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Definitely Lucy... The show was brilliant, but she's dead! You can't replace her! Don't try!

Any of the others, plagiarize away. But I guarantee a live-action Captain Planet movie is going to get reviewed on here with a skull rating.

I agree. Redoing Lucy without Lucy would be like those lame Stan and Ollie or Marx Bros. remakes...(and YES...it WAS done...shudder...).

I remember the Stan and Ollie remake---about as far from the original humor as you could get. It sucked. The Original Laurel and Hardy had  a Home Alone level of slapstick violence that in turn inspired movies such as Home Alone.

The Laurel And Hardy remake on the other hand was a humorless mess that shared the so-called unfunny "humor" that the tv movie Home Alone 4 was into.




BTW:
slapstick is SUPPOSED to be violent--why critics who have slammed movies like Home Alone as being to violent is beyond me-the whole purpose of slapstick is that it's supposed to be violent with no blood---yet almost every movie critic proves to be a brainless idiot by slamming movies like Home Alone for the very same type of slapstick violence that Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy. The Marx Bros., The 3 Stooges and the like--did almost a decade before. Why can't these idiot critics get it through the thick five hundred inch brainless skulls, that these old time guys did heads on fire, iron in the face and such first?And why can't they except it.

Instead the majority of movie critics want the lame humor that isn't simple to get. No they gotta have Naploean Dynamite type or British type of humor A.K.A. unfunny humor and nothing else. Slapstick seems to be looked down upon by these nimrods who ironically enough have so little time that they spend what little time they do have by insulting others and exposing just how pathetic movie critics--the majority of them anyhoo--are.

respectmeordy,

To be fair British humor isn't entirely 'unfunny'.  At least I recall enjoying the Benny Hill Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and the like as a kid.  I even enjoyed Red Dwarf, for the most part.  And, let's be honest, half of the most popular American sitcoms of the last decade were total rip-offs of British originals.  The most blatant in recent memory being The Office, which they didn't even bother to change the title of.  (I never cared for the original thus I've not botered to watch the American clone.)  Even Friends, that vast half half hour intellectual wasteland about nothing, was said to be a knock-off of some British series or another.

Well to be honest there are a couple Brit shows I love.

The Office(althought I like the American one more)

and Mr. Bean(though the first Bean movie sucked--but Bean's Holiday was awesome)

Aside from those two shows Brit comedies stink and are not funny at all.

Quote from: respectmeordye3 on December 09, 2007, 02:39:00 PM
Well to be honest there are a couple Brit shows I love.

The Office(althought I like the American one more)

and Mr. Bean(though the first Bean movie sucked--but Bean's Holiday was awesome)

Aside from those two shows Brit comedies stink and are not funny at all.

What exactly do you hate about British humor? And have you ever seen the shows you claim to hate?
As an add on, I'll be honest and say I like a lot of british humor, such as monty python, red dwarf, benny hill etc. etc.
And now that I remember it fualty towers, John Cleese at his best

Myself...I find Monty Python,Benny Hill,the Young Ones,and ....dammit-what was that show with the 2 drunk women who were clothes designers...? DAM!!! I got a brain fart going on here...!-to be hilarious...and much funnier than most of the lame sitcoms on US TV.

rc,you mean abfab?great show!!

Quote from: RCMerchant on December 09, 2007, 04:24:59 PM
Myself...I find Monty Python,Benny Hill,the Young Ones,and ....dammit-what was that show with the 2 drunk women who were clothes designers...? DAM!!! I got a brain fart going on here...!-to be hilarious...and much funnier than most of the lame sitcoms on US TV.

Absolutely Fabulous... yeah that one was pretty good. In addition to the other British Shows mentioned I have to add Are You Being Served? as a good show.

Anyway we had an original thread topic here. I don't think that it was British sitcoms. Oh yeah, movie I don't want to see. All those are great ideas. I voted Zelda because I'd hate to see how they'd butcher it. Captain Planet was a close second. That movie would be loaded with so much green propaganda. I'd start retching when I walked into the theater to find everything redone to look like the freaking Riddler or Green Lantern bought the place. *shiver*

One story that I know would be destined for the Walmart bargain aisle would be Zork movie. A great idea which no one would take seriously and would ultimately flop.

Quote from: Justy on December 09, 2007, 08:42:29 PM
One story that I know would be destined for the Walmart bargain aisle would be Zork movie. A great idea which no one would take seriously and would ultimately flop.

>play dvd
You can't see any dvd here now

>go get dvd
You can't go that way

>go to walmart
You are now at Walmart

>take walmart
You have got to be kidding!

>enter walmart
You are now inside Walmart.  An old man wearing a blue apron is here.

Definitely Lucy.

I know she's an American classic, but I saw the show a few times and it stinks.  It's not funny and I wanted to slap her every time she started whining (which was often).

I guess it's just one of those great cultural divides in pop culture.

Quote from: 316zombie on December 09, 2007, 05:51:58 PM
rc,you mean abfab?great show!!

Yeah! That's it...! Thanks!!!  :thumbup:

I think all of them I hope to never see, but if I had choose one, it would be Legend of Zelda. 


Movies based off old shows are just horrible (Car 54, Where are you?).   Though Super friends might be good, if they can do a successfully crossover, if they could pull it off, I might have an interest.

Captain Planet, would almost have to be CGI based, as live action would be difficult imo.  Donkey Kong, well that would be intersting to say the least, but of course it would be ruined and be a horrible movie that would damage the franchise image.

I'm with Killer Bees, I can't stand Lucy.  I used to watch the show when I was a little kid and liked it then, but now it's like nails on a chalkboard.

