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Ive actually pondered this for sometime now.

 

How is it that in this modern day and age of high spec graphics and cinema photo graphical manipulation, remakes of previously popular and often corny 1970's, 1980's tv shows always seem to flop dramatically (even more dramatically than some of the over acting done by the originals casts!)

 

for example,

 

Knightrider Original..... every kid wanted a Kitt of their own and wanted to be as cool as the Hoff!! (yes maybe we where delusional)

 

Knightrider 2010..... the pilot film lacked presence.....the series that followed was a shortlived waste of tv viewing time, INFACT the only thing I liked out of the lot was the new theme tune :rolleyes:

 

Then there's others as equally and terribly concocted.

 

New Battlestar Galactica, wtf.....seriously wtf???...... where's the feckin huge space battles every week gone!?!?!.....why is the womanizing shagmaster we all knew and loved as Starbuck a bloody ugly bint??(tho tbf she'd pass as a bloke....Id have to certainly check for cock before touchin her!) and why could they summon up the ability to use then expensive laser like special effects in the old serious but now their just using bullets..... where's the "special" in that ya cheap c*nts, BSG wasn't ever about touchy feely deep and meaningful story lines you gormless fuckwits....its about humans, tw4ttin robots, that are in turn tryin to tw4t the humans. It really is that simple!

 

The New A Team, holy feck you've managed to insult the entire cast of the original series and its producers,director in just one giant waste of movie film real....bravo, seriously....well feckin done!!!!!, just dear god take the hint from the reviews and don't try and make a series!!!!!

 

My only fear is that there is a definite trend appearing over the last few years, were these half baked wastes of space producers continuously rape classic tv shows for quick cheap profit.

 

Tho tbh Id love to see some of the old shows brought back and remade in a honest well thought through and considered fashion, unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the way they are approached atall nowadays does it!.

 

So whats their next target then??

 

StreetHawk?

 

Airwolf??

 

Blue Thunder???

 

Buck Rogers????

 

Automan?????

 

Its true that if done right any of the above and any unmentioned could be remade into something to match the viewing pleasure the originals gave.....but apparently that must just be to costly?!?!?!?

 

well..... not really one but.......... rant over!

 

Anything you lot would like to see come back in a quality like fashion?

 

DISCUSS!

A few thoughts:

 

- Style never replaces content.

- By definition you cant recreate originality.

- Old tv shows were originally a success because there wasnt a great deal else around at the time.

 

Btw, i actually quite enjoyed the new a-team film!

Btw, i actually quite enjoyed the new a-team film!

 

+1

 

i did like the film alot it did capture the old style of the A-Team

 

Don't see too much with negative press of that Shaw

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Btw, i actually quite enjoyed the new a-team film!

 

+1

 

i did like the film alot it did capture the old style of the A-Team

 

Don't see too much with negative press of that Shaw

 

All Ive came across is bad press, however I never believe the critics anyway and have found stuff slated by tofts at the Oscars p1sses all over the award winning films.

 

that said I gave it the benefit of the doubt...... I watched 30 odd minutes of it before I couldnt stand anymore. :unsure:

I didn't like the tv to film remakes of Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch or the Dukes of hazard. However, I never watched the original TV series' so I can't compare them.

 

 

The Addams family films and to an extent, the Mission Impossible films, were good remakes.

I didn't like the tv to film remakes of Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch or the Dukes of hazard. However, I never watched the original TV series' so I can't compare them.

 

 

The Addams family films and to an extent, the Mission Impossible films, were good remakes.

 

and transformers :thumb:

To be honest Mr Lee... I think you watch far too much TV! :pancake:
I didn't like the tv to film remakes of Miami Vice, Starsky & Hutch or the Dukes of hazard. However, I never watched the original TV series' so I can't compare them.

 

 

The Addams family films and to an extent, the Mission Impossible films, were good remakes.

 

and transformers :thumb:

 

Good shout. I love the transformer films.

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To be honest Mr Lee... I think you watch far too much TV! :pancake:

 

 

I dont sleep......... theres fuckall else to do at 3am :unsure:

The origional TV shows are shite by todays standards. sit through a marathon of airwolf tonight?? Thought you wouldnt want to! A film about it would definately be an improvement, no matter how much you protest
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The origional TV shows are shite by todays standards. sit through a marathon of airwolf tonight?? Thought you wouldnt want to! A film about it would definately be an improvement, no matter how much you protest

 

 

no no you get me wrong, I don't dislike them making newer versions...... I dislike them making shite new versions :pancake:

 

Id enjoy them making new versions as long as they at least try and maintain the originality of the founding series.

 

here's a modern example...

 

Stargate SG1..... enjoyable to watch and Mr Mcguiver always made me chuckle.

 

Stargate Atlantis..... Ok the characters aren't as impacting as the original and the action is starting to take a backseat.

 

Stargate Universe..... At last a solid UK actor is in a lead role!!...... wait........ erm...... why's everyone worrying about each others feelings??........ kill something dammit!, anything!!..... please FFS your on a ship millions of years from earth in a entirely unexplored galaxy!!! who gives a flying feck why the bints are crying!?!?!?!

I dont sleep......... theres fuckall else to do at 3am :unsure:

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I dont sleep......... theres fuckall else to do at 3am :unsure:

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tried tha....after a while it just made gasping noises instead of squirting.

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another one I actually cant believe I forgot about.

 

V

 

no thats not me giving you lot the V's, thats "V" as in Donavan the feckin heroic cameraman and willy the lovable face peeling alien (before he developed razor hands and started killin kids that is).

 

and then they made the new one......

 

dull characters

 

muddled storyline and little to no visible direction

 

the action, intrigue and heroics of the first series now replaced with emotional claptrap and drawn out unbelievably dull politics.

 

Ill say it again....... how is it so possible to take a popular, exciting and interesting tv show from years ago and using the much more advanced cinematography of modern day.....make it worse????

Not We.Are.V.R.Troopers then??

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