Page 1 of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Terrible film)

Jesus christ just watched this film and it`s really bad.

Didn`t fancy it at all from the trailers but it`s had average to good reviews everywhere so thought it`d be worth a watch.

Basically it`s a spoof movie that decides to only spoof Walk The Line and decides that it`s worthy of a 2hour run time.

I can only assume that this film has earned 3 of it`s 4 stars as it`s a Judd Apatow film. The same as Forgetting Sarah Marshall(?) which was okay, but again was over rated in reviews.



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Just been on Rotten Tomatoes and it`s got 75% which surprised me.

What didn`t, is they show the run time as 3hrs 36mins. It felt like that!!!



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American Humor !??! ( or lack of ??? )



K

I thought it was okay and I liked how it poked fun at popstar biography films.

Nick

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Jesus christ just watched this film and it`s really bad That`s incredible - where did he watch it? It`s an interesting person to get your film recommendations from. ;)

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The wrong kid died, damnit!

I loved it, especially the spoof songs - `Black Sheep` is my favourite :D

The theatrical cut was shorter, it`s only the extended version that runs for two hours. People throw the word `terrible` around a lot. Walk Hard wasn`t great, but not terrible. Watch Meet the Spartans - guaranteed to make you reclassify Walk Hard. Meet the Spartans is perhaps the worst film I`ve ever seen to come out of a mainstream Hollywood studio. Absolutely f***ing appalling.

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That`s incredible - where did he watch it? It`s an interesting person to get your film recommendations from.

He came around ours for a few beers, in fairness though he`d recommended Superbad before this one, so I`ll let him off with this one.
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Watch Meet the Spartans - guaranteed to make you reclassify Walk Hard. Meet the Spartans is perhaps the worst film I`ve ever seen to come out of a mainstream Hollywood studio. Absolutely f***ing appalling.


I was actually defending myself to my mate last night saying that it had got good reviews everywhere, when he was questioning why on earth I`d made him watch it. I mentioned that it seemed to be a bit of snobbery from film critics in that it got good reviews because Judd Apatow was involved and we guessed it`s probably as good as that Meet The Spartans which got caned.

I`m sticking with terrible though. We were bored senseless watching the last half hour (we were devastated when we pressed the button and saw 30mins were left). I was going to turn it off but we decided to watch it through. I really wish I hadn`t bothered.

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The theatrical cut was shorter, it`s only the extended version that runs for two hours.

How much shorter was it? It seemed like it was about 20/30mins too long (2hours is a long time for a spoof film).

Actually quite surprised people liked it though.



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Theatrical cut is 96 mins, so about the right length for that sort of film. Two hours was way too long.

I saw it at the cinema and liked it. I thought the spoofs were bang on, the bits with him tearing all the sinks off the wall had me laughing a lot.

Had you seen Walk The Line before hand? It probably does help you enjoy it more

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