Posted on 12/27/2021 12:38:13 PM PST by C19fan
A new adaptation of Jules Verne classic Around The World In 80 Days has been dismissed as 'woke nonsense' by furious BBC license payers.
The eight-part adaptation starring David Tennant as globetrotting Phileas Fogg launched on Boxing Day, but a series of socially conscious tweaks to the legendary tale left viewers choking on their turkey sandwiches.
Two notable departures from Verne's original 1872 text sees Passepartout, Fogg's loyal valet, played by a black actor - French star Ibrahim Koma - while Detective Fix also gets a modern-day makeover.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
or how bout makina movie called “Black Chicks”, where white men become black girls.
Woke yes. Full of obscenities, mostly.
That’s why this Lost in Space shocked me. Only thing on Netflix my grandchildren can see.
No, I don’t have a netflix subscription. I have other ways to download programs I want to see.
Just the music belonged with the movie ...
the original 12 Angry Men cant be improved ...
Obscenities, nudity and sex scenes are just crutches for weak and lazy writers. A well written and acted script needs none of that.
I dropped my satellite tv because I got tired of supporting the channels that push the gay/BLM/woke agenda.
If you liked LEVERAGE then LEVERAGE REDEMPTION on IMDB and prime is fun. Most of the original cast, good new folks and fun to see how the characters have grown
I agree - the originals were worth watching... the WOKE knockoffs? Not so much... well, not any.
that’s a fact...
It certainly bombed with me, when I first saw it on a black-and-white TV in 1959. I was fascinated with the story until the ending, which I thought was a cop-out (the whole thing was merely a dream) and still do, today.
If you want to see a movie version of "The Wizard of Oz," watch the 1925 movie starring Larry Seman and Oliver Hardy (before he teamed up with Stan Laurel). It's light years better than the 1939 talkie.
Lets go all of the way; “Porgy and Bess” with an all white cast.
I really enjoyed the Stargate movie. I watched one episode of the TV show and didn’t bother with the rest.
I love the movie.
I originally watched because James Spader and Kurt Russell were in it. I was, and still am, fans of both.
The series wasn’t bad in that it kept fairly close to the characters in the movie. I knew going in that it wouldn’t be as good as the movie because it was being made on a shoestring. They even had to dig the old Stargate prop out of storage and refurb it.
The writing was kind of hit and miss. I view the first season as the worst. Even later seasons seemed to have one stinker of an episode.
I mean how many films are there of Jane Erye or The Three Musketeers. Much less Shakespeare plays...
Teal'c will be a gay latinx who, instead of being the former first prime of Apophis, was his former lover.
---SNIP---
Well, Hubby and I went down Memory Lane with The Duchess of Duke Street"
We had Acorn TV a few years back before the programming was divided between Acorn and Britbox. I didn't like a lot of their crime shows because they were dark and sordid, and the actors looked like people who slept in their clothes. We loved the Joan Hickson Miss Marple, David Suchet's Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes. We also liked the various iterations of Lord Peter Wimsey and some of the Agatha Christie one-offs as well as historical shows like Elizabeth R and the Six Wives of Henry VIII.. New British TV is so woke it simply holds no interest for us. Actually new TV in general is too woke.
The UK TV series with a black Anne Boylen is the height of “wokeness”.
Not a surprise with the BBC. We were watching a British show, and in the first 15 minutes…all the boxes were checked:
-Evil white male commander
-Non-evil woman of color as his deputy
-Female detective lead…who has a gay lover
It’s utterly disgusting these days, when you can’t get a normal shoe to watch. We grab books and play games instead of watching trash now.
Actually I’ve discovered some good Russian TV series on YT with English subtitles. They don’t do faggotry in Russia.
Actually, they should have made Fogg a woman.
Reporter Nellie Bly actually did a similar trip and wrote a book about it...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Seventy-Two_Days
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