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When does the scene on the bench take place?

posted 9 years ago by ecmelton-186-105049
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After Dennis Miller's cameo, Joe Dirt is sitting on a bench like Forest Gump and telling his story. Where and when does this happen? It doesn't seem fit into the movie anywhere. At the end of the movie he recognizes the black woman from the bench even though he's in a flashback and hasn't met her yet. Also the scenes on the bench are implied to be in Joe's real life, but he says he still misses his daughters. The dream within a dream within a flashback being told by another person doesn't make any sense. Bad Dream Logic?

For that matter why is Dennis Miller telling people about a time Joe Dirt told a person about a dream he had once? Or the dream was real, which makes even less sense because you can't use the fact that it was a dream to cover that Joe Dirt should be in his 80s after spending 30 years in the past and the fact that it obviously wasn't winter in the dog ball scene? Ugh.

[–] dpartn-141-426064 9 years ago

The movie is full of contradiction to logic of course. But in general poor writing and directing. Spade and Wolf will always be known for their classic of JD1, but had anyone but Sandler been backing this film, they would have tossed the script in the trash or has significant rewrites done.
This movie would have been So Much More successful had they just come in years later with Joe having kids and them following in his footsteps and causing mishaps. The whole concept of his daughters watching him get assaulted with farts and some realization that they found their father stupid and not worthy because of it is completely pointless.
Spade was far too interested in spoofing other movies than creating a viable plot here. It is such a waste because JD1 is a classic and deserved a better followup, especially After 15 years!
People can say it was all a budget issue and I don't buy it. You can make a 90 minute movie with a plot of your kids following in your dysfunctional footsteps pretty cheap. No real special effects needed. Instead we get this compilation of David Spade spoofing a bunch of films and trying to use duct tape to keep it together somehow. I really wanted to like this movie and I wasn't expecting it to be much, but I am pretty bummed by how short it fell of even being viable at all.

[–] ecmelton-186-105049 9 years ago

I completely agree. A few spots had the heart of the original like the Skynyrd scene or Dirt hanging out with Brady and discussing baby names, but those parts were far and few between.

[–] dpartn-141-426064 9 years ago

Very much agree with you. We got a few brief glimpses of what is good and the rest parodies that mostly fell flat. Sad. There was countless scenarios of Joe Dirt raising teenagers and it should have gone in that direction. they needed a Brandy jr and Joe Dirt Jr and their inept upbringing. It wouldn't have been very original, but it would have had far better results.