Walk Hard: The Movie That's Remade Every Year
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
- Walk Hard is such a great parody film that it has been able to poke fun at the movies that came out before it was released, and after it was released.
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Thanks so much for this review! My uncle was a roadie for Dewey in the 70s so his music always has a special place in my heart!
Technically, Uncle Ray was a plumber but he went on tour with Dewey to repair the water lines from all the sinks that got ripped out. He never forgot those days!
"wrong kid died" is the greatest catch phrase a character ever had
I like when he's like I want you to be a better father than I was.. 😭 ok.. it shouldn't be that hard!
wrong keed died
The wrong corey died
and you never once paid for druugs Dewey, not once!
WRONG! Its get out of here Dewey we’re smoking reefer, you dont want none of this shit….. its not addictive! Its the cheapest drug there is
Walk Hard is timeless.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a great update to it because it gets most of its humor from taking itself extremely seriously while Walk Hard generally is more winking to the audience.
Both all time great comedy films.
I also love how both movies have the protagonist die basically a few moments after the story concludes.
I was expecting this comment
Walk Hard: "okay guys we get it now please stop making this exact movie"
Weird: "JESUS CHRIST GUYS IT'S BEEN 15 YEARS SINCE WALK HARD YOU NEED TO STOP"
I like Weird a little more because it also takes a stab at how these movies distort the truth
I forgot Weird came out. If it’s like Walk Hard might give it a look.
"Get outta here, Dewey. You don't want none of this shit."
I’m think I wanna try some of that kickaine.
It sounds expensive.
And you never paid for drugs. Not once.
Still my favorite line in the flick
ITS THE CHEAPEST DRUG THERE IS
The Bob Marley trailer KILLED me bc he’s humming “don’t you worry…bout a thing” to his kids in the car, they like it, and he goes “ooh you like that one huh” like bro how many times can we do this hahaha
"man, why you kids acting like some Iron Lion Zion...Wait a minute"
And his dreads are perfect and his beard is lined up lol
"YOU DON'T GET IT, RITA!!! I'M GONNA BE IRON LIKE A LION IN ZION!!! Wait... Iron Lion Zion!"
@@YouCantDeleteDenzelL 'Bob, don't you DARE write a song right now!"
@@thewrightbros5711thats how i feel about the tupac movie and show. Both had his beard perfectly trimmed
Walk Hard’s not just a parody. It is a musical of the highest quality with a timeless, expertly crafted soundtrack.
Any musical lives and dies by the songs. This is why Walk Hard is more than just great satire.
That’s the real genius of the movie. The songs ALMOST sound like they could have been actual hits from the time period, and John C. Reilly sings them all with as much conviction as he did “Mister Cellophane” in _Chicago._
@@gelchert Guilty as Charged is a legitimately good not-a-parody song. Reilly's a far better singer than Bob Dylan on Royal Jelly. Heck, Black Sheep was written by Van Dyke Parks who worked with Brian Wilson on SMiLE.
Then there are the songs which mock sensibilities of the time which, as they say, "could never get made in 2024".
@@JoJoJokerNothing can be made today without SOMEONE getting upset. People call the classic sitcom “All In The Family” racist for awhile because they don’t understand it. It’s about a guy that while “prejudiced/problematic” has character.
But now there’s as many people who say it’s woke because the MC isn’t perfect, and it mentions racism, antisemitism, xenophobia etc. Even when his prejudices get validated in some instances.
People just like strife.
And they never ONCE paid for drugs... Not once...
“Recorded just thirty-five minutes ago” is something I really want to say if I get into radio.
Godspeed to ya
That better be AM radio
"He needs more blankets AND he needs less blankets!" "I think you're right."
Too many blankets!!!!!
I say this all the time and know one gets the reference 😢😂
came loooking for this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of these blankets have saved my life.
@@rcdune7132"Then we need more blankets and less blankets at the same time!"
