# I pity the fool who thinks this is a good idea **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381 "2003-08-01T15:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/21 "2003-08-01T21:46:04Z")
He’s a war-weary sweet-toothed househusband who must take medication to keep him sane. She’s a green-fingered cigar-chomping vampire who inherited a spooky stately manor from her late maiden aunt. They fight crime! Or maybe… He’s a genetically engineered playboy hairdresser with nothing left to lose. She’s a blind communist Hell’s Angel living homeless in New York’s sewers. They fight crime! ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/22 "2003-08-01T21:53:05Z")
Wait a minute here…Hollywood = ultra-conservative? Is that the perception in the UK? Maybe in movie-making, but certainly not in politics. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/23 "2003-08-01T22:12:41Z")
No, no! He’s a fiendish soccer-playing assassin in a wheelchair. She’s a beautiful gold-digging schoolgirl with the power to bend men’s minds. _They_ fight crime! Thanks for the reminder, that always cracks me up 🙂 [http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm](http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm) ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/24 "2003-08-01T22:22:29Z")
A Sigmund movie? No, no, I want a Land of the Lost movie!!! Return of the Sleestack! After they made a Car 54, Where are You movie nothing shocks me anymore. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/25 "2003-08-01T22:27:33Z")
How about “The Golden Girls Take Manhattan?” No? Hmm. Okay, what about a “What’s Happenin’” movie starring the kid from “Goodburger” as Rerun? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/26 "2003-08-01T22:43:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kputt \* > **Scary movie was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.** But it was _profitable._ And that’s all that matters. Look, people, stop fucking blaming Hollywood. They make movies based on what they think people want to see. Sometimes they’re wrong. Usually they’re right, at least to the degree that they are able to stay in business. If you want Hollywood to stop making shitty movies, then _ **STOP GOING TO SEE SHITTY MOVIES.** _ If you _absolutely_ must see crap like the _Tomb Raider_ sequel or _Scooby Doo_ or whatever, then do what I do: Go to one of those multi-screen monstrosities where they collect tickets up front and then don’t control which cinema you go into. Buy a ticket for _something else._ Go into the movie of your choice. When I went to see the _Tomb Raider_ sequel, my ticket said _Pirates of the Caribbean_ (Actually, it said PIRATES OF THE CARIB because the title is too long for the stub ;)) because I actually liked that movie and felt like it deserved another vote. The cinema itself doesn’t care which movie you go into. They make their money on the concessions. If they cared, they’d be checking stubs at the door. (To be fair, occasionally they will check stubs for high-demand movies like _Matrix Reloaded_, but this is just so they don’t overfill the auditorium; after the first weekend they stop checking.) If you actually give money to _Bad Boys 2_ or _Gigli_ or _LXG_ or whatever else is polluting the cinema this week, then you have no one to blame but yourself. Christ, people, it isn’t that difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/27 "2003-08-01T22:58:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bakhesh \* > **Whats left to rip off? Can we expect Airwolf, Street hawk, the Fall Guy, Magnum PI?** Hey, don’t be lumping Magnum in there! Tom Selleck has been trying on and off to get a movie deal for years. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/28 "2003-08-01T23:30:12Z")
**For christ sake hollywood, will you please try to squeeze a single original idea out of your vacuous, ultra-conservative, overpaid heads.** Ultra-conservative? What the fuck planet do YOU live on? ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/29 "2003-08-01T23:34:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hermann \* > \*\*Wait a minute here…Hollywood = ultra-conservative? Is that the perception in the UK? Maybe in movie-making, but certainly not in politics. \*\* I think that he meant just that they refuse to do anything that could even possibly be considered mildly creative, and I don’t know, risky? Rather, they just stick with formulaic tripe most of the time, basing it off of the same characters and franchises over and over and over… ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/30 "2003-08-01T23:42:56Z")
Hollywood - the people IN the movies are liberal. the people who make the movies (i.e. studios) are conservative, bloated corporations otu to make money anyway they can. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/31 "2003-08-02T00:01:50Z")
What about _WKRP - the Movie_? They could get the entire cast back. It would be worth it just to see how much better Jan Smithers looks nowadays than Loni Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/32 "2003-08-02T00:15:46Z")
I wish they’d do a _Partridge Family_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/33 "2003-08-02T00:36:23Z")
**Guin** , you’re already going to Hell–don’t make it worse. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/34 "2003-08-02T02:14:16Z")
Silver Spoons! Actually, I’d really like to see Herman’s Head on the big screen. That show was pure genius. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/35 "2003-08-02T03:22:42Z")
Oh, man, someone else remembers Herman’s Head? I love this board! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/36 "2003-08-02T04:01:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Just wait until… > > SMALL WONDER: THE MOVIE!!! \*\* Damn you, **Guin** , you stole my idea!! Well, I guess I can still work on my script for MacGuyver: The Movie! ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/37 "2003-08-02T04:18:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bouv \* > \*\*Damn you, **Guin** , you stole my idea!! > > Well, I guess I can still work on my script for MacGuyver: The Movie! \*\* Dude, I would sooooo watch a MacGuyver movie and be damn proud of it, too 😛 Anyone think they’re gonna make a Smurfs movie? SCHTROMPH! - Wind ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/38 "2003-08-02T04:31:16Z")
Someone pass me the laudanum, and give me a kick when **Automan vs Tron: Digital Ballistics** hits the big screen. Beyond that, I think the parodies do work best, but something like **Charlie’s Angels** , or even this **A-Team** thing in the works can at least be done passingly well. How original do you really need to be in what is primarily an action flick, anyway? When you’re essentially making **Titties and 'Splosions, pt IV** , plot and characterization don’t tend to be real high on the priority list. Hell, the **Addams’ Family** flicks were pretty entertaining, though neither the movies nor the original show took themselves all that seriously. Maybe therein lies the rub. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/39 "2003-08-02T04:34:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skeezix \* > \*\* > Hell, the **Addams’ Family** flicks were pretty entertaining, though neither the movies nor the original show took themselves all that seriously. > > Maybe therein lies the rub. \*\* OK, what the hell does that mean? What is the rub? Why is it so significant? Is it like rubbing Bhudda’s head? Do you get some awesome insight when you rub? Please explain it to me, it’s been bugging me for a while now (no one I know can explain it). - Wind ---
**Author:** ![Daughter\_Of\_Arden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/258eb7/32.png) [@Daughter\_Of\_Arden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daughter_Of_Arden)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381/40 "2003-08-02T04:51:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*Oh, man, someone else remembers Herman’s Head? I love this board! \*\* I went to high school with “Herman” (William Ragsdale). Of course I remember it. I video taped the whole show. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pity-the-fool-who-thinks-this-is-a-good-idea/192381.md?page=3)