I think we were impressed by his attacking skills but not his defence when he first came here.........and now he may be getting a contract worth 1 million a week. a few years time he'll be able to buy 'Arry's island and the country known as Wales!
The weird thing about that game was that at full time, it felt as though we'd won. That was the night that the entire squad grew a collective pair and finally exorcised our reputation of being a bunch of soft pushovers.
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I've seen the stage musical and the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp effort. Awful beyond words, both of them. One can only imagine that this will mine the depths explored by Steve Martin as Bilko or Inspector Clouseau. Genius is difficult to imitate and impossible to improve upon.
I'm starting to wonder if Hollywood really are waiting for people to pop their clogs so they can get their hands on the remake rights. That certainly seemed to be the case with Ghostbusters, as that was announced within a couple of months of Harold Ramis' death, and with Bob Gale saying he's taking the rights to BTTF to the grave you have to wonder if some exec is waiting to take him up on the offer.
I wonder what else they can screw up......just to make a dollar. I can remember being real upset when they made a series called Casablanca.Lord that was terrible! Oh yes.They've made a remake of Lethal Weapon. HELP!
Steve Martin has done some great stuff, but Bilko is one of the very low lows. I think it's the tendency of American cinema to often dumb things down to the lowest level with black and white characters that meant the film version of Bilko appeared militarily incompetent. There was nothing in the series to suggest this, quite the contrary, Bilko appeared to be incredibly competent, which was one way he was able to play the system so well. Methinks that if Hollywood had got hold of Dad's Army they would have portrayed Mainwaring as cowardly because it fits better as a one dimensional character with his other traits, when we actually know from the series that Mainwaring demonstrated on several occasions that he was very brave, and that made for a much more complicated and real character.
Martin should stay away from remakes. The Pink Panther was also awful. His original films are fantastic. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Jerk, The Man with 2 Brains, Planes Trains and Automobiles and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are all among the funniest films ever made. IMO.
Far from it ... Then, whispered Castro, those first men formed the cult around tall idols which the Great Ones shewed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a Hollywoodcaust of ecstasy and freedom to remake and butcher classics. If the Ghostbusters remake is not the epitome of "the stars came right again" , I don't know what is.
Please, not Back To The Future. I love Bilko. It made the torment of Sunday bearable all those years ago. Like so many of the US version of British comedies, these remakes show no appreciation of what was funny, smart or charming in the original. The mystery is why anyone would pay any money to make such a thing? or go to see it at the cinema? My particular most-hated remake is the Russell Brand version of 'Arthur', the only reason for the making of this monstrosity must have been to see if I would spontaneously combust. I have never seen a second of it beyond the trailer during which I tried to poke out my own eyes.
Remakes of classic comedies are a waste of time. The appeal of the comedians was their own personalities. Steve Martin will never be Phil Silvers. Nobody can ever recreate the magic of Laurel & Hardy, Eric Morecambe, John Cleese etc - utterly pointless attempting to do so.
5 amazing films but The Man with 2 Brains and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are certainly 2 great favourites of mine that can be compared with the very best comedies which is probably my favourite genre of movie
Im no longer liking your comments, but I do agree with you. A recent, and much less iconic example, being steven merchant's apalling attemot last week to impersonate the presenter of the crystal maze.
The Sweeney remake with Ray Winstone was an abomination too. Regan was John Thaw. Carter was Waterman. Nobody else brought the same characteristics to the roles. And it was a programme of it's time. Everything about it was a representation of the '70s. Trying to replicate it was always going to be a disaster.
