Dad's Army remake.

[LuS1fer]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Am I the only person who thinks Dad's Army is rubbish. I thought it was rubbish when I was a kid in the 70s, and when I see the re runs, I still think it's rubbish.

Actually, I'm not the only one. My wife thinks it's rubbish and my kids think it's rubbish.

So..to summarise....it's rubbish.

Maybe you need an understanding of the era. I was born in 1959 and, even then, WW2 was an irrelevant memory to me but the hardships and endurance of that era were a hallmark of your upbringing and education so you never forgot. Even in the 60s, this lost era was still much in evidence. Without understanding the context, it may not be funny to you. It was to everyone I ever knew.

Then again, I know people who think Only Fools and Horses was rubbish.

I won't be going to nay cinema to see the remake though and think many people will feel the same. Exactly who do they think will pay cinema prices to see a big screen sitcom?

[tali1]

LuS1fer said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Am I the only person who thinks Dad's Army is rubbish. I thought it was rubbish when I was a kid in the 70s, and when I see the re runs, I still think it's rubbish.

Actually, I'm not the only one. My wife thinks it's rubbish and my kids think it's rubbish.

So..to summarise....it's rubbish.

Maybe you need an understanding of the era. I was born in 1959 and, even then, WW2 was an irrelevant memory to me but the hardships and endurance of that era were a hallmark of your upbringing and education so you never forgot. Even in the 60s, this lost era was still much in evidence. Without understanding the context, it may not be funny to you. It was to everyone I ever knew.

Then again, I know people who think Only Fools and Horses was rubbish.

I won't be going to nay cinema to see the remake though and think many people will feel the same. Exactly who do they think will pay cinema prices to see a big screen sitcom?

I watched it as a kid and found it funny -but whereas i can still watch Fawlty,Only Fools,Porridge,Rising Damp today ,i have never had the craving for Dads Army.
Not sure what context has to do with it as Blackadder is verry funny - and a lot of it relates to times viewers never experienced.

Edited by tali1 on Friday 2nd May 22:15

[anonymous-user]

toppstuff said:

I have two minds about this.

I grew up with Dads Army. Still love it now.

But I was really moved by a documentary I saw about what the Home Reserve was really all about. This is a really important theme which was ignored in the BBC comedy series - the pathos of the reality they were facing.

It is easy to forget that everyone in the UK was pretty convinced that Germany would invade. The Wehrmacht had swept its way across Western Europe with ease. And we were next. Our fathers and mothers were gathered into town halls and they openly talked about guerrilla warfare. Postmen and car mechanics would leave their families and go to meetings where they would be taught how to slice someones throat open with a knife, how to create an I.E.D, how to kill people as efficiently as possible. And they all believed that they were really going to have to do it.

All this was ignored in the TV comedy. I'd like to see this dark side explored, personally.

It was a genuinely scary time.

That would be called Dad's Resistance Movement.
The genius of DA is that it does acknowledge and capture the sense of duty, bravery and willingness for sacrifice that the Home Guard displayed, but does it in a very subtle way.
The very fact that the platoon is made up of otherwise inactive personnel, but their main battles are with blinkered local authority in the form of Hodges is one example of this.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Last Of The Summer Wine...that's rubbish too.

[LuS1fer]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Last Of The Summer Wine...that's rubbish too.

The later stuff was.
David Bowie - a lot of his stuff is rubbish.

[RichB]

LuS1fer said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Last Of The Summer Wine...that's rubbish too.

The later stuff was.
David Bowie - a lot of his stuff is rubbish.

Earlier someone was going on about Friends, Cheers, Frasier etc. that's dreadful rubbish, never got through half an episode of each without thinking it must be like the King's new clothes.

[LuS1fer]

RichB said:

arlier someone was going on about Friends, Cheers, Frasier etc. that's dreadful rubbish, never got through half an episode of each without thinking it must be like the King's new clothes.

Cheers has some incredible lines but hasn't aged well (However, Sam interviewing buyers for his Corvette is still a classic).
Friends is an American soap really but Jennifer Aniston made it worth watching.
Frasier is a very intelligent and clever comedy though some episodes (the ski lodge one particularly) descended into bad farce.

[FourWheelDrift]

Comedy is different for everyone, I for one find anything from Reeves & Mortimer to be as funny as gangrene.

[RichB]

LuS1fer said:

RichB said:

arlier someone was going on about Friends, Cheers, Frasier etc. that's dreadful rubbish, never got through half an episode of each without thinking it must be like the King's new clothes.

Cheers has some incredible lines but hasn't aged well (However, Sam interviewing buyers for his Corvette is still a classic).
Friends is an American soap really but Jennifer Aniston made it worth watching.
Frasier is a very intelligent and clever comedy though some episodes (the ski lodge one particularly) descended into bad farce.

And that's the point, you found some it incredible, I thought it was dross. Watched some it because my kids liked it and thought it was on a par with all previous American comedy.

[LuS1fer]

RichB said:

nd that's the point, you found some it incredible, I thought it was dross. Watched some it because my kids liked it and thought it was on a par with all previous American comedy.

Indeed. Some people even claim to laugh at Top Gear.

[Halb]

LuS1fer said:

Cheers has some incredible lines but hasn't aged well (However, Sam interviewing buyers for his Corvette is still a classic).

I watched the first three series on on of the higher up channels last year, it was really good. Much better than the later stuff.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

LuS1fer said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Last Of The Summer Wine...that's rubbish too.

The later stuff was.
David Bowie - a lot of his stuff is rubbish.

I didn't even know he was in Last of the Summer Wine. Christ, and I thought Tin Machine was a low point.

[Marty63]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

LuS1fer said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Last Of The Summer Wine...that's rubbish too.

The later stuff was.
David Bowie - a lot of his stuff is rubbish.

I didn't even know he was in Last of the Summer Wine. Christ, and I thought Tin Machine was a low point.

And he's gonna be in the dad's army film too ??

[Halb]

Merry Christmas Mr Mainwaring.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

David Bowie, The Man Who Fell To Walmington on Sea.

[FourWheelDrift]

Marty63 said:

And he's gonna be in the dad's army film too ??

He's going to play Major Tom.

[nicanary]

What's your name, boy?

Don't tell him, Ziggy!

[Marty63]

This has turned into 'the laughing gnome guard'........

[mybrainhurts]

Russell Crowe as a special guest, driving the Nazi hoardes back into the sea, single handed, with one arm, one leg, no ears and a beard, reciting incoherent poetry in his native accent, Bruce.

[gareth_r]

FourWheelDrift said:

I posted a made up cast list on page 1 as I was trying to think who they could possibly use. Those were the only elder statesmen actors old enough (discounting McKellern, Jacobi and Holm). If they want to make a film with the same characters as the originals then who else in their 70s+ is there?

All your choices are way too old in comparison to the original cast. When Dad's Army was first shown in 1968, Arthur Lowe was 53 and John Le Mesurier was 56. John Laurie and Arthur Ridley were is their early 70s. James Beck was 39, Bill Pertwee was 42, and Ian Lavender was 22.


Ricky Gervais, for example, will be 53 this year...

Bill Nighy is 64, much too old.