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The Rock and Johnny Knoxville in WALKING not so TALL!
Hey folks, Harry here... First off, you all know how utterly retarded I feel it is that MGM is for remaking WALKING TALL as a film that has nothing to do with the reality behind Buford Pusser and the original WALKING TALL films. How I feel taking a real name of a real man and then turning it into something that has nothing to do with the reality involved is just wrong. How taking a great Hixploitation film like WALKING TALL and just turning it into a typical action vehicle for The Rock is offensive. BUT, ok... the Rock is gonna play a righteous fella that knocks the shit out of people with a Baseball bat, got it. Now, they're still calling it WALKING TALL though... and these photos, well they all seem to show Dwayne Johnson as being average height, doesn't seem to be walking particularly tall at all. Maybe it is just me, but check em out...
The Rock and Johnny Knoxville pics from Walking Tall
(06/25/03) Walking TallWith filming underway for only a few days it's only fitting that HNR debuts yet again exclusive pictures fromamajor feature filmproduction underway here in 'HollywoodNorth'. We've got pics of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Johnny Knoxville fromon set up check them out here.
c/o www.hollywoodnorthreport.comSee? Ok, also recently, I believe it was CHUD that ran a rumor about The Rock being cast as Captain Marvel in the SHAZAM! movie that William Goldman has scripted for New Line. I saw this being addressed on Filmforce and it put the fear of fucking god into me. I was terrified, cuz I don't want to be seeing The Rock as the Big Red Cheese, and don't worry... none of us will. It isn't true. Sources within New Line tell me it isn't so. So consider that rumor debunked...
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Jun 26, 2003 12:02:39 PM CDT
THIS is the man who should play Buford!! TELL me I am wrong!
by iamjacksuserid
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Tyson,%20Richard . This guy was a pretty cool cat in Black Hawk Down and I remember seeing him and thinking he looked like a crazy cross between Elvis and Joe Don Baker. BAM!! There's your Buford!!
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How great a country do we live in where a man of non white heritage can grow up and play a giant hillbilly and get paid for it. What a wonderful world! And it looks like I might be first. This day just keeps on getting better.
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God you fanboys and you're neo-fascist subtext sometimes kills me! "My lord, they're remaking this movie and a WHITE MAN isn't playing the part that he did in the original!" I'm *NOT* saying your racist, Harry, I'm just noticing this trend coming around lately....do you see Asians offended that the SEVEN SAMURAI was remade into a mo vie that had nothing to do with SAMURAI and was called THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN!? THIS movie here is still called WALKING TALL because that was a part of the script, and MAYBE, just maybe, it'll help get a few bums into seats from folks who remember the original!
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Jun 26, 2003 12:05:06 PM CDT
Ugh, the costumes are awful and I don't see the point of all the
by weedymcsmokey
Frankly, If I were an idiot, I'd think that these were just shots from on set. But clearly I'm not.
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Jun 26, 2003 12:17:28 PM CDT
You know, bufford pusser doesnt have to be the only man in the h
by the tao of joe
I kinda dig where they might be going with this. If there is skull splintering brain bashing action, it could be very cool. The idea of your common man beating the hell out of the bad guys with a bat, all in the name of what is good and right could be very cool. I really loved the first walking tall movie, and if they were to make a remake of that, they should cast John C. Riley right away, and perhaps work on a more sympathetic angle, but since this has nothing to do with bufford, it seems kind of cool. PLUS, PLUS it will get youngins interested in the original walking tall. What could be better I say?
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While I agree the idea of Duane Johnson playing Captain Marvel sucks ass, I think he would work well playing Captain Marvel's predecessor and arch-nemesis, Black Adam.
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Another wolf-crying whiny bitch! I am sick of your type of ranting. And your comparisons were quite weak. Yes, Seven Samurai was remade, IN ANOTHER GENRE!!! This is basically the same kind of movie but with the modern aspect. And the charm of the original was that a good ole boy was up against other good ole boys, but that's kinda hard to say about the new one, isn't it. A few people may complain about the casting as they did on Daredevil with regards to Kingpin, but they have a right to. If a BLACK role was cast by a WHITE actor, there would be a march on Hollywood or some shit, but it's quite alright to cast blacks in white roles, now isn't it. It is a fucking DOUBLE STANDARD and I am sick of it.
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Jun 26, 2003 12:29:46 PM CDT
The Rock is the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet!
by jimmychitwood
Wait..he's gonna Walk Tall to a hot air ballon that gets taken over by terrorists that Jackass has to save with vampires and warewolves....and it resonates with the....aw, forget it....
