Taladega Nights is a terrible movie. It’s not even funny by lame, SNL movie standards. Thankfully, Netflix removes the punishment that used to be associated with bailing on a movie if you don’t like it right away.
Written by randomfool on January 4th, 2007 with
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We upped our Netflix account recently to allow us to have five movies at a time. That has really helped us get through our list of movies faster and made it much easier to do something that we would never do either at the theater or in the old days when we would rent a movie from the video store: stop watching a movie before it is over. Netflix, like TiVo, has really revolutionized the way we watch movies and the kind of movies that we watch. We are able to watch a lot more obscure movies including documentaries and foreign films, we can get recommendations from our friends and, most importantly, if a movie doesn’t grab us, we can just take it out, put it back in the envelope and send it back. Netflix is definitely on my current list of companies that I like.
Now, Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby is the perfect example of a movie that was made for the Netflix list. This movie was horrible. We didn’t even make it past the first half-hour. We did the same thing with Anchorman (and we have been told that we missed out on some funny stuff later in the movie, but it wasn’t worth waiting for to us). Will Farrell is a very funny guy when he is contained by a decent script (e.g., Elf). However, it seems to me that he and his cast of characters just moves from one movie to another trying to repeat the same formula, much like Christopher Guest does (except that Chrisopher Guest is successful at it). The problem with this movie, much like Anchor Man, is that these scenes just go on forever and aren’t really that funny to begin with (a typical Saturday Night Live problem). The scene with Will Farrell saying grace at dinner with his wife, kids, father-in-law and best friend is kinda funny for about 30 seconds but the scene just drags on and on and on. It reminds me of a parody of SNL on The Simpsons where Krusty is the guest host and is involved in a skit where he has big ears and just keeps saying “look at my ears” while complaining under his breath that the skit is supposed to go on for 15 more minutes. After about half an hour, we just looked at each other, decided the movie sucked, took it out and mailed it back to Netflix.
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