Did anyone see "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" last night?

evenflow82evenflow82 Posts: 3,891
edited December 2007 in The Porch
It opened last night and I was wondering if anyone had comments about Ed's cameo!
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  • fsu2626fsu2626 Posts: 371
    good movie, his part was just like his other RNR HOF inductions (REM, Ramones) but the speech written for him was a little over the top.
  • coco buttercoco butter Posts: 1,467
    I was a little disappointed with "Walk Hard". A little slow at parts and the laughs were just not coming like i hoped they would.

    Eddie's cameo was great... but i hate to say this... some girl yelled out during the scene "who's that"?

    I just looked at my wife and laughed. Kids today.
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  • KamiKami Posts: 100
    I was a little disappointed with "Walk Hard". A little slow at parts and the laughs were just not coming like i hoped they would.

    Eddie's cameo was great... but i hate to say this... some girl yelled out during the scene "who's that"?

    I just looked at my wife and laughed. Kids today.

    i agree about the movie. i had low expectations, though, so it wasn't a HUGE disappointment, but still not as funny as i'd hoped. the bob dylan parody was funny though. and it was awesome to see ed's cameo.

    i was actually a little surprised they had no mention of eddie's name. i feel like there are a lot of 13 year old kids who wouldn't have a clue who he is...
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  • i agree about the movie. i had low expectations, though, so it wasn't a HUGE disappointment, but still not as funny as i'd hoped. the bob dylan parody was funny though. and it was awesome to see ed's cameo.

    i was actually a little surprised they had no mention of eddie's name. i feel like there are a lot of 13 year old kids who wouldn't have a clue who he is...

    And some a lot older than 13 man.. his 'look' is so different than it was back then, I wonder if people wouldn't recognise him anyway who would've done otherwise.

    I thought his name was in the trailer? 'Thankyou Eddie Vedder'?
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  • how long is eds scene about?
  • KamiKami Posts: 100
    And some a lot older than 13 man.. his 'look' is so different than it was back then, I wonder if people wouldn't recognise him anyway who would've done otherwise.

    I thought his name was in the trailer? 'Thankyou Eddie Vedder'?

    i thought so, too, but they cut that out....

    and to answer Black1991, his cameo is only about 1 or 2 minutes. definitely not longer than 2. but it was a thrill for me too see him on the big screen! : )
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,410
    The trailer makes it seem like such a stupid movie. I don't know if I can bring myself to watch it for two minutes of seeing Ed read a few words. :)
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,333
    Im goin to watch it. I guess with the dude who is the actor is from the will farell genre so it would just be a satirical and really lame humour. Some of it would be funny, but when i get my hands on a copy i will play the part of eddie over and over again.

    There are people older then 13 who don't know who Ed is. My mate argued with me once in a pub that not many people would know who Ed was. Im only 21 so i asked people similar to my age and i asked half a dozen people and they didnt know. So my response was "Have u been living under a rock.... he is from Pearl jam dude"
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  • pjfan31 wrote:
    Im goin to watch it. I guess with the dude who is the actor is from the will farell genre so it would just be a satirical and really lame humour. Some of it would be funny, but when i get my hands on a copy i will play the part of eddie over and over again.

    There are people older then 13 who don't know who Ed is. My mate argued with me once in a pub that not many people would know who Ed was. Im only 21 so i asked people similar to my age and i asked half a dozen people and they didnt know. So my response was "Have u been living under a rock.... he is from Pearl jam dude"

    'Who's pearl jam?' :rolleyes:
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  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    pjfan31 wrote:
    Im goin to watch it. I guess with the dude who is the actor is from the will farell genre so it would just be a satirical and really lame humour. Some of it would be funny, but when i get my hands on a copy i will play the part of eddie over and over again.

