{"id":4,"date":"2006-08-27T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T00:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/archives\/4"},"modified":"2008-09-28T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T17:58:01","slug":"talladega-nights-the-ballad-of-ricky-bobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2006\/08\/27\/talladega-nights-the-ballad-of-ricky-bobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/4o5.gif\" alt=\"4 stars\"\/><br \/>\n<em>America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.<br \/>\n&#8212; Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen from the opening quote, this is an evil, wicked movie.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Bobby was born in a car travelling 100 mph as his speed-crazed father drove <em>past<\/em> the hospital. As a boy he drove everyone crazy by constantly saying &#8220;I want to go fast, I want to go fast!&#8221; Naturally he grew up to achieve fame and fortune as a NASCAR driver.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky gained all the trappings of material success. He had a big house, a hot trashy wife, and two adorable trash-talking sons named &#8220;Walker&#8221; and &#8220;Texas Ranger&#8221;. A simple patriotic man, he would engage in interminable debates over whether it is better to pray to baby Jesus or grown-up Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>But Ricky&#8217;s life took a turn for the worse on the day that he met his nemisis and arch-enemy: Jean Girrard, a French Formula One driver. A French <em>existentialist<\/em> Formula One driver. A <em>gay<\/em> French existentialist Formula One driver.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a deep or uplifting movie. It is a movie about fast living and fast driving and fast women and product placement. (Loads and loads of product placement. This is NASCAR, right?) It is a movie that bombards you with absurdities until you are helpless with laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, drug references and brief comic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. &#8212; Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936 As can be seen from the opening quote, this is an evil, wicked movie. Ricky Bobby was&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2006\/08\/27\/talladega-nights-the-ballad-of-ricky-bobby\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-talladega-nights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}