When i was in jail they put this movie on. It was so good i forgot i was in jail when it was over lol
That's the best review for a movie I ever heard. How long were you in for at that point, if you don't mind me asking
He said jail not prison, so possibly a night.
@@arthurdent5357 They do keep people in jail for longer than a night. My brother is currently serving 45 day jail sentence. Jail sentences are typically a year or less, prison typically more than a year.
I did almost a year in county.everybody says it’s worse than prison because there’s nothing for you to do.prisons have programs etc.
“Ain’t nothin horrible gonna happen today” and “I can’t build you a candy house. It will melt when it rains” are probably my favorite lines. Walk hard is such a good movie.
You can if it never rains!!!!
@@Chicken_Wing91lmao
It’s better than it had any right to be🤣🤣John C. Reilly is great so it’s doesn’t surprise me
"I'm cut in half real bad, Dewey" might just be the funniest line ever committed to film.
"DEWEY! I'M HALVED!"
How about "son... I wish I spent more time playing catch with you and less time training my body and mind to kill you in a machete fight... You be a better father than I was."
this is about the worst case of being cut in half with a machete that I've ever seen
We were unable to attach the top half of his body to the bottom half…
SPEAK ENGLISH DOC WE AINT SCIENTISTS!!!
any anger scene in a biopic will just make me think of dewey ripping all the sinks from the wall
Everyone is brilliant in this but Tim Meadows makes this movie. Absolutely timeless and in 40+years of movie watching, one of my absolute favorites.
Tim Meadows is so underrated
"And you never once paid for drugs, not once"
Tim nails it again as the Conner 4real's manager in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
@@TheIslandDivisionI was coming here to bring up this movie. It deserves a spot alongside those other 2
@@TheIslandDivision I always hated samberg so I skipped a lot of his films but I've always wanted to check out the Justin Bieber parody
What they rarely show is how mean spirited the music business can be, as well as the monotony of touring.
The predatory practices of the music industry are extremely similar to those of the film industry, if not identical. You really think a big production film would be allowed to point out that cruelty?
Hmmm what tribe would do such a thing? @@jedh3721
@@jedh3721 it's just the entertainment and media industry as a whole ngl. But most office work is similar in power structure soooo
It’s ironic that lots of people dream of living a lifestyle of essentially getting paid to travel the whole world, but people who actually live that lifestyle like musicians don’t seem to usually enjoy it much
I've been told we are spinal tap is a pretty accurate representation of touring
The first thing I thought after watching "Walk Hard" was "the best thing about this movie is that no one is going to make another shitty, formulaic musical biopic again!". Unfortunately, I was very wrong.
"WE WERE SO WRONG" Naomi Rio'saplace - Prometheus
THEY DIDN'T LISTEN!
Most filmmakers stayed away from making them for awhile after Walk Hard. But there will always be music biopics. As long as there are iconic musical artists.
I showed Walk Hard to my gf after she saw the recent Elvis biopic, and she kept saying how many scenes were so close to the Elvis biopic like 15 years later lol
I can’t watch another biopic without quoting this movie. Latest one was Elvis, the Louisiana Hayride scene made me think of the “Take My Hand” scene from this. It had me convinced Baz Luhrmann watched this movie while writing it. An underrated gem.
The mic feedback was the most blatantly overused device, that made me cringe. But a lot other cliche moment played fresher to me because for one, Elvis was the first and biggest rock star, so those things really happened with him, and for the very first time. I think Baz’s heightened style made these moments fresh again, if you’re willing to surrender to the fact that Elvis was a living legend with details that feel downright mythical to people (dirt poor to first global superstar, started at Sun records, a literal Sun King (metaphorical Sun God) the lost twin at birth, the seismic culture racial shift coming as a matter of course, when he didn’t really set out to be a rebel, only do what he loved, the drastic contradictions in outsized and enigmatic personality, music to film star, fading compared to those he inspired then resurrected into new relevance with music as primal and raw as any he had made; a sleeping giant awakened, and a cult like following secured in his final days…). He created these cliches and Baz worked hard to reinvigorate them as a true metaphor for the cultural evolution and deterioration for America itself and it’s ideals / commercial deconstruction. Imo he succeed and transcended the well worn elements.
only 2 things you nee to know
1 im the king
number 2 ....... loook out man !!!!!
