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Wanna know why MGM is the gutter of film studios' They do dim dung deals like casting The Rock in WALKING TALL!
Harry here.
The current group of baboons running MGM have just shown that irradiated red asses to the world by casting Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Sheriff Buford Pusser in a remake of the seventies sweaty redneck films from Hell series... WALKING TALL!
Casting a Polynesian Actor as the Giant Lumbering RedNeck Man-Mountain of a Sheriff named BUFORD PUSSER is just about the most assholiest fucking stupid piece of shit-fer-brains insulting concept to ever squirt out the left and right anuses on either side of an MGM executive's head in the past 10 years.
BUFORD PUSSER was a real person. With a real history. Is there a reason to remake WALKING TALL? No, not really. There's a reason to make a film called BUFORD PUSSER and base it more solidly on the history of the real story, as opposed to the Legend that was shot originally.
You don't cast THE ROCK to star in a remake of a "Hicksploitation" film! Cast him in a remake of 100 RIFLES or BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH or HELL UP IN HARLEM -- No wait, Don't... The Rock isn't that fucking cool either. Make New films with him. Like his other projects in development like SPY HUNTER, which looks like it'll (ahem) rock! Or JOHNNY BRAVO or WALK LIKE A DRAGON or SKIP TRACER or KING KAMEHAMEHA. At least those are all original films.
Now, apparently they've contemporized and bastardized the story of Buford Pusser. Here's a lesson. If you make a WALKING TALL movie that isn't about Buford Pusser, that isn't about the redneck mafia scene of the early Seventies and that doesn't end with the sheriff character dead as a fucking door nail, then guess what? YOU ARE NOT MAKING A WALKING TALL MOVIE! So call it something else. Call it, "2X4" Doesn't that get the ol hip meter going... I mean it's got numbers and letters in the title, which instantly makes people think its some sort of hip sequel thing... So way cool huh?
I know, let's make a remake of ROLLERBALL, but let's completely change every single aspect that made the original work. We'll change the game, the premise, the characters, the period, the entire universe and situation... oh, let's cast a boy in the lead and make everyone look like a fucking clown and because the title has existed in the past, we'll have a HIT!!!! Wooooo Hoooooo!!!
God MGM is filled with a bunch of fucking morons, if only they were Leo's supper! Let's send Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson over with a pair of 2X4's and beat the living shit out of these ignorant dumbfucks! Sigh... Shit like this pisses me off!
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You know, i hate to sound like an arrogant wannabe filmmaker, but cant we stop these pointless remakes and give some ORIGINAL MATERIAL a shot. You know in 100 years someone is going to try and remake Star Wars, and Harry Knowles the Fourth will write a scathing article about it then fly off to Hollywood on a jetpack. I want a jetpack.
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You feel strongly about this, do you, Harry?
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who cares.
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Can you smell what The Rock is doing to help film reach new levels of mediocrity?
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This is why I keep coming back to the shite; to hear real anger and vitriol directed to the trash of the industry. Keep it up. Never know what might happen.
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I meant site.
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It gets really annoying when you have to constantly add on to more and more films that you love those few additional words ("the original" or "the good one" or "the one with such and such quality actor as opposed to such and such momentary hot commodity flash in the pan") so that people know that you aren't talking about a shitty remake. And yeah, making a redneck fella not played by someone who's an actual redneck, or could possibly at least pass for one? That's pretty thick-headed. If you *really* wanted to go the wrestler route, the least you could have done was Stone Cold. At least he'd be acceptable as a redneck with a big stick. Someone stop Hollywood before they leave the plane of reality completely.
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The Rock is half-Black, half-Samoan, and he'll be playing a some hillbilly white dude? Maybe he should reprise Julia Roberts' role in a remake of 'Pretty Woman.'
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Time to break out the aluminum baseball bats (less likely to break) and head on over to MGM. Geez, why do they feel this needs to be remade any-fucking-way? Ain't its story kinda OLD?
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Hope it's got a good Banjo Sountrack. Nuthin' like some good Banjo playin'.
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As I recall, the Real Buford Pusser had a brief career as a 'rassler before he became sheriff of McNairy County, TN. Maybe that's where they got the crazy idea of casting The Rock. Also, the real Pusser should not be dead as a doornail at the end of Walking Tall. Pusser survived the ambush and lived for several years. In fact, he was scheduled to play himself in Walking Tall 3. But NOBODY will ever come close to the sweaty, lumbering majesty of Joe Don Baker- a White Trash, Cracker Icon.
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Jan 23, 2003 11:48:38 AM CST
This May Be Stupid Casting...But The Rocks still "cooler" than y
by ripper t. jones
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i don't think anyone out there remembers this movie anyway so why the hub bub
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Jan 23, 2003 11:57:38 AM CST
The Rock is not playing the character of Buford Pusser. He's som
by riskebiz
This movie is Walking Tall only in terms if of the main character using a big stick. From what I read about it, it doesn't sound like the Rock is portraying Buford Pusser at all, just some pissed off guy with a big stick.
