Posted on 06/17/2008 10:10:33 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
"Get Smart," which I saw Monday night, is a hodgepodge. The good news is, it’s not awful. It has somehow retained a little of the Brooks/Henry spirit. There is just enough of it, spread around thinly, to make you remember what real satire was like, since "Get Smart" was a take-off on everything from "The Man from UNCLE" to James Bond....James Caan also appears as a bumbling president of the U.S. who’s under the thumb of his evil VP.
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me neither.
Uh, would you believe, it’s a POS?......................
I was looking forward to this, but now it’s: No go, no rent, no buy DVD.
The old “Hidden Bush-bashing trick...”
Judging from the film clips I’ve seen I think I’d rather have a root canal than to see that piece of swill.
As much as I am unhappy with Bush on some serious issues that he seems to be dumb/deaf and blind to I have to feel empathy for him as he has had a hell of a load to carry when it comes to disasters from 9/11 to catastrophic weather nationwide.
They should have never tried to remake the Avengers into a movie, or Get Smart. Perfection is not to be toyed with.
Don't 99.9% of the films released in the last 25+ years belong in that category?
more crap from Hollywood.
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Second time this week...
Hollywood loves its Lefty politics...while living in gated communities that keep the “little people” out.
I haven’t been impressed by the promos. No one in Hollywood has any finesse. Everything is over the top camp. From what I’ve seen, it doesn’t hold a candle to the show, which was hilarious and endearing. Much like they’ll never duplicate Sellers as Clouseau, heck, I’m just tired of all the remakes. Doesn’t anyone in tinseltown know how to write?
Would you believe . . .
I find myself buying old movies on DVD...I buy about 2-3 new movies a year. The last was the National Treasure follow-up; I bought “Transformers” which had a little jab at Bush, but essentially was a great “good vs. evil” movie.
Hmmm...Jon Voight was in both...
The Avengers failed because they took a remakable and sexy Mrs. Peel and turned her into just another one dimentional feminist character.
From the commercials it seemed pretty clear get smart was just another assembly line cliche movie.
Is this code for Barbara Feldon? Now you're talking.
Thanks for the heads up. I had the pleasure of meeting The Rock’s dad and he is great guy. I thought the Rock had his head on straight and I thought I understood why after speaking with his father. I guess I was wrong.
That line says it all. That's about as good as a movie can get today. Sad.
Any movie that is a remake of an old TV show is a guaranteed disappointment. They will always get in their anti-republican dig, anti-Bush jab, and generally do a poor job of recreating the original since they were not old enough to appreciate the original, the times, and circumstances which made it appealing.
Dukes of Hazzard for example was a campy TV show which had some pretty thin plot lines, but in the spirit of the times was quite good for a family show. The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Starsky & Hutch, and the list goes on. The shows were great for their time, but that time has passed. The remakes are just vulgar copies without the skilled writers.
It took real skill to write a show as bad (in concept) as the Dukes of Hazzard and actually make it work in a family primetime TV setting.
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