http://www.indy.com/posts/3532 en-us Ben Neff Haven't seen this movie, but I do remember 'Men on Films' on 'In Living Color.' Three words.. fab-you-lus! Here's a video to take you down memory lane: Men on Films on YouTube Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:43:26 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11053 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11053 Robert Hammerle Chris: Quite frankly, "Walk Hard" is just to blasted hysterical when it is good not to like. The only way I can think to honestly review it is to use the terms employed by David Alan Grier and Damon Wayans on the old "In Living Color" TV series. Remember them? Playing two flamboyantly gay movie reviewers, whenever they critiqued a movie they absolutely loved, they gave it "two snaps and an around the world!" Accordingly, let's just give "Walk Hard" "two snaps!" I agree concerning your description of Dewey's Bob Dylan - like impersonation. In particular, the protest song supporting the plight of midgets was priceless. Furthermore, Dylan has become a bit of a sacred cow. Quite frankly, that was one of the reasons I found Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" to be a bit pretentious. Dylan without a guitar is absolutely boring, and so was that film whenever Cate Blanchett is not on the screen. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:10:59 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11050 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11050 joe.shearer If the movie had been 45 minutes long (that is, if it had stopped at the 45-minute mark or so), I'd be proclaiming it one of the funniest movies of the year. There were a LOT of laugh-out-loud moments, even LOL-Uncontrollably moments. But they just stopped at some point, and the comedy stopped being funny. The "Let's Duet" sequence was hilarious, I thought (and a great parody song), and the male nudity was awfully funny in a totally gratuitously inappropriate sort of way, but somehow the jokes just ran dry for me and I stopped laughing. I even found myself forcing myself to laugh at the lame jokes. As much as anything, the movie recycled its own jokes too much. The first machete-body-severing scene I didn't think was funny, but I would have overlooked it had they not pulled it back out later. I did like Tim Meadows' "You don't want none of this s---!" jokes. Chris, I think I gave it two stars (on the indy.com 5-star scale), mostly because I was so disappointed at how ponderous and unfunny it got down the line. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:48:21 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11044 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11044 Christopher Lloyd I was kind of in the middle on this one -- call it two stars out of four. When the movie's on, it's hilarious. But there are loooong stretches in between those moments. I laughed hardest during the segment where Dewey was singing like Bob Dylan, both the voice and the lyrics, because they were taking a poke at a sacred cow that I think is well-deserving of it. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:20:23 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11016 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11016 Robert Hammerle Joe: After I left "Walk Hard" I must confess that I felt somewhat unclean as I contemplated my review. I kept trying to convince myself that what I had just seen was nothing more than sophomoric comedic trash. More importantly, I would likely be ridiculed for saying anything to the contrary. But, alas, I failed in my argument with myself. For all of its shortcomings, I, (along with most of the small audience) repeatedly laughed out loud. Furthermore, for all of its in-your-face humor, there was a surprising subtlety to its parody of "Ray" and "Walk the Line" that I could not help but slightly admire. More to the point, I have never claimed to be much more than a slightly well informed amateur when it comes to reviewing movies. The movie theater itself has always been a type of sanctuary for me, and I admittedly have a low threshold for entertainment. It takes a pretty God-awful movie for me not to find some type of redeeming value in it. (Good grief, it sounds as if I have morphed into a local version of Pete "I like everything" Hammond of Maxim!) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:54:25 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11005 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_11005 joe.shearer http://www.indy.com/posts/2945 I am a big fan of that type of humor, and I don't get huffy with toilet humor or phallic jokes (if they're done right), but I was really disappointed by "Walk Hard." The Beatles segment was not half as funny as I expected with the kind of talent they had, and too many of the jokes fell down. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:44:47 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10992 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10992 Robert Hammerle Mvittorio: Didn't I open my review with the statement that "Anyone with gentile taste would be offended from the very beginning"? And by the way, even I couldn't bring myself to see "Captain Ron"! And I usually can find some form of entertainment during a root canal! Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:37:54 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10988 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10988 mvittorio I personally thought this movie was the biggest piece of garbage I've ever seen in a theater... and I even saw Captain Ron in the theaters!!! haha Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:59:29 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10972 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10972 Chris Vannoy irratebass: http://www.indy.com/posts/356 We had a pretty severe server issue that (should be) fully cleared by now. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:27:48 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10920 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10920 irratebass Where did my comment go? Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:17:41 -0500 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10916 http://www.indy.com/posts/3532#comment_10916