    There are people older then 13 who don't know who Ed is. My mate argued with me once in a pub that not many people would know who Ed was. Im only 21 so i asked people similar to my age and i asked half a dozen people and they didnt know. So my response was "Have u been living under a rock.... he is from Pearl jam dude"

    most of my freinds in their 20's know who eddie vedder is, and almost all of them don't even listen to pearl jam at all really.
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  • saw it tonight, and thought it was pretty funny. I loved the "Let's Duet" song they did....frikken hilarious.

    I swear I think every cast member of the 40 Year Old Virgin was in that thing.
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  • justam wrote:
    The trailer makes it seem like such a stupid movie. I don't know if I can bring myself to watch it for two minutes of seeing Ed read a few words. :)

    well, of course it's stupid. It's supposed to be stupid. But it's also some pretty witty spoof of the music business.

    You've got this guy who started as a country singer morphing into a dylan-esque protest singer, and a disco dude, etc, etc.

    I thought it was pretty decent in that respect. It didn't go for the cheap, dirty laugh as much as other Apatow movies ... except for the prolonged male frontal nudity shots, I guess.
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  • I just got back from it. Definitely hit and miss but Ed's cameo was great. As were the scenes with Elvis, the Beatles, Buddy Holly, and anything involving machetes and Tim Meadows.
  • Dewey: "What are you doing"

    Tim Meadows: "Dewey you don't want no part of this shit..."

    Lol at Tim always getting him addicted to different drugs.


    The Ed part was pretty funny "He's been called the giant midget". He also referenced Neil Young and various other rock stars (Iggy Pop etc.) and compared them with Biblical figures.

    Overall a kind of slow comedy (no where near as funny as Superbad) but still really funny in parts.

    Thank god for those blankets. Ha.
  • In the beginning too one of the backup guitarist looked exactly like Stone. I wouldn't be surprised if Stone was in the background. The dude had the glasses and the classic Stone strum. I swore it was him.
  • beezbeez Posts: 22
    I thought the movie was fucking hilarious and the scene with the "Beatles" was one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen in a film. Ed was great also!
  • Saw it tonight with my 85 year old uncle who thought a movie we had seen with a girl in har panties was X-rated and my 27 year old cousin who was completely mortified by seeing it with our uncle. I must have missed something on this board because I had no idea Eddie was going to appear, and, upon seeing him, I said, "Holy F*ck!" loud enough for the entire theatre to hear as my cousin asked, "Who's that?" I thought the speech was a also a spoof on the REM induction last year do I remember that correctly?
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  • I saw Walk Hard Saturday and it was fucking funny, my favorite movie of the year.

    When Eddie came on i just yelled YEAAAA, and my friend yelled out EDDIEE
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  • Saw it Xmas night. Not as funny as some of Apatow's other projects, IMO. One thing I could swear I saw though: when "Walk Hard" was climbing the charts and gaining popularity, they showed what looked like the Billboard chart, and above Walk Hard was a band named "Ames Brothers". I thought that was cool, and wonder if someone really influential in the movie is a huge PJ fan.
  • halvhalv Posts: 701
    Saw it last night and was a bit disappointed. Felt like it should have been funnier but it was missing something. The scene with the Beatles was hilarious though! Ed was great. The guys a pro. Mr Hollywood!
  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 92,505
    Saw it last Friday. Gonna try and watch it again next week. It was funny as hell. The Apatow Company is amazing. Close 2nd to View Askew Productions Crew (A Kevin Smith joint). :)

    Tim Meadow must do another Ladies Man movie. He must. "Dewey, you don't want no part of this shit." hahahaha.
  • rssesqrssesq Posts: 3,299
    they cut Dewey's line to ed

    In the original trailer Dewey responds to Ed by saying, "thank you Mr. VEEder."

    it didnt make the cut i guess for the film.
  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    i agree about the movie. i had low expectations, though, so it wasn't a HUGE disappointment, but still not as funny as i'd hoped. the bob dylan parody was funny though. and it was awesome to see ed's cameo.

    i was actually a little surprised they had no mention of eddie's name. i feel like there are a lot of 13 year old kids who wouldn't have a clue who he is...


