Oh, the "Dukes of Hazzard" movie is just going to royally suck, isn't it? Those two losers are so not Bo and Luke -- and here's a phrase I never thought I'd write: Jessica Simpson can totally outact them. Granted, all she needs to do is show off her legs in her Daisy Duke shorts, but she certainly can do that. Bo and Luke need to be sexy, country-boy innocent, and worth rooting for, and from what the preview shows, they're 0 for 3.
My nieces (born in 1975 and 1978), were huge childhood "Dukes" fans, and I swear, "Luke Duke" was one of the first phrases Maggie learned to say. The theme song was one of the catchiest ones of the decade, and the General Lee was one fun car. So I feel possessive about those memories. I hate to see our goofy old 1970s show being dressed up into a Hollywood movie, apparently by folks who don't get the appeal of the original. Willie Nelson as Uncle Jessie...that I can get behind. But the rest of it? The South is not rising again
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I am so completely dismayed at the new dukes of Hazzard. Not only do the people remaking it not get the original, but the casting is pretty much a slap in the face. daisy was smart and self reliant! So they cast Jessica Simpson. They cast the guy known to the world as Jackass to play Luke? I don't have anything against the other guy (as in, I don't know him to be blatantly idiotic) but has he ever played a character who didn't appear to have brain damage? The previews show a lot of sort of "gosh gee, we're just small town boys who don't hardly understand the big city" sort of attitude, and the real Dukes might have been country boys but they weren't, you know, brain damaged.
I love your phrase "possessive about the memories." I felt the same way about Charlie's Angels and Bewitched, too.
Me and my friends are going to a dive bar to get trashed before we see this tonight. We are all 28-32 and quite possessive of our Dukes memories, but we thought this would be a stone riot -- different from the original, obviously, but maybe hysterical in its own stoopid way.
And Seann William Scott will always have a place in my wee blackened heart for Dude, Where's My Car?
God. Y'all probably don't even believe that I have a BA in Film Studies from an Ivy League school, but I swear it's true.
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