NO, BABY! Just when I was ready to abandon ALOTT5MA Unnecessary Remakes Week,
Mike Myers has signed up to do a fourth Austin Powers film. I guess it's time for him to travel to ... the 80s? I just have trouble imagining anything featuring Mike Myers as being funny or relevant;
his era seems over.
Does the absence of BEWITCHED from Unnecessary Remakes Week represent a tacit endorsement of the just-announced CBS project?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know. Oh, dear. It doesn't end.
ReplyDeleteSomeone - I think it was at AICN, riffing off the original report at HitFix - suggested that it might be fun to see Myers riffing on the Bourne movies and Daniel Craig's version of Bond. Um, (a) no, it wouldn't; and (b) if that's all that's left for the AP franchise to go after, then, to borrow a phrase, sometimes dead is bettah.
ReplyDeleteNext thing you know, they will be announcing the remake of Small Wonder.
ReplyDeleteSee, you've got it wrong. If it was good at first, it need not be remade. But bad things can be remade well. Remember Battlestar Galactica? I would watch a Battlestar Galactica-like reboot of Small Wonder.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it called A.I.?
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to get the depressing feeling that just about any and every week could be "unnecessary remakes week."
ReplyDeleteJust wait for the grim and gritty reimagining of ALOTT5MA Unnecessary Remakes Week.
ReplyDeleteMental dagger-eyes at you for putting the "Small Wonder" theme song into my head...
ReplyDeleteI think both dicks must be dead now.
ReplyDeleteI'm more interested in the notion that comedians/comic actors have eras. Who else has time passed by, but they still get roles?
ReplyDeleteWas the relative failure of both Kevin James movies this year a sign that his era is waning?
The craptacular looking Paul Rudd movie coming out next week might suggest the Paul Rudd era may be transitioning.
The Dave Chapelle era ended prematurely by his choice, but should he decide to come back, has his moment passed by?
The Seinfeld era seems over, yet Larry David continues, how did that happen?
Is there any stopping Adam Sandler, can he play the manchild grandpa into his 50s and 60s?
Will the Jonah Hill era survive slimmer Jonah Hill?
Will any women ever build a decade or so of non-ensemble comedy hits like a Ferrell, Myers or Sandler?
After the failure of Your Highness, is the James Franco, stoner comic actor, era already over?
Danny McBride, overrated, underrated, correctlyrated?
I'm guest, by the way, don't know why I have such trouble remembering to login at this website.
ReplyDeleteCome back every year and see which one of these are made. Remake announcements are trial balloons that rile up the internet and then, 90% of the time, never get funding. (Sure, the Kuzuis are going to remake Buffy. Right.)
ReplyDeleteBut in AI they were open about HJO's character being a robot, on SW they were hiding Vicki's robot-ness. Without that conflict, there wouldn't be hijinks!
ReplyDeleteAlso, didn't Small Wonder eventually end? A.I. never did.
ReplyDeleteYes
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It turns out LD was the funnier one
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Trick question, not an era
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Trick question, not an era
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