@@brianstorm5488 I get frustrated when I see the film called a feature-length Wikipedia entry, since that's a problem a lot of biopics have, and I find that Elvis manages to avoid that problem even though it does go through his whole life. It's a film about how Elvis had to engage with the world around him in order to make vital art, and how the Colonel was ultimately able to trap him because of his own weakness for extravagance and his mistaking it for love. To tell that story, Luhrmann had to go through Elvis's entire life, but there's a narrative throughline (helped by the Colonel's narration); not every music biopic can claim to have that.
Also, if you look at some of Luhrmann's other films, the character of Elvis Presley bears similarities to other characters he's written, most notably Satine in Moulin Rouge. They both want to be great actors, they both talk and sing songs about flying away, and they both ultimately end up as (not my words) "the most famous whore in the world, but a whore nonetheless." Even so, these attributes still feel specific to Elvis, and it never feels like Baz Luhrmann just overlayed a character he had already written onto Elvis Presley. It shows me that Luhrmann had a story to tell that only he could have told, and it just happened to fit the general framework of a biopic.
You know who also has hands? The Devil! And he uses them for holding!
I'm pretty sure Queen read the Dewey Cox script, took out the more obvious jokes, changed the protagonist's name to Freddie Mercury and that was Bohemian Rhapsody.
"It's called 'gay sex' Freddie, and you don't want no part of this shit!"
@@wyssmaster 😂
Im pretty sur ethe actual group had nothing to do with that movie because it was very inaccurate and was bad. Someone just said, hey we will pay you a couple million for the movie rights and they said okay dont care, going on our 30th farewell tour now, cya.
Which is kinda disrespectful towards Freddie Mercury but he probably wouldnt have cared either so its whatever.
@@TheSuperappelflapIf that were true they wouldn't have whitewashed the lives of the living Queen members
@@kakizakichannel what?
Can we talk about how unquestionably perfect comedy genius John C Reilly was in this movie?
"Im no longer mainlining L.S.D" no longer mainlining anymore...... im not making any promises
'I wonder if your songs will still be shit when I'm 64'
thats my favorite line from the beatles scene lmfao
that and just all their accents lol
@RobGradyVO dude, that whole sequence is platinum comedy. The way Jack black says 'I'm the leader of the beatles', or how schwartzman says he's got a song about an octopus. There's not one line in that scene that isn't quotable.
The soundtrack is legit amazing
@@louistully8724 it's true tho!!
"jammit up yer ass, yer lucky we still let ya play drooms"
“Beatles, please. Stop fighting here in India.”
This movie, is literally the reason why I speak English now.
I saw years ago, and was amazed by it. I loved the songs and loved the performances. And loved American songs from the 40’s to 70’s because of it
It sucks that it wasn’t nominated for any oscars
John c Riley proved himself as an actor
you should go far in this world
@@devinm9245
Thanks 🫂❤️
Walk hard is one of my favorite movies and it has a hell of a soundtrack
Underrated godly soundtrack
"Dewey died three minutes after this performance." LOL
Walk Hard is one of my favorite comedies of all time. It never stops being hilarious while at the same time is such a razor sharp satire of the music bio pic that i literally cant watch them anymore without remembering Walk Hard. Truly an underappreciated gem of a movie.
I remember the commercials advertising Walk Hard being atrocious. I feel like the advertisers were a little afraid of how smart it was.
I agree! I finally watched it last month and I loved it. They just kept saying the name lol.
You hit the nail on the head. The trailer I saw emphasized the stupidest jokes and made the movie look terrible. I went in to a free showing - months after it came out - expecting nothing and was blown away! Went back to see it again the following night, too.
