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Mud - New Matthew McConhaugey movie
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:22 pm
"A richly satisfying coming of age story, part Huckleberry Fin, part Badlands"
Just finished it, and without a doubt will be added to the all time favorite list.
Every man who grew up in the South in one way or another, can relate to the young characters Ellis and Neckbone when we were growing up. I got chills thinking of how much me and my best friend were like Ellis and Neckbone ..minus the dirt poor part
Plot: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. ( Watch it before you knock it )
Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did
Just finished it, and without a doubt will be added to the all time favorite list.
Every man who grew up in the South in one way or another, can relate to the young characters Ellis and Neckbone when we were growing up. I got chills thinking of how much me and my best friend were like Ellis and Neckbone ..minus the dirt poor part
Plot: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. ( Watch it before you knock it )
Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did
This post was edited on 7/26/13 at 7:25 pm
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Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:31 pm to TRUERockyTop
I know a ton of the extras in it. Was filmed around my home town and S of it.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:32 pm to 870Hog
Where was it filmed? I'm not a big Wooderson fan.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:35 pm to 870Hog
IMO great, great movie
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:40 pm to TRUERockyTop
Jeff Nichols the director is from Arkansas so that helps to add authenticity I would imagine. I really want to watch this, just haven't got around to it. At one time it had a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:43 pm to wmr
Stuttgart, Dewitt and surrounding areas.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:45 pm to Stonehog
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Jeff Nichols the director is from Arkansas so that helps to add authenticity I would imagine
The whole movie has a authentic feel to it. From the kids hanging out at Piggly Wiggly, Sonic and the bonfire party to being in the woods or on the water the entire time.
The piggly wiggly and sonic really brought the authentic small town feel to the movie. Great directing, great acting all around
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:49 pm to TRUERockyTop
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piggly wiggly and sonic
That hit me right in the childhood right there.
Now I have to see this movie.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:52 pm to wmr
I started laughing out of no where when I saw that, and my wife who is german asked why I was laughing and I just said some things you can't explain with words. You just gotta live it
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:59 pm to TRUERockyTop
Our little town had a Piggly Wiggly when I was little (before Walmart wiped them all out) and I remember going there with my Papaw. They had a little gumball machine that was a Chicken. It would light up and make a crowing sound and drop out an egg, and inside you'd find your "prize". Sometimes it was candy, sometimes it was those puffy, glitter stickers (like Mr. T or the A-Team ones that I used to collect when I was about 6).
Holy shite, I miss that Piggly Wiggly.
And small town Arkansas teenage years were marked by cruising main, Sonic on one end of town, and parking at the grocery store or hardware store.
Kids don't do that anymore. Gas is too expensive, and they can just text or facebook their friends instead of actually having to go track them down to have a conversation.
Holy shite, I miss that Piggly Wiggly.
And small town Arkansas teenage years were marked by cruising main, Sonic on one end of town, and parking at the grocery store or hardware store.
Kids don't do that anymore. Gas is too expensive, and they can just text or facebook their friends instead of actually having to go track them down to have a conversation.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 8:02 pm to TRUERockyTop
On a similar note, I want to see that "to do list" movie because its set in the last few years prior to the internet taking over everything, and those were the glory days of everything IMHO.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 8:08 pm to wmr
I lived in a little town on the river called Kingston,TN about 20 minutes south of Knoxville from 4th grade through 8th grade before moving back to Knoxville for most of high school. Made the best friends of my life there who I'm still best friends with today. Every weekend I would drive back to Kingston to be with everyone, and all our lives consisted of was Friday night football. Cruising the strip, meeting up at sonic, bonfire parties and being on the lake or in the mountains all day and I'm only 23. The kids still do it in a lot of places, it's just not as common as it was for the generations before us. Half of the people I know are grown and still continue to do it in some shape or form
This post was edited on 7/26/13 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 7/26/13 at 8:35 pm to TRUERockyTop
Jeff Nichols and his films are honestly the only things worth a damn arkansas has produced. Oh, and meth.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 8:53 pm to TRUERockyTop
Watching it with the gf tonight. I've been looking forward to it
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:04 pm to HandGrenade
I tried to find it on my On Demand but not out til next week. I remember it being in theaters but only for just a little bit.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:14 pm to wmr
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And small town Arkansas teenage years were marked by cruising main, Sonic on one end of town, and parking at the grocery store or hardware store.
Sounds eerily similar to my hometown.
After a few loops down Main St., around the Sonic, then back to the grocery store parking lot, rounding up friends, we'd hit the back roads to someone's deer camp, or dead end road, where someone ALWAYS had a couple of kegs.
When I visit my hometown, now, there are zero kids out & about. Then I remember internet, email, texting, etc. It's kinda sad to me. I definitely believe we had more fun growing up.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:27 pm to Arkla Missy
Holy shite. Yes, some dead end road, where some 25 year olds had scored a keg or two. And there was a fire.
This was my life from 15-18 years of age. Silver bullets and woodsmoke.
This was my life from 15-18 years of age. Silver bullets and woodsmoke.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:28 pm to Arkla Missy
n/m
This post was edited on 7/26/13 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:30 pm to wmr
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Holy shite. Yes, some dead end road, where some 25 year olds had scored a keg or two. And there was a fire.
This was my life from 15-18 years of age. Silver bullets and woodsmoke.
Omg, I might know you.
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:31 pm to Arkla Missy
I think that's why Dazed and Confused resonated with early 90s kids so well. It was set 20 years in the past, but that lifestyle of cruising, drive in, rounding up people to throw a kegger in the woods was still the way we all lived.
Plus we thought 70s music was cool in the 90s.
I still love that damned movie.
Plus we thought 70s music was cool in the 90s.
I still love that damned movie.
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