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has anyone seen the US release dvd cover of 24 hour party people? not that its not wonderful design, but what in the sam hell does it have to do with 24 hour party people? this isnt Groove. and why the hell dont we get the double disc treatment the brits do?
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Mitchel's on the corner!!!!! And they could even get Johnson & Johnson to do a product placement with the babyoil sitting on his nightstand!
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Soon the Rock will be a post-modern ironic in-joke, much like Hulk Hogan. The guy is fucking novelty act. Period. Anyone who says otherwise is gay and just wants to suck on ole Dwayne's butt.
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Ah, the Redneck Holy Trilogy. That'll save some browsing time. Looks like it's gonna be a Joe Don Baker and a case of Schlitz kind of Super Bowl Weekend. Never too hard to drum up a couple good ol' boys for one o' those. Better start practicing my drawl, belching, and "sumbitch"es now. ...As for Dwayne "Buford 'The Rock' Pusser" Johnson, that is some funny shit. Nothing against the guy, but that's some ridiculous miscasting. "Will you stand alone before the fury of his moonshiners?" "Ayup. [spit]"
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I'd like to take a 2x4 to YOUR fucking head. Learn some respect for the classics, youngster. This is nothing short of a tragedy. I'm not a huge opponent of remakes, and I think they can occasionally be done well - Ocean's Eleven, Cape Fear, etc. But this - this is insulting to the source material.
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Will he have randomly loaded guns in his house? Oh, I miss the 'bots.
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they could be making a sequel to beetlejuice in an urban setting with a cute negro version of beetlejuice sidekick.... oh wait....
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Jan 23, 2003 12:28:51 PM CST
Harry they could call it WALKING WIDE and let you star in it.
by bari umenema
Can't you smell what the Rock is cooking? He's cooking up some mighty fine hominy grits and hog jowl, Beverly Hillbillies style. Mmm-mmm that's some good cooking there Mr. Rock, tasty enough for Harry to enjoy. As for you as Buford Pusser, notice that Harry didn't offer any alternative casting ideas which means he doesn't really know who should star in this. Orlando Bloom? Keanu Reeves? Johnny Depp? Owen Wilson? Or just cast Harry in it. Walking Wide. I'd go see that.
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Im not saying I endorse The Rock in any shape form or fashion but who could play this role in this day and age? Baker OWNED it. Whatever happened to cool southern character actors? Oh well I guess there is Billy Bob Thorton.........
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...because they're spending it on shit like this. *sigh* If only MGM could have NO money...
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I still think you lack a certain modicum of respect, and your threats don't scare me (probably because internet threats are rarely that scary. It's why I use them), but you are right on one thing - the best remake IS The Thing, though it's not *technically* a remake. More a remake/sequel/continuation. But a valid point nonetheless.
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Wait, let me get this straight. MITCHELL WAS ON MST3000? Holy crap! I didn't know that! I was making a reference to one of my favorite films, and had no idea that it had been on MST3000!!! Seriously, has anyone EVER heard of Mitchell in the past 20 years, besides from MST3000?! I mean I even referenced TWO jokes from the episode in my post! I'm surprised that you even know what MST3000 is as you aparently have no sense of humor yourself. I'm sure you will try to explain to me that you aren't a humorless loser in your next eighty posts, but I will have to skim them tonight after I get home from work, because I can't spend my entire life reading, and posting on AICN. And even if I had the time to, I would rather put a gun in my mouth than spend the time doing that.
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I wasn't going to post because I couldn't care less that they were remaking a 70's B-movie and I am getting sick of Harry's constant whining's about Hollywood and what's wrong with it. He sounds like the cunt who got spurned by the Quaterback and now has to sit at home eating ding-dongs while the Quaterback is giving it to the new girl in the back of the Limo. Anyway, Stan, that Billy Bob Mullet line nearly made me piss my pants at work
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and brimstone treatment, while Grease 3 gets hearty chuckles. Would it help if they call this Walking Tall 2? Okay, remakes suck yada yada yada, I agree, most of the times but you gotta admit, the original is obscure at best, so what's the worst thing that can happen? Someone gets interested and seeks out the original. And whenever there's The Rock related news, Harry throws a tantrum. What's up with that?
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The subject is a famous wrestler, and yet I don't see any Hulk Hogan "brother" jokes
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Somebody want to clue me in so I don't have to do my own research? sk
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Michael Clark Duncan as Hitler? Carrot Top as Superman? Emmanuel Lewis as Batman? That annoying little girl from the Pepsi commercials as The Punisher? That even more annoying "zoom zoom" kid from the car commercials as The Thing in the newly reimagined Fantastic Four - now retitled The Fabulous Five with Andy Griffith as Reed Richards, Chris Tucker as Sue Storm, Don Rickles as The Human Torch and Ashton Kutcher as Flamer, the Torch's gay clone?
