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This was bad...wow

posted 12 years ago by MoDo12
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Someone thought it would be a good idea to copy the dukes of hazard (using an orange Camaro instead of orange 69 Charger) and then using a guy from American Graffiti instead of Bo and Luke Duke. Does it work? **** NO!

The driving scenes are sped up and look ridiculous, the acting is bad, the plot...I can't say, I shut it off after 15 minutes.

[–] PenTheater 12 years ago

Then you missed some funny stuff, the speeded up driving scenes and some other camera work added to the idea of the story. There wasn't too much of that but it worked where it was. The characters and the scenes at the jail were funny, as well as a lot of pre blues brothers crashes.

[–] Ezreal 12 years ago

Above all, Roger Corman is a time traveller? The Dukes of Hazzard didn't start until 1979.

[–] Ten-Inch-Toni 10 years ago

Some people don't know that facts before they put down a great American 70s classic do they?

[–] Petronius Arbiter II 10 years ago

Who's copying whom, indeed?

...the consensus among historians and film critics is that the first modern car chase movie was 1968's Bullitt. (From The Wikipedia of Life, "car chase"-PA2)

The earliest-filmed car chase scene I can remember seeing was from the W.C. Fields classic, "The Bank Dick." (1940)

I haven't seen 1903's wonderful 11-minute short "The Great Train Robbery" for a long time, but offhand, I do seem to remember one or more horse chase scenes that sure look to me to be a prime example of a predecessor to the many, many car chase scenes that have been filmed in the 110 years since then.

I also haven't seen "Eat My Dust" yet, but I wanted to see it when it first came out, and intend to watch it sooner or later. If nothing else, I'm very interested in seeing the very beginning of the transition from Little Ronnie Howard to Ron Howard, the actor/director we all know. SO MANY child actors had careers that never stood a snowball's chance in hell of surviving puberty. Ron's career did, and I congratulate him, his supportive family, and Roger Corman for making it happen.

"I don't deduce, I observe."

[–] Strangerhand 9 years ago

Someone thought it would be a good idea to copy the dukes of hazard

You dumb *beep*!

Your "thinking" is bad...wow! And stupid too! How in the hell is that the movie's fault!

Fifteen minutes? I shut you off after one post. *ploink!* Dumb *beep*in' n00bie! Now go make a good original movie for once, you incapable little ADD-afflict!

Eat My Dust > MooDooDoo12YearOld

So eat that! Also eat *beep* and die too.

[–] blynelly 8 years ago

The Dukes of Hazard started in 1979. There are many more movies with car chases. If you don't know what you're talking about you should most liklely not talk.

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[–] mike_cable 8 years ago

I'll agree that "this was bad". But it's probably my fault, as I've been on a binge of road movies such as Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, White Lightning, Fear is the Key and Vanishing Point recently.

Eat My Dust is not in the same league, I feel. I knew from it being a Roger Corman film that it might not be as appealing as the other films I've mentioned. The sped-up footage was disappointing as I like to see car chases in real time speed.

I was surprised to see it rated so high on IMDB.