# Sweet Home Alabama **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382 "2002-10-01T11:36:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/1 "2002-10-01T11:36:34Z")
Disappointing. Slow in places and not as funny as I had hoped. A chick-flick for sure. The best scenes, as usual are the ones used in advertising. I wouldn’t go to the movies to see it, but it’s good enough to rent on video when it comes out. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/2 "2002-10-01T12:03:53Z")
Gee, I dunno I only heard “Look! You have a baby!..In a BAR!” 54 times last night, add that to the previous 5,467 times I heard that in the trailers and I really feel as though I would be missing out if I didn’t see this movie. NOT!!! ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/3 "2002-10-01T12:09:12Z")
Reese Witherspoon is simply the blonde flavor of the month. Anyone remember Alicia Silverstone? ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/4 "2002-10-01T12:15:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Reese Witherspoon is simply the blonde flavor of the month. Anyone remember Alicia Silverstone? \*\* Yeh they need to find a new America’s sweetheart, ever since Meg Ryan hit the wall. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/5 "2002-10-01T12:18:25Z")
They should take a good, hard look at Renee Zellwegger. She actually has some talent … ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/6 "2002-10-01T12:50:14Z")
When I saw the trailer, I had the entire movie figured out, and no curiosity about it at all. That saved me a coupla bucks. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/7 "2002-10-01T12:54:33Z")
Didn’t I read somewhere that the writer is actually from Alaska and has never been to Alabama at all? Anyone else hear this? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/8 "2002-10-01T12:58:26Z")
With all due respect, **screech-owl** , the criticism implicit in your comment is very limited in its application. After all, I’d bet money that Ray Bradbury has never been to Mars. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/9 "2002-10-01T13:13:17Z")
Big difference, though - if the writer of SHB portrays Alabama as being full of stereotypes, with no real gradation to the characters therein, it makes for a shallow plot. Bradbury could always rest easy in knowing that while he’d never been to Mars, neither had anyone else. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/10 "2002-10-01T13:30:15Z")
I wonder how the movie potrays the New Yorkers? Not enough to go see it mind you. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/11 "2002-10-01T13:35:51Z")
When I saw the trailers for this I was confused. Why is Reese Witherspoon, who, after Legally Blonde and Election was really starting to make a place for herself, doing this kind of Sandra Bullock-reject script? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/12 "2002-10-01T13:56:47Z")
Because _Speed 2_ had already been made? ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/13 "2002-10-02T00:29:37Z")
I really did enjoy Alicia Silverstone in Blast From The Past, I’d like to see her do more…she might have actually been pretty good in this movie, but then again these two are really a lot alike in looks and characters they play. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/14 "2002-10-02T00:45:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultress \* > \*\*I really did enjoy Alicia Silverstone in Blast From The Past, I’d like to see her do more…she might have actually been pretty good in this movie, but then again these two are really a lot alike in looks and characters they play. \*\* Blast from the Past is one of my absolute faves!!! I have the DVD - maybe I’ll watch it tonight! Oh, yeh and the reason Reese made this movie _may_ have something to do with the 5-mil salary she received - and the fact that she’s such a box office draw depite the film’s crappiness is the very reason she’ll be getting a cool 15-mil for the Legally Blonde sequel (that’s 14-mil more than she received for the original). ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/15 "2002-10-02T03:12:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\*Didn’t I read somewhere that the writer is actually from Alaska and has never been to Alabama at all? Anyone else hear this? \*\* You’re actually thinking, I think, of the fact that Jewel, who did the cover of the song for the movie, is from Alaska. I actually just came into this thread to say that I detested her cover of that song. But not because she came from Alaska. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-home-alabama/130382/16 "2002-10-02T03:51:21Z")
Whoa! Jewel covered Skynyrd?!? Yikes.