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John C. Riley. He looks the part, he is the right heighth. Give him four months to train physically, and viola, you got your Pusser. The Rock is so wrong for this part in many levels, but maybe John C. Riley could bring a human element to Bufford pusser that Svenson and Baker left out. Make the real story, and cast an actor that can play it real. Ah man. I am looking at my calander, and slapping my face that today isn't april first. That day is the only time I would expect to read something this stupid.
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Jan 23, 2003 12:57:22 PM CST
My days of not taking Harry seriously have certainly come to a m
by rollo tomassi
A few days ago, I complimented Harry Knowles review of "Gangs of New York", indicating his writing was improving, and my ability to take him seriously was improving.
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One of THE best MST3K's of all time. John Saxony goodness and the poignancy of Joel's last episode. Oh and props to the 4H, I mean Triple H casting call, time for that handsome redneck to take the mantle of Rowdy Roddy Piper and make at least one good/bad cult flick.
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Captain Lou Albano! and Crispin Glover could play his deputy reprising his father's old role. It's perfect!
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NOW ITS A PARTY!!
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For all you marks and smarts, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin is coming back at No Way Out......I smell a swerve. I don't think he's gonna sign up with Eric Bischoff. I think he's gonna shock us all and bring out Shane McMahon, or he's gonna do something with Vince. As long as he doesn't do anything with Steph, I'm fine. (And you can bet that Triple H is reinforcing and polishing that glass ceiling, but too bad, Austin is gonna already be above it when Stone Cold returns!) Notch out.
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Jan 23, 2003 1:42:04 PM CST
How about a remake of "Billy Jack" with Freddie Prinze Jr as Bil
by neofromthematrix
Sarah Michele Gellar could play the role of his idealist love interest who gets tied down and raped by a couple of rednecks!
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How about WWE's Matt Hardy as BILLY JACK?? Man, I watched Billy Jack again this week, and it's gold. I bet most people don't know that the first BJ movie wasn't "BJ", but "The Born Losers," which was pretty fun to watch too. Anyway, cut Keanu Reeves out, put in Matt Hardy. If the Rock can play a white redneck character, anything's possible. How about Marlon Brando as Superman?
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Right on bud. Though there are some good remakes out there - The Thing, Cape Fear, The Fly, Father of the Bride and the true greatest remake: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN; the vast majority are the Wild Wild Wests, the Meet Joe Blacks, the Lost in Spaces, Get Carters, Shafts and the (god forbid) Planet of the fricking Apes's, which are abominations and insults to the originals, slaps in the faces of movie viewers. Nowadays we get remakes just because the producers couldn't think of anything better to do than vomit money onto an older movie and call it a film.
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Buford Pusser was sheriff of McNairy County, TN, for something like twenty years. According to the movie, he was this crusading lawman who took on backwoods crook with a 2X4 (really an axe handle), but he was just as crooked as the punks he fought with. Dwayne is all wrong for this character, and I'm the first to agree with Harry about this. Harry and I are not friends, I've sent him articles for publication that have been buried and lost, but he's reasonably perceptive, and I respect that. I've known Dwayne since he was a teenager wrestling here in Memphis, and I don't think he'd consider this role if a hell of a lot of money wasn't waved at him. He's not dumb. I think he'll pull out of it. as to who'd be good in it, try Tom Wilson or Bill Paxton.
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Just for your general edification.
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I was just using a little sarcasm. Don't get all saucy about it. Oh, and read the rest of the talkback to figure out my points and opinions, you dope.
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I mean really.
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Jan 23, 2003 2:12:41 PM CST
oh, and "inaliable" was a typo? What word were you *trying* to s
by moe syzslak
Inalienable? Don't confuse typos with sheer ignorance of the english language.
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O.K., I work here in Hollywood and have indirectly worked for MGM in the past, so here is what I know about this company: the only property of theirs that they truely care about is BOND. Everthing else is just treated like quarters thrown into a slot machine. They won't fuck with their big and only trusted money maker, but all of the other titles they own are just gambled with to see if they can make any more cash. WALKING TALL is just another example of MGM digging into their ever growing shallow pockets so they can ignorantly and cheaply make a film that may or may not fail...whatever...they don't care. It's all just collateral damage to them. Harry, I join you in your disgust.
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Harry want to explain why it is that the Rock is totally the wrong choice to play a part that in a previous incarnation was a white redneck, but it's okay for Michael Clark Duncan to play King Pin, also a previously white character. And don't say it's about acting ability, because M.C.D isn't any better then Rock, Schwartzenegger, Stallone or any other actor of that type. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this remake is a good idea, just it seems like a blatent double standard.
