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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Uh, they did remake Miami Vice:
It was done by Michael Mann, who created the original show. I love Michael Mann as a director and both leads are very talented. But I wasn't crazy about the movie and partly I think it's because the episode it was based on (Smuggler's Blues) also isn't one of my favorites. |
I meant as a show. Yes, I saw the movie and was underwhelmed, despite (normally) loving Michael Mann's work (
Crime Story, anybody?) and the two leads are talented.
As I said above, somewhere, some shows are simply in the right place, right time, right content, right everything, and they enter the zeitgeist. MV was one of those (like
Magnum) and I don't see a real point or gain in remaking them. Shows and movies either catch, or they don't.
(Having said that,
Buckaroo Banzai, for example, was a movie that not only didn't catch, it practically rolled over and died upon release and has become widely-loved since. [Oddly enough, that's also a movie that I can't see benefitting from remaking.] And we all know the
Firefly story. Nonetheless, there are movies and even shows that "catch" later, but typically, not in a big enough way to generate enough interest in remaking or sequels, prequels, so on and so forth.)
Hitch