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[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Boy, is that a movie you will not feel good coming out of…

People complain about movie makers taking liberties and changing things from the original material but that new ending was really something... So much better.

Speaking of altering a story, hasn't anyone else read The Lawnmover Man AND seen the movie? Some liberties were taken...

 

[Mola Ram]

People complain about movie makers taking liberties and changing things from the original material but that new ending was really something... So much better.

Speaking of altering a story, hasn't anyone else read The Lawnmover Man AND seen the movie? Some liberties were taken...

So many that King sued to get his name taken off it!

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

So many that King sued to get his name taken off it!

The movie is stupid but it is better than the short story. Even as a kid I thought it was shit.

Darabont wanted to make The Long Walk for a long time and it's a great story, he's probably got ideas on how to translate it into a movie but I can't figure it out unless they rely heavily on flashbacks.

 

[Mola Ram]

The movie is stupid but it is better than the short story. Even as a kid I thought it was shit.

It's definitely on the low end of the scale for Night Shift, but it's not godawful. Just a silly little grossout / sick joke story without any larger meaning. It's very short, at least.

 

[frozenrunner]

Darabont wanted to make The Long Walk for a long time and it's a great story, he's probably got ideas on how to translate it into a movie but I can't figure it out unless they rely heavily on flashbacks.

Darabont is 3 for 3 with King adaptations, so I couldn't think of a director I would rather attempt that film adaptation.

But would any major studio finance it these days? I really don't think so unless you told them it was an allegory about Trump.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Darabont is 3 for 3 with King adaptations, so I couldn't think of a director I would rather attempt that film adaptation.

But would and major studio finance it these days? I really don't think so unless you told them it was an allegory about Trump.

That was always the problem, he's been trying to get it made since The Green Mile I think? Everyone has said no but he kept trying.

edit: I would really like to see it, The Long Walk and Apt Pupil are two King stories burnt into my mind since childhood.

 

[Commander X]

You can watch the entire show on their youtube channel just FYI.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMunsters/videos

Anyway they did movies after the show - in color too.
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And there was a reboot attempt already. Several... actually...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jZ1yz-Jpfdw

There was also a TV series sequel back in the 80s that actually lasted a few seasons (1988-1991).

The 80s saw an explosion in sitcoms on American TV in general, as networks rushed to cash in on the success of shows like Cheers, The Cosby Show and what not.

On the other hand you had this new market for made-for-syndication sitcoms. And nearly all of these new sitcoms were shot on videotape, cheap to produce, and "family-friendly." And so you got a flood of poorly-produced sitcoms with rickety sets, has-been casts, cheesy writing and "wacky" premises, and attempts at revamps, reboots and "the New Generations" of various older sitcoms. The 80s was a Golden Age for bad sitcoms that looked like they were produced by cave trolls.

One of the first sitcoms produced directly for syndication was the notorious "Small Wonder".

None of the networks would pick it up (wonder why?) so the show was instead sold to a "consortium" of broadcasters. It did well enough that it encouraged other producers to sell their terrible shows directly to syndication.

Some "notables" from this period include what was to be Suzanne Sommers big post-Three's Company comeback attempt "She's The Sheriff" (actual tagline from an old print ad for this show: "She's The Sheriff and she's got the laughs...locked up!"

And perhaps even worse than "Small Wonder" was "Out of This World", which lasted a whole four seasons.

The premise, a girl hits her early teens and discovers that she now has strange powers activated when she touches her index fingers together. Her mother finally tells her the truth about her father, he was actually an alien who was forced to return to his home planet, and now she's developing alien powers. Her mother gives her a box that allows her to communicate with her father. Every week, she tries to solve some problem using her powers, only to make things worse. Her father gives her some kind of useless advice that sounds like a lesson, as does her mother. In the end, she learns her lesson about caring and sharing and all that. Like with most of these cheap first-run syndicated sitcoms every joke is unspeakably lame and every punchline can be predicted about a minute before it arrives. It has a theme song that belongs to no real genre and a canned laughtrack that is used every time a character so much as moves.
Oh, and her father was voiced by one of the show's producers...Burt Reynolds.

 

[Flexo]

You munster! I was at least hiding the 80s reboot behind Hats' Off video so no one would have to see it directly!

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

There was also a TV series sequel back in the 80s that actually lasted a few seasons (1988-1991).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XpV19Ko1EK4
The 80s saw an explosion in sitcoms on American TV in general, as networks rushed to cash in on the success of shows like Cheers, The Cosby Show and what not.

On the other hand you had this new market for made-for-syndication sitcoms. And nearly all of these new sitcoms were shot on videotape, cheap to produce, and "family-friendly." And so you got a flood of poorly-produced sitcoms with rickety sets, has-been casts, cheesy writing and "wacky" premises, and attempts at revamps, reboots and "the New Generations" of various older sitcoms. The 80s was a Golden Age for bad sitcoms that looked like they were produced by cave trolls.

One of the first sitcoms produced directly for syndication was the notorious "Small Wonder".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CBndhR9GcWM
None of the networks would pick it up (wonder why?) so the show was instead sold to a "consortium" of broadcasters. It did well enough that it encouraged other producers to sell their terrible shows directly to syndication.