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the malattosploitation movie
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Damn right about The Rock not being right for the Big Red Cheese. He would be cast perfectly as Teth Adam, Black Adam or whichever name you want to refer to. Just look at the current JSA comics. They are nearly identical as far as build and appearance.
Harry's just still pissed off that when he asked The Rock if he could "smell what The Rock's cooking in his pants" he got his roody poo candy ass bitch slapped back to Texas.
Oh, nice trend too for Harry. Anybody who isn't white gets crapped on because they aren't good enough for a role originally played by a white guy. Stories change, casting changes, unlike Harry's disgusting artery clogging eating habits. -
Jun 26, 2003 12:36:28 PM CDT
I hope Knoxville uses his rocket skates then gets the fuck beate
by tall_boy
that would fuckin rule
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So Beuford just walks around all day looking at his teammates like they're a bunch on monkey rapers? Seriously, he has the exact same look on his face in all of those pics. Except for the solo shot of him looking like he's glad all the others aren't so close to him for this particular play. Oh, and the guy in yellow? Dennis Quaid. Seriously.
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Jun 26, 2003 12:54:05 PM CDT
Harry Is A Self Involed Hater...If you are so smart GO SAVE HOLL
by mr. profit
The Rock is better than that Queen Vin Diesel. This site complains about movies before they come out, but don't diss a Marvel film because they'll write 15 Editorials. Maybe if they have Dead Raped Deers, Warewolves and Vampires, Devon Aoki, And The Rock and Johnny slobbing knobs we wouldn't have to hear you say stupid things like this Don't write later on about MGM flying you on a jet to see this you poser.
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So I wanna comment on this ill shit:
"If a BLACK role was cast by a WHITE actor, there would be a march on Hollywood or some shit,"
You know this is bull...white actors have played black roles on film for ages and no one has said anything. Can you give me ONE instance where this has happened, because I can give over a dozen complaints inthe past year from you fanboys on the reverse without leaving this website. Tak OTHELLO. He can be played by fanboy favorite Patrick Stewart or Laurence Olivier?! Alot of you are complaining about my original comment because of Bruce's "historical impact" and how it should remain faithful to that...well I wonder who has more of a "historical impact" which should cause his story to remain true to the racial origins? OTHELLO? Or some "redneck" sheriff? Honestly, I'd like to know and if you fanboys could help me that'd be great..And btw, you guys are sounding like that Chris Rock joke about white MEN complaining on how they are "fucking losing.." -
Jun 26, 2003 1:27:20 PM CDT
Harry hates on the Rock. The Rock must have spanked his candy as
by sexybeast
I'm guessing at some Movie Premiere for the Rock, the Rock snubbed harry. And now Harry is trying to get him back. A Movie about Buford Pusser is only a good thing. -
If a white man took a black man's role there'd be a march - you fucking pleebs can't see beyond the end of your own nose. What, precisely, is a black man's role? Oh - Historically black roles? oh yeah - we all hold history's account of the black man to be accurate and fair. Or better yet, let's use comic books as our mantra - cause they were always impartial and insightful. Bullshit. I am clouded with rage - so a black man can do just fine so long as he sticks to those characters that weren'y historically drawn or portrayed as white? Fuck you - you're attaching meaning to skin colour.
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Jun 26, 2003 2:16:51 PM CDT
The Rock and his daughter (played by Hulk Hogan) have their ball
by terroristballon
by Terrorists... They abduct the Rock and put a bomb in his ribcage and pay him off to write really good reviews to crappy movies on his movie geek website... Center Stage 4Stars, Godzilla 4Stars... This is what makes news at itaintcool.com, while over at CHUD they got an excellent interview with Guillermo Del Toro, I digress.
Dr. Hibberd - You just had what we call a cardiac episode.
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I didn't realise, vaguely thought he was hispanic or something. Anyway, I think he's a surprisingly good actor.
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Jun 26, 2003 3:16:01 PM CDT
Dudes, people need to chill the fuck out with this "sexiest tomb
by manaqua
For gods sake put it to rest you unoriginal numb fucks. Jesus, the 'catchphrases' are funny the first week (maybe), hell i've even droppped one or two myself, but try and be a bit more original you fucktards. Chill with the beanpole and Hogan schtick already! M!
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Or should I say, boy? Better let the Rock know that his film is made for shithead rednecks, or whatever. I'm sure becuase they hired him, he doesn't know.
