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"Talladega Nights" brings NASCAR to the big screen
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While Days of Thunder and Driven taught us what happens when Hollywood tries to take automobile racing seriously, it appears that the upcoming Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby will be funny in the intentional way.
Will Ferrell plays Ricky Bobby, a dominant NASCAR driver "who could only count to number one". The "big hairy American winning machine" is accustomed to placing first, with his childhood friend Cal (played by Days of Thunder vet John C. Reilly) close behind him. However, things get tough when a leg-shaving French Formula One driver (Sacha Baron Cohen, best known to most of us as Ali G) challenges him for the top spot. The trailer reveals plenty of spoofing on previous racing movies, and we're betting that the combination of Ferrell and Cohen will produce comedic gold.
The film is scheduled for an August 4th release in North America.
[Source: Sony]
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PJ 3:36PM (6/30/2006)
OT, but... Ferrell totally looks like William Shatner doing one of his horrific spoken-word bits in that picture.
"Rocket Man," anyone?
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Big Al 3:59PM (6/30/2006)
Dude. Ali G and Will Ferrell in the same movie? I'm gonna wear Depends to the theater because I will probably crap myself laughing so hard.
PS: PJ, Didn't you see "Anchorman"? It's called comedic parody.
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Drewboy 4:39PM (6/30/2006)
#1, you're right, he does look like he's doing the Kirk look.
This could be interesting. Despite how over the top "Driven" was, I really enjoyed it.
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Speed42 4:45PM (6/30/2006)
I can't wait for this to come out. Not because I'm a big Will Ferrell fan, but because I hope my wife and I are in it. We were extras during shooting at Talladega.
Here are some links to our days on the set...
http://tinyurl.com/fzsxc
and
http://tinyurl.com/efcdj
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Chris 5:46PM (6/30/2006)
BOOYAKASHA!
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marko 6:35PM (6/30/2006)
the friggin' trailer is hillarious! Any movie with a cougar (the animal, not the Mercury) is gold!
Best line from the trailer- "You Don't Drive With Your Eyes- You feel the road"
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That One Person 6:49PM (6/30/2006)
Great...another Will Ferrell movie. I honestly cant stand the guy. To me, he only seems at his best in small roles...
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ZoomZoomin' 7:02PM (6/30/2006)
Could be awesome. Ferrell, Cohen, NASCAR...it's very promsing.
It could be the only time I've really enjoyed watching a NASCAR event.
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gabe 8:32AM (7/01/2006)
I'll watch/support anything that makes fun of that redneck hobby known as nascar. Nascar makes us white people look so damn stupid.
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LouDDawG 8:54AM (7/01/2006)
Is it just me or does Ferrell sound just like Darrell Waltrip?
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ShureF00t 4:23PM (7/01/2006)
This movie looks more like an actual documentary than a comedy. Such an accurate portrayal of the motorsport, it's drivers, and it's fanbase. I'm predicting an Oscar award to Will Ferrell for this movie.
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gbh 8:32PM (7/01/2006)
PJ, I'm at once impressed and concerned that anyone under the age of 40 knows of that particular Shatner 'highlight'. ROFLMFAO. Have you heard the entire album that comes from? 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' is also almost painful.
The only thing I've ever found Ferrel funny in, was playing Alex Trebeck on SNL (the mostly dark days, part II).
Guess that's just me. Somebody keeps paying to see Adam Sandler too. Eek.
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Mike 4:16PM (7/14/2006)
I like that version of Lucy in the Sky!!! I don't see the resemblence to Shatner. There is some cool promotional stuff with this movie, the official site put up a Ricky Bobby video game http://sonypictures.com/movies/talladeganights/site/flash/autograph.html
And there is a Nextel Cub tickets contest at http://napa.fanamp.com/?L2878
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Melissa 6:42PM (7/14/2006)
I do not see the resemblence to Shatner either. But speaking of the official website, have you guys seen the Nextel phone commercial, with Ricky? Those a too funny! Oh and that Nextel Cup ticket contest Mike refered to ( http://napa.fanamp.com/?L2878 ), they have some racing games up at the site to have fun with.
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