Get ready for a 3 hour tour ....

[Snuffy]

Gilligan's Island is being revisited ...

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2010/01/19/fox-recasts-gilligans-island?test=faces

[OBIO]

They should leave Gilligan's Island alone...they can't improve on the original, all they will do is take a classic and make a mess of it.

OBIO

[Dain Arns]

No! Stop it! Next it'll be a "reality" show....
That is my childhood they are messing with!

Arrgh.

I can't take much more of this.

I found out yesterday they are remaking "True Grit", for goodness sake.
I know the original short story of "True Grit" was from the point of view of Maddie Ross.
I know it was re-written and turned into a film vehicle for John Wayne.
I know Glen Campbell wasn't very good as an actor in it. :icon_lol:
But don't ruin that last image of the one-eyed, old, fat man jumping a horse over a rail fence.
What a lasting memorial to a great Western actor.
Sorry. I'm tired of the shoddy "remakes". :173go1:

[cheezyflier]

no woman will ever have the hotness of mary-ann EVER

i have to agree with dain. they need to leave this one alone

[TomSteber]

Relax everybody.
Their only talking about a "who would you cast to play so and so today".
I see nowhere on there that there's a remake being made.

[harleyman]

Relax everybody.
Their only talking about a "who would you cast to play so and so today".
I see nowhere on there that there's a remake being made.



That was my take on it too....


and you're right about Mary Ann

[stansdds]

no woman will ever have the hotness of mary-ann EVER

i have to agree with dain. they need to leave this one alone

I agree about Mary Ann and this is one tv series that is best left alone.

[Dain Arns]

Relax everybody.
Their only talking about a "who would you cast to play so and so today".
I see nowhere on there that there's a remake being made.

Don't think anyone is upset, it's called sarcasm. :icon_lol:

[lifejogger]

They should leave Gilligan's Island alone...they can't improve on the original, all they will do is take a classic and make a mess of it.

OBIO

I agree, leave it alone.

[GT182]

Sorry. I'm tired of the shoddy "remakes". :173go1:

Ditto! Couldn't have said it any better Dain.

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

Like YEAH leave it alone! What would be next? Truly sacred shows like F-Troop, I Dream of Jeanie, McHales Navy, Gomer Pyle, Greenacreas, Petticoat Junction, The Munsters, The Adams Family, etc and I don't even wanna start on the westerns! Why basically can't we have good TV like these shows were today?

-Ed-

[AckAck]

So long as they use Bowling for Soup's theme song...

Nah, they still shouldn't do it. But there's a porn version or two of it, so is a remake really that bad? It's not like we'd have to watch it...

Now my question is - what's wrong with them remaking something? If you have to spend 500 million to make a movie that many complain about being a remake of Pocahontas or Dances with Wolves, why not go cheap and remake Gilligan?

MaryAnn for me too - has no one voiced an opinion for Ginger?

Brian

[aeronca1]

Almost everyone in Hollywood is a eunich (sp?) these days. With the exception of a few, if an original thought ever entered their brains, they wouldn't know what it was. Remakes and remakes of remakes seems to be the norm today....

[Trans_23]

MaryAnn for me too - has no one voiced an opinion for Ginger?

Brian

Let me be the first! :wavey: That evening gown she always wore was the bomb!

[n4gix]

While still an undergraduate, the professor of classic literature stated that there are really very few unique plots, and that every story uses one of them in some variation or another. However, I've since been convinced that there's really only ONE plot. See the article cited below:

Richard Young wrote in his article 'Where Can I find an Original Plot?' (http://www.johnbayliss.co.uk/Writing/plot.htm)


A professor of English once told me that there were basically only three plots in the whole of literature, and as two out of the three were the Iliad and the Odyssey that doesn't leave the rest of us with much room for originality. Other people have claimed that there only are seven plots, or twenty plots, or some other number in between - but I'm afraid that the true number is much, much worse.

There is, you see, only one plot in the whole of literature. Every novel ever written, every play, every film tells this one same story. It has to tell it with variations, of course, otherwise things would get extremely boring; but when you pare it right down to the bare bones then every story ultimately comes out the same.

And this is it:

'The central character needs something, very, very badly. Failure to get this thing or do this thing will have dire consequences for this character or his or her loved ones. To begin with, every effort she or he makes to get this thing only adds to the complications and makes success look even less likely, but in the end there is a resolution, and either the protagonist gets the thing, and avoids the dire consequences, or doesn't, and the feared dire consequences come to pass.'

[cheezyflier]

re-enforces the idea that it's not the destiantion, but the journey.

either way, i still don't want them messin with gilligan's island.

and if they ever mess with the munsters, i'm really gonna lose it.