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Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 9:59 pm
by CopperTom
Rush Hour (TV Series)
Let's turn a buddy cop, action comedy movie into a TV series. Keep racial jokes. Ask actors to mimic Tucker and Chan.
I've watched so much CBS this past weekend. This commercial pissed me off each time.
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 10:05 pm
by ABNorman
"Let's give that Tarantino guy some interview time."
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 10:06 pm
by EJ
Casting Cuba Gooding, Jr as OJ Simpson.
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 10:07 pm
by CopperTom
M. Night Shamalan
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 10:07 pm
by ABNorman
"A shared universe, Bob. Movie after movie of the same characters doing the same things with no need to be original. Kaching, baby".
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 10:42 pm
by tommymtcom
Hey, let's cancel deadwood
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 10:46 pm
by CopperTom
Let's split this single season into 2 halves separated by a full year.
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 11:01 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
CopperTom wrote:Let's split this single season into 2 halves separated by a full year.
Hell on Wheels?
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 11:09 pm
by CopperTom
E.H. Ruddock wrote:CopperTom wrote:Let's split this single season into 2 halves separated by a full year.
Hell on Wheels?
Yep. Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, etc.
Edit: Battlestar was
only separated by 6 months. Sopranos is another good example.
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 11:27 pm
by Jorge
ABNorman wrote:"A shared universe, Bob. Movie after movie of the same characters doing the same things with no need to be original. Kaching, baby".
You're just describing sequels
Maybe sequels are bad ideas
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Sun March 20, 2016 11:30 pm
by BurtReynolds
not for bank accounts
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Mon March 21, 2016 12:23 am
by McParadigm
theplatypus wrote:ABNorman wrote:"A shared universe, Bob. Movie after movie of the same characters doing the same things with no need to be original. Kaching, baby".
You're just describing sequels
Maybe sequels are bad ideas
Most are.
But then, what he's really describing is the reasoning for having lots and lots and lots of sequels.
Which is always a bad idea.
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Mon March 21, 2016 12:26 am
by BurtReynolds
The Han Solo thread is 17 pages long. War's over. Humanity lost.
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Mon March 21, 2016 12:28 am
by LoathedVermin72
We should have known Disney would bring about the end of everything
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Mon March 21, 2016 12:34 am
by ABNorman
McParadigm wrote:theplatypus wrote:ABNorman wrote:"A shared universe, Bob. Movie after movie of the same characters doing the same things with no need to be original. Kaching, baby".
You're just describing sequels
Maybe sequels are bad ideas
Most are.
But then, what he's really describing is the reasoning for having lots and lots and lots of sequels.
Which is always a bad idea.
Why have one or two when you can have 20?
Re: Bad Ideas: Arts & Entertainment Edition
Posted: Mon March 21, 2016 12:36 am
by ABNorman
LoathedVermin72 wrote:We should have known Disney would bring about the end of everything
