producers/writers/directors of Talledega Nights

The_Hook_Up

..you are brilliant people and I salute you.Saw this movie...really good, dumb, silly comedy, a lot of fun....But props to knowing who a big part of your audience was...redneck, Bush-lovin' NASCAR fans and casting Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Frenchman and making rednecks watch men make out with each other. Heard EVERY redneck in the audience groan in disgust and disbelief whenever an aforementioned scene would appear. Deliberate button-pushing, throwing shit in right-wing, meathead faces on a giant theater screen. Lovely.

GenePontecorvo

Yeah, shit is hilarious, and SBC might be the weakest link. John C. Reilly tried to steal the show. The kids owned it for me though. "You made that Grace your bitch, Dad."

edith head

goddamn it. i really want to see this today but my friend refuses so we agreed on lil miss sunshine.

parsec

so we agreed on lil miss sunshine.

how was this A*****? I'm gonna go on a date tonight and see it.

GenePontecorvo

so we agreed on lil miss sunshine.

how was this A*****? I'm gonna go on a date tonight and see it.

Is that the road trip movie? That one looks pretty good.

edith head

so we agreed on lil miss sunshine.

how was this A*****? I'm gonna go on a date tonight and see it.

i haven't seen it yet either. show's at 7:20. i have a few hours to try to change his mind so i can get my stupid comedy fix on!

mylatency

I so want to see this it's not funny.

aegis

Not that he probably had a ton to do with this as co-producer, but Judd Apatow has the midas touch (with possible exceptions Anchorman and Kicking & Screaming).

noz

Judd Apatow has the midas touch

It's nice to know that he broke the "Apatow Curse." Too bad it had to take him more than a decade.

paulnice

Yeah, I love it when Hollywood sticks it to poor white trash, meathead rednecks.
Lovely indeed.

gloom

this movie was fucking hilarious.

























"was that elvis costello and mos def?"








"no."

drewnice

Too long and drawn out.

Funny, and at times, hilarious.

Good movie, not but not "great".

Falls short of classic.

edith head

Too long and drawn out.

Funny, and at times, hilarious.

i agree. i cry laughed many times but they definitely milked those scenes and could have cut them shorter.

dgriot

But props to knowing who a big part of your audience was...redneck, Bush-lovin' NASCAR fans and casting Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Frenchman and making rednecks watch men make out with each other. Heard EVERY redneck in the audience groan in disgust and disbelief whenever an aforementioned scene would appear.

Deliberate button-pushing, throwing shit in right-wing, meathead faces on a giant theater screen. Lovely.

Did you pat yourself on the back while in the theater or waited until exiting?

The_Hook_Up

But props to knowing who a big part of your audience was...redneck, Bush-lovin' NASCAR fans and casting Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Frenchman and making rednecks watch men make out with each other. Heard EVERY redneck in the audience groan in disgust and disbelief whenever an aforementioned scene would appear.

Deliberate button-pushing, throwing shit in right-wing, meathead faces on a giant theater screen. Lovely.

Did you pat yourself on the back while in the theater or waited until exiting?

whatever do you mean? plaese to explain

dgriot

I've just seen this in written reviews a lot and don't like it. (The whole "will NASCAR fans [code: their preconceived cariactures of southerners] be offended?" thing.) Like their own little holier-than-thou subculture is the only one imaginable that can laugh at themselves. (Didn't Foxworthy make a career out of peddling redneck jokes to rednecks? Hee Haw?) From my experience and from mentioning it passing from friends back home (Florida) that are as redneck as redneck can be, they just found the movie intermittently funny, nothing more or less. The people I found offended by those gay scenes were ones just uncomfortable with homosexuality to begin with, mostly teens/early 20 somethings of all stripes (including some rednecks, yeah). (I can't even begin to tell you how many folks were offended by it in Wet Hot American Summer - mostly of the "intelligestia" persuasion.) It's like people have taken their chief cues about the south from Dukes of Hazzard and Beverly Hillbillies at face value. It sorta reminds me of the people who couldn't fathom that everyone in that local news leprechaun bit were in on the joke from the start.

