I've Been To The Cinema...

[Bush Tucker Man]

To see 'The Dukes Of Hazzard'

All I can say is..........
It's differant.......

I was quite prepared to be disppointed by it after reading various reviews & hearing the originals casts view on it.
However, it's got to be taken as a whole & I think it works, even allowing for a cast I wasn't too sure about.

If you don't know by now;
Jessica Simpson; Daisy Duke
Johnny Knoxville; Luke Duke
Seann William Scott; Bo Duke
Wille Nelson; Uncle Jessie
Burt Reynolds; Boss Hogg
Linda Carter; Pauline (yes!, the Wonder Woman)
David Koechner; Cooter


It has been questioned why they're running a 36year old car, but in the early sequences it is seen to be fairly tatty & rusty (no flag, or decals) & possibly in keeping with hot-rodding farm-boys

Obviously the plot is inconsequential (as per the TV series), it was a 'rollicking good ride'.
Jessie was a wise-cracking comedian though, & it doesn't work



On second thoughts, go & see it!!
Just don't expect the 'innocence' of the TV series.

It does make you smile &  really. really want a 69 Charger (even more so than I've ever done, & it's in my top 5 cars)

Studio Movie Web-Site

[Bush Tucker Man]

Oh, & the doors opened in the general early on in the film.
The climbing in is explained by Cooter later.

Wait for the 'Safe ride' :D  & the guy with the Armadillo hat :?

[Sharpshooter]

Well i thought it was fantastic. Did you stay right to the end, when they showed the outtakes, and the smashing up several Generals.... :D  :D  :D  :D

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH  HHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bush Tucker Man]

Well i thought it was fantastic. Did you stay right to the end, when they showed the outtakes, and the smashing up several Generals.... :D  :D  :D  :D

Yes, that's one thing you never saw on the TV.
I'd have liked to have seen Jessie a lit bit more 'down to earth', not an em-bittered Korean War veteran.

And as for the phone books??? what were they thinking of?

[Sharpshooter]

](*,)  :D  :D

[TUFFTEE]

Well ion that case! I think i might make the effort! :)

[Bulli]

Enjoyed it, me and Rollazuki went on Thurs to meadowhall. The car control in some of the chases was superb. The jump to the freeway! crazy.
If i remember correctly the doors were welded shut in the series...something to do with racing, i dont remember exactly.
mmmm V8, the car sounds awesome just ticking over!!

[Bush Tucker Man]

Enjoyed it, me and Rollazuki went on Thurs to meadowhall. The car control in some of the chases was superb. The jump to the freeway! crazy.

Yes, but the jumps were even more far-fetched than the series (& as for the out-takes :shock:)

If i remember correctly the doors were welded shut in the series...something to do with racing, i dont remember exactly.

It was (in the TV series) an ex- NASCAR car that was in a junkyard after being used in a bank robbery & the boys & Cooter rescued it  

mmmm V8, the car sounds awesome just ticking over!!

The one they used for the soundtrack, was the Magnum, as it's the 'throatiest' of the proper Charger/Challenger engines

This is a great book about the TV series (& the 2 previous  films), The Un-Official Companion. I've had a copy for about 5 years

[Bush Tucker Man]

Well i thought it was fantastic.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHH  HHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More points

1. The opening sequence with the chasing pick-up & the shotgun through the floor :lol:

2. Bo's face when he realises Cooter has fitted a 'Hemi' :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
I think I'd act the same if someone stuffed one in the Discovery for me

3. The traffic-scenes in Atlanta about red-necks & they realise there's a Confederate flag on the roof :lol:  :lol:

4. One of the initial 2 Campus police was the director

5. It was nice to see Flash was not forgotten

[turtle]

Went and saw said movie myself this afternoon, excellent film was great fun, not a patch on the original TV series but never the less was a good 2 hours well spent :)

[Bush Tucker Man]

excellent film was great fun, not a patch on the original TV series but never the less was a good 2 hours well spent :)

That Simpson woman is rather vacuous, she can't hold a candle to Catherine Bach.

[Bishops Finger]

With BTM on that :D

[Bush Tucker Man]

With BTM on that :D

Here's a few Duke sites

Duke Farm

Build Your Own General Lee

Cooters Place

General Lee pages


Little known facts; Initially the car was to have been a new Trans-Am,b ut was thought too ostentatious.
The original name-choice for the 'General' was 'Traveller' (Robert E Lees horse)

[woody]

It has been questioned why they're running a 36year old car,

you posted this on a web site where probably a large proportion of Land Rover owning members vehicles are older than this :!:  :!:

[Bush Tucker Man]

It has been questioned why they're running a 36year old car,

you posted this on a web site where probably a large proportion of Land Rover owning members vehicles are older than this :!:  :!:

:oops:  :oops:  :lol:

I meant in the various film critics reviews.
My first Landie was only 4 years younger than me. co-inicdentally that was a '69 :lol:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Almost forgot, I've got a Charger (had it about 8years)

It's about a foot long from Nudge-bar to tail-lights.

Now I want the 'Bullit' '68 GT390 to go with it

(& the black  '78 Trans-Am)

[Bush Tucker Man]

And so you can all sing along at the end

I used to have this on a 45 somewhere, absolutely no idea where it is now :?

[Xtremeteam]

cant wait,getting the above film ont vdv tomorow  :lol:  :lol:

[the loon]

took the family to see madagascar today
very good. The bairns loved it. You need to see the lemurs in the closing titles and the penguines in the antartic scences

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol: