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U.N.C.L.E.
- Thread starter Sav'nBass
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Rockford / James Garner... VERY cool in "My Fellow Americans"!
"The Rockford Files" was kinda after my serious TV watching time.
"The Rockford Files" was kinda after my serious TV watching time.
Robert Vaughn is still with us at 82 years old. David McCallum is 81 years old. Are either of them going to do a cameo appearance in the new movie?
Hollywood is truly a creative wasteland these days, what next ? a Rockford files movie ? none of the movie versions of classic TV shows ever worked IMO , and there have been quite a few.
And 'My Carousel' seems to have been written by the Carry On film actor Jim Dale, which is even odder. The backing sounds a bit like the music that 1960s films often had people at parties dancing too when I am sure it would normally have been Beatles, Rolling Stones, and The Troggs in reality. Plus a bit of Procul Harum and Moody Blues late in the evening.
His delivery is rather more impassioned than, say, Shatner's Version of Pulp's 'Common People' but somewhat comparable. Except that Shatner's obviously not being entirely serious. That having been said, I prefer Shatner's version to the original due to the additional post-modern irony.
I had a Man From UNCLE gun when I was a kid. it did it all. Radio, rifle, pistol, etc, and it really could shoot real bullets.
I was like 7 years old so yes, the bullets were totally real. Killed my little sister several times with em.
I was like 7 years old so yes, the bullets were totally real. Killed my little sister several times with em.
Exploiter8
Demons run when a good man goes to war
the trailer i saw last week at a theater leaves me not the slightest hope that this movie is going to deliver. napoleon is a guy who messes things up in a humorous way, he and illya hate each other when they meet in a lackluster "i hate the guy from the other country" way, and the list goes on and on. the longish trailer i saw made it seem like a generic half-assed modern comedy/action movie that they stuck the names of the characters on to make more ticket sales 
Emma Peel and Honor Blackman! Mmmm. Oh wait we're talking the Man from U.N.C.L.E. I have very low expectations for this movie. Hollywood's track record with remakes is pretty poor. One of my fav scenes on NCIS is when someone asks Gibbs what Ducky was like when he was young. Gibbs replies that he was like Illya Kuryakin. Made me grin. Been watching episodes of "Hustle" on BBC with Robert Vaughn as Albert Stroller, con man emeritus. Good stuff.
