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Wild Hogs is a movie that probably sounded great on paper, but ended up looking like it was specifically engineered for me to hate. “Let’s take a bunch of middle-aged actors known for taking softball family comedy rolls, make them suburban Dads, slap them on Harley’s and make a road picture! Wait, what’s that? Ray Romano dropped out? Well, who can we get to replace him? William H. Macy?… He doesn’t quite fit, but what the hell!”
If I can take a sidebar for a moment, seriously, what is William H. Macy doing in this movie? He always struck me as more of an Actor’s actor, if you know what I mean. High-minded. Accomplished. Uh… y’know, talented. I mean, he found The Atlantic Theater with David Mamet, for crying out loud!
I have it in my head that his participation in this movie has to be rooted in some deep Machevelian scheme to get close to John Travolta, Tim Allen and Martin Lawrence in hopes of tapping into their influence within Hollywood. For whatever reason, studio executives keep tossing money to those chuckleheads. Maybe Macy thought he could do a little networking and get one of them to produce one of his projects in the future. It’s the only way I can still respect him as an actor.
I find Wild Hogs offensive as a concept because it’s another example of mainstream media coddling Baby Boomers and re-enforcing this ideal that they are more special than anyone else. I’ve talked about this before, but this movie seems to be like The Perfect Storm of boomer self-absorption.
It’s this whole “Let’s do what we want” attitude that turns me off. Buying a Harley and talking your friends into a cross country trip. How does this fill a hole in your existence? What about your family? What about a little self-examination? No, let’s buy an expensive toy and ditch our responsibilities for three weeks. Disgusting.
>Oh, and one more thing, you’re not fooling anyone with that hair weave, John.
That about covers it for today. Thanks again to Josh Anderson and Gordon McAlpin for their guest strips this week. I’m going back to a full schedule next week, so I’ll see you here again on Monday!
Have a great weekend!
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It was important to me to make Tom look as cherubic as possible in the third panel to offset the twisted imagery of him chasing his Mother with a pitchfork and setting all of her underwear on fire.
For the record, this comic is not based on real life. 😉
I will maintain, however, that I think “the crazies” still sounds cute to my ears. Like “bedbugs,” or something. A gentle way of describing something disgusting or worrisome.
The Crazies comes out this weekend and I guess you could say I’m not impressed. Since the film is supposedly set in Ogden Marsh, Iowa, I guess I’m supposed to feel some cultural affinity for it. Unfortunately, there’s no such town by that name anywhere in the state. SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE, OGDEN MARSH FANS!
While it is true that the movie shot some scenes in Winterset and Lenox, Iowa (REAL towns, mind you), it doesn’t exactly trump the sense of déjà vu I get from this movie. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns the citizens into violent psychopaths. It’s a subtle spin on the zombie genre and one I’m not really interested in seeing.
Timothy Olyphant is a draw, though. I’ve always found him to be an interesting actor and he’s pretty much earned a free pass from me after his work in Deadwood. But otherwise? The Crazies looks like another genre yawner.
Of course, take my opinion with a HUGE grain of salt because I didn’t even know that The Crazies is a remake of a 1973 George Romero flick. Clearly I am not the target audience. I think, by now, you guys know about my aversion to horror movies.
Not much else for me to say today other than I’m glad it’s Wednesday. Thanks for swinging by the site and I’ll see you here on Friday!
If you have an opinion about The Crazies or just want to yell at me for not knowing the Romero connection, fire it up in the comments section below!
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