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Jun 26, 2003 3:51:02 PM CDT
You know, this talkback reminds me of that little page that pops
by weedymcsmokey
and then I think - If you read the post there's no way you'd thank me. I'm just stirring up shit, or shouting into the vacuum of the internet half the time. Anyway - back to racist fanboys who can't seem to grasp the concept of a (gasp) non-lily-white actor in the role of a fucking vigilante. Geez - that actually sounds appropriate.
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Jun 26, 2003 4:13:26 PM CDT
The Rock and Johnny Knoxville walk tall...just before they fight
by chastain-86
Chastain-86: Keeping AICN catch-phrases alive since 1997. Oh, and just so's I'm on-topic for this one...Johnny Knoxville's my dad. Yep.
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Fuck,fatboy does it matter? At least ya got the original WALKING TALL and maybe this remake will be a bit different BOY, as the south has changed since the times of walking tall. Nowadays down there it ain't out of place to have a black hick with a group of white hicks though it ain't common BOY, that's why they're called minorities geddit?
Besides the man at the top of the
tree don't care who is what in a film they cast who they wanna cast as in the case of JACKIE BROWN in which pam grier was the lead character but in the book she was white.It maybe good hey it maybe bad,BOY but i think the rock will make his own character as he has that memphis thing going on which grandaddy elvis would be proud of. -
I have no love or hate for this movie and I will wait until it comes out to judge it. I see a point that if it were to be historical characters should be cast accordingly, but if this is a change and they are just using names, who gives a rat's ass what race/color/religion/height/sex the actor is. And the Rock is SAMOAN, damn it.
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Kurt Angle is Capt. Marvel, dammit. The Rock would indeed be a sweet Black Adam. Does Hollywood have the balls to cast TWO big name wrestlers as the leads in a franchise hero flick? If rappers can do it, why not wrestlers? Hmm... given the track record of most acting rappers, forget I said anything.
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Actually, the Rock is an American...of Samoan descent. More correct, I guess.
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it would be incrediably daring and yet not that much of a stretch for him. It is the role he was ment to play and he's the actor I first thought of when I read the book and that's Elliot the gay Samon actor/bodyguard in Elmore Leonard's Be Cool...and if it's true Ratner's wanting to do this, then I saw CAST THE ROCK!
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The Rock is half black half Samoan. I wouldn't call the brother fat. He definitely got a weight problem but whats a nigga gone do he's Samoan.
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Jun 26, 2003 5:52:46 PM CDT
I think they should do it ADAPTATION style with Hulk Hogan, as T
by stalking_goat
"White man playing a Samoan playing a white man, I've got a serious identity crisis... BROTHER." No seriously I'd be more interested in this movie that. On a related note though, I happen by a trick of genetics to be black and I still don't see what the big deal is if a white man plays a black man, a black man plays a white man or a Samoan plays a goddamn Martian. I mean how many times has this happened in the history of movie making, why is this a big deal suddenly?
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It seems that lifting character names, plot points, or general storylines as opposed to wholesale lifting the tale of a factual personage is a distinction few get. Yes Captain Marvel(Shazam-era) is white and yes Duane is black(as per the current definition of black which harks back to the slave era... funny that modern African-Americans use the white man's definition of black to claim ethnic origin of those they WANT to include). Buford Pusser was as ethnically ambiguous as most Southern people, most being largely Indian(meaning child of God, as the term originally read, not hails from The Country Formerly Known As Hindustani). The Rock is as much Samoan as he is black, moreso since Rocky Johnson's ancestry is polluted from the African pure, if you subscribe to the racial bias so prevalent in this post's talkbacks. I was a fan of the original flicks, but they were what they were. If one can passably remake movies which ARE classics with any sense of perspective(it HAS been done), then remaking the likes of a "Billy Jack"-budgeted movie is not so much of a stretch. Sure, believing Duane as Buford of the 70's is a stretch, but does anyone think this movie is going to really have a thing to do with the heroically fictionalized tales of the Sheriff-with-a-stick who cleaned up the graft in his county, leading Southern counties around the region to look into getting rid of the more unsavory examples of the G.O.B. network. Now were this to be a remake of the much superior "Murder in Coweta County," I would be puzzled and upset. Here was a movie which did *_not_* allow its writers to tamper overmuch with the great story that WAS the historical truth, by all accounts save the defendant's rambling justifications of his actions, condemning from the witness stand the "Lying N888ers" who had sealed his fate. A modern remake of that story, with Shaq as the Sheriff, would be a travesty. RE-making a fictionalized version of historical anecdotes, not evidence, is a wholly different matter. He has huge shoes to fill. Joe Don Baker is a real actor, with the chops to make you squirm when he glares, not dependent on soundtracks or fake pops from his co-stars. I was pleasantly surprised by parts of The Scorpion King, moreso though by Kelly Hiu(?)'s bod than by the script, but he makes a much more convincing swordsman than most who have fought in a non-fencing class way on screen. Sure, Viggo and company have the advantage, but mainly because Viggo, John Rhys-Davies, and Orlando didn't pull their blows as well as they could/should have, so the winces from the orcs are often all too real. But Duane Johnson has a chance to make a movie, one that plays to his personality, and one that is not sacred cow material like some are suggesting. I won't howl if one of the WWE Divas decides "I Spit on Your Grave," "Gator Bait," or even "Chained Heat" need to be remade, all similarly-budgeted Holly-Woodshed 70's era classics. Let the Rock steam in the southern heat with the "King of Bad Ideas" as his sidekick, it may just be worth watching.
