
This looks like it will be a great comedy, but the advertising exposure is pretty overwhelming. It seems like I have seen the entire movie between all the ads and promos and television appearances. It almost reminds me of when the Star Wars: Episode 1 came out, in that I am just about sick of hearing about and seeing it before it even comes out.
It seems like I have seen the entire movie between all the ads and promos and television appearances
Exactly how I feel. The trailer is REALLY long.
dervack
08-04-2006, 02:58 PM
It's really funny. I think it's funnier than Anchorman, but I'm sure some people will disagree with me. I thought it was very good.
jbmagic
08-04-2006, 03:23 PM
Anchorman was terrible.
dervack
08-04-2006, 03:46 PM
Well, I also thought it was better than Wedding Crashers and Old School. I thought both of those movies sucked ass as well.
GoSeahawks
08-04-2006, 03:53 PM
Anchorman was terrible.
You're terrible
Greyroofoo
08-04-2006, 03:53 PM
I refuse to see this because it has an annoying kid from a local Toyota dealership commercials
SuperGrover
08-04-2006, 03:54 PM
Anchorman was terrible.
Shut your mouth.
Anchorman has incredibly funny parts to it. The movie, in its entirety, is not a classic, but some of the lines certainly are.
Subby
08-04-2006, 04:11 PM
Anchorman was terrible.I bet if you saw it with subtitles you would think it was funny...
Pyser
08-04-2006, 04:14 PM
You're terrible
ha!
kingfc22
08-04-2006, 05:35 PM
Anchorman sucked.
"
digamma
08-04-2006, 06:27 PM
Agree to disagree.
Agree to disagree.
Easy Mac
08-04-2006, 08:36 PM
Where I'd rank recent Will Ferrell movies:
1. Anchorman
2. Old School
3. Elf
4. Talladega Nights
5. Kicking and Screaming
(did not see Bewitched or Melinda and Melinda)
The movie was ok. When you laugh, you laugh, but it wasn't consistently funny throughout. Credit to Ferrell for going all out for a laugh and he hits them all, but overall it was just a pretty weak movie.
5.8/10
stevew
08-05-2006, 08:19 AM
Everyone had built anchorman up so high for me, so that when i finally saw it i thought it was pretty meh.
HomerSimpson
08-05-2006, 08:49 AM
Just in case you missed it, they were selling the Ricky Bobby die-cast Wonder Bread car on QVC last night for $80.00
Swaggs
08-05-2006, 11:56 AM
Anchorman was a let down for me in theatres, but once I watched it again on DVD, I enjoyed it more.
To me, Old School is the gold standard for the "frat pack."
Vinatieri for Prez
08-06-2006, 10:52 PM
Where I'm coming from: I thought most of Wil Ferrel's recent movies were crap.
What I thought: Ricky Bobby was hilarious.
Chief Rum
08-06-2006, 11:28 PM
It was kinda meh for me, although there was a small handful of lol moments (the knife scene at the hospital, for example).
Swaggs
08-07-2006, 12:04 AM
It went by at a pretty good pace for me, so I'd say it was worth seeing in the theatre.
I particularly liked all the variants on saying grace to "baby Jesus." :)
INDalltheway
08-07-2006, 12:12 AM
Good movie, can't wait for the DVD so I can laugh with my friends and not a bunch of dumb inbreds.. That's all. :)
stevew
08-07-2006, 10:14 AM
Good movie, can't wait for the DVD so I can laugh with my friends and not a bunch of dumb inbreds.. That's all. :)
What's the difference?
:D
Barkeep49
08-07-2006, 10:34 AM
Amusing enough. Certainly better than Anchorman though nowhere near the standard set by Elf.
gottimd
08-07-2006, 10:38 AM
Where I'd rank recent Will Ferrell movies:
1. Anchorman
2. Old School
3. Elf
4. Talladega Nights
5. Kicking and Screaming
(did not see Bewitched or Melinda and Melinda)
Melinda and Melinda is not your typical Will Ferrell movie, by that I mean he isn't playing some crazy character. He is actually quite subdued in M&M. For awhile I thought there wasn't a script that Ferrell was turning down, as Kicking and Screaming was horrendous.
