The Prisoner remake

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I wonder if it is going to be as good as the original?

Usually, the writers cannot duplicate the writing.

How many fail and continue to fail at duplicating Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits?

The closest I have seen to the writing of The Twilight Zone is The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis.

The writing and casting nowadays is just not up to par, I don't know which has the edge in being the worst.

The original star in The Prisoner had a look of experience, conviction, shakespeare acting presence, intensely convicted, philosophical convictions of freedom and humanity, extremely serious and contemplative, highly disgusted at the notion of his will being manipulated, all that came across in his acting.

I don't know if I am going to buy it with this actor.

Its like why western movies are hardly made.......they get these "surfer boy" looking actors and expect us to believe these are cowboys.....Yul Brenner, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Bronson, Sam Eliot type of actors are hardly looked for or are chosen anymore, you know, real looking characters.

No one seems to know how to look for tough guys and/or great actors with on-screen, believable presence anymore.

Lets get the pretty boy or some agent knows some insider who owes him/her a favor.

The 13th Warrior
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  • Be seeing it.

    The lead is played by Jim C. ( Passion Of The Christ )

    He also played a great Booby Jones the famed golfer.

    I was a big fan of the original and the 15 minute preview of the new show looked interesting, so I'll give it a try.


    TL
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    • I was a fan of the original so I'll give it a watch also.
      I think the big problem there is the originals where able to do so much more with less. In other words they had to depend on the writing ability of the writers and the acting ability of the actors to pull the stories off. Now they try to make that up with special effects.
      The one show that has pulled it off IMHO is Dr. Who.
      I thought the first series was great and I love the newer version also.
  • I'll probably watch it. the trailers look pretty good.
  • I was a big fan of the original.
    The trailers for the new one look interesting but...
    It seems that the makers of re-makes always feel they have to put their personal stamp on it and just screw it up.
  • I will try to watch it.
  • Almost never is. Just like the remake of The Wicker Man a couple of years ago. Why do they think they can improve on movies/TV series that were pretty near perfect to begin with? I guess because they're too scared, lazy, and cheap to come up with any original concepts.

    GodDAMN this decaf.

    [/rant][/curmudgeon]
  • More to the point, does the central fear of The Prisoner - that we'll be imprisoned in an apparently normal place where the world conspires against us to prevent our leaving - a fear that resonates with the modern American?

    Because I don't think it is. I think that fear resonated with the adult British population of the sixties, who were watching the world change radically around them - which was frightening and confusing.

    The average adult American is different. Those people aren't a horrible creeping threat to our way of life. They're our parents. The 21st century American doesn't fear being trapped alone in a culture he doesn't understand, because that's reality. We live in apartment buildings surrounded by people we've never met - who move in, and move out, without ever introducing themselves. And somehow, we don't care.

    The older folk among us (and I count myself one of them now) certainly lament the loss of this culture, the one that The Prisoner leverages to create strangeness and horror. But honestly... we're all The Prisoner these days. We don't look at him and say "my God, what could you do?" - we say "yeah, been there, done that, why doesn't he do what I did?"

    I just don't see it working without major changes to the storyline, and I don't see those major changes being anywhere near as good. I think the writers are probably in their twenties, and don't really understand what made the series good in the first place.
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    • Geez...

      I thought it was simply about a secret agent type of dude that wanted to retire, perhaps because he had been hung out to dry - one time too many etc.,

      ...and the folks in charge felt he knew too much & might turn etc., so therefore they had to break him etc.



      It was more than that???


      TL
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    • It may be a series that will only work with all the British type of stuff and actors involved.

      I'll see tonight after the game as my Colts are playing the Patriots.

      TL
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  • I've got it on the DVR, but haven't watched it yet. I have low expectations, and don't expect to be impressed enough to watch past the first episode.

    John
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