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I agree with you Harry, this is truly embarassing, they should respect the fact that Buford Pusser was a real man, I am sure they can find roles for The Rock to do, just not this one. Why remake Walking Tall at all, not really necessary. They can cast him or Vin Diesel for Doc Savage instead. There are other movies they can remake like For Whom The Bell Tolls good movie but can be improved with Paz Vega(Sex and Lucia) or Leonor Watling(Talk To Her) as Maria, Carmen Maura as Pilar, Alfred Molina as Pablo and Brad Pitt as Robert Jordan.
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...Harry, know your role and shut your mouth. Harry's just angry because the last time the WWE was in town for a show with The Rock, Harry snuck backstage to try and talk to The Rock. And right before he went onto the ramp for his entrance Harry slid right up to The Rock and said in a girlish and coquettish tone, "Hey Rock, can I smell what you're cooking...in your pants?" Needless to say, The Rock told that fat jabroni to shut his roody-poo candy ass and get him a soda. Harry came back with a Tab that he had been saving since his "diet phase" in the 80's and gave it to the Rock only to be smacked once more. Harry is venting his anger through crappy news on the site and the occasional "I wonder if Harry is gay" animation on the top of the page.
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However, having him cast in Walking Tall seems retarded as all get out. I hope it's hoax. Otherwise, I think the Rock will be a great movie star. People rag on him because he's a wrestler and say that he can't act, but what people don't realize is that it takes some convincing acting chops to play a character in the world of wrestling. Watch how Dwayne Johnson transforms into the Rock and tell me that he can't act. He even performs when he wrestles. There are deliberate moments when he wrestles where he'll pose a certain way after an arm drag to make it more dynamic looking. I think the Rock will be a fine actor and any naysayers should give the man a damn chance before discrediting him on the count of his wrestling career. This isn't Hulk Hogan - this is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment.
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Be very careful. Rumor has it that due to a tragic childhood accident when an 18 wheeler loaded with the ingredients for Mountain Dew collided with a certain portly young lad from Texas, he was imbued with amplified senses and a morbidly slow metabolism. Much in the same way as Daredevil, not the metabolism part. However, this certain zaftig young lad only had one sense amplified and that was his sense of smell. So, pray. And pray to whatever God you believe in that Harry doesn't smell the Mountain Dew you've spilled. Please don't let it have spilled onto your pants. Because Harry can smell a caffeinated beverage from miles away.
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Jan 23, 2003 3:16:17 PM CST
The only good thing about MGM is 007 and now they have ruined th
by tarl_cabot
MGM should be airstriked. The Broccolis should have a "Termination warrant" issued for them too for that CGI shit fest, DAD. Ian Flemming would be embarrassed to see his literary creation be turned into a banal cartoon...
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It must have been the appetite that was amplified and not his olefactory senses.
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BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHA!!! That's the funniest post of the day. Like the average talkback isn't FILLED with inane bullshit? Gimme a break, Cumsteen. And as for Father of the Bride, is it superior to the original? Nope, not at all. Is it funny? Yeah, I thought so. Come on, there must be others who agree, or not, I don't care that much. And Grando, I agree. You're a sub-literate halfwit, and I'm an egomaniacal jackass who doesn't know when to shut up. Peace out to you, and sorry for the harrassment. Cumsteen, you can fuck yourself, since no one was talking to you anyway. Oh, and calling me a faggot? Good one. Real mature and open-minded. you call THAT having something to say? Get a life you moron. I may disagree with Grando, but at least he didn't enforce his argument with bigoted invective. Nice debate technique. What's next? Calling me nigger? Punk.
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Tarl, Ian Fleming was watching Bond get turned into a bastardized cartoon before he died. Kevin McClory's Thunderball gave Ian fits all through the production. As to the franchise, John Gardner revitalized the books back in the Eighties starting with License Renewed. The Broccolis have long since been out of original Fleming material. And nothing Fleming wrote has been safe from rewrite. As someone who read the original
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EXCELLENT! God DAMN I love these fucking talkbacks! And George - I think maybe you need to take some deep breaths, maybe a nap. I mean, I can get pretty rowdy, but you clearly have some issues you need to work out. And finally, for Monkey again - suck my sticky balls you stunted sheep muncher. And for chrissake, how many more times do you have to be told to stay away from playgrounds. Man, I'm running out of insults. Whaddaya got left?
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2 minor corrections. Pusser died in 1974 in a suspicious car accident (alcohol or sabotage?) so he could not have been considering playing himself in Walking Tall 3 since Walking Tall 2 was not released until after his death. He was killed while returning from a Memphis press conference where he announced that he would be playing himself in a sequel titled "Buford." Also, he was not sheriff for 20 years, but merely for 6. He was defeated after the release of the 1st movie due to PR problems that occurred with the shooting and marketing of the movie. In all actuality, though, Mr. Pusser was at least as corrupt as those that he shot or arrested and was most diligent in crime fighting only when it competed for the illegal money that flowed into his pockets.
