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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:39 AM
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There is hope for America--Larry the cable guy's box office numbers
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=larrythecableguy.htm

not too good considering it's on 1700 screens.

Domestic: $7,050,000
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:44 AM
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1. They didn't let reviewers see it ahead of time.
Or so I read in USA Today. I don't have to see it to know why. :)
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 10:45 AM
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2. yeah i caught that in my sunday paper and chuckled
i thought for sure it would get big numbers, so glad it didn't.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 11:18 AM
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3. Received a 10% positive reviews rating on "Rotten Tomatoes" - selected
comments:


"Whenever Larry isn't pensively biting on his chaw, he's barking out obscene one-liners in a guttural, noxious stream of little nasty explosions. He's a greasy, oil-burning joke jalopy."

"Team Cable Guy has made a junky, throwaway comedy that will almost certainly appeal to his fans, for at least the first half hour. Then it runs out of gas. Or jokes. The gas Larry seems to have in no short supply."

"That's how awful this picture is. It can't even come up with new diarrhea jokes."

"It reeks of desperation, among other things."

"(an) 85-minute tribute to flatulence, vomiting and the ample rump of its star. ...'Wake up and smell the catbox,' Larry declares... Buy a ticket to 'Health Inspector,' and you'll know exactly what he means."

"It was only a matter of time before got his own critic-proof movie."
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 11:42 AM
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6. "It reeks of desperation, among other things."
I think that's my favorite comment.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 11:20 AM
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4. According to the article I read - over half of his audience was 21+male
I feel sorry for the women they drug out to see this movie.
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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 11:27 AM
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5. You're assuming his fans can get dates. n/t
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 02:49 PM
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7. Looks like we have a front-runner for the awards season with this movie
Of course we're talking Razzie Awards.

Get this write-up at IMDB today:

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-03-27/#film1

Movie Reviews: 'Larry the Cable Guy' and 'Stay Alive'


Both Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector and Stay Alive received the predictably awful reviews after critics viewed them at regular screenings over the weekend. "This is a virtually unwatchable and laugh-free vehicle for the stand-up redneck comedian Daniel Whitney," wrote Lou Lumenick in the New York Post about Cable Guy. Remarked John Anderson, writing in Newsday and the Los Angeles Times: "The only thing more depressing than the idea that someone thought there was an audience for Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector is that there may actually be an audience for Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector." As for Stay Alive, Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News commented that "the biggest challenge facing the audience is simply to stay awake." Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel concluded: "It's not frightening or affecting or even titillating." And Jason Anderson in the Toronto Globe and Mail administered the final blow, "Here's a movie that tries to be a video game," he wrote, "but is less entertaining than a vending machine
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 02:58 PM
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8. IMDB bottom 100: #1
Edited on Mon Mar-27-06 02:59 PM by EOO
:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462395/

http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 03:22 PM
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9. How did this guy get famous anyway?
It seemed like he was already "the cable guy" and had catch phrases the second he first appeared on TV.
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grateful581 Donating Member (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 04:22 PM
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10. what, the hannity & Colmes appearance didn't work.

:rofl:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 05:42 PM
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11. The only thing worse than a redneck is a faux redneck
I hope that moronic ass disappears soon
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 08:23 PM
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14. It's hard to give rednecks a bad name...
but he seems to be doing it.

For the record, LCG is not a redneck. He is just trash.

For example, once, a buddy and I put a tarp in the bed of his 1978 Ford Truck and filled it up with water. Then we sat in it and drank beer. Now that's redneck.
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chookie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 06:18 PM
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12. I know you're not going to believe this but...
...some time ago -- could have been a year or more -- I saw, for sale in WalMart, Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy dolls. I am not making this up; I wish I were. The mind reels.
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-27-06 08:17 PM
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13. I don't care who you are, that's funny right thar... EOM
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