The "Bob Marley" movie brought me to "Walk Hard".
Some guy said some scenes in Marley were so cringe that it reminded him of "Walk Hard".
So I had to watch it (Walk Hard not Marley).
Really good movie (Walk Hard not Marley)
this is an amazing Paragraph. Thank you.
There's one movie that proves how accurate this parody was. Straight Outta Compton has Walk Hard Moments in it.
This formula applies to more than just rock stars of the 50's 60's and 70's
The way Dre just starts playing nuthin but a g thang on his keyboard and snoop was like “oh yeah I like this, ima just start rapping” 🤣
@@MateoF_ I like how they just have Snoop Dogg appear out of nowhere in pretty much just one scene, and they don't really have MC Ren doing anything.
Ren I kinda get, but Snoop is weird because The Chronic album is a pretty major plot point in the movie, and it's reduced to Snoop doing a short soundbite from the album.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 that’s the whole thing. Ren was important to NWA but we don’t see not a single thing about his solo career. It seems like it was more of a dr Dre movie than anything. So many important things left out and so many dumb things kept in so it can wow audiences. Did we really need to see Dre drunk drive in his all white Ferrari in LA? He basically rewrites history and acts like Eazy wasn’t well off without Dre. Let’s not forget how he left out his Dee Barnes incident. I love Dre but he swung his dick the whole movie.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 sorry that movie has been bothering me for years. As a huge hip hop fanatic it was so cringy and terrible to watch for me. A lot of these bio pics in general are better told through books instead of films for me.
One Love as well
Never in a million years did I think I'd see a video talking about Walk Hard. Severely underrated comedy. This is an excellent analysis of it.
"Or you can learn to play the fuckin' theramin" 😂 my personal favorite line in this one
😂😂😂
Dewey: *speaks fluent Yiddish*
Rabbi: Réháb.
Dewey: *confused look*
Rabbi: (in country accent) Re-hab.
Dewey: Oh yeah, okay, rehab.
This is literally the best biopic that never was!
My persistent quoting of Walk Hard has exhausted the patience of friends and family. I appreciate this deep look into Dewey and the gang.
This film is tragically underrated. I watch it almost every year. So many carefully placed yet absolutely stupid jokes. High art!
Don’t forget about “pop star never stop never stopping”. Same idea
Dude you just made the video I’ve always imagined. Even down to the mention of Love and Mercy. The only thing I’d add is Walk Hard failed largely because of the recession. It’s legendary now and the unrated cut is the version that needed to be seen anyways so it worked out in the end.
Very true, also a contributing factor of the poor box office was WGA writers strike at the time, which meant that late night talk shows weren't making episodes so the actors couldn't make the rounds and promote the movie like they usually do.
John C. Reilly even went on a tour as Dewey Cox. I wish I could’ve seen him live!!
@@JoJoJoker Omg I never knew that he's fucking awesome
"And You Never Once Paid for Drugs, Not Once!"
The parody coming from a place of love thing is why i have always held up Black Dynamite as one of the best parody movies ever made. There are so many direct lifts from real blaxploitation movies. One of the characters is just a dead on, perfect impression of Rudy Ray Moore. Better than Eddie Murphy's version by far. Its so packed full of homages, the love and respect they clearly had for the source material comes through on the screen.
Its a parody of blaxploitation that is so accurate I think you could put it up against any original 70s blaxploitation movie. It succeeds as the genre its parodying. I'd argue it elevates it.
Mel Brooks’ earlier spoofs took the same approach. He loves Westerns, old Universal monster movies, and Hitchcock, and that’s what makes _Blazing Saddles,_ _Young Frankenstein,_ and _High Anxiety_ so great.
@@gelchert I've always tried to explain Black Dynamite as being a black Mel Brooks movie. Or at least much closer to Mel Brooks than say, one of the Wayans brothers parody movies. It always felt closer to Young Frankenstein than anything.
