{"id":2439,"date":"2009-11-20T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-27T23:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T03:23:46","slug":"how-on-earth-did-this-movie-slip-by-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-on-earth-did-this-movie-slip-by-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How on Earth Did This Movie Slip by Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EXpZNFkmdpQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Hey, Townspeople!<\/p>\n<p>Last night the G-friend and I curled up on the sofa to watch a movie and wolf down some primo home-cooked chow.  She was in the mood for something highbrow, but I was curious about a flick I&#8217;d had in the &#8220;not sure about this movie&#8221; drawer for a couple of weeks.  Because she&#8217;s such a sweetheart, she let me watch my movie of choice, even though it gave off the distinct limburger pong of idiocy.  The movie in question?  <em>Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of you (I assume), when the trailers for this faux rock biopic came out, I assumed the worst:  a couple of decent gags sandwiched between really stupid <em>Legend of Ricky Bobby<\/em>-caliber scripting.  Boy, was I wrong!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X8ZUsFkrNQE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Walk Hard<\/em> ain&#8217;t no <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, and it would probably fail the <strong>Dr. John Elbow Patch Sniff Test<\/strong> &#8212; but it&#8217;s not a stupid movie at all. The gags (and there are lots of good ones) are scripted and delivered well, the faux rock is actually good, period-correct, and frequently belly-laugh funny, and it&#8217;s <em>clever<\/em>, pretty much from one end to the other.  Even the ass\/tits\/underpants\/drugs\/poop jokes are funny.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the writers clearly know their rock, and know just the right way to skewer it.  (Wait&#8217;ll you see Dewey Cox go through his <strong>Dylan<\/strong> and <strong>Crazy Brian Wilson<\/strong> periods.)<\/p>\n<p>In short, Townspeople, I strongly recommend this film&#8230;for real.  It&#8217;s a hoot, and I bet it would even tickle the unusually sensitive rock funnybones we seem to have &#8217;round these parts.<\/p>\n<p>Glad to be of service,<br \/>\nHVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Townspeople! Last night the G-friend and I curled up on the sofa to watch a movie and wolf down some primo home-cooked chow. She was in the mood for something highbrow, but I was curious about a flick I&#8217;d had in the &#8220;not sure about this movie&#8221; drawer for a couple of weeks. Because <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-on-earth-did-this-movie-slip-by-us\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}