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Jan 23, 2003 4:14:39 PM CST
no offense but why would the Rock waste his time? I call BS on
by sundown
Just another chance for Harry to rant about Walking Tall...which sadly very, very few people give a crap about. Hey cause of Harry I went out and rented that serial killer movie with Bo Svenson and laughed my ass off and it was stupid great fun but I don't know if I would elevate it to the pseudo untouchable status of Citizen Kane...it's not like the Rock is gonna be in a remake of It's a Wonderful Life. And to be honest I'd rather see the Rock in something like Predator 3 or as Venom in Spiderman 2 or Hector to Brad Pitts Achilles ( that fight would last long) or something along those lines than a stupid Commandoesque action movie, cause contrary to Harry's opinion about his coolness he has more behind the eyes that that or a Vin Deisel and more than that, he is as smart as Ahnuld WAS- like when he dropped the One for Scorpion King...big move...I hope he picks a better sequel or remake than that exploitation stuff...
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Jan 23, 2003 4:25:18 PM CST
I heard they wanted Captain Lou Albano to play Grandpa Carl Puss
by sod off baldric
But it's my only line!
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really? ...but that's impossible. It'll be sad if MGM dies out, but I think the Rock is a real comedic talent, seriously. I find him likeable.
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Internet tough guys.
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Because hitting people with a big stick is his... um... schtick. I'd rather see the Johnny Bravo film, crossed with this one: *WHACK!* "He a-mussed mah hair daddyo!" That would 'rock'.
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...who come in here and rag on Harry and talk about how much you hate the site are utterly pathetic. The people who have the real courage of those particular convictions are, at this very moment, perusing sites elsewhere. I personally think you scumbags love this site more than anyone else in here. You haters are, without exception, abysmally cretinous assholes. Fuck you all. Doc out.
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http://www.sheriffbufordpusser.com/ So, in effect, the people at MGM are doing a biography of someone and changing the race of a real person in that biography. Amazing.
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...WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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I laughed myself silly reading it - so, if I may, I'll continue: What's next? Don Knotts as The Punisher? David Caruso as Shaft? Rosie O'Donnell as Calista Flockhart as Blade? Snoop Doggy Dogg as Billy Graham? Alfred E. Neuman and Beetlejuice as Starsky and Hutch?
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I can`t believe no one said it yet.
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I remember in the original a very poignant scene where somebody throws either a brick at or the dog himself through the window. That scene made me cry when I was a kid. Although, I could have this film confused with the "Jim Jones" movie of the week with Powers Boothe.
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Stop your bitching you god damn Dingleberry.
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I couldn't quite make out if the film you were suggesting was about Punctuation or not?
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warped Kylie fettishist you. It's getting more serious, I can see. Time for you to take your Jennifer Connelly treatment.
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Is because unlike most of you retards here(Dougie Powers)he realises that wresting sux balls. Fat men running around half naked pretending to fight what a joke. Only you Americians could come up with and idea as stupid as that.
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That this is a remake of the movie, and not a completely different movie that just happens to have the same name? This type of thing happens all the time.
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Stop bustin' Harry's balls! He is as right as rain. You super geeks bitch and moan when another geek like Smallville's Superman punk-ass-gay-boy can't play the movie version of Superman and then you rag Harry when he steps up and says it's wrong to not cast appropriately. Casting a half black/samoan to play a real life character like Buford Pusser is like casting Weley Snipes to play Hitler in his life story. It doesn't work people. MGM is stupid and so is the rest of the hollywood big wigs. They only think about money. So much that most of the times it stops them from making a good movie. Even Lucas fell into the trap of making a bad money decision to sake his own movie when he cast Justin Timberlake...I mean Hayden Christianson to play one of the best and most beloved villians of this time (DARTH VADER). He was thinking how can I make more money (he always does this so it's kind of a stupid example), I'll try and get my faithful old audience who grew up watching STAR WARS and I will attract the young girls and gay boys who won't usually go see my movie by casting a Leo Dicaprio type that I can stick on the front poster. Other than that decision, the movie was fine. And Lucas is supposed to know about Mythological charecterization and all that junk. How does a petulant little winey teenage punk like Hayden Christianson bring less to a character and then become the biggest ultimate badass in the Universe? He even gets one of the hottest pieces of ass in the universe by acting like that. How does that happen?!.....breathe....breathe...was I talking about WALKING TALL? Oh yeah, leave Harry alone you geeks. He is a god send even to us non-geeks who read these sites every once in awhile and don't live by them.
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I've known people like you, George. Lonely, angry, and always putting people down by calling them fags. *sniff* It's tough, I know. I'd like to help. If you want to come over to my house, I will personally pee in your mouth. Trust me, you'll like it. And after you pull the jasmine-scented dingleberries out of my ass with your teeth, you'll embrace your new found sexuality. Hell, I might even give you a reach-around later if you'd like. Oh, and can you explain what a "facetiod" is, you fuckwit? Man, have colleges gone that far into the sewer? You didn't mean that college that McDonald's uses to train their grill manangers, did you?
