Now that's probably going to hurt

I wonder if he's seen the Bruce Campbell films? Specifically, Army of Darkness.

Quality were those films.

Did you ever see the TV series 'Brisco County Jr.'? Absolutely perfect for him. I don't know if they were shown in the UK or not.

Nope. I watch very little TV though. The Evil Dead etc were very good. Did you ever see From Dusk Till Dawn?

No, not seen that. At a glance, it looks somewhat like the Antonio Banderas/Salma Hayek 'El Mariachi' Mexico trilogy, (available as a boxed set) with added vampires.

Bonus: Sample of Brisco County Junior,

and: starring Aaron Viva, and the invention of the drive-through:

That's exactly what it was. The halves of two completely different and possibly quite good movies, glommed together to make one s***ty one.

A variation on the penchant for re-making a perfectly good movie, as in 'The Italian Job'? There is one glaring exception to this, however: 'The Thomas Crown Affair', in the Steve McQueen version of which, there is no followable story, just a mumbling bumbling McQueen; but in the Pierce Brosnan edition, there is a proper storyline, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, and audible dialogue throughout.

I don't believe so. I think it was an original, just not very good.

Probably so, on both counts, but why did they use the title of an existing film? Just to try to cash in on its popularity? Now we all have to check which one is being referred to when we see a mention.

On 04/04/2014 11:24, Davey wrote: ...

Hollywood (in this case also Bollywood) is always looking to remake films that were successful in the belief that if it worked once it must work again. They don't seem to have learned from their mistakes. Of course, the original Italian Job didn't do well in the USA. Michael Caine blamed poor marketing, but I suspect that the culture was simply too alien for 1960s American audiences.

Colin Bignell

Err, the silent 1922 one by King Vidor? Not much confusion there!

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