this must be the sweatiest film of all time. I understand its hot down there but it was disgusting. I never would have let Carl lee sit in my nice clean police car when he was sweating buckets in his dirty vest. admittedly Ashley Judd pulls this look off but for everyone else I recommend they shower a bit more often.
shareYou may understand "how hot it is down there" but you've obviously never experienced the merciless, muggy humidity of a Mississippi summer. It's not so much the heat, but the blasted, air-stealing thick humidity.
And I'm sure that police car has had MUCH worse splashed on it than Carl Lee's sweat....
Other than that, i agree with you.
Refusal to believe does not negate the truth.
In the very first episode of "Cheers" they are having a discussion on what the sweatiest movie of all time is. It was determined "Cool Hand Luke" gets that honor.
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"Cheers" went off the air 3 years before "A Time to Kill" hit theaters. Their determination was premature.
As another poster pointed out, until you've lived in the muggy furnace of Mississippi you don't know what it's like.
Damm, this thread is 5 months old, I see it and instantly think of Cool Hand Luke (which beats this by about 9000 litres of sweat)
and doowopfan goes and beats me by a few hours.
Also in this vein, To Kill A Mockingbird was a total sweatfest
Sorry dude. But it is good to see we were on the same wavelength.
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Heh heh, I remember thinking about this when I first saw this film 15 years ago. It just popped up on TV and once again I was immediately mesmerised by the universal shininess of all involved. Then I wondered if people would be talking about it here. Bam! First page.
Seriously, what was the Vaseline budget on this film? ;)
LOL; that scene from Cheers was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread.
Cool Hand Luke by a mile. They were in the same humidity but on a prison chain gang.
I live in Alabama, so our weather is pretty much exactly the same as Mississippi. And yeah, it's oppressive heat and we do sweat like crazy. But what's so far fetched about this is that an attorney doesn't have air conditioning in his home or office. I know his business is slow, but in this movie A/C seems to be non-existent in the WHOLE town! I like the movie, but they were way off in that department.
shareI haven't seen Cool Hand Luke for many years, but I think the Green Mile beats them all for the amount bodily fluids of all descriptions depicted in film.
shareI agree. I live in Lousisana and it's just as hot and humid here if not more. Even the poor have AC. That was quite ridiculous. There is no lawyer in the south who is sweating all day long, then sweating in his own house along with his family. You'd think Matthew- being from Texas- would have said something.
sharei live in miami & the heat/humidity is oppressive. a/c is not a luxury, but a necessity. i have 2 central a/c units in my home.
shareTennesse here. It's what everyone else is saying. The heat is...tolerable, but it's very humid. It makes your clothes stick to you and it feels like a wall when you're coming out of some place with a/c.
Those who perspire easily avoid late May-August south of Kentucky.
You'd think Matthew- being from Texas- would have said something.I wondered about that, too. He's an Austin man, isn't he, or thereabouts? I think he knows a little something about humidity!
12 Years a Slave?
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