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Pictures?!?!? Why...you sick fuck!!!! As soon as George removes me from his mouth, I'll ask him. But I must warn you, he is painfully shy. Still trying to find out what a "facetiod" is though. Four years of college and I didn't learn that word? Damn, that George is smart, ain't he?
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Hey, you found the word and the right way to spell it. I'm so proud of you! And what's with the "black man" crap? I'm supposed to be all scared cuz you're a "black man"? Whatever, Urkel. What does that have to do with anything? Whatta dick...
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Yeah, I can't wait for your posts. I love sitting here at work, making $90 an hour, while you sit in the library of the local community college you attend, desperately yearning for attention. I'm glad I made you happy, Georgie. Hang on to this feeling...it's the best it will ever get for you.
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More of the Rock doing Joe Don Baker movies. "Mitchell" next. At least it has "wakka-chi-wakka" in it. He'll have to bulk up on Schlitz and mashed potatoes though. "Heart's poundin'...... veins cloggin'..... MITCHELL!" (btw, Joe Don Baker has sworn to beat the hell out of anyone from MTS3K. Seriously!)
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Who gives a rat's dick if they do a shitty remake of Walking Tall? IT'S WALKING FUCKING TALL!! It was a garbage, 70's drive-in (read: old time straight to video) exploitation pic that NO ONE has fond memories about except you. It's like getting upset over someone doing a remake of Road House. Did Walking Tall really touch you deeply? Did you weep? Did it become a part of you? Is Joe Don Baker your pa? Get over it. Personally, I'm happy to see the Rock making bad decisions to star in crap movies that no one will see. It'll only expedite his departure from the world of film. Save your rants for something usefull, you fat bastard. Like when they do a remake of Kingdom of the Spiders and cast Chris Jericho in William Shatner's role.
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Pro Wrestling was invented in Europe, then popularised in the UK. So you wanna blame someone for the Rock, then I'm afraid it's us old chap!
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In all honesty, I don't care about fucking Rock movies. "The Mummy Returns" and "The Scorpion King" were two of the most insultingly stupid movies in the history of film, in my opinion. I'm completely and utterly indifferent to the fucking poser-ass "wrestler" and his antics. That said, I have an idea for Harry: give the Rock some of what Michael Jackson's been taking for the last 20 years. It'll turn his skin ivory white in no time. Then the movie will have that element of "realness" that Harry is dying to see. I hope MGM reads this...
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would kick the Rock's butt so bad!!!
Mr. Molly defined badness. He was so bad nobody ever smirked when they said his name. He just radiated badness.
Fantasy hitman smackdown: Mr. Molly vs. Jules aka Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fiction".
Does the Rock even belong in this conversation?
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I heard Captain Lou Albano was going to be in this remake, but got snowed in. This is truly indicative of what is wrong with the powers that be at the studios. But, if you are going to do remakes of everything under the sun...let's do them....Crispin Glover as Willy Wonka, Jonathan Lipnicki as Rudy the Rabbit in Meatballs starring Seann William Scott. Freddie Prinze, Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair in a remake of Three's Company with Matthew Lillard as Mr. Furley, Ashton Kutcher as Larry and Norman Fell as the ghost of Mr. Roper. Chris Klein in BJ and the Bear (he could play either role). Cedric the Entertainer as Fred Sanford with Ja Rule as Lamont, Eddie Griffin as Rollo, and Eddie Murphy as Aunt Esther. And finally, since comics are so big...Eddie Deezen as Superchicken with Triple H as Fred. Don't laugh...if some studio head is reading this, Harry may report it soon enough.
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Eddie Deezen in ANY role is gold.
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Harry is from the South after all.
The fact is the Walking Tall 'franchise' was ruined with the two sequels and of course the death of Pusser. I mean the last one was a complete joke. I think there may have also been a TV movie. Whatever the case the Rock film can't get much worse.
The fact is the target audience will be under 24 and have no idea who Pusser was. So the concept is Sheriff in the SOuth who was wronged and then fought criminals with a Big Stick. The bonus is that they can add 'Based on a True Story'. -
But it would be NC-17 at LEAST and cost like 800 million dollars to film. And who would play Moe, George and Brass Monkey? Fuck it, just let Trey and Parker direct; they'll think of something. Just as long as I get to be played by Madonna. Or Britney Spears in S&M gear.
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The key is that remakes suck - allows the Howies in Hollywood to use their writer buddies who will just modify the original script by adding hip, trendy catch phrases and flavor of the month celebs (note I didn't say 'actors') like The Rock will be inserted. These writers have no original ideas of their own and the Hollywooders do not want any new people crashing their gig.
I was sad to see ticket sales were up in 2002 - this just allows Hollywood to continue this nonsense. Someone out there is supporting them - it ain't me.
