Posted on 02/12/2023 5:10:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
Can you imagine the dumpster fire t would be if they tried to remake Airplane?
why is there no talent in hollywierd that this even needs to be discussed?
They were unique in their level of offensiveness, but they reflect our level of tolerance for that kind of humour back then.
People are too sensitive today for these same movies to be successful.
I can’t imagine this scene from Police Academy being remade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yKPgTY637w
Does not surprise me. Few or no good ideas anymore, so just left with reboots. Unfortunately, I can only imagine how they would screw that up. Think “Revenge of the Nerds” where all the nerds are POC trannies, with maybe one White guy thrown in for pure nostalgia.
In all fairness, though, the Sascha Baron Cohen movies are quite funny, if crude. Lest you think I am partial to my fellow Red Sea Pedestrians I still think Mel Brooks sucks. What an embarrassment he is.
Too raunchy? Compared to what? The stuff today is just as crappy and worse.
There are plenty of old and very good movies to watch for a lifetime. Hollyweird needs to be put on the shelf or swept into the dust bin of history.
In the pc world of today I can’t believe Blazing Saddles has not simply self-destructed.
Hmmm... why haven’t these been remade/rebooted? Um, let’s see...
10 Gremlins - mediocre
9 Porky’s - garbage
8 Airplane! - stupid but semi-funny... once
7 Crocodile Dundee - stupid but semi-funny... once
6 Honey I Shrunk the Kids - mediocre
5 The Naked Gun - garbage
4 Police Academy - garbage
3 Major League - stupid but semi-funny... once
2 Revenge of the Nerds - outdated concept. The gags about the nerds being really into electronics make little sense if the whole world are hooked on smartphones.
1 Back to the Future Back - mediocre
Naked Gun is getting a reboot starring Liam Neeson.
Even if they tried, there’s no way to translate pre-woke humor into today’s lexicon, as nothing is funny today.
Nothing is permitted to be funny anymore.
What about buckaroo banzai
Remake Porky’s and Naked Gun, woke? yeah, right. Just no.
Thanks for the clip. Barbara Billingsley had such a deep voice by the ‘80s. Was Mrs Cleaver smoking 2 packs of Camels a days?
I hope they don’t get any ideas about remaking Blazing Saddles.
(I know, it’s from the 70s)
If they ever reboot “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” or E.T: The Extra-terrestrial, let’s just say I’ll be very unhappy.
Imagine the cast for remakes of Ferris Beuller and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The PC crowd is just way too sensitive, delicate and spoiled for their own good.
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