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[BScCollateral]

Actually, the original Wild Wild West TV show might be what you're thinking of. Definitely steampunk before steampunk. It was developed as a mash up of Man From U.N.C.L.E., Adam West Batman, and Gunsmoke (Bond ripoffs were big business in the mid 60s and westerns were still so huge that Star Trek was pitched as Wagon Train in Space because TV execs couldn't conceive of anything that wasn't an oater or a James Bond riff). It used to run in syndication ad nauseum when I was a kid and I loved the shit out of it. Still holds up now, it's just as batshit as you'd imagine, and the movie remake is like it was made on a different planet by aliens.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058855/

Yes, and Legend was another TV show, co-starring Q.

 

[alright fine]

Yes, and Legend was another TV show, co-starring Q.

That came on the air around the time that the Wild Wild West movie was being shoved through production -- I've often wondered if someone saw Legend and thought "hey waitaminute don't we have the rights to something like that QUICK THROW MONEY AT IT"

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Home Alone would not work in the modern day due to cell phones??????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I still can't believe the police just thought it was a prank call based off the first home alone lmfao

 

[L50LasPak]

I still can't believe the police just thought it was a prank call based off the first home alone lmfao

The Home Alone remake starring babby Jim Sterling was another level of Hell. I'm kind of surprised RLM never did a Half in the Bag on it because there's so much more wrong with it than just what the shitty sequels did to the franchise.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

The Home Alone remake starring babby Jim Sterling was another level of Hell. I'm kind of surprised RLM never did a Half in the Bag on it because there's so much more wrong with it than just what the shitty sequels did to the franchise.

I thought the Daniel Craig Home Alone remake was pretty good. Took way too long to get to the burglary part, but it paid off. I don't usually go for gender swapping characters, but I thought Judi Dench was pretty good as the scary neighbor who helps him in the end. Didn't expect her to die, though, and I don't think the filmmakers really needed to take it there.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

The Home Alone remake starring babby Jim Sterling was another level of Hell. I'm kind of surprised RLM never did a Half in the Bag on it because there's so much more wrong with it than just what the shitty sequels did to the franchise.

Wait...I thought they did do one?

Who the hell did I watch to know that Buzz as a cop tells everyone in the force to ignore the call thinking it's a prank?

 

[Strange Wilderness]

The Home Alone remake starring babby Jim Sterling was another level of Hell. I'm kind of surprised RLM never did a Half in the Bag on it because there's so much more wrong with it than just what the shitty sequels did to the franchise.

Wasn't that the one where the Wet Bandits were replaced by a poor struggling couple trying to steal back what was rightfully their property so they wouldn't lose their home and they and their kids wouldn't get tossed out onto the street at Christmas? I can understand writing a sympathetic antagonist but that is going way too far. That turns the bandits into the heroes and the child into a sociopath torturing two people about to made homeless.

Wait...I thought they did do one?

Who the hell did I watch to know that Buzz as a cop tells everyone in the force to ignore the call thinking it's a prank?

Imagine making a Home Alone remake and only being able to get the elder brother of the main character to make a cameo appearance. Was Macaulay Culkin too busy filming BOTW to reprise his role as Kevin?

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Imagine making a Home Alone remake and only being able to get the elder brother of the main character to make a cameo appearance. Was Macaulay Culkin too busy filming BOTW to reprise his role as Kevin?

How do you even write Kevin into any of these films? It'd take a better mind than mine, so clearly a better mind than those who wrote that trash.

One thing is for certain, the kid is a shoe in for the thunderpants reboot.

 

[Dom Cruise]

You should, I watched it not too long ago and loved every minute of it, there's really nothing else quite like it. It's a crying shame it didn't last longer than a single season, but I guess it's just another entry in the long list of shows Fox has canceled before their time, as well as the list of Bruce Campbell starring roles that somehow didn't manage to majorly further his career. Luckily, it at least ends on a high note, and it didn't leave any major cliffhangers, so it's a great self-contained story to watch.

