sorry this is crap!
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sorry this is crap!
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I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
nothing is sacred anymore.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable catch phrase of "It's like Superbad meets Super Troopers!"
I can't help it, I LOLed. And will Netflix this for sure.
I am just not going to think of it as 21 Jump Street but rather a new cop buddy comedy.
I see the long standing effort to bring 21 Jump Street back has backfired in the faces of that immeasurable legion of fans.
You're guys are gonna have to excuse me while I go do something that's gonna land me in jail.
p.s. FUCK EVERYTHING
Seeing the trailer in theaters made us laugh --especially since you didn't know it was 21 Jump Street until midway though. It's a comedy, deal with it.
Johnny Depp's apparently going to have more than just a passing cameo in it.
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Originally Posted by aria
Were you laughing before or after the logo appeared?
Aargh, great stuff from the 80's (music, movies and shows) keeps getting butchered like this! A buddy of mine who was an extra on the show (the filmed it in New West, B.C at his high school) was saying that it's sad that the current generation of teens/kids is going to think this pile of shit is the real 21 Jump Street...ughhh!
My friend was an extra in this movie too. I'm on my way to his house right now to murder him.
Probably the funniest thing I'll read for the rest of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPINMASTER X
I would really like to meet the (sinister?) mastermind behind all of these chimeras of 80s licensing and focus group-driven script writing.
And when I do, I will ask him how I can profit it too.
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Originally Posted by Mike Shagohod
You're right. Luckily I don't have to watch it.
where's Matt Damon & William Shatner? õ_Ô
Why did they have to relate it/call it 21 Jump Street? I mean it "could" be a decent comedy but make it more original and call it something else...
Apparently I'm not old enough.
I think this movie was an excuse for Jonah Hill to lose weight?
He will never look right. When he was fat he was beyond funny fat. Now that he's normalish sized he still has a fat guy head and jowls.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opethian
Shit ain't right. I've got nothing against the guy but I think he would've been better off if he had just split the difference.
Geez, I've said it once and I'll say it again. Hollywood really did run out of ideas and are now puppy mill-churning bastardized versions of 80's nostalgia. What's next? Is Better Off Dead on the radar for a remake? How about Sledgehammer! or Mork and Mindy?
As for the trailer, remember when Cube uttered "Fuck tha Police"? Yeah....I do too.
The only proper response to this trailer. As if I didn't like Jonah Hill enough already.
Sucks they feel the need to remake it. Sucks more they decided to remake it as a comedy. If they had decided to remake the Booker spin-off as a crappy comedy, that would have been different.
read the thread
still no idea wtf 21 Jump Street is
How about Married with Children? You ever watch that? In Living Color? Parker Lewis Can't Lose? Alien Nation? Roc? Simpsons when it was funny? These may just be before your time.Quote:
Originally Posted by LoneSage
never saw em on tvQuote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
PLCL is a roker favorite
All you have to know about 21 Jumpstreet is that it is the 1980s at its cheesiest, it kick-started Johnny Depp's career, it co-stars Dom DeLuise's son (although you may be too young to know who that is, either), and that it doesn't hold up even slightly unless you have the nostalgia factor of watching it back in the day. It seemed great at the time.
Dude was awesome in 3rd Rock. Stage may at least have seen that.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
But probably not. Both knowing who Dom is and his son.
This movie however has a strong vibe of wanting to be the next The Other Guys, which it will not be. Channing Tatum should not be allowed to be filmed. Plus Ice Cube is no Michael Keaton.
Pretty much all that needs to be said. It was the (at the time) upstart Fox Network's attempt to create some edgy teen drama to attract the younger demographic --it wasn't bad, but it wasn't classic TV by any stretch. Fox was interesting in those days because they were willing to try a lot of more "edgy" (for a staid network) stuff to get an audience as they started out --something that the WB and UPN screwed up when they tried years later.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
holy shit gimme some creditQuote:
Originally Posted by terry.330
even the shows i had never seen as quoted by the kid, I at least knew of. I like to think I know a little bit about everything. everything, man
but 21 jump street?
i have a feeling this is going to bomb, financially.
co-sign on channing tatum.
Am I being punked?
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Originally Posted by LoneSage
also...
Wikipedia = 21 JUMPSTREET (Series)
this should answer your questions.
The video did not help your argument that this is somehow bastardizing top-rated drama, it pretty much confirmed by vague memories of why I would always find another channel when it came on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Shagohod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KulCbN03u2IQuote:
Originally Posted by aria
I laughed at the dude smashing into the windsheild part. heh
Looks like they had more fun making the movie than I would watching it.
Seems like thats usually the case these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoon
Oh come on Bobak... you meant to tell me you didn't watch this when it was on!??? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by aria
As cheesy (and it was) as it was/is... it was serious for the times (and you know it). It wasn't supposed to be Hill Street Blues or Miami Vice, it was aimed at the Pre Teen and Teen demographic and had action in it and moral lessons. ---back when PSAs might have done some good. My argument is that it's a product of the 1980s and was never meant to be resuscitated in 2011 as some goofball comedy action flick... with ICE "Straight Outta' Compton" CUBE as Captain Fuller no less! ---it boggles the mind---
Just like Michael Mann's movie update of Miami Vice was "alright" but it was inherently a 1980s time capsule. Serious for the times and fun to go back and watch, but should not have been morphed into some super serious flick. To me, it just wasn't Miami Vice. Same difference. About the only thing I could see being redone and redone well in our current times *might* (and I stress MIGHT) be H U N T E R, the Fred Dreyer TV series. With all the forensic shows, and law shows and medical stuff... it's time we had a TV tough guy cop show again, that manages to collide entertaining bullshit with reality. Problem is, most of what Rick Hunter got away with (and Dee Dee to a lesser extent) would be hard to pull off in a day and age of smart phones with cameras and stuff. So in that case, even HUNTER needs to stay as is... perfect.
"Works for me."
Did anyone read the script I posted and make it past the page with the dogs leaping out of their cages, in slow motion, toward the audience in 3D? I know that's only a few pages/minutes into the movie, but I seriously couldn't take anymore at that point.
It is amazing to think about how things have changed since 1987. Could you imagine explaining this movie back then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Shagohod
They should remake the Little Rascals as a serious, coming-of-age story of lost innocence when a prank goes wrong.
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Originally Posted by nruva
I did, I closed the browser at that point. If the writer didn't give a shit why should I
21 jump the shark street
amirite?
The original show is really lame. Watch it again. Sorry guys, I'm a big nostalgia whore like all of y'all, but that show does NOT age well.
The first season was pretty good next to what it was up against at the time. The show felt different in a way we now take for granted after a couple decades of CW network and whatever else. But back then it was new and almost a little groundbreaking in a way. I doubt I could sit through an episode of it now, though.
But like I said... next to what it was up against at the time. Very little from that era does stand up now. Some comedies fare a little better, but anything remotely dramatic or action-oriented has changed so drastically since the late-'80s.
edit: yeah, what Loopz said.
We had to watch the pilot in class about a year ago, and man...it was really goofy.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
I mean, to be fair, the overwhelming majority of television shows suffer from this.
I held Miami Vice to be far more sacred than 21JS, and that also doesn't really hold up either.
It also got a completely unnecessary theatrical respawn.
Shows that are so rooted in their contemporary reality are generally doomed as far as shelf life.
Even an almost untouchable classic like The Prisoner isn't immune from looking a bit awkward now,
or from shitty resurrections. :(
The black guy is the only one not embarrassed today about his 80s hairstyle.
Ignorable. Moving on, Happy Veteran's Day, forum.
Meh. Definitely won't be watching this film :oh_no: