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Originally Posted by Hitch
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
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A surprising number of shows and movies didn't make it big when they first came out and are now widely loved. The Willie Wonka movie with Gene Wilder (which was remade with Johnny Depp) is a classic example.