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Around The World In 80 Days remake is slammed by furious viewers for its 'woke' take on Jules Verne classic with colour-blind casting and classic male role re-imagined as a woman
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 27, 2021 | Jason Chester

Posted on 12/27/2021 12:38:13 PM PST by C19fan

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To: V_TWIN

or how bout makina movie called “Black Chicks”, where white men become black girls.


81 posted on 12/27/2021 3:52:08 PM PST by stylin19a (Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?)
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To: oldvirginian

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.


82 posted on 12/27/2021 4:26:27 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Just the music belonged with the movie ...


83 posted on 12/27/2021 4:47:05 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: stylin19a

the original 12 Angry Men cant be improved ...


84 posted on 12/27/2021 4:49:05 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: George from New England

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.


85 posted on 12/27/2021 5:36:38 PM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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To: GingisK

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


86 posted on 12/27/2021 5:58:02 PM PST by bravo whiskey (Count Rostov "The tyranny of indistinguishable days.")
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To: Tennessee Nana

I agree - the originals were worth watching... the WOKE knockoffs? Not so much... well, not any.


87 posted on 12/27/2021 7:40:03 PM PST by GOPJ (Biden and his commie thugs don’t want us vaccinated they want us hated...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

that’s a fact...


88 posted on 12/27/2021 9:32:42 PM PST by stylin19a (Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites?)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
But if you will remember, the ORIGINAL THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) bombed at the box office.

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.

89 posted on 12/27/2021 10:25:58 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: cuban leaf

Lets go all of the way; “Porgy and Bess” with an all white cast.


90 posted on 12/28/2021 4:44:58 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: oldvirginian

I really enjoyed the Stargate movie. I watched one episode of the TV show and didn’t bother with the rest.


91 posted on 12/28/2021 7:01:28 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: cuban leaf

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.


92 posted on 12/28/2021 7:44:09 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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To: GingisK

I mean how many films are there of Jane Erye or The Three Musketeers. Much less Shakespeare plays...


93 posted on 12/28/2021 12:43:24 PM PST by Borges
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To: rllngrk33
I'll let others decide what the rest of the cast will be.

Teal'c will be a gay latinx who, instead of being the former first prime of Apophis, was his former lover.

94 posted on 12/28/2021 12:50:40 PM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: LibertarianLiz
I recently signed up for BritBox streaming service. Mostly because I have always liked British murder mysteries.

---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.

95 posted on 12/28/2021 1:29:35 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Sans-Culotte; All

The UK TV series with a black Anne Boylen is the height of “wokeness”.


96 posted on 12/28/2021 1:48:22 PM PST by Reily
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To: C19fan

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.


97 posted on 12/28/2021 1:58:59 PM PST by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: USAF1985

Actually I’ve discovered some good Russian TV series on YT with English subtitles. They don’t do faggotry in Russia.


98 posted on 12/28/2021 2:01:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

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


99 posted on 12/28/2021 2:05:24 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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