Ugggh Blu, the Honeymooners, and Bewithed are old tv shows, not movies. Only Herbie The Luv Bug is a recycled movie, :devil2:
To respond to your question though, I don't think much of it. Every year more old tv shows, and comic strips are being brought to the big screen, and every year some movie is remade, and to be honest, if we go a year where a remake isn't done, or a show, or comic strip isn't converted to the big screen I'd be shocked.
Between Nick @ Nite's popularity, and the huge DVD sales of old television shows, Hollywood is capitalizing off of the public's love affair with those shows. N@N was so popular they created an old show network with TV Land. As long as those converts continue to do well at the box office, they'll continue making them. Some of them are done really well, and does the show some justice, and some of them are downright cheesy.
Being a Honeymooner's fan, I'm interested to see how Cedric will handle the role of Ralph Kramden. If he can pull it off, the show will have moderate success, if he doesn't it's going to bomb big time. I'm really surprised blacks were cast in those roles seeing the love affair America had with the show. Personally I think they should've left it alone with blacks being cast in those roles, and just hooked Cedric and Mike Epps up in a movie as a bus driver, and a sewer worker, and just marketed the movie as a movie, but as the Honeymooner's I don't think it will work.
That's like casting white folk, or Jews as Fred Sanford, Lamont, Grady, and Aunt Esther in a "Sanford & Son" remake, or white's in a Good Times, or Jeffersons remake.
Speaking of which, I wonder why no Black tv shows have been converted into movies. I think if they were to do Good Times, or Roc as movies they could be really good.
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