Is nothing feckin' sacred?!

washiskin

:mad::mad:

I mean what's next for the "remake" chopping block??

Russell Crowe as The Equaliser ??!!! That feckin dose can't act his way out of a wet paper bag and now he's going to destroy the legend of Robert McCall.
AND what's the bets that they'll ruin the amazing theme tune?! :mad:

JP Liz V1

I liked the reboot a couple of years ago Vengeance Unlimited with Michael Madsen

lord lucan

Just do what i do,avoid them at all costs. I'm a massive fan of 80's tv,The A-Team,McGuyver,Magnum P.I.,Equalizer etc,still watch them on DVD regularly. I haven't seen any remakes with the exception of Starsky & Hutch. Not handing over money to see some ****e re-make of the A-Team or Karate Kid.:mad:

Richard Dower

It's a movie remake...no word on a tv version, but i expect it.

ejmaztec

washiskin wrote: »

:mad::mad:

I mean what's next for the "remake" chopping block??

Russell Crowe as The Equaliser ??!!! That feckin dose can't act his way out of a wet paper bag and now he's going to destroy the legend of Robert McCall.
AND what's the bets that they'll ruin the amazing theme tune?! :mad:

Edward Woodward was also crap when he played the part.

Richard Dower

ejmaztec wrote: »

Edward Woodward was also crap when he played the part.

:eek: - are you serious?, he was excellent in the role!, didn't he win an Emmy for The Equalizer?

Shea O'Meara

ejmaztec wrote: »

Edward Woodward was also crap when he played the part.

Surely you jest? Excellent show, acted brilliantly.

bad2dabone

i swear if this sucks someones getting kicked in the nuts. i'm lookin at you, Crowe.

lord lucan

ejmaztec wrote: »

Edward Woodward was also crap when he played the part.

Wash your mouth out with soap and water!:eek:

washiskin

ejmaztec wrote: »

Edward Woodward was also crap when he played the part.

:eek:

I can see smacks being administered here !

Outside of Callan,The Wickerman and Hot Fuzz it was Edward Woodward's best role. My sister is a huge fan of his.....I'm telling her on you.

And on top of that, New York was a much grittier setting back then - how can they emulate that?

lorcanot

not all remakes are bad. why do people always pick out the bad ones and never mention the good ones, eh??
what about scarface, the departed, little shop of horrors, cape fear, invasion of the body snatchers and we cant forget The Thing. all excellent remakes.

washiskin

Fair enough on a couple of those remakes - Cape Fear in particular.

But Russell Crowe??!! I can think of far better actors who could pull this one off.

Michael Kitchen

Colin Salmon

Jean Reno for starters....

ejmaztec

Richard Dower wrote: »

:eek: - are you serious?, he was excellent in the role!, didn't he win an Emmy for The Equalizer?

The Americans liked it as well.:eek:

Shea O'Meara wrote: »

Surely you jest? Excellent show, acted brilliantly.

We're all entitled to our opinions, am I'm sure you'll come round to my way of thinking in the end.:P

lord lucan wrote: »

Wash your mouth out with soap and water!:eek:

Nah

washiskin wrote: »

:eek:

I can see smacks being administered here !

Outside of Callan,The Wickerman and Hot Fuzz it was Edward Woodward's best role. My sister is a huge fan of his.....I'm telling her on you.

And on top of that, New York was a much grittier setting back then - how can they emulate that?

He was good in Callan, but the Equaliser was just Callan dumbed down with a thick disney-fied sugar-coating, just the thing to satisfy the criteria for US conveyor-belt TV programmes.

Shea O'Meara

ejmaztec wrote: »

He was good in Callan, but the Equaliser was just Callan dumbed down with a thick disney-fied sugar-coating, just the thing to satisfy the criteria for US conveyor-belt TV programmes.

At this point I'm convinced you're mixing it up with Magnum:D

Richard Dower

The Equalizer (at the time) was rather gritty...do you not remember the time period?
If memory serves, it was hugely popular in the UK...so much so ITV stepped in and funded the last two seasons, just to keep it going and to have more episodes on ITV.

Least that's my recollection of events, kinda mirrored that which the BBC did with Due South.

Elmo

Richard Dower wrote: »

:eek: - are you serious?, he was excellent in the role!, didn't he win an Emmy for The Equalizer?

Murder, She Wrote was getting emmys in the 80s, I can only imagine it was because Angela Lansbury won an oscar in the 60s for The Manchurian Candidate. I don't think that the Emmys are a good guide, She won against Hill Street Blues and all


Next they will be giving.... Nah I won't

Richard Dower

^ if that's the case then Brian Cranston is a crap actor on Breaking Bad for the last two years.

Elmo

Richard Dower wrote: »

^ if that's the case then Brian Cranston is a crap actor on Breaking Bad for the last two years.

I just saying that sometimes the Emmys get it wrong, and from looking at some of the 1980s winners they got it wrong allot of the time.

I take it back she was only nominated but even still she got nominated. Hill Street Blues wins, phew!

washiskin

Nice recovery there, Elmo