Can’t believe they tried to copy Dewey Cox story and put it in a Freddie Mercury story.
The Buddy Holly Story is a great biopic that bucks the trend and has a fairly limited and authentic chronology _(...and pre-motorcycle accident Gary Busey is AMAZING as Holly)_
Well, it was not that a long life story to be told, wasn't it.
@@CaptainFirefred Yeah, but at least it doesn't start on a snowy night in Iowa before flashing back to Lubbock, Texas...
@@CaptainFirefred Lol, I had to start watching it again and I forget how much I love the line when they're about to play _Ollie Vee_ and he says, "This one's for the 'boppers'...those who bop."
@@llYossarian Admittedly my comment came from what I knew about Buddy holly and I have never seen the movie - I know most from a german Song from Die Ärzte titled "Buddy Holly"
@@CaptainFirefred Lol! Well, for starters he _didn't_ always wear his glasses and in fact only started wearing horn-rims when he was already on tour with the Everly Brothers and he got the chunkier, even more iconic frames when he left The Crickets and moved to New York. _(and even those probably weren't supernatural...)._ Sadly, the "legend" of his glasses is just as mundane as it is heartbreaking... no one made any special effort to retrieve them after the accident site was cleaned up and the frames -- badly scratched, with a broken earpiece and missing lenses -- were only noticed in a Cerro Gordo county evidence locker over twenty years later and finally sent to his widow, María Elena Holly. In 1996 they were donated to the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas where they still reside today.
a lot of the songs from walk hard were written by dan bern, a favorite artist of mine. his songs are full of an absurd biting wit and irreverent references to pop culture that never really lets you settle too comfortably into his music and therefore produces some really interesting folk messaging about american popular culture through his songs. he's like a musical kurt vonnegut. bern has also openly talked about being inspired by bob dylan and i think that's one of the reasons walk hard works as well as it does.
Definitely, walk hard wouldn't work if it weren't for the music. They perfectly emulate and parody the artists that's are being poked fun at. Also a lot of the songs are just good songs all their own. "A life without you" is in heavy rotation in my playlists
This is why I've been avoiding seeing the Bob Marley movie: I'm afraid it will just be Walk Hard like so many others before it.
I enjoyed it. I think you should watch.
It had a lot of cringe scenes it. Your better off avoiding it all together.
If you're not already a fan of Bob Marley, it won't make you one. It's... OK... but it doesn't feel like it has anything to say that hasn't already been said, something I can say about biopics in general. Despite being one of the better ones of these, it still has that same feeling.
You never paid for drugs..... not once
The soundtrack is unironically fire.
This is an actual excample of a really underapreciated movie. It's well made, I love the spoof-songs and it has heart and likes the topic that is spoofed, so it does not get mean spirited.
I grew up on musical biopics, Walk Hard's in my top 3 greatest comedies of all time.
Wrong kid died!
Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis), La Bamba (Ritchie Valens) and Hysteria, the Def Leppard story were probably my favorites.
And you never once paid for drugs... Not even once.
Thank you so much for making this video!! My partner and I are musicians, and Walk Hard is easily one of our all-time favorite movies. They nailed the music biopic- in my eyes, it’s a perfect parody of the genre, and the music! The music is better than it has any right to be. The cast is immaculate. (Tim Meadows steals every scene he’s in.) And John C. Reilly is a fantastic singer!
‘Walk Hard’ has so much going for it, that I think it has to be something of a cult classic for people, even if there isn’t much discourse about it. If it isn’t considered a classic yet, I believe it will be. The cream will rise to the top! 😂
Somehow I’m always taken aback to rediscover its “obscurity” when met by blank stares after bringing it up - in my stubborn unconscious mind it’s this huge film that everyone knows
My favorite biopic is La Bamba. Its about Ritchie Valens. The ending is a real tear jerker 😢
“And you never once paid for drugs! Not once.”
