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!
Wait a minute here…Hollywood = ultra-conservative? Is that the perception in the UK? Maybe in movie-making, but certainly not in politics.
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
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.
How about “The Golden Girls Take Manhattan?” No? Hmm. Okay, what about a “What’s Happenin’” movie starring the kid from “Goodburger” as Rerun?
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.
Hey, don’t be lumping Magnum in there! Tom Selleck has been trying on and off to get a movie deal for years.
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?
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…
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.
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.
I wish they’d do a Partridge Family movie.
Guin, you’re already going to Hell–don’t make it worse.
Silver Spoons!
Actually, I’d really like to see Herman’s Head on the big screen. That show was pure genius.
Oh, man, someone else remembers Herman’s Head? I love this board!
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!
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.
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).
I went to high school with “Herman” (William Ragsdale). Of course I remember it. I video taped the whole show.