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I have not watched this movie in two decades, and probably watched it on VHS. Came across the DVD of it and began watching it last night. Don't remember it all that well but guess I made it half-way through.

Boy, Billy Bob Thornton is one heck of an actor. If I didn't know that was him, I would not believe it. He looks completely different than he did in Tombstone which was a few years earlier.

Anyway, I sure am enjoying it.

"uh-huh" "I reckon" "Um hum"
 
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XknoxvolsX said:
I have not watched this movie in two decades, and probably watched it on VHS. Came across the DVD of it and began watching it last night. Don't remember it all that well but guess I made it half-way through.

Boy, Billy Bob Thornton is one heck of an actor. If I didn't know that was him, I would not believe it. He looks completely different than he did in Tombstone which was a few years earlier.

Anyway, I sure am enjoying it.

"uh-huh" "I reckon" "Um hum"
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Awe ight den

Dwight Yoakum and John Ritter weren’t bad either
 
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"HEY! HEY! I told you three times already, the law's on my side! I play cards with JD Shelnut, Chief of PO-lice! So, kiss my a$$, you old b*****d!" - Doyle Hargraves

To be a movie with such a sad undertone centering around loneliness, it has some very funny moments, even involving the bad guy. I can watch Doyle's group "apology" a thousand more times and still laugh every single time....

"I don't like little wimpy-a$$ kids or mental retards, and she's got one of each living with her. I'm just kidding about that really... I just wanted to stop by and .... give y'all some little piece of happiness today." - Doyle's "apology".

Also, it was a short scene but Karl running with the football is hilarious.
 
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I like dem french fried per-taters, mmm hmmm

I also love his recounting of the joke about the boy from Arkansas peeing in the creek.

I was probably 15 when I saw it, and I think it was the first dark movie I saw that seemed like a story that could happen IRL. It deeply affected me. One of those movies you think about for weeks.
 
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Whats crazy is how big he looks in the movie, billy bob is a tiny man.
 
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Sling Blade is one of the most accurate depictions of rural Southern life in any movie or TV show IMO. Accents are spot-on. Usually the NYC or LA actors ham it up and sound like Civil War generals or Scarlett O'Hara. It helps that BBT and the actress who plays Linda are from Arkansas, Dwight Yoakam is from Kentucky, and Lucas Black is from Alabama.
 
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I'll watch the rest of it tonight. Last night however, I saw the scene where they are loaded up in the dually to go get beer. Deputies pull up and they have a conversation related to drinking, drunk and driving. Then, when he takes off it rolls the guy in the wheel chair back to the tailgate!
 
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n_huffhines said:
I like dem french fried per-taters, mmm hmmm

I also love his recounting of the joke about the boy from Arkansas peeing in the creek.

I was probably 15 when I saw it, and I think it was the first dark movie I saw that seemed like a story that could happen IRL. It deeply affected me. One of those movies you think about for weeks.
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I have a friend who to this day, whenever he sees a guy that fits the stereotype of being gay... he imitates Karl's line "Not funny ha ha, funny queer." .... he has done it for about 22 years now.
 
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XknoxvolsX said:
I'll watch the rest of it tonight. Last night however, I saw the scene where they are loaded up in the dually to go get beer. Deputies pull up and they have a conversation related to drinking, drunk and driving. Then, when he takes off it rolls the guy in the wheel chair back to the tailgate!
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Maybe that’s the directors cut? I don’t think that scene was in the original screening.

We quoted the hell out of that movie in college. “Don’t be a pussy, we all gotta work tomorrow” was all it took to extend a drinking session. One guy watched it almost every week and if you went to visit you’d be watching it that weekend. In The Bandits, Billy Bob’s character has a fear of midgets and antique furniture just like Doyle.
 
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Joke time... When you read it, read Carl's part like he talks.

Carl died and went to Heaven. Upon arriving at the Pearly Gates, St Peter told him he had to answer 3 questions before he could get in.

SP...Carl, are you ready for the Questions?

Carl...mmmhmm I reckon so.

SP...1st Question is "How many days of the week start with the letter T?" 2nd Question is a lot harder "how many seconds are in a year?" and the 3rd question, which is the toughest, is "What is God's first name?". Now take 5 minutes and think on them

Carl...mmmmhmmm

5 mins later (say it like from SpongeBob 😁)

SP...Carl are you ready?

Carl...mmm I reckon so

SP...ok, what is the answer to the first question?

Carl....mmm I reckon I'm gonna say 2, Today and Tomorrow.

SP (laughing)...ok, I guess you got me on that one. So the next question was waaay harder, do you know the answer?

Carl..mmm, it was hard but I reckon I'm gonna say 12

SP (incredulous)...12?

Carl... mmmhmm Jan 2nd, Feb 2nd

SP (laughing)...ok, you got me again. Now, the final question, "What is God's first name?"

Carl...mmm that's easy, everyone knows it's Howard.

SP...Howard?

Carl... mmmhmm, Our Father who art in Heaven, Howard be thy Name 🤣🤣🤣🤣


Thank you, Thank you. I'm here all week, try the Veal.
 
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XknoxvolsX said:
I'll watch the rest of it tonight. Last night however, I saw the scene where they are loaded up in the dually to go get beer. Deputies pull up and they have a conversation related to drinking, drunk and driving. Then, when he takes off it rolls the guy in the wheel chair back to the tailgate!
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That sounds funny as hell. I wonder why they cut it from the movie?
 
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Never thought of Sling Blade as a comedy, but there are some funny scenes...& indeed, the delivery of the lines in that movie have become classics.
 

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Finished watching it last night. The kid also played in the Fast n Furious Tokyo Drift.

I swear the long haired long bearded guy who played in the band also played Hot Rod in the multiple series Justified.
 
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XknoxvolsX said:
Finished watching it last night. The kid also played in the Fast n Furious Tokyo Drift.

I swear the long haired long bearded guy who played in the band also played Hot Rod in the multiple series Justified.
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He did. The guy in the glasses at the nervous hospital is also the principal on King of the Hill.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
Maybe that’s the directors cut? I don’t think that scene was in the original screening.

We quoted the hell out of that movie in college. “Don’t be a pussy, we all gotta work tomorrow” was all it took to extend a drinking session. One guy watched it almost every week and if you went to visit you’d be watching it that weekend. In The Bandits, Billy Bob’s character has a fear of midgets and antique furniture just like Doyle.
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The antique furniture phobia is a real thing for BBT.
 
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XknoxvolsX said:
Finished watching it last night. The kid also played in the Fast n Furious Tokyo Drift.

I swear the long haired long bearded guy who played in the band also played Hot Rod in the multiple series Justified.
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He’s been in a few things. He was the quarterback in Friday Night Lights and plays in one of the NCIS shows.
 
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C-south said:
He’s been in a few things. He was the quarterback in Friday Night Lights and plays in one of the NCIS shows.
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I Wikipedia'ed him and saw that. While watching Sling Blade, I kept thinking I saw him in a football movie. At the time, the only one I could think of was Varsity Blues but I knew he wasn't in that one.
 
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I did that in total reverse. I remember seeing Friday Night Lights and thinking "oh damn, that's the kid from Sling Blade" lol
 
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One thing I loved about that movie is that they didn't make anything hyper dramatic. It has probably one of the most anticlimactic climaxes ever, but for some reason that's what makes it so memorable. The whole conversation between Carl and Doyle right up to Doyle's death, and then the actual killing, is all incredibly down to earth and done so nonchalantly.

I also agree there were some incredibly funny moments, both intentionally and otherwise.
 
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