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Wasn't The Rock supposed to come out with a western this year where he plays a marshall in a small town?
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The Rock should do MITCHELL next, he'll have to get plenty puffy though
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These might not be from a movie at all.These could be from the MTV "Rock" & Jock special.Either way,I like Dwayne Johnson.He seems to be a swell guy.
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Who gives two shits what the Rock's racial origins are.Except maybe his folks.OK-Buford Pusser was a real guy.A white guy.So what.I'm pretty sure Jesus wasn't all that pale and he's ALWAYS played by one white dude or another.It just doesn't matter.Not to me,anyway.So everybody hug and kiss and jerk each other off.Cool.
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Jun 26, 2003 8:54:46 PM CDT
Check out Classy Freddie Blassie's WWE Book It is AWESOME
by notchjohnson
If you're a Rock fan, check out Classy Freddie Blassie's book, "Listen You Pencil-Neck Geeks". It was a laugh per page, every backroom story of Freddie from the old days of carnival wrestling right up to today. Freddie managed Rock's grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia. He also managed enemies of Rocky Johnson, Rock's dad. What's funny about the book was how back in the "old days" of wrestling, when they never let anyone know it was fake, many fans treated the matches like the real thing. Threatening to kill Blassie, going out of control when a "heel" did something to their favorite wrestler. This was a time when fans rioted and threw chairs and beer when the match outcome didn't favor Bruno Sammartino or the local hero. An awesome book. I busted my gut laughing about Andre the Giant's practical jokes (like farting in an elevator, not letting anyone get out, and laughing as everyone practically suffocated from his blast). I miss Blassie, he was one of the best rulebreakers of all time, and I'm only old enough to know him as a manager. I wish I could find some old Sheik, Blassie, and John Tolos tapes. Notch out.
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Here we go again with trendy casting, I will skip this movie if the Rock is cast as Captain Marvel.
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Jun 26, 2003 10:08:17 PM CDT
One of the few times Hulk Hogan might actually be a good suggest
by crimson dynamo
Big white hillbilly? why not the hulkster?
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I notice a trend that you can't say a black actor is not right for a part or you are called a racist! PC Police are here!
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Jun 27, 2003 12:22:03 AM CDT
IT SHOULD BE CALLED.. WALKING TALL WITH WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES.
by rcamacho2278
Cuz thats what would make it good
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I have no problem necessarily with The Rock playing a role formerly cast as a white guy. It was SOMEONE ELSE WHO DID!! And that angry little basement dweller Guerilla Films attacked the guy because of his OPINION/FEELING. I get sick of people like yourselves fucking crying RACISM in regards to someone having an issue with a casting decision. And as far as my comment about 'black' roles, you know exactly what the fuck I mean. If Shaft or Blade, characters that we know are black, were cast by WHITE ACTORS, I can guarantee an outcry that will deafen the lands, and YOU FUCKING KNOW IT. And I really wouldn't blame them. No one said shit when the Jim West role, a COWBOY, was filled by Will Smith. I am attaching meaning to skin color?? Wake up Smokey and take a couple of days off from hitting what you named yourself after and realize that most everyone DOES!! It may be a bad thing but it is reality.
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"The Master will be displeased. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE MASTER THINKS YOU, RUDIE-POO, CANDY ASS!"
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Jun 27, 2003 4:11:40 AM CDT
Could someone, ANYONE please get LewisBlack to stop pimping his
by dr. eddie jessup
Geez, what a desperate, pathetic grab at self-promotion. Is there a single person here aside from LewsiBlack himself that gives a damn about this joker's reviews?
