tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045215426198457884.post4488155943155315956..comments2024-03-29T01:30:34.039+00:00Comments on For It Is Man's Number: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)Tylerandjackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558971973499806365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045215426198457884.post-8034390716139370442014-07-11T21:40:30.689+01:002014-07-11T21:40:30.689+01:00I've never read the books but have been kinda ...I've never read the books but have been kinda tempted after revisiting this movie. Mind you, there are so many of them and I now have so little reading time.<br /><br />It's definitely got the potential for a reboot, IF handled right.Tylerandjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07728309372305602972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045215426198457884.post-21205572813573541742014-07-11T19:56:20.244+01:002014-07-11T19:56:20.244+01:00It's a fun, entertaining little gem, but it ca...It's a fun, entertaining little gem, but it can't hold a candle to the books on which it was based--not even in the same galaxy. In part, this is because the technology didn't yet exist to bring to life on screen many of the things in those books--it would take CGI to do a lot of it, and it isn't clear that even CGI could do it! But it's also a consequence of the rather odd decision to make this more of a "kid-friendly" Remo, something the books are definitely <i>not</i>, and to make it more of a mass-audience film. Draining the adult content and most of the amusing social commentary and snark really takes a lot out of the Destroyer (though the film did maintain significant elements of the books' quirky humor). The one thing the movie gets almost entirely right, even through all the water, is the Remo/Chiun relationship, which is, in fact, most of why the movie works (to the extent that it does). This attenuating of the source material continued shortly after the film when an American network financed a pilot for a Remo Willaims tv series. The series never came to pass, but the pilot was aired.<br /><br />It's hard to believe no one has picked this up as a new film franchise; it's a great, almost endless series of films begging to be made. Through the writing of the earliest books, authors Sapir and Murphy were living on different continents, and with each new project, one of them would start the book, write half of it then send it off to the other to complete. The legend is that the one who started it would dream up as ludicrous and convoluted a plot as he could manage then the other guy would have to come up with some way to resolve it. Don't know if there's any truth in that, but they're remarkably entertaining, and someone needs to get them on the screen.cinemarchaeologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13507603255666191405noreply@blogger.com