Why Don't We Dream Of Jeannie?

In My Humble Opinion
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The last 5 or so years have brought with them a barage of craptastic movies based on old TV shows, but not I Dream of Jeannie. Why not?

My personal opinion is that they (being those oh-so-bright movie producers) haven’t considered making a movie because they fear backlash from feminists who would be pissed by a movie honoring a show that protrayed a woman as a willing slave to some NASA guy. Any other theories?

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It might also be because they did a made for TV movie version of the show which starred what’s-his-name, (you know the guy who played Trapper John on MASH** and it pretty much sucked. Plus, NASA ain’t exactly on the forefront of people’s minds these days.

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Oh! Finally a thread all about me! I am popular after all! Yay! I have been waiting for this day for so long. Wow, it’s so good to know that I have some fans out there!
Oh, wait…nevermind :wink:

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      • At work we got to talking on this show/cartoon, and as far as any of us had seen, Arabs generally have brown hair, but the real-life Jeanie had blonde and the cartoon had red, and as well as changed to that wierd phallic ponytail-shaking deal, nose-wiggling being too subtle for cartoonists I guess. Like, in the cartoon episode where somebody cut off her ponytail, and all her power was gone?
        Very strange. - MC
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Jeannie ALWAYS nodded her head (With her arms folded in front of her chest).

The nose wiggling thing was Samantha’s schtick on Bewitched.

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There have been two crapistic made-for-TV movies. Isn’t that enough? More than enough? I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later and I Still Dream of Jeannie

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Because they will never find a Jeannie sexier than Barbara Eden.

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To be honest, you ARE who I thought of when I saw this thread :wink:

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I am quite sure I heard a few years ago they were going to make an IDOJ movie. The only reason I remember is that they were talking with Lisa Kudrow to play Jeannie, and I thought she was a pretty good choice. Not good enough to make me want to see the movie, but a good choice none the less.

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I wanna know when they’re gonna do the Partridge Family…

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OK, let’s face it… maybe they wouldn’t do it because even they know… IT WOULD SUCK.