Re: Series reboots
By: Moondog to MRO on Sun Aug 14 2022 10:53 pm
IIRC that movie is credited with killing C Thomas Howell's mainstream mov career. He has done well making his occasional appearances and "mockbust
i don't think anybody credited it with killing his movie career.
it didnt hurt the writer at all.
he was a good actor and it was a commercial success. it made 35 million on look up his imdb. dude has been working a LOT. bad movies, ok movies, lots o
he also has a ruptured appendix in the early 2000's and they had to take ou
Re: Series reboots
By: Moondog to Phigan on Sun Aug 14 2022 10:56 pm
lol. I sort of remember that series. Wasn't it like a Dirty Harry style cop comedy? i recall a Robocop parody where they turned him into "Hammeroid"
i still say "I prefer to get my information from more reliable sources like
I totally agree he has done alot with his career. I'm implying he had the potential of way more before that movie "blacklisted" him from projects his fellow Brat Packers made their fame on. It's not his fault. As stated, the movie did fine. It is like an early form of the cancel culture stepped in and decided his life for him.
i still say "I prefer to get my information from more reliable sources like
IIRC that was an ABC network comedy. They tended to take more chances on the more silly, slapstick type of comedy. CBS evolved into the network that
Re: Series reboots
By: Moondog to MRO on Mon Aug 15 2022 08:41 am
I totally agree he has done alot with his career. I'm implying he had th potential of way more before that movie "blacklisted" him from projects h fellow Brat Packers made their fame on. It's not his fault. As stated, movie did fine. It is like an early form of the cancel culture stepped i and decided his life for him.
no i dont think he got blacklisted or canceled.
he also wasn't part of that brat pack.
he had a few good movies but then he ended up changing course.
He's still getting work and he's not broke so I think he's fine with how he'
that movie made a lot of money and nobody got buried because of it. it was
times are different now. you can get fired for calling a woman 'she'.
Re: Series reboots
By: Moondog to MRO on Mon Aug 15 2022 08:48 am
i still say "I prefer to get my information from more reliable sources like
IIRC that was an ABC network comedy. They tended to take more chances on the more silly, slapstick type of comedy. CBS evolved into the network t
i think hbo or something got them first, but it was a bad deal for the creat
When they got booted, they took it to ABC. sledgehammer was a fish out of w huge.
i think a reboot of sledgehammer wouldn't work out. it was a real light and satirical show, it was so stupid it was smart. i don't think anybody can do
CTH was part of the Brat Pack. He fell into the age group and did several films with the likes of Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estavez, Ralph Maccio, and several others. Two good examples are Red Dawn and the Outsiders.
i think hbo or something got them first, but it was a bad deal for the creat
When they got booted, they took it to ABC. sledgehammer was a fish out of w huge.
It was always ABC. HBO only showed movies back then. The original series
Re: Series reboots
By: MRO to Phigan on Sun Aug 14 2022 02:35 pm
i think a reboot of sledgehammer wouldn't work out. it was a real light and satirical show, it was so stupid it was smart. i don't think anybody can do
Yeah when I started thinking about it, I realized it would be pretty tough. Especially with the "climate" we're in these days. But I bet someone really smart could pull it off.
Re: Series reboots
By: Moondog to MRO on Tue Aug 16 2022 12:39 am
CTH was part of the Brat Pack. He fell into the age group and did severa films with the likes of Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estavez, Ra Maccio, and several others. Two good examples are Red Dawn and the Outsiders.
he was in red dawn and the outsiders, but i've never heard of him being
part of the brat pack group. nor was ralph macchio.
he wasn't part of that scene.
The definition is pretty loose. One definition describes all those who starred in Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club. The larger, more inclusive use
of the term includes nearly every teen actor from that era had worked on several films with other teen actors they had worked with on other films. The prime actors were Emilio Estavez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe,Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The close but counts category includes Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, John and Joan Cusack, Jamie Gertz, mare Winningham, Jon Cryer, James Spader, and Charlie Sheen. Leah Thompson and Jennifer Gray are also in the larger definition. I would throw Kevin Bacon in aswell due to his work with nearly all these actors.
Re: Series reboots
By: Moondog to MRO on Wed Aug 17 2022 10:09 am
The definition is pretty loose. One definition describes all those who starred in Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club. The larger, more inclusiv use
of the term includes nearly every teen actor from that era had worked on several films with other teen actors they had worked with on other films. The prime actors were Emilio Estavez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe,Andr McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. The close but counts category includes Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruis C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, John and Joan Cusack, Jamie Gertz, mare Winningham, Jon Cryer, James Spader, and Charlie Sheen. Leah Thompson an Jennifer Gray are also in the larger definition. I would throw Kevin Bac in aswell due to his work with nearly all these actors.
so where are you getting these definitions from?
One definition was coined by the writer of an article that cited a select group of actor that appeared several times in various productions. The second refers to all actors of that age group and genre of films they were making. The second definition is more retrospective, since the other actors that starred together in several films is way alrger than that chosen by a magazine writer in the mid 80's.
If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how would you do it?
On 8/13/22 22:16, Moondog wrote:
If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how wou you do it?
Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.
If they could reboot it without a gender swap, and without making the
main character woke, that would be nice. If Amazon could give it a
similar treatment to Reacher or Jack Ryan, I'd be very happy.
Think it would be funny to have a conversation with Oscar and Steve...
Oscar: How much do you think you cost anyway?
Steve: I don't know, five or six million.
Oscar: You cost a bit more than six million dollars pal.
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Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly
different than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone... Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.
If they could reboot it without a gender swap, and without making the
main character woke, that would be nice. If Amazon could give it a similar treatment to Reacher or Jack Ryan, I'd be very happy.
Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different
than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.
...
About 15 years ago there was a Bionic Woman redo that didn't run long, but around 97 I recall a reboot where it was supposed be Austin's son that gets injured and enlisted to get the cybernetic implants. Instead of just replacing an arm and legs without consideration how the rest of the body is massively under spec to handle the stresses of lifting engine blocks and leaping 20 feet, the new procedure involved flooding the body with nanobots wh
ich in turn fuse to the spinal and nervous system to create the neural network, and more nanobots which bond to the bone and muscles to enhance strength and durability.
On 8/22/22 10:46, Moondog wrote:
Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different >> than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.
...
About 15 years ago there was a Bionic Woman redo that didn't run long, but around 97 I recall a reboot where it was supposed be Austin's son that get injured and enlisted to get the cybernetic implants. Instead of just replacing an arm and legs without consideration how the rest of the body i massively under spec to handle the stresses of lifting engine blocks and leaping 20 feet, the new procedure involved flooding the body with nanobot ich in turn fuse to the spinal and nervous system to create the neural network, and more nanobots which bond to the bone and muscles to enhance strength and durability.
It was a made for TV movie... been (re)watching Six Million Dollar Man piecemeal the past couple months... once I get through Bionic Woman
going to do the TV movies.
They recently did a US BluRay release of Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is out in a month or so... will probably rip/encode from
the newer source and continue watching from that.
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