thunderbirds are go

You gotta be joking!! Baby Face deCaprio?? He sucked as Howard Hughes. And where are they gonna get a Flower and a Castle Class Frigate?? Computer imaging will never match the original thing.

Bill Shuey

TB2 (real) is one of my all time favourite vehicles - the film was sacrelage

FYI! get a subscription to Netflix!

I have rented the entire series of Space 1999, UFO, Fireball XL-5 and Thunderbirds.

Nostalgia is good!

Scott

I fondly remember the episode where we get to see her close up. Her leg of course and in civvies! It was the episode that concerned some space based telescope and at the beginning of the show they are looking at something on a screen )?) and as it zooms back it turns out to be her leg and what a set of gams they were!

Scott

Ah, hell, they already remade 'The Ladykillers'... I mean, WHY? It was perfect as it was...

Wulf

That was indded the eposide "Close Up" where SHADO send out a deep space probe which they hoped would bring back piccies of the alien homeworld. Miss Gabrielle's leg was used to illustrate that, without knowing the distance the images sent back were taken from, we could be looking at something close or far away.

The DVD boxed sets have got glowing reviews.

The Italian Job, Get Carter, The Ladykillers and now The Cruel Sea?

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Tom Hanks with a horrible set of false buck teeth in what I believe was the Alec Guinness role. Also I saw a blurb on TV the other night where a crew is somewhere in Africa filming a re-make of "Flight of the Phoenix" as well.

Bill Shuey

I've got the UFO boxed sets and they are really quite good. I had forgotten how good the show actually was, not having seen it in a long time. The actor's commentary is very interesting, I just wish they had commented on more of the episodes.

Dave

Also I saw a blurb on TV the other night where a

Hmmm...in the *great* original, the guys were all related, by work, (or family, in Dan Dureyea's case), to "the oil industry". I bet in this Hollywood remake, that that will be cause to make them all "evil, capitalistic, right-wing, scoundrels"....lol.

i only buy movies now after i download a svcd to check it out.

May I add 'The Stepford Wives'.... or should we just forget the remake.

RobG

Hot damn!

Thanks Greg for the ....ahem....pic! Like I said what a set of gams!

Scott

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:21:18 GMT, "Steve H"

Oh, dear! I forgot an "o" in the word "too", so here it is:

I've read Anderson's autobiograhy - Rolls Royce didn't want a bar of the original Thunderbirds either when it was first pitched to them. Their involvement came from within rather than from what was pitched at them.

The trailer looks good imo, and I've got a good excuse to go and see it even if I have to drag my 7 yr old kicking and screeming.

Mitch

That's the bottom line. They know it wasn't that widely available in the US so few peolpe know, or care for, the original. The majority of people who would be upset by it are in the UK, so who cares, right?

For "fast flowing and action packed" read: minimal script (at least not one with any substance) and huge over use of special effects (just because we can).

Steve

I have one of the UFO trading models from Japan that would be a pretty good likeness of her in the siliver mini-skirt with purple wig on top of my computer hutch. And the rest of the mini-models would be pretty good too....

"Steve H" > > movie will probably make a zillion $$ off the kid crowd. That's all the

Of course maximising the $$ are the prime concern and if rumours are correct with the Tracy clan being youngish, then it sure to set up for a sequel which seems to be where the big dollars are.. I tend to think that if returned dollars ulimately drive the movie market then we are in real trouble - there will be no more the likes of Alan Ladd Jr's prepared to put the family jewels on the line for what they believe will be the likes of a modern day Star Wars: A New Hope. I'll give the Thunderbirds the benefit of the doubt till after I've seen it.

From what I gathered from most of Anderson's work was they were all targeted at the US market, especially the Thunderbirds. The UK was not particularly healthy place in the 60's with huge taxes and struggling film industry so it needed the audience and associated dollars from the US. The American accents and the naming of the Tracy sons after the Mercury 7 astronauts being a case in point.

Well yeah, and it's why I loved the original series - the models were real as were the pyrotechnics.

Mitch