Swaggs
08-07-2006, 11:40 AM
I didn't mind Kicking and Screaming, but it was definitely not what I was expecting. At the time it didn't seem like it was advertised as such, but it was clearly a kids' movie.
Deattribution
08-07-2006, 11:49 AM
Melinda and Melinda is not your typical Will Ferrell movie, by that I mean he isn't playing some crazy character. He is actually quite subdued in M&M. For awhile I thought there wasn't a script that Ferrell was turning down, as Kicking and Screaming was horrendous.
The reason for that.....
Kicking & Screaming (2005) Salary $20,000,000
He also supposedly got 20 mil for Bewitched too, so I guess you can't blame the guy for taking 40 mil to make two shitty movies. Especially when you consider the guy has been making shitty movies for years anyway and hasn't been making 20 million for them ;)
kcchief19
08-07-2006, 12:20 PM
You anti-Christian, racist Will Ferrell fans:
Ferrell's NASCAR Movie Called Anti-Christian, Racist
Christian Reviewer Rants About Liberal Hollywood
POSTED: 11:56 am EDT August 7, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- Christian film reviewer Ted Baehr is no fan of this past weekend's top movie at the box office.
Web Site: See Baehr's Review (http://movieguide.org/?s=articles&id=129)The Movieguide.org publisher said Will Ferrell's "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" is "a racist, bigoted work that ridicules the Bible Belt, Southern white men, Christianity, Jesus Christ, the family, and American masculinity."
Baehr said the lead character's mocking prayer to baby Jesus shows anti-Christian bigotry and wonders why Hollywood isn't treating Will Ferrell like it's treated Mel Gibson, who has apologized for his anti-Semitic outburst.
"Don't count on Hollywood (or the news media, for that matter) to condemn and denounce Will Ferrell and his partner, writer and director Adam McKay. And, don't expect any self-righteous liberals to get on their soapbox and say that they will never work with Farrell or McKay, or see one of their movies," Baehr said in his review.
He said that "Talladega Nights" is one of the most "blasphemous, politically correct major movies ever released by a major Hollywood studio."
He continued his rant, saying that Hollywood and the the mainstream media stood by silently while Dan Brown and Ron Howard mocked Christian beliefs and Roman Catholic leaders in "The Da Vinci Code" and when Martin Scorsese claimed in "The Last Temptation of Christ" that Jesus was a "mixed-up" and "weak-minded" wimp.
On it's Web site, Moviegude describes itself as:
Movieguide is a ministry dedicated to redeeming the values of the mass media according to biblical principles, by influencing entertainment industry executives and helping families make wise media choices."Talladega Nights" tells the tale of Ricky Bobby, a man who was born when his Daddy was racing his Ma to the hospital and got so carried away by speed that a quick slam on the brakes is all it took to pop little Ricky out, according to WFTV.com reviewer Deb Scott. His Daddy takes a powder shortly after he is born, and as a result, Ricky grows up with a hero worship complex and the need for speed.
An emergency at a racetrack where he works pushes Ricky behind the wheel of a NASCAR vehicle in the middle of a race and everything just clicks, including a phrase his drunken Daddy once said to him -- "If you ain't first, you're last." So begins the raucous rise and fall of Ricky Bobby.
Meanwhile, John C. Reilly said he had no idea NASCAR was so popular until he made "Talladega Nights."
He was surprised to hear that some fans camp out for days before a race and turn it into an event. Reilly used to wonder why anyone would watch cars race in a circle, but now he said he knows "there's so much more going on than that."
spleen1015
08-07-2006, 12:23 PM
I want to pose for Playgirl after seeing this.
Ksyrup
08-07-2006, 01:15 PM
I didn't realize Southern white men were a race all to themselves...
INDalltheway
08-07-2006, 02:51 PM
What's the difference?
:D
Ouch, that hurts Steve.. :)
Vinatieri for Prez
08-07-2006, 03:00 PM
How about because it's called "satire," not a real life drunken outburst after an arrest.
