It’s being directed by Richard Linklater, too. At least they picked good directors (Tim Burton for Willy Wonka) and good leads for those two movies.

More than you can say for the new Dukes of Hazzard.

I can’t come up with any desire at all to see either Dukes or Willy Wonka. Tim Burton is alternately great and greatly irritating; Johnny Depp really should fit the bill in my head, but I just find myself wanting to watch the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I do have to give one thing to the Dukes, though: Willie Nelson as Uncle Jesse was an inspired move.

And the weatherman from Anchorman as Cooter? Genius.

But what’s up with Bo and Luke being portrayed as morons? They were pretty quick in the original. Well, the blonde one was kinda dumb, but not some sort of cretin. Anyway, Stifler and Johnny Knoxville? Terrible choices.

Agreed on all counts.

I thought Matthew McConaughey was the obvious choice for Bo.

I think Koetchner would’ve made a better Cletus/Enus.

By “Koetchner” I mean “that guy from Anchorman”.

And by “Koetchner” I mean “Koechner”.

According to IMDb, one of the cast members will be playing the role of “Cooter Worker #1”.  Hehehe.

About the only movie I’m going to see in the theaters any time soon is going to be Sky High.  It looks pretty cool.  Kind of like a combo between The Incredibles (which gets better every time I watch it...if it were a comic book it would have to be Marvel, not lame DC), and Harry Potter.

And Sky High has Bruce Freaking Campbell in it.

And two of the Kids in the Hall, including my favorite, Kevin MacDonald.

Interestingly, Kevin MacDonald was...well, I was about to say “my least favorite”, except that there are two others I disliked equally as much.
Which is weird.  I didn’t like some of their sketches very much, like the “Flaming Gay Monologue”.
...and yet, some of their stuff was pure genius, and while I have specific dislikes, overall they rock.  So I don’t know what to say about them, actually.

Well, of course he’s your least favorite. We’ve established before that you have terrible taste.

You established.  Considering your track record, that’s about a strong a confirmation of my good taste as anything imaginable. [grin]

I think everyone (except Trench) agreed you had bad taste. Back me up, guys, favorite Kid in the Hall is a life or death issue!

I’ll have you know I like Woven Hand and Mark Lanegan. (fair warning: disagreement with that as evidence of my good taste could risk getting you banned)

My favorite Kids in the Hall player was: Dave Foley.

And I figured it out: Except for Dave Foley (who was always good), each of the other people had 3-4 characters that were awesome, and one that pretty much sucked.  So when someone mentions a most/least favorite, I tend to think of the one character that I really couldn’t stand.  Except, again, for Dave Foley.
Man, I loved the scenes with the Devil.  He played a mean guitar.  That was Mark McKinney, right?

...did you know that Dave Foley was in Three Men and a Baby?  But he overcame that to have a pretty decent film career, regardless.  A Bug’s Life should not be considered a kid’s show.  It has surprising depth and quotability.

I agree with Nathan about Dave Foley—but only because he seems to be the only Kid in the Hall I’ve heard of. Does that make him both my most favorite and my least favorite?

There’s no serious question as to whether Dave Foley was the best of the bunch is there? I mean, c’mon, he’s hilarious.

News Radio was all about Dave and Bill--everyone else was secondary.

"It’s being directed by Richard Linklater, too. At least they picked good directors (Tim Burton for Willy Wonka) and good leads for those two movies.

“More than you can say for the new Dukes of Hazzard.”

Oh, man. Check your IMDB. The new Dukes of Hazzard was written and directed by the Broken Lizard folks, who brought us SUPER TROOPERS and CLUB DREAD. Director Jay Chandrasekhar also helmed several episodes of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Thus, if anything’s going to beat expectations this summer, it’s gonna be this one.

First, I love Dave Foley (News Radio was probably the best pure sitcom in a decade). One of the reasons he’s not my favorite is he was always everyone’s favorite, even before he became the Kid with a career afterwards. No one ever liked Kevin, and we both have white boy afros, so I dig him.

As far as liking the Kids but hating some sketches, that’s just sketch comedy. Every good sketch show (Monty Python, Mr. Show, Upright Citizen’s Brigade, SNL, The Young Ones) alternates between brilliant (or just ok) and crap. Usually the crap outweighs the brilliance.

Shawn - I thought about that after I realized I’d made fun of the Dukes director without even knowing who it was. Then I looked him up and felt relieved that he really was a crap director. I’m sorry, but you can’t compare Super Troopers and Before Sunrise or Edward Scissorhands. And casting two morons to play Luke and Bo? Dumb.

Great! This is what I get for travelling.  Not only do I miss the opportunity to get closer to closing the gap that NoBFF has created, I missed out on a very fun conversation.

Tatum O’Neal was my hero.  That’s all I really remember.

Matt, Super Troopers was hilarious. Although Club Dread left me a little cold, Super Troopers is almost enough to convince me that there is some serious comedy potential for Dukes.

Almost.

And, Rae, Tatum O’Neal wasn’t my hero, but I did have a big pre-pubescent crush on her.

Whatever, man. I don’t care how hilarious it was, it’s no Dazed and Confused or even SubUrbia. Or even and Ed Wood.

And all the is mooted by one fact: Burt Reynolds as Boss Hawg? A travesty, a sham, a mockery. A traveshamockery!

On my flight home yesterday, well, one of my flights, I sat next to the Player of the Year (for the third year in a row) for collegiate Lacrosse (btw, I guess there is money in that game because he is a pro for Jersey now). We did the latest People magazine crossword puzzle (neither of us purchased it, it was simply left in the seat pocket- really!).  It made me feel the difference in age between myself and the polite, articulate journalism-but-not-going-to-use-it-and-completely-uninterested-in-politics-major when he didn’t know who Barbara ____ (four spaces) of “I Dream of Jeannie” was, nor was the show even faintly familiar.

Sigh...a whole generation will now find Starsky and Hutch, and Bo and Luke and Daisy of the original shows boring.

Z, who was the older guy in BNB?  Didn’t Tatum’s character have a crush? I seem to recall that I thought he was quite cute- if he existed.

One of the other things I hate about remakes is their effect on search results.

DK, heh.  So true.  I can’t tell you how many image hits I get for “Marsha Brady” and they end up with the pic of Christine Taylor instead.