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Wanna know why MGM is the gutter of film studios' They do dim dung deals like casting The Rock in WALKING TALL!

Harry here.

The current group of baboons running MGM have just shown that irradiated red asses to the world by casting Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Sheriff Buford Pusser in a remake of the seventies sweaty redneck films from Hell series... WALKING TALL!

Casting a Polynesian Actor as the Giant Lumbering RedNeck Man-Mountain of a Sheriff named BUFORD PUSSER is just about the most assholiest fucking stupid piece of shit-fer-brains insulting concept to ever squirt out the left and right anuses on either side of an MGM executive's head in the past 10 years.

BUFORD PUSSER was a real person. With a real history. Is there a reason to remake WALKING TALL? No, not really. There's a reason to make a film called BUFORD PUSSER and base it more solidly on the history of the real story, as opposed to the Legend that was shot originally.

You don't cast THE ROCK to star in a remake of a "Hicksploitation" film! Cast him in a remake of 100 RIFLES or BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH or HELL UP IN HARLEM -- No wait, Don't... The Rock isn't that fucking cool either. Make New films with him. Like his other projects in development like SPY HUNTER, which looks like it'll (ahem) rock! Or JOHNNY BRAVO or WALK LIKE A DRAGON or SKIP TRACER or KING KAMEHAMEHA. At least those are all original films.

Now, apparently they've contemporized and bastardized the story of Buford Pusser. Here's a lesson. If you make a WALKING TALL movie that isn't about Buford Pusser, that isn't about the redneck mafia scene of the early Seventies and that doesn't end with the sheriff character dead as a fucking door nail, then guess what? YOU ARE NOT MAKING A WALKING TALL MOVIE! So call it something else. Call it, "2X4" Doesn't that get the ol hip meter going... I mean it's got numbers and letters in the title, which instantly makes people think its some sort of hip sequel thing... So way cool huh?

I know, let's make a remake of ROLLERBALL, but let's completely change every single aspect that made the original work. We'll change the game, the premise, the characters, the period, the entire universe and situation... oh, let's cast a boy in the lead and make everyone look like a fucking clown and because the title has existed in the past, we'll have a HIT!!!! Wooooo Hoooooo!!!

God MGM is filled with a bunch of fucking morons, if only they were Leo's supper! Let's send Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson over with a pair of 2X4's and beat the living shit out of these ignorant dumbfucks! Sigh... Shit like this pisses me off!

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