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Chris Roberts used to be one of my favourite people and one of my most hated people, all at the same time. Chris Roberts was the visionary who created the ground-breaking Wing Commander video game series. However, he was also the one responsible for the Wing Commander movie. This movie had the worst casting and exploitation I have ever seen. Not to mention the movie had lamest looking Kilrathi in any of the Wing Commander franchise… and that’s including the 8-bit cartoon Kilrathi in WC 1 & 2.

Years have passed, and although I still haven’t figured why I shelled out fifteen bucks for the video, I’ve mostly gotten over it. My video game collection has grown to include every version of the primary game series, from Wing Commander 1 through 5. So what if it was the worst casting ever? There will eventually be worse, right?

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Johnny Knoxville (Jackass) as Luke Duke, Ssean Williams Scott (Stiffler) as Bo Duke, and Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke. They’re moving ahead with the Dukes of Hazzard movie, written and directed by the crew that made the drunk-funny Super Troopers and the financial bomb, Club Dread. In fact, the closest they come to accurate casting is Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg… altho’ I think he’d make a better Roscoe P. Coltrane given his Cannonball Run & Smokey and the Bandit past. If they’re bastardizing the rest of the series (did anyone else think that Daisy used to be the smartest one of the bunch?) they might pull a “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” and combine the two characters.

Somehow I feel they’re going after the same campiness that worked for Charlie’s Angels. However, Jay Chandrasekhar is not as talented as McG.

There is no way I’m seeing this movie. Pokemon 2000 clause doesn’t work here.