why do so many people hate this film????????

StLouisAssassin

Why do so many hate this film. It's a lovable film

It's very entertaining, very funny. It's good clean humor that you can let your kids watch. That scene where Sly attempts to play the song "Devil with a blue dress on" while shouting and yelling as he pounds on his organ...only to look through the window and discovers that he had just interrupted a funeral......that is one the funniest moments in movie history.

I also loved the scene at the beginning of the movie when a new singer auditions for a job at Freddy's night club by singing a song he had written called "The Day My Baby Died" ...the songs starts out okay,and even sounds like a good country song, until midways through the song when the lyrics start telling a story of how his new bride died when she left him at the alter to go plow the fields, and then her wedding dress got caught in the wheels of their John Deere tractor and dragged her down and ran over her... the song is hilarious......

I recommend this movie , its good clean fun.

some of the jokes in this film were inspired by real life events. Example: When the singer at the beginning of the movie first enter on stage, he is heckled by member of the audience. After being heckled the sing looks down at the heckler from the stage and says "Hey, Shut Up" and then lifts up the microphone stand and bends it in half.... that scene was loosely inspired by a real life incident that took place in 1968 where a up and coming singing cowboy named Waylon Jennings was scheduled to play a music festival in New York City. Waylon was the only non-rock (hippie era) musician in the entire show. When Waylon got on stage, he was heckled by a member of the audience who yelled "Take your cowboy sh!t back to Nashville" ... Waylon became outraged that this man was heckling him before he had even heard him play....so Waylon bent the microphone stand in half, threw it down and then pointed at the heckler and threaten to get off stage and kick his a** if he heard another peep out of him. - years later Waylon Jenning went on to become one of the most popular country & western singers ever.

Other jokes in this film were also based on real life story accounts of various country music singers.

score 7/10

StLouisAssassin 26 January 2007

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