| ssjup81 |
01-01-2017 02:38 PM |
No to both! Especially Good Times. They're just too much of a product of its time. I just couldn't see it working, especially since blacks have more opportunities compared to then, which was the main set up with the show. Growing up impoverished and trying to get by.
As for the Jeffersons, I could maybe see this working, but failing. I mean, it showed a black couple moving up into a better part of town and succeeding with their business. That's not uncommon, but I doubt it'll surprise people like it did then.
They need to just come up with something original. You know, that's bad that apparently coming up with shows starring people of color, they have to resort to rebooting shows that were popular that starred them.
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Originally Posted by CyberCubed
(Post 1650103)
I'll never understand the remakes of old shows. Part of their appeal was the actual actors themselves, who cannot be re-created by any modern actors. They're a "product of their time" so to speak.
Same reason everytime a big 80's movie gets a remake everyone hates it. Remember how they tried to remake Total Recall and Robocop recently, besides Ghostbusters?
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I bet Ghostbusters would've been better received if it hadn't have been a remake and instead would've been a reboot + continuation, like the Force Awakens. |
