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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 11, 2009 1:16:20 GMT -5
I am very angry that I walked into my local Best Buy and purchased (PURCHASED!!) the "Incredible Hulk" video. I was promised awesomeness. I was promised extreme joy. I was promised $5. I received none of these. I will give a full review but, right now I have to [edited for content] and go to bed. ....to be continued later. ...I am NOT a happy camper....  |
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 11, 2009 1:20:51 GMT -5
That's too bad. When something doesn't meet expectations that just sucks.
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Post by fartinggurl on Jun 11, 2009 11:37:42 GMT -5
I felt the same way after I went to my local video rental store, rented the movie 'Burn After Reading,' and was expecting it to be funny. Well, I did not get a funny movie; I got a dud. I seriously wanted to ask the people at the rental place if I could get my money and the hour and 37 minutes I wasted watching that movie, back. The movie should have been called 'Burn After Watching.'
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Post by Demona on Jun 11, 2009 13:50:41 GMT -5
That's why I look movies up online before watching them. If I read what happens I have a better idea of it.
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Post by Phil on Jun 11, 2009 13:55:16 GMT -5
In 2005 I hated the Dukes of Hazzard movie. Made me furious. I grew up watching the Dukes of Hazzard.
CBS Friday. The Incredible Hulk at 8pm and the Dukes of Hazzard at 9. And my circle of friends went inside nomatter what was going on when the 2 programs came on. If it was an intense ball game maybe we would join the Hulk late but the Dukes were like church to those of us.
Most times as an adult I meet guys my age group through work or something or other and if the Dukes comes up in conversation they say it was the same for them.
When the Hulk got discontinued, the Dukes moved to 8pm. That happened in 1982. I know that for sure I was in 5th grade at that time. It was hypnotic although nearly every episode had the same plot.
The story setting is an old widower/farmer from Hazzard county Georgia named Jesse Duke raised 2 nephews and a niece singlehandedly. The Duke family had made their family brand of whiskey for over a century. The revenuers had outlawed whiskey but by tradition the Dukes were still making moonshine.
Bo and Luke were arrested supposedly before the program began. The courts took pity on Jesse Duke and an old widower farmer. They also were impressed by his overall integrity. So the government made a deal with Uncle Jesse that the nephews were reduced to probation and no prison and no criminal record as long as the Dukes would get out of the moonshine business for good.
Jesse agreed. To pay legal fees the farm had a mortgage and Boss Hogg is always trying to trick the Dukes out of their farm.
It's like a silly but heroic adventure about the Duke family battling corrupt county government, where the county commissioner had the sheriff in his pocket and out of town con artists all in 1 bite and the Dukes rise above them all.
In 2005 they came out with a terrible parody making the Dukes moonshiners, thugs and making a display of them as stupid hick rednecks instead of southern neighborly workhorses that you should be able to admire.
When that move came out I was 34, I had told Jason a lot about the story of the Dukes, I bought the dvds of the series and we watched them. Then we went to see the movie. Me and at that time 8 year old Jason. Well I was disgusted. That's all I have to say.
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Post by Beangirl on Jun 11, 2009 21:15:20 GMT -5
I love The Dukes! Every Friday night ;D Don't forget sister Daisy?? Remember those sexy shorts? "Daisy Dukes" ;D
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Post by farti1 on Jun 12, 2009 20:18:00 GMT -5
How could any one forget Daisy's shorts or her body or.......  Then there was Flash the Basset Hound, what a ball of energy he was  |
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Post by Phil on Jun 12, 2009 20:30:17 GMT -5
Of course we all had a crush on Daisy Duke.
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Post by Beangirl on Jun 12, 2009 21:51:50 GMT -5
I loved "Speed Racer" when I was a kid "Go Speed Racer! GO!!" I didn't even want to see the movie when it came out. I felt it would be a let down.  |
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Post by Kimm on Jun 12, 2009 21:54:54 GMT -5
They had awesome cars in it though.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 12, 2009 22:19:49 GMT -5
Daisy Duke was the cousin, Beangirl. Not sister.
I loved the Dukes of Hazzard, also - and was....."meh..." about the new one. But, as a film maker I can see how differences with time (era) and different writers will re-imagine.
I like it, now but, as it's own entity.
(These are 'Bo and Luke' "Jr.", not the real ones... in my head.)
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I said I was going to do a full review of the Incredible Hulk...
I lied.
Sorry.
It was so bad that I don't remember half of it. And to remember that other half I'd have to watch it again. Which, I really don't want to do at the moment.
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Post by Kimm on Jun 12, 2009 22:45:17 GMT -5
If you dont remember half of it, then it was so far off expectation that you didnt even somewhat get into it.
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Post by Classicblast on Jun 13, 2009 8:40:36 GMT -5
Whenever something doesn't follow the correct patterns of a story the whole thing is kind of wasted. It makes it harder for any concentration at all because its as if you have a whole new story.
That Dukes movie was not really close to what the tv show was really about like Phil said.
I did not see the Hulk movie. The tv series with Bill Bixby was a little off the comic book story but not so much that you can't get the connection.
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Post by aido179 on Jun 13, 2009 11:30:03 GMT -5
I felt the same way after I went to my local video rental store, rented the movie 'Burn After Reading,' and was expecting it to be funny. Well, I did not get a funny movie; I got a dud. I seriously wanted to ask the people at the rental place if I could get my money and the hour and 37 minutes I wasted watching that movie, back. The movie should have been called 'Burn After Watching.' awww...i have literally just gone out and rented that movie...its sitting in my kitchen...damn! |
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Post by Phil on Jun 13, 2009 14:13:56 GMT -5
I would say aido179 watch the movie anyway and see if you dislike it as much as fartinggurl does. There's no other way to find out. Like I said I was not pleased with the Dukes movie because it wasn't like the series but it was 2 hours I had to invest my time to in order to find out. That's just how it goes.
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Post by aido179 on Jun 14, 2009 10:06:25 GMT -5
i have just watched the first half an hour...and wow...you really hit the nail on the head there...dud is the word
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 14, 2009 21:35:26 GMT -5
Aido:
Are you watching "Burn After", or "Hulk"?
Never heard of the first.
Watched the second, again, and still didn't appreciate it.
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Post by fartinggurl on Jun 15, 2009 20:11:06 GMT -5
Aido: Are you watching "Burn After", or "Hulk"? Never heard of the first. Watched the second, again, and still didn't appreciate it. I think he's talking about 'Burn After Reading.' Anyway, be glad that you've never heard of it. After watching it, I wished I'd have never heard of it. |
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