GenePontecorvo

I've just seen this in written reviews a lot and don't like it. (The whole "will NASCAR fans [code: their preconceived cariactures of southerners] be offended?" thing.) Like their own little holier-than-thou subculture is the only one imaginable that can laugh at themselves. (Didn't Foxworthy make a career out of peddling redneck jokes to rednecks? Hee Haw?) From my experience and from mentioning it passing from friends back home (Florida) that are as redneck as redneck can be, they just found the movie intermittently funny, nothing more or less. The people I found offended by those gay scenes were ones just uncomfortable with homosexuality to begin with, mostly teens/early 20 somethings of all stripes (including some rednecks, yeah). (I can't even begin to tell you how many folks were offended by it in Wet Hot American Summer - mostly of the "intelligestia" persuasion.) It's like people have taken their chief cues about the south from Dukes of Hazzard and Beverly Hillbillies at face value. It sorta reminds me of the people who couldn't fathom that everyone in that local news leprechaun bit were in on the joke from the start.

right fucking on dood.

gloom

i still don't understand why this movie is being labeled as this "NASCAR" movie. the NASCAR premise is just that, a premise of the movie. just as i did not see Anchorman as a "news anchor" movie. every review talking about this and that, will it offend racing fans, if you dont like car racing its not as funny. it makes no sense. its a fucking comedic movie, not a documentary...relax.

The_Hook_Up

well, I dont feel as if I was being self-congragulatory..I just think it is funny that some rednecks paid $8 to watch men in nascar uniforms make out with each other, that is comedy in itself. Also hearing folks reactions to said scenes was comedy. I live in Memphis, a lot of redencks here, a lot of Bush supporters, a lot of those people at the movie...I just described my experience of seeing the movie, nothing more, nothing less.

DjArcadian

i still don't understand why this movie is being labeled as this "NASCAR" movie.

Built-in audience. Nascar is one of the biggest sports in America.

DJ_Enki

(I can't even begin to tell you how many folks were offended by it in Wet Hot American Summer - mostly of the "intelligestia" persuasion.)

Man, that scene was fucking hysterical.

dgriot

well, I dont feel as if I was being self-congragulatory..I just think it is funny that some rednecks paid $8 to watch men in nascar uniforms make out with each other, that is comedy in itself. Also hearing folks reactions to said scenes was comedy. I live in Memphis, a lot of redencks here, a lot of Bush supporters, a lot of those people at the movie...I just described my experience of seeing the movie, nothing more, nothing less.

Well, that plus implying rednecks ==> homophobic in that very post, and this:

Deliberate button-pushing, throwing shit in right-wing, meathead faces on a giant theater screen. Lovely.

To me, it just comes off that you don't really know m/any of the dudes you're stereotyping, despite living around some. Sticks in my craw, if you will. Makes me wanna settle someone's hash. And so forth.

dgriot

Yeah, I thought it was hilarious. Both in original form, and when you watch it with the alternate soundtrack w/ extra farts. It amazes me how good WHAS is, considering that they're lampooning (in an endearing homage way, sure) a genre that's pretty over-the-top to begin with.

I have high hopes for David Wain's new comedy, Ten.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811106/

DJBombjack

Nascar is one of the most boring sports in America.

The_Hook_Up

well, I dont feel as if I was being self-congragulatory..I just think it is funny that some rednecks paid $8 to watch men in nascar uniforms make out with each other, that is comedy in itself. Also hearing folks reactions to said scenes was comedy. I live in Memphis, a lot of redencks here, a lot of Bush supporters, a lot of those people at the movie...I just described my experience of seeing the movie, nothing more, nothing less.

Well, that plus implying rednecks ==> homophobic in that very post, and this:

Deliberate button-pushing, throwing shit in right-wing, meathead faces on a giant theater screen. Lovely.

To me, it just comes off that you don't really know m/any of the dudes you're stereotyping, despite living around some. Sticks in my craw, if you will. Makes me wanna settle someone's hash. And so forth.

no, I only went to school with them, lived around them my whole life, worked around them, so obviosuly I dont know who or what I am talking about...sorry if my opinion sticks in your craw, go ahead and "settle my hash". You dont fucking know me or my experiences so, whatever.

dgriot

...You didn't used to wear one of those "You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same" shirts, by chance?

I kid, I kid.

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about ministers,
homo bashers, Bob Bannisters and true funkiters
yachters and marinas and weekend finds and Roxanne eyes,
And project blowed blowed blowed blowed

All we are saying is give rednecks a chance.

DJ_Enki

John C. Reilly tried to steal the show.

F'real, though. Dude was straight the entire movie. "I don't understand your tactics, so I'm just gonna keep actin' tough until I figure it out!"