The reason Dewey Cox worked is because he felt like a real person. You did have an investment in what was going to happen in the movie. My favorite part was when he kept repeating Buddy Holly’s name. I don’t k ow why that was so hilarious. Maybe it was because is most biopics I roll my eyes when they do that, but with that comedic timing it was just a funny joke.
I think the joke is that it was obviously Frankie Muniz in a wig and he kept trying to sell the audience on it.
I love Walk Hard, my dad only had a few dvds when I was growing up and this was one of them
So, weird piece of information, but a company called Chase Bliss makes a tremolo effect pedal for electric guitar called Gravitas. In the manual that comes with the pedal are suggested settings from the manufacturer, each one named.
"Wrong Kid Died" is one of those settings.
Walk Hard is my favorite comedy. I had never even seen a music biopic when I first saw it.
I have watched this movie so many times, it's amazing! The music is spot on, and the parody is perfect!
Best biopic ever. I was a kid when i saw the trailers for this in TV, and i rolled my eyes and thought, "This looks like a singer my dad probably listens to."
Thanks for this! I feel like Walk hard doesn't get enough love. It's so damn finely crafted
It’s this movie and Popstar Never Stop Never Stopping that made me love the music biopic parodies.
This is an excellent essay that makes a lot of strong points. I have two minor quibbles: 1. A LOT of what “Walk Hard” does well is thanks to the influence of the greatest mockumentary of all time - “This Is Spinal Tap.” You ignore this obvious legacy at your peril. And 2. Writing songs is exactly as easy as Dewey makes it look. Just look at my hit single “(You Bring the Ass) We’ll Do the Kicking.” I wrote the hook fumbling around with the guitar on the porch and the lyrics after concepting a poster for my band. It took a total of twelve minutes. It’s all there on my Wikipedia page. Cheers!
Good points, I was saving This Is Spinal Tap for a video about Mockumentaries, but I definitely should have mentioned it in this video
“I’m Not There” never got the proper attention it deserved! Such a fantastic film! I will say you do have have a deep knowledge of Dylan to get everything but would highly encourage other viewers of this to watch! Thanks for including it in this nice video essay!
Walk Hard is one of the best parodies ever since Spinal Tap. It’s such a funny and quotable movie. I love it!
"Would you like to do some more LSD?" from sideways Ringo absolutely slayed me.
This is one of the reasons I believe Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead is such an excellent movie. It focuses on a single day in the life of Miles Davis, as the audiences conduit is thrown into his life. The film then becomes a mix of 70s-style genre film and the elliptical retelling of the worst moment in his life (as Miles battles crippling drug addiction in the present of the film). I do not mind a biopic, but they must work toward something more than genre conceit. The Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan biopics were slightly more interesting than the formula as well, though they still fall into some of the cliches.
It's the best biopic about a musician that never existed.
This movie is so good I watched it several times, and I have very high standards for watching a movie more than once.
The quotes, the songs, the amazing performances by the actors. You can just tell they all understood exactly how to play their characters straight and get those ridiculous lines out of their faces without collapsing into a laughing puddle on the ground, while also clearly having fun.
And yeah this story did the biopic so good I never want to see another biopic in my life. I dont need to see Oppenheimer because I already saw Walk Hard.
I was watching Weird and 10 mins into it I'm like, oh it's just Walk Hard XD.
"You don't want it Dewey!"
It turns all your bad feelings into good ones, it's a nightmare!
There’s a great extended version of the movie. Pacing is a little off, but it’s well worth it.
Thank you for this video this is my all time favorite music and comesy movies, and maybe even of all time. Its an amazing story I want everybody to watch this movie!!!
This is seriously one of my favorite movies ever. My friends and I have been quoting it since it came out
I prefer the 7-minute Meditating With The Beatles scene in India in the extended cut over the original 2-minute one. Totally worth being tripled in length!
Being such a huge music fan, I've always loved this movie. I repeat tons of quotes from it near daily.
