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LuS1fer

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43,248 posts

268 months

Wednesday 26th August 2020
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Watching the 3 remakes they lost, on Yesterday.

The scripts are very good but the actors are all pretty dire ( save perhaps Sgt Wilson).

Just underlines the genius of the original casting and why it became such an iconic series.

AndyAudi

3,767 posts

245 months

Wednesday 26th August 2020
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I’m the same, I think what’s “spoiling” it for me is I can hear the original actors in my head doing it better.

LuS1fer

Original Poster:

43,248 posts

268 months

Wednesday 26th August 2020
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AndyAudi said:
I’m the same, I think what’s “spoiling” it for me is I can hear the original actors in my head doing it better.
Precisely!!!

peterperkins

3,304 posts

265 months

Wednesday 26th August 2020
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LuS1fer said:
Precisely!!!
+1

I was wondering when you would think of that..

nikaiyo2

5,779 posts

218 months

Thursday 27th August 2020
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Would have been better animated... maybe

LuS1fer

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43,248 posts

268 months

Thursday 27th August 2020
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Well the third one was no better.
Terrible disappointment really although the imaginary one in my head, fuelled by having seen the originals, was good.

Chainsaw Rebuild

2,117 posts

125 months

Thursday 27th August 2020
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There is a live theatre show that's very good. https://www.dadsarmyradioshow.co.uk/tour-dates/

snuffy

12,308 posts

307 months

Monday 31st August 2020
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I watched the 3 episodes on Saturday night. It was clearly actors playing actors playing characters.

Oddly I thought that was what the 2016 film was going to be like, and it wasn't, plus I thought that was actually not bad at all.

It they used the original scripts then it just shows how good the delivery of them was at the time. When I watch the originals, I feel like it's actually real, like all those people are there in the church hall and I'm watching them; but the 3 lost episodes had that look of not being real about them, as if they were all trying a bit too hard.


STick220

23 posts

93 months

Monday 31st August 2020
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Chainsaw Rebuild said:
There is a live theatre show that's very good. https://www.dadsarmyradioshow.co.uk/tour-dates/
+1 I really enjoyed this when it came to Norwich.