Posted on 09/23/2011 12:01:58 AM PDT by max americana
Despite the wretched fates of recent Knight Rider and Bionic Woman remakes, tenacious TV execs keep attempting to revamp old shows for a millennial audience. In Charlie's Angels, the latest rebirth (premiering Thursday at 10 p.m. on ABC), actresses Minka Kelly, Rachel Taylor, and Annie Ilonzeh step into the butt-kicking, private-investigator shoes of Farrah Fawcett and Co. By most accounts, it doesn't go well:
Critics are already proclaiming the straightforward series "offensively bland" and "DOA (dumb on arrival)." Is Charlie's Angels doomed to suffer the TV remake curse?
Yep. Especially with writing this bad: The new crimefighting trio is burdened by "comically bad writing," says David Hinckley at the New York Daily News. When a perceptive kidnap victim remarks, "You don't look like cops," the girls respond: "We're not. We're Angels." This stiffly delivered repartee is better suited for a "dialogue balloon in a comic book" than a primetime series. "Charlie's Angels"
I don’t watch TV so I had no idea who this Minka Kelly person is, so I checked...
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Minka+Kelly&qpvt=Minka+Kelly&FORM=Z7FD1#x0y340
Thanks for the thread! :) I hope this show stays on forever!
pretty dang close to Jaclyn Smith my favorite angel
They don’t have the assertive power of the original trio. I think the originals just realized they were making something silly and just went with it. They were beautiful and attractive and seemed like they could handle themselves in those situations.
These three look like drunk girls wandering off the Sex and the City set.
Farrah Fawcett got all the attention in the original show, but I always thought Jacklyn Smith was the real knockout.
Ah, great minds...
I am so burned out on remakes. All of Hollywood’s writers need to be fired.
I thought Hollyweird was supposed to be so creative. What is holding them back now that Barry the ZerO-bama their pagan god has assumed power.
as a 15 year old boy when C.A. first came on tv she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen since I saw Julie Newmar in the Catwoman suit when I was 5 years old.. oh and Jaclyn’s sexy voice was the cheery on top.. seeexxxxyyyyy
nice.. and my eyes still always go to Jaclyn
Are their any creative minds left in Hollywood or did all the pot do them in? They can’t seem to do anything but remakes or realityTV.
Who cares?
They look good but they don’t compare to the stunning originals.
Larry David is creative and funny. I like “House M.D.” and think Hugh Laurie is a genius.
I sure hope not! I am so sick of remakes. It's disgusting. Between remakes and "reality" tv, I sometimes surprise myself when I don't burn Hollywood to the ground.
...If only they could get Kurt Sutter to write it, but no. He’s the anti-network king of cable dramas.
Bad TV, or bad movie theaters?
Nowadays if it blows, no one knows, cause they have other things to do.
point...
Yep. This is the second remake.
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