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QUOTE (MacGyverGod @ 21 July 2009 - 07:54 AM) | Maybe nobody care about a mockery but maybe they do care about the proper treatment the character rightfully deserves. |
Possibly, but I don't know if that's a gamble they'd want to take on a project that would cost millions. Time will tell.
If they're doing a mockey, though, I still wish they'd take my idea: "Team 80's", a movie in which a bunch of 80's heros, including Mac, Michael Knight, The A-Team, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Air Wolf, etc (all played by the ORIGINAL actors) are called out of retirement for one last mission. I mean, does it really get any cooler than watching RDA, Mr. T and David Hasselhoff taking on bad guys together? I think not! lol.
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I think of it this way-- I never watched Magnum PI at all, but if SNL did a skit called "Man-Gun PI", featured a guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a bushy mustache, occasionally guest starring Tom Selleck, I'd be able to make the connection that it was a parody of Magnum PI. Some things are just well-known enough for most people to get them, even if they were never fans or watched the show.
Maybe that's not the best example, since Magnum PI was on in the 80s when I was around. So let's go back further. If SNL did a skit called Silligan's Island, about a bunch of idiotic cast aways shipwrecked on an island, I would get that it's a reference to Gilligan's Island, even though Gilligan's Island was before my time, and I never watched it.
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QUOTE (Rockatteer @ 23 July 2009 - 09:35 AM) | And if they then made a movie of the Man-Gun PI or Silligan's Island skits, would it make you more interested in seeing the original shows?
Or if those movies bombed, would it make you less interested in the original show? |
Personally, no. But I still think if a movie studio was considering making a Magnum PI movie, and then they saw that nobody had any interest in a Magnum PI parody, it might make them cautious.
Of course, I don't think that's true for all franchises. For example, if a Star Wars parody failed, it certainly doesn't mean Lucas would say, "Well, I'd better not make a new Star Wars movie." But with MacGyver, we're talking about a franchise that has been dead for a long time, so it's riskier to invest money in bringing it back. The studio needs some way to determine whether or not people still have an interest in the character/franchise, and it seems like the response to a parody of the character would be at least one way that they might measure it.
But then again, I may be wrong. I do think, though, that they'll want SOME way to measure interest in the franchise before proceeding. Maybe it won't be through MacGruber. Maybe it'll be through Mac DVD sales or syndication ratings or activity on Mac message boards. I don't know. But investing millions into a long-dead franchise is risky business.
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QUOTE | Right now a movie version of Land of the Lost is bombing at the theaters, a new Knight Rider show recently bombed on TV, and then we have Total Recall,The Neverending Story,The Karate Kid , Romancing the Stone all set to be remade as new movies.
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What?! I do wonder what Paul Verhoeven, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Zemeckis and Michael Douglas are thinking about this.
Also 90210 has gotten an revival I think and Saved By The Bell was also up for a revival. But no one can play Zack Morris better than Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
QUOTE | Hollywood's gotten lazy and/or talentless. |
Both, there are still good ones out there. But obviously they're not thinking of the right hands. But who are those right hands? Spielberg? Chris Nolan? JJ Abrahams?
I think the poison that was used was applied to this knife, passed to the mutton when it was cut and then activated by the wine. - MacGyver. Sometimes you just have to die a little inside to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you. It's better to be a little sad than to be fake content.
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I hope it goes stright to DVD, because no one in there right might would watch this.
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Usually I'm all pro R-rated films, I don't care what's involved: language, violence, nudity, torture, but not when they take on my hero. I'd say make a movie for any audience you like. My favorite rating is of course R.
But a MacGyver movie should be like Casino Royale. There's violence and torture of course but not a single foul word, no nudity.
A strong PG-13 would be more than enough. The last two Indy's are PG-13, Sahara too I think, the Jurassic Park movies are PG-13. Actually all the great blockbusters were. Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Titanic, Lord of the Rings, they're all PG-13 and considered to be the best films of all time.
Mac should get a PG-13 but not higher. PG maybe but than you have to be careful already with what you plan to do on violence.
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I was hopping they would stay away from the Rated R stuff since it's a rip from MacGyver but as I've read it's not going to stay in the guild lines of PG, that gives me more reason not to watch it.
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Ryan Phillippe Shoots ‘MacGruber’ Movie. They started shooting the movie around Aug 31 2009. MacGruber movie
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*puts foot down*
i'm just going to watch the MacGyver movie. I don't like this McGruber. it's sounds like a travesty of a hamburger to me, and I am absolutely not buying it!
btw, will RDA bee on the MacGyver movie at all? I'm sorry, I'm new...
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