remake / re-imagine
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Saturday, September 8, 2007 16:15
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Originally posted by CaptainCoupi:
I know some of our brother and sisters over th other side of the pon dmay not have seen it, but Captain Scarlet was a great concept. A campy crappy kids show from the 60/70's about a soldier of a future international law enforcement agency who couldn't die. Now the fun bitt is that he's not invulnurable. He can get shot, stabbed, blown up, what ever and he appears to die but a few days later he just turns up.
Captain Scarlet -> Captain Jack Harkness
Cloudbase -> The Valiant
Hmmm...
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Thread deja-vu, as I'm in a lazy mood, I've got a few posts towards the end...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=8&t=24978
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Captain Scarlet -> Captain Jack Harkness
Cloudbase -> The Valiant
Er, yes, that was a bit blatent, wasn't it...
(Actually, it looked even closer to the version from the Capt. Scarlet CGI remake - renamed "skybase" for some undefined reason... I wonder...)
There was an interview with John Barrowman "from the set of Torchwood" in which a plan of Cloudba... sorry, Valient was showing on the monitor, so maybe its going to feature in that, to...
The ladies from Torchwood will have to get some blonde wigs and skin-tight jumpsuits
Actualy, the CGI remake of Captain Scarlet (the real one, not Dr Who) was OK-ish (actually, high art by saturday morning kids' TV standards) - main gripe was the bland title sequences (the original, Gerry Anderson title sequences and bombastic music were... inimitable).
..speaking of which, anybody noticed how the new Battlestar Galactica "borrowed" the old Gerry Anderson device of having a rapid-fire episode preview in the title sequence? (It was used in all the classic Anderson shows, I think...)
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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
..speaking of which, anybody noticed how the new Battlestar Galactica "borrowed" the old Gerry Anderson device of having a rapid-fire episode preview in the title sequence? (It was used in all the classic Anderson shows, I think...)
I can't be the only one to avert my eyes at the relevant moment to avoid spoilers. They didn't do the "in this episode" * stuff for the first few episodes of season 2, but then they started again...
* I remember it best from Space 1999
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not to cut in but - just to add a thought from outside... haas anyone ever read the STAINLESS STEEL RAT books? Fillion would be a cinch and so would most of the rest of the FF cast...
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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
not to cut in but - just to add a thought from outside... haas anyone ever read the STAINLESS STEEL RAT books? Fillion would be a cinch and so would most of the rest of the FF cast...
Good call! The Stainless Steel Rat has been mentioned before on another thread... hmmm, Nathan as slippery Jim...? yep, think so... Christina Hendricks as Angelina?
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Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
Good call! The Stainless Steel Rat has been mentioned before on another thread...
where? context? - influence on hitchhikers maybe??
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hmmm, Nathan as slippery Jim...? yep, think so... Christina Hendricks as Angelina?
yes indeedy!
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mmm...suddently got an urge for porcuswine burgers 
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Originally posted by SlyC:
Roger Ebert definitely has his biases
I think at this point critics are pretty much useless. I don't like people telling me what they think I would like. I have seen enough movies that critics said were bad that I thought were quite good and movies that they said were good that I thought were pretty bad. So If I see a preview (or trailer or whatever you cal it) and if the premise or if there is something I like about it I will go see it. I never look to critics to tell me anything. Also I just don't like spoilers.
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I absolutely see your point, Dataless. A critic's opinion is just that, another opinion (supposedly educated). But it can help point you towards a movie you might not have normally seen, and once you find critics with similar tastes and/or know their biases it can help. I just find some review shows to be entertaining. Plus it's fun to see them cut up awful movies sometimes.
Politics is the showbiz of industry.
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