This is one of the greatest comedies of all time I don't care who you are if you didn't piss yourself watching this movie you're dead inside
I love this movie it's such a great hilarious parody of music biopics and mocks all the tropes that come with them.
I’ve always loved that movie and you did a great job with your video
thank you for pronouncing biopic correctly
Most quotable, most rewatchable movie I have ever seen. It gets better every time. With every “what’s the worst thing that could happen” prediction they make, with every drug phase. It’s just the greatest.
This the movie that made realize John c Riley was an underappreciated actor and was so funny!!!!
I'm currently playing in a band joking about getting big and if we do get big enough to get a biopic, I want it to follow the formula and play up/exaggerate/completely fabricate events of the sex, drugs, rock and roll lifestyle, play it totally straight, and just have a flashing icon that reads "THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN" or "THIS HAPPENED, BUT NOT LIKE THIS".
The thing that disappoints me about Bohemian Rhapsody is the potential they had to make something unique and original by having the climax be about the Innuendo sessions which Freddie Mercury was having a really hard time with due to his aids getting increasingly worse. It would have been a bit unsettling, but it also would have been very triumphant when you finally see him get through the songs despite his sickness and you see the band supporting eachother , but instead, the major conflict at the end is a band breakup that happened in every other biopic and it didn't even happen with the real Queen.
My main problem with "Bohemian The proxy is that Tami Malak was 6" too short, 20 lbs. too light, and 10 years too young to accurately portray Freddie Mercury...
@@caronstout354 I don't mind them changing something if it makes the story better, but in Bohemian Rhapsody's it makes the story worse.
Good shit! You do use the word montage a lot so it makes it seem like you’re repeating yourself even when you’re not. Keep it up dude!
I’m happy you gave a shoutout to Love & Mercy and I’m Not There. They’re my favorite music biopics for the exact reasons you brought up.
This is the best essay video I’ve seen on Walk Hard, thank you.
Just 10 seconds in the video, but I'm already positive you are right!
One other big thing that helped Walk Hard, was that the songs were bangers. Beautiful Ride alone is single worthy
The craziest thing is that John C Riley would have made a great Johnny Cash. He played Dewey Cox perfectly. There's so many great quotes but i would be wrong to not quote the best mine in the entire film, maybe in film history.
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“I sang a song at a circus in New Jersey. They said ‘We’ll give you 5 grand’ and I said ‘No, you won’t. You’ll give me that giraffe.’ And they did. They gave it right to me.”
I just wanna say, Tim Meadows has a small part but this movie wouldn’t be the same without him. He just pops in every 10 minutes or so, steals the scene with a hilariously perfect line and performance and then he’s out. 😗👌
Walk Hard is well loved , which I think Will keep it relevant for a long time ❤
I just listened to this soundtrack the other day. Its so good 😂
Your video made me want to rewatch Walk Hard. One of my favorite movies.
I was glad to see a video on one of my favorite movies, but it was great to see a broader take on the music biopic genre as a whole, too.
runaways, cbgb, crazy go against the tropes for the most part.
One of the funniest and best movies ever made
John C. Riley is underrated and can sing. Great song.
I'm surprised "Walk Hard" did so badly at the box office. Freakin spot on, hilarious parody of the rockstar movie. Maybe too obscure for most people.
Now do Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping! Keep the Tim Meadows train a rollin'!
I should, I love that movie
Straight outta Compton also fits the formula🥸
“Speak English, Doc! We ain't scientists!”
I wish you touched on Pop Star: Never Stop Stopping. I haven't watched the whole thing, but the clips I've seen similarly parody the genre and it also features Lonely Island
Every year, an up and coming RUclipsr lampoons the biopic film genre but making a video about Walk Hard: Thew Dewy Cox Story
…and you know what? I am soooo here for it. I think I may actually love the Walk Hard sub-genre of RUclips videos more than the movie itself
Walk Hard is super-popular on tour busses. It's right next to Spinal Tap.
One of my favorite movies ever & absolutely love the music.