OH GAWD NO! Nooooooooooooo!
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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.
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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.
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Dude was awesome in 3rd Rock. Stage may at least have seen that.
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.
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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.
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holy shit gimme some credit
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.
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Am I being punked?
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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.
Seems like thats usually the case these days.
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Oh come on Bobak... you meant to tell me you didn't watch this when it was on!???
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."
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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.
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Oh come on Bobak... you meant to tell me you didn't watch this when it was on!???
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."
It is amazing to think about how things have changed since 1987. Could you imagine explaining this movie back then?
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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I did, I closed the browser at that point. If the writer didn't give a shit why should I
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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.
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.
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We had to watch the pilot in class about a year ago, and man...it was really goofy.
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.
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Ignorable. Moving on, Happy Veteran's Day, forum.
