The original was a complete masterpiece. This trailer ... much less so.
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Apple Shares Trailer for Upcoming Taika Waititi Series 'Time Bandits'
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I strongly disagree with your supposition that not wanting “edgy” means wanting bland. There is a world of amazing, well-crafted, brilliant entertainment to be found in the middle area between edgy on one side and bland on the other.
That said, Apple TV+ has a lot of great content that is either boundary pushing, innovative, unique, or just plain excellent, including: Killers Of The Flower Moon, Severance, Slow Horses, The Afterparty, Bad Sisters, Ted Lasso, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Dickinson, Schmigadoon, Shrinking, We Crashed, The Shrink Next Door, Platonic, Strange Planet, etc. And while it’s pretty middle brow, Presumed Innocent is currently a pretty fun ride.
Edgy must mean different things to different people. It really doesn't have positive connotations to me-- "edgy" sounds to me like something one tries too hard to be. The associations in my mind are: edgy is to exciting as pretentious is to intellectually stimulating or shocking is to eye opening.
Obviously you and others see that word differently, but I just mean to suggest you don't assume the person you're responding to has the same interpretation of it as you do.
Handmade films the original production company of Timebandits was preparing a reboot of the movie as a TV serie around the year 2008 (they were working on reboot Eloise, Mona Lisa, … before going bust …) looking at the trailer I would feel that they wanted to keep an 80s feel of the production as opposed to the original plan to make it Hollywood like. It’s good nevertheless to see that the project came up in any manners and new generation of kids will enjoy it
How on earth will they shove an Apple device into our faces in every 5 minutes in this show?
That cast promo shot makes it look really bad. Whenever they try so hard to cast the obviously manufactured quirky looking team, it doesn't usually go well.
I am ambivalent about Lisa Kudrow’s involvement. (There: the full set.)
I absolutely love the original, and admit there is so much more in the concept to potentially do with a remake than most of the random nostalgia rehashes these days. Sadly, this looks... well, extremely not Terry Gilliam.
The original had all kinds of fun stuff in it, but fundamentally it's such a fantastic and memorable movie because it's just so weird. Every one of the random segments plays almost like a deadpan Monty Python segment in all the right ways. This looks funny and "quirky", but the kind of polished, modern, generic "quirky" that you can find all over the place.
Who knows, it could be better than the trailer looks, but I find it almost impossible to believe that this series will manage even a tiny fraction of the funky, bizarre, Terry-Gilliam-ness of the original, and that's what it'd take to make me care enough to watch more than the trailer.
The original had all kinds of fun stuff in it, but fundamentally it's such a fantastic and memorable movie because it's just so weird. Every one of the random segments plays almost like a deadpan Monty Python segment in all the right ways. This looks funny and "quirky", but the kind of polished, modern, generic "quirky" that you can find all over the place.
Who knows, it could be better than the trailer looks, but I find it almost impossible to believe that this series will manage even a tiny fraction of the funky, bizarre, Terry-Gilliam-ness of the original, and that's what it'd take to make me care enough to watch more than the trailer.
What series have you ACTUALLY watched?
This is a series for kids, by the way. You can't compare this with Silo, Presumed Innocent, Masters of the Air, Severance, Sugar... Among others.
I am going to say it. Occultism breeds occultism. Stop teaching children occult symbolism through humor. I am done.
You clearly haven't watched Foundation, See, Silo, Masters of the Air, Physical.... They have many shows without product placement.
Fun and quirky are Waititi's strong suits, some examples being What We Do In The Shadows, JoJo Rabbit, Thor Ragnarok. If anything he needs to be reigned in a little because left unchecked he can go too wacky to be funny, such as the disappointing Thor Love and Thunder.
This is what Hollywood has become now. Rebooting classics and nine times out of ten ruining them. This shouldn't be considered movie making 😂
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Because Americans don't know international movies exist, and American producers think they can make everything better.
I don’t agree with your characterization of what I said. If I say I’m really happy with a show I don’t consider that faint praise. Not wanting something edgy does not mean I want bland. You quoted my words directly so it’s not necessary to give an interpretation of what I said. People can read that for themselves.
This is Simmias’s comment I responded to and I just listed 3 shows that I was surprised they wouldn’t have been excited about. That’s it.
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Very well said. I feel like writers and directors sometimes focus too much on being edgy when I’d rather they focus on good storytelling. Your comment about trying too hard is at the heart of the issue.
I was disappointed that Terry Gilliam wasn’t involved. His perspective is always unique. Waititi has similar sensibilities, so I can understand why he’s directing it. But why rehash a movie that was so iconic?
Boring trailer.
Can you give an example of this 1 out of 10 where they succeeded? I'm struggling to remember any movie or show that was rebooted by Hollywood and actually went above the original one.
This is like defacing the Mona Lisa, putting a loincloth on Michelangelo's David, or painting clothes on the angels of the Sistine Chapel. Vandalism in the name of political correctness. How perfectly awful.
If you've never seen the original, please do.
If you've never seen the original, please do.
These are just OK shows...not bad but not great. Yeah, everyone has different taste, but the end of the day, when something is very good, it is widely recognized by the general public. For example when Game of Thrones come out on HBO, virtually everyone around me (friends, co-workers, family) were talking about the show, and we were all waiting for the next episode to air. Something similar happened when Breaking Bad and few other shows first came out. These were immediately recognized and acclaimed by the general public as must-watch. For contrast, to this date, I have never ever received a recommendation or comment from anyone I know saying that I must watch Ted Lasso or any other ATV+ show or movie. For me, this is quite indicative about the quality of the productions and the service in general.
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