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Jun 27, 2003 10:03:52 AM CDT
How dare they disgrace TN's greatest film legacy!!!???!!!!!
by goon bighead
How fucking dare they!
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Well, Hollywood has yet again illustrated to the benign minds of cinema that they are an inept group of unimaginative drones for profit margins and flashbacks to bad films. What is the deal with all of these remakes are the previous decades of popular culture that damn impressive that folks born in the last three should be repositioned to reliving films with marginal talents for box office success. It is not that the Charlie's Angels, The Hulk, Starsky and Hutch, The Fall Guy and so on were not the better than sliced bread back in the day, it is just the blatant disregard for creativity and the pursuit of new concepts, ideas, and better cinema that Hollywood passes of as the next blockbuster.. Now, Walking Tall. Well I am the first to say that the original should have been the end of this story, yet they made two sequels (horrible I might add) and thirty years later they are going to remake it with The Rock of all people. Buford Pusser, my great uncle, was a born and raised Tennessean of the Pusser heritage, a group of rough and tough "hicks" from McNairy County, he did not beat people up with a baseball bat but an axe handle; much worse. He did not approve of corruption, and despised the rebel syndicate of bootleggers and gamblers. So, he took it into his own hands and beat the hell out of some people, never used a gun, and died because of it. I hope that the next remake from the likes of Hollywood is a remake of Ishtar, no doubt there is a whole slew of folks beaten down the film houses in Hollywood to see this film again.
Well, thanks for the ramblings and to Harry, great work and Luv that Pedazo Chunk.
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Keep those oh so hilarious comments comming, fuckstick - your rapier like wit has left me a drooling puddle of man-baby. Are you now going to start talking about my Mom? I can't handle that either. Ooo! maybe you can call me gay! Whew, I can't take this debate much longer - you have clearly bested me. - OK - to all the other peeps. Sorry for sounding like the PC police, I hate that, but I just don't think that there is any stretch required to imagine the Rock in this role - short of his hammy acting and questionable skill (but he is charismatic) - it's just symptomatic of the greater problem with tolerance. That is all.
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Jun 27, 2003 11:34:24 AM CDT
This is getting ridiculous...axe handle MGM, and the others.
by standaloneunit
Well, Hollywood has yet again illustrated to the benign minds of cinema that they are an inept group of unimaginative drones for profit margins and flashbacks to bad films. What is the deal with all of these remakes are the previous decades of popular culture that damn impressive that folks born in the last three should be repositioned to reliving films with marginal talents for box office success. It is not that the Charlie's Angels, The Hulk, Starsky and Hutch, The Fall Guy and so on were not the better than sliced bread back in the day, it is just the blatant disregard for creativity and the pursuit of new concepts, ideas, and better cinema that Hollywood passes of as the next blockbuster.. Now, Walking Tall. Well I am the first to say that the original should have been the end of this story, yet they made two sequels (horrible I might add) and thirty years later they are going to remake it with The Rock of all people. Buford Pusser, my great uncle, was a born and raised Tennessean of the Pusser heritage, a group of rough and tough "hicks" from McNairy County, he did not beat people up with a baseball bat but an axe handle; much worse. He did not approve of corruption, and despised the rebel syndicate of bootleggers and gamblers. So, he took it into his own hands and beat the hell out of some people, never used a gun, and died because of it. I hope that the next remake from the likes of Hollywood is a remake of Ishtar, no doubt there is a whole slew of folks beaten down the film houses in Hollywood to see this film again.
Well, thanks for the ramblings and to Harry, great work and Luv that Pedazo Chunk. -
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How about the reason that AICN is a distant 3rd stop from Superhero hype and Coming soon is b/c fanboys like Harry's stupid comments about how this person is not right for a movie based on a PHOTO! Here is an idea go see the movie or at least a preview before you start bitching!!! I wish AICN could just post the pictures and updates without the 2 cents of a guy who lives in his parents house and works at the mall!!
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Jun 27, 2003 9:03:13 PM CDT
Yeah, Weedy, I overreacted too, bro. No hard feelings I hope.
by iamjacksuserid
Can you believe we are getting worked up over a movie with the Rock in it? Yow.
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Jack Black for president.
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All of you have missed the ultimate irony, Joe Don Baker, an actor, played a returning wrestler who became a small town Sheriff. The Rock, a Wrestler, is playing an actor who made a movie.
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