TV/Movies Megathread

[Savonarola]

Spiderman 2 (2004)

What the hell is this?  There's a runaway elevated train and no one in the entire MTA thinks to cut power to the third rail?  Was everyone at the operation center out taking a smoke break?  Even if they hadn't why can't Spiderman use his webbing to yank out some power bonds and then lock the wheels?  Isn't he supposed to be a Reed Richards level genius?  The best plan he could come up with was to anchor himself onto buildings as the full force of a locomotive pressed on his back?  This film has absolutely no credibility.   



This one is a great deal of fun.  Dr. Octopus might be a little too similar to the Green Goblin (from the first film) in terms of personality and motivation; but this one didn't have to waste time with the origin story and could jump right into the action.  The special effects (part practical part CGI) hold up very well.

[Sheilbh]

I think we are plugged in enough to the UK to get their comedy without the remakes. I mean we can appreciate both.

Australian stuff though...

Australian comedy* is great!



* Kath & Kim

[Eddie Teach]

If Peter Parker is a genius, why is he wasting himself as a freelance photojournalist? 

[Jacob]

Why is the ripe wheat so short?

I'm saving this one for later use.

[The Larch]

This may just be UK-US experience but I feel like comedy tends to get re-made pretty often just because of the cultural difference/way jokes land.

I think we are plugged in enough to the UK to get their comedy without the remakes. I mean we can appreciate both.

Yet you tried to remake The IT Crowd... 

[HVC]

the office gave a bad perspective to american studios. There are a lot more failed remakes then successful one.

[Sheilbh]

the office gave a bad perspective to american studios. There are a lot more failed remakes then successful one.

Oh God yeah - a solid chunk of this list is comedies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_television_series_based_on_British_television_series

I mean Ab Fab with Roseanne Barr

I think American tastes have shifted a lot in the last couple of decades - maybe streaming? But in the 90s it feels like any slightly successful UK comedy would get a remake pilot.

I'd guess the most successful are All in the Family and the American Office (which is superb). And both of them, I think, are or became adaptations rather than re-makes

[crazy canuck]

Huh, I had no idea All in the Family was an adaptation of a UK show.

I wonder what Archie would have said about that.

[Grey Fox]

We have our own star system & mandated original canadian content quotas. They use the outside quota time for American series.

What other French shows of fiction can you think of? Apart from Appelez mon agent?. I can only think of borrowed formats (L'amour est dans le pré, un souper presque parfait, Tout le monde en parle, la Fureur...) Perhaps Caméra Café? But I think it's also the format, more than the script.

Otherwise, in terms of fiction, I can only think of En thérapie (show from Israel), The Office (a brief, unsuccesful adapt from UK/US), perhaps a police procedural from Sweden?

Les invisibles and there was Fort Boyard.

[Valmy]

I think we are plugged in enough to the UK to get their comedy without the remakes. I mean we can appreciate both.

Australian stuff though...

Australian comedy* is great!



* Kath & Kim

It is weird though...that's all I am saying.

[Syt]

I remember in the early 90s one station in Germany was showing You Again? with Jack Klugman and John Stamos. Not much later I caught Home to Roost on another channel. I was confused at first as the concept of US TV remaking a UK show was new to teenage me.

[Syt]

The list is missing the failed attempt at a US version of Peep Show with John Galecki: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770794/

[Valmy]

the office gave a bad perspective to american studios. There are a lot more failed remakes then successful one.

Oh God yeah - a solid chunk of this list is comedies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_television_series_based_on_British_television_series

I mean Ab Fab with Roseanne Barr

I think American tastes have shifted a lot in the last couple of decades - maybe streaming? But in the 90s it feels like any slightly successful UK comedy would get a remake pilot.

I'd guess the most successful are All in the Family and the American Office (which is superb). And both of them, I think, are or became adaptations rather than re-makes

Some of them are not scripted shows though so kind of make sense to do another version. Who do you think you are? with just British celebrities, some of them rather obscure to Americans, would be weird.

So of them are not remakes at all but the exact same show, done by the exact same people, just over here.

[Duque de Bragança]

Miles O'Keefe...

How much Keefe is in this movie, anyway?

A lot. Sean Connery was there to pay the bills.

[viper37]

There's a Quebec adaptation of Brooklyn 99. It's pretty much the same jokes but adapted. Right now, it's season's 1 heist episode.  Still awesome.

I've seen the trailer for that and it does intrigue me. This isn't normal right? To remake American shows for Quebec?
There's a big question of "why" which just makes it so bizzare.

Usually, they only "inspire" themselves from American or Canadian shows (read: copy an existing show's premise, shorten it, make enough differences in how the story unfold to not be accused of plagiarism and call it "Original content".

See, there was the Canadian show Cardinal, a police thriller set in Northen Ontario, dealing with serial killers, featuring two RCMP agents from the "south".  So we now have a La faille (The Fault), set in Fermont, a northern Quebec city, with detectives investigating serial killers.  It's pure coincidence...