I have such fondness for the goofiness that was the original 21 Jump Street that I have no interest in the movie version. Because no matter what, it won't make me 19 again.
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Burrell - Jan 22, 2012 3:42:31 pm PST #17715 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Amy - Jan 22, 2012 3:44:19 pm PST #17716 of 30000
Because books.
The trailer for 21 Jump Street was so confusing. All I knew was the original wasn't a comedy, but I never watched it, and until the title came up on the trailer, I was pretty sure it was a remake of Police Academy.
Channing Tatum doesn't make me feel much either way, although he is a sort of nicely carved block of human.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 3:50:39 pm PST #17717 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
he is a sort of nicely carved block of human
Ick, not from the neck up. Take that back.
Jonah Hill is already my idea of a really bad time, so putting him in a movie with Channing is like vomit icing on the shit cake. Calling it 21 Jump St just makes it all the more stupid, but there's no way I'd have been going near that movie anyway.
Scrappy - Jan 22, 2012 4:48:33 pm PST #17718 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
During Haywire, when Tatum died, I whispered to Jason "He's dead? How can they tell?"
Amy - Jan 22, 2012 4:51:56 pm PST #17719 of 30000
Because books.
I don't mind Jonah Hill, and the way he plays the title kid on that new animated comedy Allen Gregory is deliriously wrong and really funny. I can't watch Will Ferrell anymore, though.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 4:52:34 pm PST #17720 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
eta: in response to Scrappy: Seriously.
So far, Jonah Hill's onscreen appearances have all been pretty custom designed to make me itch and scream.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 22, 2012 6:14:51 pm PST #17721 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I went to see Underworld: Awakening today thinking it would be a cheap rip-off of Ultraviolet from the previews. Instead, the story held together pretty well (J. Michael Straczynski had a story credit) and almost everything made sense except the budget-mandated necessity of having everything happen in the same nameless Eastern European city that the first one was set in .
However, the cinematography was for shit - the whole thing looks like it was shot through murky blue filters that only let other colors through for fiery explosions. And the tacked-on 3-D is a decidedly unspecial effect.
Consuela - Jan 22, 2012 6:28:04 pm PST #17722 of 30000
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I saw the trailer for 21JS during the football game, and I couldn't believe it. Because seriously: no WAY do those guys look 17. Not even in tv-land. So, basically, they're doing the same thing they did with Starsky & Hutch and turning it into a comedy?
Pfeh.
My heart yearns for Peter deLuise and Dustin Nguyen.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 6:29:37 pm PST #17723 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why am I okay with S&H being a comedy? Because I liked the actors more, maybe? I don't know.
Possibly also because S&H is prominent enough that skewering felt like you could do it with great affection and as an offhanded tribute to the original. With 21 Jump Street, it's relatively obscure, and it feels like mocking to me instead.
le nubian - Jan 22, 2012 6:33:26 pm PST #17724 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
no WAY do those guys look 17
right? they would be arrested at any HS I know.