beware the killbillies


So I'm snowed in, thanks to Snowpocalypse 2014 and there's nothing much to do but watch crappy tv or eat junk food, so I find myself watching this, though I'm only a few minutes in so I can't review the whole movie. In fact, its unlikely I'm even going to finish watching it. But, being a Southerner, I do find stereotyping us quite tiresome. The first 10 or 15 minutes seems to showcase every single thing anyone not from the South believes about the South. Not everyone lives in a rundown old farmhouse or trailer park. Not everyone has junk cars on blocks accumulating in the front yard, not everyone runs around naked waving assault rifles at "foreigners", not all our kids stand in the middle of dirt roads in dirty clothes with dirty faces. Not everyone shoves a big hunk of tobbaco in their jaw before starting a conversation. I probably missed the scene with a chained up pit bull, but I'm going to assume it's in there somewhere. I mean, seriously, give us a break. But in real life, we are overwhelmingly compelled to run out to buy milk and bread before a snowstorm (which can be anything from 1/8 inch to a foot or more). I've witnessed this personally. So anyhoo, I'm sure there are worse movies to watch, and I've probably seen them, but I usually watch them with Mike and the Bots down front, which distracts from how awful the movie is...

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Stupid post. The movie was about ONE family living in the backwoods. Not the entire south. I am sick of idiots that take offense at any movie for such stupid reasons. It's not always about you.
Oh and BTW a snowstorm is 3 or 4 feet minimum.

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