That was a perfect satire of every Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction speech cliche'...maybe not "hilarious" but very cleverly written. Ed did a good job delivering the lines too. If he really did that in one take it's pretty damn impressive.
More to the point, it was perfect satire of every ED induction speech ...
everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do
The version I saw didn't even have that line in it?
Thought that was odd.
I thought the same thing, I saw it in theaters and "Veeeder" was cut out. I think the scene on DVD is longer (haven't seen the DVD yet). There was a whole lot that was filmed for that movie (even made it into the trailers, like the Cox sausages thing) that they didn't put in.
I'm a big fan of Dan Bern. He wrote a bunch of the songs for Walk Hard, and some of the best ones they filmed, but didn't put in the movie (you can see the scenes on youtube, from before the movie even came out, and I assume in the DVD).
Overall I was expecting it to be much funnier, and was let down. It had its moments, but one of those where the preview is funnier than the movie. I do like all the wink-wink obvious references that someone else mentioned.
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I thought the same thing, I saw it in theaters and "Veeeder" was cut out. I think the scene on DVD is longer (haven't seen the DVD yet). There was a whole lot that was filmed for that movie (even made it into the trailers, like the Cox sausages thing) that they didn't put in.
I'm a big fan of Dan Bern. He wrote a bunch of the songs for Walk Hard, and some of the best ones they filmed, but didn't put in the movie (you can see the scenes on youtube, from before the movie even came out, and I assume in the DVD).
Overall I was expecting it to be much funnier, and was let down. It had its moments, but one of those where the preview is funnier than the movie. I do like all the wink-wink obvious references that someone else mentioned.
It seriously is my favorite movie right now. I watch it once every few weeks or so. I don't care if that makes me a cretin.
everybody wants the most they can possibly get
for the least they could possibly do
There's shitloads of funny shit that was never in the trailer. It's one of those movies where you pick up new shit with every successive viewing.
What makes the movie so funny to me is the "wink-nod" self awareness it has. For instance, none of the actors playing famous musicians look like who they are supposed to look like, so Dewey has to refer to them by their full name (and sometimes affiliation) so the audience gets the joke.
"Great set, Buddy Holly."
"I think you're right, George Harrison of the Beatles."
Nobody talks that way in real life. Which, to me, is part of what makes that movie funny, too.
Also, at the beginning ... when 40-something John C. Reilly is playing a 15-year-old, and he has to keep dropping his age so the audience knows how young he's supposed to be. "I think I'm doing pretty good for a 15-year-old with a wife and a baby."
There are other examples of way-too-self-aware dialogue that I find funny as well: "That was early Dewey ... this is middle Dewey."
"I guess that's the end of another chapter in your life, Dewey Cox."
"This is a dark fucking period!"
Jack Black was a classic as McCartney. Come the think of the whole Beatles scene was histerical.
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More to the point, it was perfect satire of every ED induction speech ...
for the least they could possibly do
I thought the same thing, I saw it in theaters and "Veeeder" was cut out. I think the scene on DVD is longer (haven't seen the DVD yet). There was a whole lot that was filmed for that movie (even made it into the trailers, like the Cox sausages thing) that they didn't put in.
I'm a big fan of Dan Bern. He wrote a bunch of the songs for Walk Hard, and some of the best ones they filmed, but didn't put in the movie (you can see the scenes on youtube, from before the movie even came out, and I assume in the DVD).
Overall I was expecting it to be much funnier, and was let down. It had its moments, but one of those where the preview is funnier than the movie. I do like all the wink-wink obvious references that someone else mentioned.
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It seriously is my favorite movie right now. I watch it once every few weeks or so. I don't care if that makes me a cretin.
for the least they could possibly do
Jack Black was a classic as McCartney. Come the think of the whole Beatles scene was histerical.
that's it. I'm watching it