Total Badass

{{Short description|2010 American documentary by Bob Ray}} {{Promotional|date=September 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Total Badass | image = Total Badass.jpg | alt =  | caption = | director = Bob Ray<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://phoenix.metromix.com/movies/biography/total-badass/1811167/content |title=Total Badass | Metromix Phoenix |publisher=Phoenix.metromix.com |date= |accessdate=2010-08-17}}</ref> | producer = Bob Ray Mia Cevallos Kera Dacy | writer = | screenplay = | story = | starring = | music = The Crack Pipes Fruntbutt BFE Gun Totin' Meateaters Migas Honky Wine and Revolution | cinematography = | editing = Bob Ray Andrew Segovia | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2010|5|19}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Total Badass''''' is a 2010 documentary by American director and producer Bob Ray that first premiered on May 19, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.slackerwood.com/node/1644 |title='Total Badass' with Bob Ray |publisher=Slackerwood |date=2010-05-19 |accessdate=2010-08-17}}</ref> Forgoing the usual route of signing a deal with a film distributor, the film was taken on 50+ city tour dubbed the Badass Film Tour where Bob Ray and Chad Holt spent eleven weeks touring around and attending screenings at different venues around the United States and Canada, along with some of the filmmaker's other independent films; such as the 2007's documentary ''Hell on Wheels'' and several short animated films created under the banner CrashToons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.moviemaker.com/distribution/article/bob_ray_total_badass_down_dirty_austin_film_tour_20100802/ |title=Total Badass Bob Ray Gets Down and Dirty | MovieMaker Magazine |publisher=Moviemaker.com |date=2010-08-05 |accessdate=2010-08-17}}</ref>

==Plot summary== Bob Ray takes you on an outrageous and hilariously seedy adventure into the Austin underground music and arts scene via wild man-about-town, social deviant, musical/stunt performer, sex fanatic, Guinea pig enthusiast, writer-publisher, father, weed dealing felon, hip-hop impresario, trashcan jumper and local beloved weirdo Chad Holt. Exploiting life as his unwitting canvas, Chad's take-no-prisoners artistry assaults funny bones, political correctness, and common decency as he strives to leave a creative imprint on the planet. Strap in for the riotous ride and follow this icon of the Austin counterculture as he blazes through his final year of felony probation, living his own brand of civil disobedience while manning the helm of a life-altering family crisis and going out smokin!

==Critical review== ''Total Badass'' has received generally positive reviews. Despite many scenes of explicit behavior by its subject, it is considered an admirable movie of "life on the artistic and social fringe, and a thriller."<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/movies/19haleroundup.html|title=Sport and Grim Reality|last=Hale|first=Mike|date=November 18, 2010|work=New York Times|accessdate=November 18, 2010}}</ref>

==Cast== * Chad Holt

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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.totalbadassthemovie.com}} * {{IMDb title|1527790|Total Badass}}

Category:2010 films Category:American documentary films Category:2010 documentary films Category:2010 English-language films Category:2010 American films Category:English-language documentary films