Title: Hazzard Star Blasts Film Remake
prophecy girl - July 17, 2005 05:42 PM (GMT)
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| A former star of television series the Dukes of Hazzard has criticised a big screen remake of the show for its "profanity- laced script". Ben Jones, who played car mechanic Cooter in the series, said on his website that the makers of the film had decided to "degrade" the original show. Jones, a former Georgia Congressman, has urged "true blue fans" of the programme to ignore the new release. Burt Reynolds and Seann William Scott star in the forthcoming film. Jones, who has yet to see the film but has read the script, also criticised it for containing "blatant sexual situations that mocks the good clean family values of our series". Car chases He concluded his open letter with a call that if the film, which is being released next month, is not cleaned up, then fans of the original show will not go to see it. "Maybe a kick in their pocketbook will get their attention," he added. Jones, who lost to Newt Gingrich in elections in 1994, operates two Dukes of Hazzard museums in Tennessee, where the original series is having a successful re-run on cable television. The show, which charted the fortunes of the Duke family and their adversaries in a small southern US county, ran from 1979-85 and was originally screened in the UK on BBC One. The schemes of unscrupulous Boss Hogg regularly entangled the Dukes and often culminated in high-speed car chases. Film star Reynolds will reprise the role of Hogg in the film remake, originally played by the late Sorrell Booke. |
Dan Brown - July 17, 2005 06:23 PM (GMT)
I loved the original series don't get me wrong, but I think that Ben Jones is missing the point, all of the remakes of classic TV shows as films are making a mockery of their counterparts.
Examples Charlies Angels and Starsky and Hutch. Both were comdedy films but the shows were more serious.
It is a shame but look at it this way they are funny and enjoyable.....and remember this is 2005 and if they approached the film the same way they did the TV show it would be out of date.
And anyway the Dukes Of Hazzard was part comedy anyway....
Examples Charlies Angels and Starsky and Hutch. Both were comdedy films but the shows were more serious.
It is a shame but look at it this way they are funny and enjoyable.....and remember this is 2005 and if they approached the film the same way they did the TV show it would be out of date.
And anyway the Dukes Of Hazzard was part comedy anyway....
prophecy girl - July 17, 2005 06:29 PM (GMT)
i am not sure if having a laugh at some great show (imo) is the best way to attract people (well the fans) to watch the film
laughitupfuzzball - July 17, 2005 06:43 PM (GMT)
Seems a pretty childish complaint to me, fast cars, pretty girls & guys, stunts and sherrifs normally ending up covered in mud, what exactly was he expecting a remake to be like :rolleyes:
prophecy girl - July 17, 2005 06:46 PM (GMT)
make me wonder if he really knew why daisy was in the show :rolleyes:
laughitupfuzzball - July 17, 2005 06:56 PM (GMT)
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| make me wonder if he really knew why daisy was in the show :rolleyes: |
:lol: they never used sex to sell the show
:rolleyes:
goth willow fan - July 17, 2005 07:02 PM (GMT)
I don't suppose Mr Jones is perhaps thinking of running for congress again and is looking for support from the likes of the PTC :ponder:
NJS - July 17, 2005 07:52 PM (GMT)
Neil's term association - Dukes of Hazzard - Daisy Duke's shorts.
prophecy girl - July 17, 2005 08:23 PM (GMT)
well it was very tiny short :rolleyes:
prophecy girl - August 24, 2005 09:42 AM (GMT)
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| The Dukes Of Hazzard (2005) Reviewed by Neil Smith (bbc movies) Updated 16 August 2005 Contains moderate violence, sex and soft drug references. Like the bright orange Dodge Charger that is its heroes' pride and joy, The Dukes Of Hazzard spends an awful lot of time tearing around in no particular direction. Based on the cheesy 80s TV series about a close-knit clan of hillbilly moonshiners, Jay Chandrasekhar's film seems to take pride in being as loud, obnoxious and moronic as humanly possible. With no discernably witty characters, lines or situations to speak of, this flat-footed remake is a real pain in the redneck. The Duke cousins - Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke (Johnny Knoxville) - live a casually immoral life in the backwoods of Georgia, running illicit hooch for their wily Uncle Jessie (Willie Nelson) before retiring to the watering hole where shapely Daisy Duke (Jessica Simpson) tends bar. But things will change if the evil Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds) has his way and turns Hazzard into a coal mine. Can the boys save the day, their home and Jessie's booze, and beat all-comers in the county's annual road rally? "A FATUOUS FROLIC" Here's a better question. What knuckleheaded Hollywood buffoon green-lit this brain-dead cash-in on a TV show which most of us can hardly remember anyway? Running out of ideas faster than the boys' car consumes gas, Chandrasekhar's fatuous frolic soon degenerates into a monotonous succession of car chases, bar brawls and multi-vehicle pile-ups, with only Simpson's scantily-clad buttocks to alleviate the tedium. Throw in an embarrassed-looking Burt and a shockingly tasteless blackface gag and the result is a movie only the Ku Klux Klan could love. The Dukes Of Hazzard is released in UK cinemas on Wednesday 24th September 2005. |