So I saw the movie in Africa over Labor Day. I saw the scene early in the movie where a very young Ricky Bobby takes the wiffle ball bat and presses the gas pedal. I know I saw it.
We had the father in law over a few nights ago and we're watching the movie...I figured there were probably a lot of parts I missed in the version we saw out there. Instead, I don't see the wiffle ball bat scene.
Did they cut that out? Am I missing something? Should I go back to my sweet khat?
AgustusM
12-31-2006, 12:52 PM
I hated this movie, but then again I also hated Anchorman and Napoleon Dynamite and I refused to see Borat.
From that you would assume I hate and/or don't get stupid movies - but I do like some stupid movies quite a bit (which is why I een bothered watching the others) such as Wedding Crashers, Dumb and Dumber, Dodgeball, Kicking and Screaming.
Tasan
12-31-2006, 01:07 PM
So I saw the movie in Africa over Labor Day. I saw the scene early in the movie where a very young Ricky Bobby takes the wiffle ball bat and presses the gas pedal. I know I saw it.
We had the father in law over a few nights ago and we're watching the movie...I figured there were probably a lot of parts I missed in the version we saw out there. Instead, I don't see the wiffle ball bat scene.
Did they cut that out? Am I missing something? Should I go back to my sweet khat?
I just watched this for the first time last night on DVD, and I didn't see a scene like that in the film or any of the deleted scenes. I seem to remember that scene in previews, though.
Subby
12-31-2006, 01:13 PM
I hated this movie, but then again I also hated Anchorman and Napoleon Dynamite and I refused to see Borat.
From that you would assume I hate and/or don't get stupid movies - but I do like some stupid movies quite a bit (which is why I een bothered watching the others) such as Wedding Crashers, Dumb and Dumber, Dodgeball, Kicking and Screaming.
I think you have been tricked into thinking anyone gives a shit what you think.
MizzouRah
12-31-2006, 01:41 PM
Old School is my favorite Ferrell movie. I didn't care for this movie and fell asleep before it was over.
jbmagic
12-31-2006, 03:01 PM
So I saw the movie in Africa over Labor Day. I saw the scene early in the movie where a very young Ricky Bobby takes the wiffle ball bat and presses the gas pedal. I know I saw it.
We had the father in law over a few nights ago and we're watching the movie...I figured there were probably a lot of parts I missed in the version we saw out there. Instead, I don't see the wiffle ball bat scene.
Did they cut that out? Am I missing something? Should I go back to my sweet khat?
Unrated version shows it.
I just watched this for the first time last night on DVD, and I didn't see a scene like that in the film or any of the deleted scenes. I seem to remember that scene in previews, though.
As I recall, on the "screen" it was between his birth and his dad showing up at the school.
Interesting enough, if I'm not mistaken, it's part of the one-liners special feature, or whatever it was.
Hmmph.
JediKooter
01-01-2007, 12:19 AM
It's on the DVD we just bought. It happens when his mom goes into a gas station or a 7-11 type store and he takes off in the car. I believe we have the regular 'ol edition of the DVD.
Could you be more specific, Jedi? What scenes happen before and after?
SteveMax58
01-01-2007, 08:42 AM
It's on the DVD we just bought. It happens when his mom goes into a gas station or a 7-11 type store and he takes off in the car. I believe we have the regular 'ol edition of the DVD.
Hmm...I just rented it about a week or so ago & I dont recall this scene either.
Hilarious movie to me...but that might be because I dun growed up in da south. The characters in the movie are funny exagerrations of some people I've met.
JediKooter
01-01-2007, 12:31 PM
Could you be more specific, Jedi? What scenes happen before and after?
I'll have to fire it up in the ol magic disk player to be sure, but, if I remember correctly the scene right before is when his mom gives birth to Ricky in the car and the scene right after is the bring your dad to school day scene.
Edit: Ok just checked. It is between those two scenes at 1 minute 43 seconds according to my dvd player.
Yep, it's definitely not in the "unrated and uncut" version. Thanks for your help.
How screwed up is that?
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