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Jan 23, 2003 11:53:14 PM CST
Okay...if DESTROY ALL MONSTERS is the movie version of this talk
by sod off baldric
No way do I want to be that little bitch, Anguirus.
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Jan 24, 2003 12:05:01 AM CST
There is more creativity in this talkback than in all of hollywo
by darth tj mackey
"Walking Tall" remakes, indeed. Just keep your stinking paws off of "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" and the Ron Howard car movies ("Eat My Dust", "Grand Theft Auto") and things will be ok.
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I WANT TO SHARE MY BEST NELL CARTER MEMORIES WITH OTHER FANS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED WOMAN!!!
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Kneel before ZOD! ! !
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Jan 24, 2003 12:38:43 AM CST
Since Godzilla is already taken, I call that ever-present annoyi
by sith lord sauron
Or I would if I weren't so sure everyone would immediately try to stomp me into paste.
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George is a major league douchebag. His girlfriend has got something those other girls don't have-a penis.
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...this doesn't seem like a movie he should be doing. I'm waiting for the $200-million summer blockbuster starring both the Rock and Vin Diesel as intergalactic bounty hunters possessed of much bad-assedness and strength gunning for one another. Kinda like a sci-fi "Assassins." And yes, I'm joking. Kinda.
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that explanation for exponentially made me chuckle
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Thursday-night binges of "drinking alcohol and doing drugs" really help with the fact that your "girlfriend" is one of the chicks with sticks variety. Cheers Cameron!
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A hip-hop retelling of an old classic... Gizone With the Wind, starring Ja Rule and Lil Kim. "Oh R-dawg, how will I make the Benjamins? Whos crib will I chill at?" "Straight up biznitch, I don't give a f*ck"
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't doing drugs illegal even if you're out of middle school? And I especially love how he posted AFTER leaving to go have sex... talk about lack of staying power... poor girl.
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I claim Mothra... because I'm lame.
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And you thought Bo Svenson was bad in "Walking Tall 2"... Hah. You know I could even see Vin Diesel in this part, but The Rock. C'mon. It's too bad, it's all about branding... The Rock might be okay, as long he is not playing a character named Buford Pusser.
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it's pretty much a slap in the face, eh? Well, I got another perspective on this rock-movie idea: No international interest. You see, outside the states, who's the Rock? oh yeah, he was the one one in that B-movie, Conan rip-off: that don't spell money overseas mate. and a remake of a movie series that no one knows/remembers aint your goldticket either. This would be Americas worst export since the H-bomb, or McDonald's. MGM should really rethink its strategy, and while they are at it, give bond something different to do (make him play detective in London, get him remarried, give moneypenny a boyfriend, anything). anyway, this flick will tank outside the usa, and hopefully, it'll flop inside too, it'll sink the Rocks profile, and hurt MGM, which can only be a good thing. so there. luv
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why don't we just stop putting the Rock in movies, based on the fact that he's not an actor anyway. Every so called movie he's been in sucked so hard it caused a blackhole.And what the hell was that giant lobster from the end of the Mummy Returns, not only did it look really fake to the point where I almost choked laughing, but it looked like a supermario brothers villain.But it might have been good if they need a new spokesman for Red Lobster.
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You people are all dumb cunts. Seriously, you guys all need lives.
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WALKING TALL was pretty wild in its time but I bet it doesn't hold up at all today. The sequels and TV series were an abomination upon the Earth. So why not a remake? Why not indeed? WT will be a cheap shoot, so it may make some money from kids who never saw the original. Why not remake BILLY JACK while we're at it? That was another one where the flick seemed wild in its time but probably looks like shite today. And the sequels were pathetic. I know. I saw them all.
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Jan 26, 2003 6:25:12 PM CST
Casting a Polynesian Actor as the Giant Lumbering RedNeck Man-Mo
by salem hanna
Wo, Harry, don't hold back any emotion...tell us how you REALLY feel about MGM.
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The title 'Walking Tall' was not simply a nod to the fact that Sherrif Pusser carried a big stick, but was a reference to the fact that in reality, Buford Pusser was a monstrously tall man - I can't recall his actual height, but on a scale of Tom Thumb to Wilt Chamberlain, he was at least a John Wayne.
Now, consider the fact that a movie as lacktacular as the concept of a Walking Tall remake, who would you cast to this role - keeping in mind that the money just wont be there to pay for the CGI 'entalling' of a shorter actor. To make the movie work, you need one that is already rather tall.
Enter The Rock, who may well be the tallest man put to film in the past 15 years, former sovet block basketball genetic experiments.
And let us not forget that in this new age of professional wrestling, guys like Jimmy Superfly Stuka and Superstar Billy Graham are no longer qualified to handle what amounts to an action/acting role. Muscular hulks are turned down by the WWE every single day not because they can only bench press a single Mini Cooper, but because their delivery is as rushed and sloppy as a Mexican maternity ward.
