Oh, Dear Lord … !
You know, I’ve got to admit, I think I owe the movie night gang something of an apology, for missing the past two weeks.
Or putting them off …
Because I’ve just sat through episode 2 of the AMC/ITV remake of The Prisoner.
Or the first half of it, at any rate.
Can I ask you a questions, here, if you’ve seen it?
Am I the only person who thinks ITV have shot themselves in the foot, by having anything to do with it?
The word ‘Dud’ is waving its hands at me, and saying “Here, am I a good choice of word for the remake? Am I? Go on, use me, tell everyone the remake’s a ‘great, big dud’ Go on, you know you want to!!”
Actually, that’s not quite true, I should be putting the word ‘complete’ in front of ‘dud’, because that’s what I’m thinking I’ve been watching.
And I think I know why …
For starters, it’s not the actual look of the remake: the production team have gone to great lengths to at least make their new village look as strange out of place as the original.
It’s safe to say the cast haven’t grabbed me.
Well, that’s not quite true.
Sir Ian McKellan is superb, as only a former RSC and Royal National Theatre regular could be.
In fact, he’s the best thing in it: I’m thinking that the rest of the cast — with no disrespect intended, here — are rather bland and forgettable.
As is the script …
Tonight’s episode — which sees Ian McKellan’s No. 2 trying to convince Caviezel’s No. 6 that No. 16 is who he claims to be — wasn’t the attention grabber that Episode 1 was.
Those who read my post about that will be able to give you a rather less vernacular summary of what I though of that … !
This is something that should not have been done.
Without doing what it has.
Ruined and urinated on the purity of the original.
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Adrian, Dr Kevin, I think we’re going to have to take Kevin D up on his invite to head over his place for the next movie night.
At least it means I can record episode 3, and get really worked up, afterwards …
And at least have something pleasant to write about … !
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I can only imagine how disappointed you were in the last episode.
Talk about a dud. This one ended with a dull thud.
Total garbage. Plain and simple.
That rumbling sound you could hear was McGoohan rolling over in his grave.
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