Also, it's fun to see how many 90s TV actors you can spy, especially those from Star Trek. Denise Crosby is in one of the early episodes, as I recall, and there are a few others.

That's good to know since I usually I avoid one season shows, assuming they leave you hanging.

Spoiler: Offtopic spergery

Steampunk was more or less invented by Harper Goff, lead designer on the 1954 Disney 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Goff is quoted as saying "Nothing looks more attractive than a combination of rough iron, and elegant luxury." Which if that doesn't describe steampunk, I dunno what does.

Also, while the original design already looks quite steampunk:
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It turns out Goff's original study model looks even more steampunk:
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The Nautilus is technically nuclear powered (in the movie not the book), but based on the machinery we see in its inner workings its using the nuclear reactor to drive a steam turbine rather than charge batteries.

The term obviously came about later, but the 1954 Nautilus has all the stuff we normally assocaite with modern steampunk like big pistons, rivets, oxidized iron or copper plating, port holes, an exotic power source of some kind driving a steam engine, and of course a tasteful 19th century Victorian-style interior. All that's really missing is the giant exposed gears that ended up being the death of steampunk anyway.

I love classic steampunk but yeah, the "just slap gears on everything" style really spoiled it, I like steampunk when things have more actual function.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

How do you even write Kevin into any of these films?

You could do a Home Alone sequel with the original cast and just have Macauley Culkin play a sadistic 40-something man who breaks into a nursing home to trick and torture two decrepit old thieves. Go really dark with it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

How do you even write Kevin into any of these films? It'd take a better mind than mine, so clearly a better mind than those who wrote that trash.

You put Kevin in John Candy's position.

He sees the mother not able to get home, asks the problem hears "I left my son home alone." Grins...and tells her "Get in."

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

You put Kevin in John Candy's position.

He sees the mother not able to get home, asks the problem hears "I left my son home alone." Grins...and tells her "Get in."

A little on the nose, isn't it?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

A little on the nose, isn't it?

Sometimes that is what is gonna work best, just enough time for Mac to show up, have everyone go

"THERE HE IS"

and move on to the actual plot of the movie.

 

[L50LasPak]

A little on the nose, isn't it?

Less on the nose than how they used his brother in the remakequel, certainly.

 

[BrunoMattei]

How do you even write Kevin into any of these films? It'd take a better mind than mine, so clearly a better mind than those who wrote that trash.

One thing is for certain, the kid is a shoe in for the thunderpants reboot.

Make a sequel with Kevin in the lead and it plays out exactly like the other movies but no one acknowledges that the actor is in his 40's.

 

[khaine]

I can't wait for the next Re:View of Picard. The last two episodes have been utter dreck. Watching Rich and Mike suffer is the best.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Make a sequel with Kevin in the lead and it plays out exactly like the other movies but no one acknowledges that the actor is in his 40's.

Hey nobody cared that Ferris Bueller was 24.

I can't wait for the next Re:View of Picard. The last two episodes have been utter dreck.

I love that the next season has the entire cast of TNG (except Wesley, and maybe Tasha Yar? too lazy to look it up). It means Mike has to watch. I'm usually not a fan of "Mike suffers" but on this it is so sweet.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Wait...I thought they did do one?

Who the hell did I watch to know that Buzz as a cop tells everyone in the force to ignore the call thinking it's a prank?

Doug Walker/Cinema Snob/JLongbone?

 

[DankSmoker]

Wait...I thought they did do one?

Who the hell did I watch to know that Buzz as a cop tells everyone in the force to ignore the call thinking it's a prank?

They did Home Alone 4 on Plinketto #7, the one with French Stewart.

As for the other movie maybe you got this channel in your recommended videos like I did.

 

[SomethingProblematic]

Make a sequel with Kevin in the lead and it plays out exactly like the other movies but no one acknowledges that the actor is in his 40's.

Make it a horror movie, where from Kevin's point of view, he is home alone again, and he sets up traps for robbers, but then it cuts to the "robbers" view and the real story is that he's fucked up on drugs and broke into some couples' house, and tortures them, home alone style. just call it "Alone". I'm waiting for my check.