Ricky Bobby: "Jackie Stewart Superstar!"
"When Ricky Bobby drives in circles for two hours, he's a highly paid professional NASCAR driver. When I do it, I'm lost."
Paraphrased from a joke on SonsofSamHorn.
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(Spoiler Alert: Plot details may be in following post)
Well, I saw it. And it was all a man could have hoped for. Very, very funny.
The question now is: Is The Ballad of Ricky Bobby one of the great sports movies, or just a terrific flick that will leave the collective consciousness in a few months, like "Wayne's World" going way back, or more recently "Analyse This/That/Whatever the first one was called" ? I pretty much guarantee a good time if you choose to see TBORB. John C. Reilly already got an Oscar nod, so they won't give him one for this, but possibly Will Ferrell? (I know, comedies don't get nominations but "The Piano" does....sheesh.)
The producers must have smelled sure thing because the racing scenes are top notch and must have cost quite a bit. This is no "Meatballs" or what have you with cheesy sets and so forth. There was some serious coin spent on this one and Will Ferrell delivers bigtime. The supporting cast was outstanding. I thought that somehow Apollo's manager from the Rocky movies had done some time machine thing until I noticed on the closing credits that Michael Clarke Duncan played the pit crew boss role: dude's lost some weight and looks good. Still got the voice, too! Also: the always excellent Gary Cole and Jane Lynch as Bobby's parents, Leslie Bibb and Amy Adams as the luvvvv interests, Greg Germann and a funny Molly Shannon as team owner/spouse, and an indeciferable and hilarious Sasha Cohen with boytoy Andy Richter as the couple that try to knock off Ricky from his damn high horse.
Best movie I've seen since the winter....also the only movie I've seen in a theatre since the winter, but still it was damn good!
Paraphrased from a joke on SonsofSamHorn.
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(Spoiler Alert: Plot details may be in following post)
Well, I saw it. And it was all a man could have hoped for. Very, very funny.
The question now is: Is The Ballad of Ricky Bobby one of the great sports movies, or just a terrific flick that will leave the collective consciousness in a few months, like "Wayne's World" going way back, or more recently "Analyse This/That/Whatever the first one was called" ? I pretty much guarantee a good time if you choose to see TBORB. John C. Reilly already got an Oscar nod, so they won't give him one for this, but possibly Will Ferrell? (I know, comedies don't get nominations but "The Piano" does....sheesh.)
The producers must have smelled sure thing because the racing scenes are top notch and must have cost quite a bit. This is no "Meatballs" or what have you with cheesy sets and so forth. There was some serious coin spent on this one and Will Ferrell delivers bigtime. The supporting cast was outstanding. I thought that somehow Apollo's manager from the Rocky movies had done some time machine thing until I noticed on the closing credits that Michael Clarke Duncan played the pit crew boss role: dude's lost some weight and looks good. Still got the voice, too! Also: the always excellent Gary Cole and Jane Lynch as Bobby's parents, Leslie Bibb and Amy Adams as the luvvvv interests, Greg Germann and a funny Molly Shannon as team owner/spouse, and an indeciferable and hilarious Sasha Cohen with boytoy Andy Richter as the couple that try to knock off Ricky from his damn high horse.
Best movie I've seen since the winter....also the only movie I've seen in a theatre since the winter, but still it was damn good!
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