Some "notables" from this period include what was to be Suzanne Sommers big post-Three's Company comeback "She's The Sheriff" (actual tagline from an old print ad for this show: "She's The Sheriff and she's got the laughs...locked up!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YsAZcf_O7Kg
And perhaps even worse than "Small Wonder" was "Out of This World", which lasted a whole four seasons.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6D1DtHQ3Q0M
The premise, a girl hits her early teens and discovers that she now has strange powers activated when she touches her index fingers together. Her mother finally tells her the truth about her father, he was actually an alien who was forced to return to his home planet, and now she's developing alien powers. Her mother gives her a box that allows her to communicate with her father. Every week, she tries to solve some problem using her powers, only to make things worse. Her father gives her some kind of useless advice that sounds like a lesson, as does her mother. In the end, she learns her lesson about caring and sharing and all that. Like with most of these cheap first-run syndicated sitcoms every joke is unspeakably lame and every punchline can be predicted about a minute before it arrives. It has a theme song that belongs to no real genre and a canned laughtrack that is used every time a character so much as moves.
Oh, and her father was voiced by one of the show's producers...Burt Reynolds.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=grOz37stTbM

And now all the weird ass sitcoms just go to the Disney channel or Nickelodeon.

 

[Mola Ram]

There was also a TV series sequel back in the 80s that actually lasted a few seasons (1988-1991).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XpV19Ko1EK4
The 80s saw an explosion in sitcoms on American TV in general, as networks rushed to cash in on the success of shows like Cheers, The Cosby Show and what not.

On the other hand you had this new market for made-for-syndication sitcoms. And nearly all of these new sitcoms were shot on videotape, cheap to produce, and "family-friendly." And so you got a flood of poorly-produced sitcoms with rickety sets, has-been casts, cheesy writing and "wacky" premises, and attempts at revamps, reboots and "the New Generations" of various older sitcoms. The 80s was a Golden Age for bad sitcoms that looked like they were produced by cave trolls.

One of the first sitcoms produced directly for syndication was the notorious "Small Wonder".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CBndhR9GcWM
None of the networks would pick it up (wonder why?) so the show was instead sold to a "consortium" of broadcasters. It did well enough that it encouraged other producers to sell their terrible shows directly to syndication.

Some "notables" from this period include what was to be Suzanne Sommers big post-Three's Company comeback "She's The Sheriff" (actual tagline from an old print ad for this show: "She's The Sheriff and she's got the laughs...locked up!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YsAZcf_O7Kg
And perhaps even worse than "Small Wonder" was "Out of This World", which lasted a whole four seasons.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6D1DtHQ3Q0M
The premise, a girl hits her early teens and discovers that she now has strange powers activated when she touches her index fingers together. Her mother finally tells her the truth about her father, he was actually an alien who was forced to return to his home planet, and now she's developing alien powers. Her mother gives her a box that allows her to communicate with her father. Every week, she tries to solve some problem using her powers, only to make things worse. Her father gives her some kind of useless advice that sounds like a lesson, as does her mother. In the end, she learns her lesson about caring and sharing and all that. Like with most of these cheap first-run syndicated sitcoms every joke is unspeakably lame and every punchline can be predicted about a minute before it arrives. It has a theme song that belongs to no real genre and a canned laughtrack that is used every time a character so much as moves.
Oh, and her father was voiced by one of the show's producers...Burt Reynolds.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=grOz37stTbM

Every single one of these sounds like excellent fodder for Best of the Worst.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Every single one of these sounds like excellent fodder for Best of the Worst.

Making Rich Evans and Jay sit down and watch an entire season of some bizarre sitcom would be a new form of torture Mike could bring to the table. It’s like Black Spine, only instead of a random tape, it’s a season of some crappy sitcom.

 

[Mola Ram]

Making Rich Evans and Jay sit down and watch an entire season of some bizarre sitcom would be a new form of torture Mike could bring to the table. It’s like Black Spine, only instead of a random tape, it’s a season of some crappy sitcom.

I was thinking a random episode of five or six different shows for a BotW, but a long form Re:View that ends with Rich or Jay slowing going insane might be even better.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I was thinking a random episode of five or six different shows for a BotW, but a long form Re:View that ends with Rich or Jay slowing going insane might be even better.

Be a lot better than watching their love for TNG die.

 

[MCLOS Horthy]

Making Rich Evans and Jay sit down and watch an entire season of some bizarre sitcom would be a new form of torture Mike could bring to the table. It’s like Black Spine, only instead of a random tape, it’s a season of some crappy sitcom.

This is a Geneva Convention violation.

 

[Protistology]

By claiming Tiger Woods wasn't black.

To be fair, Woods is culturally much closer to his Thai side. His Thai mom advises him regularly on many matters.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

To be fair, Woods is culturally much closer to his Thai side. His Thai mom advises him regularly on many matters.

Well, duh, he's actually successful.

 

[Mola Ram]

To be fair, Woods is culturally much closer to his Thai side. His Thai mom advises him regularly on many matters.

I get that, but Carlin's dismissal was nothing so nuanced. It literally went: "Don't give me Tiger Woods. He ain't black. He lives and acts like a white man. Skin alone don't make you black."

I could probably buy that from a black comic. From Carlin it felt genuinely racist. But mostly what it felt like was that he was a cranky old fuck so calcified in his views he couldn't even entertain the possibility that the world might have changed since he dreamed up the bit.

 

[Protistology]

I get that, but Carlin's dismissal was nothing so nuanced. It literally went: "Don't give me Tiger Woods. He ain't black. He lives and acts like a white man. Skin alone don't make you black."

I could probably buy that from a black comic. From Carlin it felt genuinely racist. But mostly what it felt like was that he was a cranky old fuck so calcified in his views he couldn't even entertain the possibility that the world might have changed since he dreamed up the bit.

Ok, that is pretty racist.

 

[Mola Ram]

Ok, that is pretty racist.

It's amazing me to no one has ever called him out for it. I'm the only person I know who was bothered by it. I can only assume he never incorporated that into the bit and almost no one bought the book.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Psst, guys! I’ve discovered how they keep the VCR repair shop in business!

https://twitter.com/reviewspossum/status/1552133928399642626