    in one of the trailer's i saw earlier this summer, dewey says "well thank you eddie veeeder."---i guess they cut that part out! sons of bitches
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  • demetriosdemetrios Posts: 92,505
    rssesq wrote:
    they cut Dewey's line to ed

    In the original trailer Dewey responds to Ed by saying, "thank you Mr. VEEder."

    it didnt make the cut i guess for the film.

    they also cut the part when we was advertising the sausages. "if it doesn't say cox. then it doesn't taste like cox"

    hahahah
  • Dewey: "What are you doing"

    Tim Meadows: "Dewey you don't want no part of this shit..."

    Lol at Tim always getting him addicted to different drugs.


    The Ed part was pretty funny "He's been called the giant midget". He also referenced Neil Young and various other rock stars (Iggy Pop etc.) and compared them with Biblical figures.

    Overall a kind of slow comedy (no where near as funny as Superbad) but still really funny in parts.

    Thank god for those blankets. Ha.

    You know what? I liked Superbad. I almost think Walk Hard was funnier. I dunno. I like how completely self-aware WH is. Like, obviously, John C. Reilly could never pass for a teenager, so they keep reminding you how old he is in the dialogue. "I think I'm doing pretty well for a 15-year-old with a wife and a kid." Even though he looks 37.

    I also like how he refers to almost every famous person by their full name.

    "Hey there, Buddy Holly."
    "Great set, Elvis Presley."
    "What do you think, George Harrison of the Beatles?"

    As if the audience wouldn't know who it was supposed to be without Dewey Cox name dropping.

    I guess I'm just entertained by some really offbeat shit.

    And, yeah, the Tim Meadows scenes were great.

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  • Like many of the other posters, I liked the movie, but not as much as Apatow's other recent projects. Jenna Fischer (and her boobs), Ed, Elvis, The Beatles and Tim Meadows were the highlights. I wish Tim Meadows was in every movie. He's easily my favourite SNL alum. Just seeing his face on screen brings me a huge smile.

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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,908
    yea i hear ya...i gues i just had too high expectations going in. hopefully this will be even a smidget of how funny anchor man was on succesive viewings. i was disapointed in the theater. but the 2nd viewing and subsequent 100 viewings made it one of the most funny movies i've ever seen...walk hard. thats my motto. thats my creeed!
    You know what? I liked Superbad. I almost think Walk Hard was funnier. I dunno. I like how completely self-aware WH is. Like, obviously, John C. Reilly could never pass for a teenager, so they keep reminding you how old he is in the dialogue. "I think I'm doing pretty well for a 15-year-old with a wife and a kid." Even though he looks 37.

    I also like how he refers to almost every famous person by their full name.

    "Hey there, Buddy Holly."
    "Great set, Elvis Presley."
    "What do you think, George Harrison of the Beatles?"

    As if the audience wouldn't know who it was supposed to be without Dewey Cox name dropping.

    I guess I'm just entertained by some really offbeat shit.

    And, yeah, the Tim Meadows scenes were great.

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  • fsu2626 wrote:
    good movie, his part was just like his other RNR HOF inductions (REM, Ramones) but the speech written for him was a little over the top.

    funny, I thought the exact opposite thing. I thought it wasn't over the top enough. If they really wanted to goof on an ed introduction, they should have done a time lapse (hours have passed) and show people in the audience sleeping and rolling their eyes. as it is, it's kind of used to give cred to the mythology of dewey cox.

    the movie was okay. the music is awesome, John c. reily is fantastic and tim meadows steals every scene he's in (as usual).
  • pearljamjenpearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    I saw the movie last night and thought it was hilarious! Things were so over the top and just plain ridiculous (as a previous poster mentioned when he was supposed to be 14 and his girlfriend was supposed to be 12). I was laughing throughout the whole movie. I didn't go because Eddie was in it; I thought the trailer looked pretty funny, but seeing Eddie in it was very nice too. :p
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