Riverboat
08-20-2006, 07:52 PM
Have you ever seen a movie that was so bad you wanted to wrap your fingers around the people involved in making it? Talladega Days just came out, so if you haven’t seen it, here's my chance to save you a few dollars.
This weekend, I took my 12-year son with me, thinking it might be as funny as Will Ferrell’s movie Elf. The PG-13 rating should have warned me. So should the other movie I saw with Ferrell – Ron Burgundy. At least then it was a DVD, and I didn’t rent it. And I didn’t watch all of it, either.
I had read a few reviews which said it was an uproariously silly spoof of NASCAR-loving rednecks with lots of subtle laughs and so on. Roger Ebert called it a “pitch-perfect parody of an auto-racing biopic.” I saw the word “flawless” in another paragraph. See for yourself - Ebert movie review (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060803/REVIEWS/60803001)
Don’t believe it. The humor was crude, puerile, and blasphemous. It was as subtle as a Three Stooges comedy. I’m ashamed I plunked down six bucks that would have been more wisely invested in a sack of earthworms. I’m appalled that I didn’t walk out of the theatre with my son. I’ve lost all respect for Roger Ebert and any other review who gave this a thumb or a star or whatever they give to good movies.
Worst of all, I’ve lost all respect for myself for allowing my son to sit through this entire work of utter trash. I hope that putting this message out will in some way atone for this. I promised I would redeem myself by taking him to see the movie based on the book Flags of Our Fathers which I hope will portray the steely determination and bravery of all those soldiers who took Iwo Jima in the bloodiest battle in Marine history.
This weekend, I took my 12-year son with me, thinking it might be as funny as Will Ferrell’s movie Elf. The PG-13 rating should have warned me. So should the other movie I saw with Ferrell – Ron Burgundy. At least then it was a DVD, and I didn’t rent it. And I didn’t watch all of it, either.
I had read a few reviews which said it was an uproariously silly spoof of NASCAR-loving rednecks with lots of subtle laughs and so on. Roger Ebert called it a “pitch-perfect parody of an auto-racing biopic.” I saw the word “flawless” in another paragraph. See for yourself - Ebert movie review (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060803/REVIEWS/60803001)
Don’t believe it. The humor was crude, puerile, and blasphemous. It was as subtle as a Three Stooges comedy. I’m ashamed I plunked down six bucks that would have been more wisely invested in a sack of earthworms. I’m appalled that I didn’t walk out of the theatre with my son. I’ve lost all respect for Roger Ebert and any other review who gave this a thumb or a star or whatever they give to good movies.
Worst of all, I’ve lost all respect for myself for allowing my son to sit through this entire work of utter trash. I hope that putting this message out will in some way atone for this. I promised I would redeem myself by taking him to see the movie based on the book Flags of Our Fathers which I hope will portray the steely determination and bravery of all those soldiers who took Iwo Jima in the bloodiest battle in Marine history.