Nyet to Lucy!
It won't work. No good looking chick could be that goofy and pull it off. No one I can think of, anyhoo...

The other stuff, though. It might could work...if the attitude is right.
CAPTIAN PLANET! As written by Ann Coulter. Now theres a cure for complacency...

Quote from: flackbait on December 09, 2007, 03:13:07 PM

Quote from: respectmeordye3 on December 09, 2007, 02:39:00 PM
Well to be honest there are a couple Brit shows I love.

The Office(althought I like the American one more)

and Mr. Bean(though the first Bean movie sucked--but Bean's Holiday was awesome)

Aside from those two shows Brit comedies stink and are not funny at all.

What exactly do you hate about British humor? And have you ever seen the shows you claim to hate?
As an add on, I'll be honest and say I like a lot of british humor, such as monty python, red dwarf, benny hill etc. etc.
And now that I remember it fualty towers, John Cleese at his best

I just don't find it funny--I've tried believe me--Red Dwarf,Monty Python and several others---aside from The Office(which was IMHO improved in the American version) and Mr. Bean (Which was ruined in his first movie but made up for it in his second movie) British comedy just is not funny. Don't get me wrong----I like Cleese and other Brit comics---but their idea of humor just sucks most of the time.

Ooohhh,ooooohhhh, you know what would really scare me?

A Ronald McDonald And Buddies theatrical movie!



Although I think those stupidly unfunny Burger King ads with the dork dressed like the title character would easily be worse.......


or another Micheal Moore Movie. I mean I like fiction but Moore goes to far with his brand of fiction.......


It's bad enough they are doing another Terminator movie, a new Terminator series, Aaaaaaannnnnnnd another Scary Movie---part 5!

Quote from: respectmeordye3 on December 10, 2007, 01:07:47 PM

Quote from: flackbait on December 09, 2007, 03:13:07 PM

Quote from: respectmeordye3 on December 09, 2007, 02:39:00 PM
Well to be honest there are a couple Brit shows I love.

The Office(althought I like the American one more)

and Mr. Bean(though the first Bean movie sucked--but Bean's Holiday was awesome)

Aside from those two shows Brit comedies stink and are not funny at all.

What exactly do you hate about British humor? And have you ever seen the shows you claim to hate?
As an add on, I'll be honest and say I like a lot of british humor, such as monty python, red dwarf, benny hill etc. etc.
And now that I remember it fualty towers, John Cleese at his best

I just don't find it funny--I've tried believe me--Red Dwarf,Monty Python and several others---aside from The Office(which was IMHO improved in the American version) and Mr. Bean (Which was ruined in his first movie but made up for it in his second movie) British comedy just is not funny. Don't get me wrong----I like Cleese and other Brit comics---but their idea of humor just sucks most of the time.

I'll respect that. I was just curious becuase a lot of people I know hate british humor, but they never even watched one brit show.

Well to be fair--I never agreed with  the whole "America screwed up "The Office" when they Americanized it" mentallity, I mean if it's gonna be Americanized it HAS to have a somewhat different type of humor to it--Brit Humor and American Humor are just natuarally different.

That being said....I think the Americans did screw up "Mr. Bean" for his first movie because all they really did was repeat old jokes he had already done---just not as funny.

But anyhoo, Bean is the main reason I started giving Brit comedies a chance. I figure if your gonna give an opinion on something you should at least give it a chance--sometimes I'm happy I am(Second Hand Lions) and then sometimes I regret doing so--("Unaccompanied Minors, Are We There Yet?" )

Quote from: Andrew on December 09, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
>play dvd
You can't see any dvd here now

>go get dvd
You can't go that way

>go to walmart
You are now at Walmart

>take walmart
You have got to be kidding!

>enter walmart
You are now inside Walmart.  An old man wearing a blue apron is here.

:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: Karma!

Not Karma--hell.

The cartoons and video game-based shows mean zero to me...not being a child of the 80's -so if they did something with them...I wouldn't care. And...truth to tell...Lucy wasn't a big hit with me either. Actually...most movies based on TV shows or cartoons I avoid like the plague.I have never seen the Spiderman,Hulk,X-Men,Josie and the p***y Cats,etc...films...and I doubt I ever will.

Concerning I Love Lucy doesn't The Long, Long Trailer qualify as an I Love Lucy movie. Yeah it officially wasn't Lucy and Ricky but they were the same characters.

Although a modern release would be scary as hell.

On topic:
Most movie/TV adaptations are inferior because they lack the snap and the brio that make a half-hour situation comedy work.  Sitation comedies on TV work best in short form -- a movie has to be long to justify its existance.  Lucy, as a film, could still work today if they got someone like Gwen Stefani in the role -- someone who was willing to do any physical thing to make it fly.
The problem with "Lucy", as we know the show on TV, and as far as adapting for Film, is that it already had existed for a decade or more on radio before it went before the cameras and the vision of Desi Arnaz.  People like to poke fun at Arnaz as some kind of ignorant Spic, but research what he invented for TV:  The 3 camera shooting set, the 3-shot edit, etc. etc.
On Brit TV:  Well, there's no accounting for taste, as they say, but everyone on this website should at least give "Blackadder" and "Father Ted" a flying chance.  People who claim to not understand "British" humour seem to me to be bearing a grudge against "As Time Goes By" when they make a historical reference.  "Father Ted" deals with "Drink! Girls! Fek!!" and other human concerns.  Ditto "Blackadder":  Sax, violins, and tarts with huuugggeeee . . . tracts of land . . .
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