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| 41819 | Old TV Shows & Movies Being Remade. | <div>For TV shows, there's so many original series being released on Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. that a few remakes don't bother me none. In fact, I consider it to be a moot point.</div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Movies are a different situation. I don't think it's so much about wanting to "cash in" on nostalgia as it is relying on familiar brand names; those are probably considered to be safe investments by producers and studios. Movies have gotten so ridiculously expensive to make that nobody wants to give money to something that might be a flop, so instead of giving an original and new film a chance, the studios fund projects that are the most likely to attract an audience.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Not that this strategy always pays off. Remember the Conan reboot? Neither does anybody else.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">That's my take on it anyways.</span></div> | jkatz | Jan 05, 2019 |  |
| 41817 | Old TV Shows & Movies Being Remade. | <div>But here's the thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's take Hawaii-5-O the original. </div><div><br></div><div>Not only do I wonder why anyone who watched the original when it was bran new wanna watch this new version but why would you wanna see someone else actor portray Steve McGarrett other than Jack Lord?</div><div><br></div><div>Plus so many today are not only far more grim but has a lot of romance and sex which you wouldn't of seen as much when shows like H-5-O were produced.</div><div><br></div><div>1 reason why the H-5-O remake and others are doing well because the audience the networks are targeting either weren't alive or old enough when the original series aired so it's probably easy to remake these classic shows and the audience for them may have the same negativity for these originals or anything produced decades ago.</div> | MIKEPR | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41816 | Did you have Cable/Satellite as a child? | I had basic cable for a big part of my life, but my family upgraded to digital cable at around 2002. My biggest memory with digital cable is watching G4 around 2002 back when the network was focused primarily around video games. | blueluigi | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41815 | Did you have Cable/Satellite as a child? | <div>Cable.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember when I was a kid, we had a box that looked sorta like this.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="main-image" src="https://i.postimg.cc/SR45jwp3/maxresdefault.jpg" style="display:block;width:100%;max-width:640px;" width="640" height="360"></div> | Mr Magic | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41814 | Did you have Cable/Satellite as a child? | i just had basic cable with around 40+ channels, the only two channels i still remember by number were cartoon network, which was channel 17, and nickelodeon, channel 29. | Benjanime | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41813 | Old TV Shows & Movies Being Remade. | It's funny, my husband was flipping through the channels the other night and that TMZ live or whatever show was on. They were discussing certain shows coming back to tv, remakes and reboots and re-imaginings. The guest caller was saying "yes, it seems ridiculous but trust me Harvey, my generation of 80's and especially 90's kids are hardcore nostalgia freaks and are being marketed towards." he shushed her about that and said yes whatever, every generation is nostalgic, I don't believe for a minute that's what's happening.<div><br></div><div>I think he's wrong. Yes, all generations get nostalgic, but because the 80's and 90's are where the 50s, 60s and 70s were when we were kids (as in OUR shows have been on nick at night now for awhile, instead of I love Lucy, I dream Of Jeannie, etc)and we;re now the adults and many have their own kids. We are in that spot now. We're old enough to call our stuff retro. I think that's why it seems like 90's kids especially are so hardcore. Sometimes that means they won't even bother watching a remake BECAUSE they are such a fan of the original, but often times were that desperate to see this stuff again that we will watch it. I've never seen such a group of braggy people that thought THEIR tv shows, cartoons and snack foods were better than anyone else's like a 90's kid LOL. All the damn surveys on Facebook, the buzzfeed articles, most of the forum posts on Retrojunk,. All about 90's kid nostalgia. I think he underestimates how hungry 90's kids are for their nostalgia and are absolutely marketed towards. Again though, I don't think us 80's and 90's kids are MORE nostalgic Think it's just we're at that point where a lot of us will be approaching middle age before we know it, so we're grasping. I mean i'm 38. I can't believe i'm almost 40. </div> | Dalek227 | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41812 | Those of you who skipped school or faked "sick" | Thank you :)<div><br></div><div><br></div> | Dalek227 | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41811 | Last Movie You Watched | Splice<div style="font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-style: normal;">I've always been interested in seeing this film since it come out in 2010. I decided to finally watch it since it was recently added to our cable company's on demand service.</div><div style="font-style: normal;"><br></div><div>It's... certainly something. I would say that this was the most awkward and revolting film I ever watched, but I just watched the first two <i>Species</i> films last year and those definitely take the cake in that department. Though I'm kind of torn on which one of these three films have the most awkward sex scene in it.</div><div><br></div><div>There's not much that is really good about this film. It's kind of got an interesting premise for a "science run amok" type story, but it's ruined by everything else. The characters are all unlikable idiots who routinely do stupid things throughout the film that they know is going to bite them in the ass later on. The most unlikable and dumb character is the only one to survive at the end. All the action in the film is saved for the last few minutes of the film, which makes for only a quick and uninspired ending climax.</div><div><br></div><div>Not really a good film. I wasn't really expecting a whole lot but this was a rather big let down.</div><div><br></div><div>1/5</div> | Rick Ace Rhodes | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41810 | Posting Youtube Videos. | When I get to the YouTube video I'm looking for and click share, it isn't giving me an embed option, There is just a dialog box or something that says copy and there is a checkbox that says start at. When I hit tab it does say embed checkbox, but then it only selects the start at checkbox. I don't know if that's because I was selecting from a playlist or what, but that has never happened before. I think YouTube might be glitching. | bluegrassbaby86 | Jan 04, 2019 | |
| 41809 | Posting Youtube Videos. | Great breakdown of that shakin. Thanks for that.<div><br></div><div>When we added the "Embed Video" button to the desktop version of the text editor we use in the forum, we eliminated the need to switch to "Source". But you can still do it that way. </div> | Vaporman87 | Jan 04, 2019 | |