I'm probably the single most un-rednecked yet largest Walking Tall fan alive - I'm old enough to remember the actual news events as they unfolded around the life and legend of Sherrif Pusser - and I remember watching the first movie and the second movie with an appreciation for the man versus the myth. The third film was made only because the mob finally killed Pusser and the movie was meant to be a 'oh yeah? well take THAT you mean mob thugs!'
Accepting that the movies, minus the fan-endemic following of the story they marginally portray, and minus the need for American culture to revive the mummified remains of John Wayne, they are pretty crummy films. They are typical of an era in movies where the plot is pointless and the ending has to make you go 'what the fuck was THAT all about?' (anybody who has seen the 'Baretta-as-motorcop' movie ending with a shotgunned squat on an interstate feels my pain) - given ALL that, and given that casting Macauley Caulkin as Buford Pusser would still have a 65% chance of being a better movie than the original, I have to vote "lets wait and see" on Rock as Pusser.
Do I like it? not one bit. Can I change it? not one bit. Should I just spend my money on The Hulk and Matrix: Reloaded and let my ten bucks speak for me?
hell yes.
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Mar 13, 2003 6:11:29 PM CST
Ok...So you think you should be the casting director at MGM??
by lakayemichelle
I know there are some people out there who think The Rock's not a great actor, but he's growing as an actor. For you to blast a studio like MGM is beyond me. They gave him this role because they think he's got great potential. Hey, they wouldn't given him the role of King Kamehameha if they didn't think he had potential. "Walking Tall" is an awesome movie and I like it. For MGM to do a remake of it with a more modern twist is awesome. More power to them. Do us all a favor, find something else to talk about and give us a break...PLEASE...
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HE WAS NOT A WALIKING TALL HERO, he is only a mere myth of Hollywood glitz , how do i know , i lived that era, my family was that era. Sad but true, Stateline Mob and other books written by Mr Morris was none other than lies, made up stories and nothing to really back his stories up. Now there is a book out called Tommy and Me and it has all the facts and truths that just might shock a lot of you about who Bufford really was. Was he liar, a murder, did he really killd Lousie the way it was written, no dont think so, you might want to read what really happen and Hollywood might want to condsider doing another movie that has more true facts of what really happen in what they called Little Chicago Ms, and the stateline mob...........who were the heros and who were nothing more than murders you decide. Sorry but facts are facts , lies are lies and Mr Morris was full of lies and made a killing off his lies , now a book for all to read and get the real story behind the man with the stick!
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Here is a sure fire remake hit."To Sir With Love" starring stone cold steve austin
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Like I have been saying for Years Let the world Know how Elvis Greatly admired Buford it is in some Elvis books already but let the truth come out how they are RELATED A Legend with a Legend that would be Great And for some people I know, to EAT there words....... Jeanie Pusser
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I have to agree with your descprition of MGM. The Buford Pusser story has been embellished for years and Hollywood took what was, on it's own, a violent and sad TRUE story of Buford Pusser and made a joke out of his career. Buford Pusser's life was far more violent than anything Hollywood could have ever imagined and here is a man who sacrificed so much (shot 8 times, stabbed 7, watched his wife killed in an ambush)to make his community safe, then be trashed so badly in the movies. Here is a little piece of history for you: did you know Buford Pusser's mother fought to have Walking Tall Part 2 removed from theaters because the story line was pure garbage.
It would have been great if MGM would tell the REAL Buford Pusser story (another piece of history: the big stick was pure Hollywood, Pusser never carried one as Sheriff). Pusser himself said the first movie was about 70% fiction. Casting the Rock as Pusser is a slap in the face to the late sheriff's family. I aboslutley agree MGM should change the title of the movie to something else. Let the man rest in peace. Hollywood screwed up his story in the 70's and they shouldn't do it now. -
Look I am a big fan of the Rock, and being from McNairy County Tennessee i know a thing or two about Bufford and McNairy County.
First - enough about the hick stuff. Yes back in the early 70's things may have been abit hick in this area of the country but things have changed.
Now as for the Rock playing Pusser - it would be wrong.
First, not to sound racist because I'm not, but during the Pusser era, Blacks were very much a minority in McNairy County. Pusser may have had one black officer on his force, and that caused a major uproar here. Even today in McNairy County the percentage of blacks is verry low. Not because of any racist activity, its just gographic, Its like from about 50 miles east of Memphis to well into Middle Tennessee, there are few blacks in southern Tennessee, by ratio.
The Rock is 1/2 black and it just would not be right for him to play that part and the movie keep its accuracy. Even in the original movies you saw that things were segregated and it was true, things were like that here. -
1 It was a good story and the Rock did a great job.
2 your right he could not portray Bufford but the did not claim him as Bufford, his name was Chris and they was in Washington state not Tennesee which I thought was kind of strange but I also was raised in that part of the world and seen the real movie.
Over all it was just a movie but it was to short 1 hr 15 min I think.
Later
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