Who all expects the U.S. remake to fail?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Inbetweeners Movie
cody_perkins88 — 14 years ago(August 08, 2011 11:25 AM)
I mean, just look at those actors. It makes you realize the type of comedy we adjust ourselves to that you can just look at the actors in the photos and be able to determine just what type of person they are gonna play. From the looks of it, it's gonna try and mimic the Judd Appatow films. You've got the 4 main stock characters (I mean look at the chubby guy. Where in the original was there a chunky guy in the main 4 group? There was Big John but he wasn't in the main 4. Anyone got preconceived notions that he's gonna try to mimic Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill's acting styles?) and you've got yourself some pretty raunchy source material and seeing as how it's Americanized you can only imagine the direction it's gonna take. I was against this remake from day one and as more and more news comes along my opinion will stay put. Only good thing about this unneeded waste of air space is that the original creators are producers for this series. Either way, America should NEVER attempt British humor and should never touch a series that had nothing wrong with it to begin with.
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ultra_pro — 14 years ago(August 09, 2011 04:12 AM)
sorry what US remake? This inbetweeners movies isn't a remake its a MOVIE from the tv show with all the UK actors, are you getting a little confused? All the UK shows that are funny that get copied by the US turn out crap, its because the US doesn't have a sense of humour and can't laugh at its self, at least here in the UK we can piss take out of ourselves all we like and we know its so funny because the characters portrayed actually have a shred of real life grounding to be based on. We've all known mates like the 4 main guys in the Inbetweeners and thats what makes it soo funny
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DavidTL — 14 years ago(December 10, 2011 01:41 PM)
The only good remakes seem to be the Office and Shameless US (even though it follows the same story line its still good and adapted nicely). Life on Mars wasn't that bad, could have been worse.
I find it funny how the American re-make a lot of our shows but we don't really remake theres. We have Law & Order UK but that is more of a spin-off than remake just like the CSI spin-offs except this one is in the UK, not America.
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perkin2000 — 14 years ago(January 06, 2012 01:46 PM)
"We should re-create LOST and base it on the Isle of Wight. "
Now THAT I would watch! Brilliant comedy potential!
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rusrockt10-222-540926 — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 10:52 AM)
First of all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_television_series_based_on_American_television_series
Second of all, there are less UK remakes of US shows since the UK just tends to import those shows and air them as is, in the UK. In the US, very few shows are imported from the UK. Before NetFlix, if an American wanted to watch the IT Crowd or Inbetweeners, they basically had to pirate them from the Internet. BBC America shows a few UK shows, but for whatever reason, most UK shows don't make it to US TV. -
eMTeePeeCestMe — 14 years ago(August 11, 2011 04:10 PM)
It's always easy to bet the US remake of a UK show will bomb and the US to UK remakes tend not to work also. Ever see the English takes on "Married with Children" and "The Golden Girls"? There are some legendary UK bombs out there. But "The Inbetweeners" has some strengths that other American remakes didn't.
- The UK original had American-like castings with the 16 to 18 year old characters being played by 26 to 28 year old actors. They don't have to capture lightning in a bottle with unknown children like "Skins."
- Minus all the language, the UK show isn't that risque. The four boys find it surprisingly hard to get, drinks or dates. They are boring, bragging, blowhard losers who talk about sex and getting wasted a lot. Again, unlike "Skins" which was all about teens truly getting into some rough areas.
- The UK show is basically over (two specials to air as of this post) so they won't be up against the original articular, like "Red Dwarf."
- The UK show is recent, not like the many efforts to remake "Fawlty Towers" after it had already achieved legendary status internationally.
Smart Money's always on fail, but this has a lot of "The Office" style strengths going in to the making of process, and I'm going to give it a try.
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Four_Door_Cinema_Club — 14 years ago(December 13, 2011 10:21 PM)
i agree with your post, but i just saw the imdb page for the u.s. version and it looks like they have cocked up and cast unknown actors just like they did with skins, and apparently there is 6 episodes already filmed and waiting for air in 2012.
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IndecisivePigeon — 14 years ago(August 16, 2011 02:45 PM)
Well they made an American version of Skins which apparently didn't go down to well However, I don't know whether that was down to the actual content or the acting itself. Anyway, my main point is I firmly believe American humour is totally different to English humour.
I mean we have, The inbetweeners, Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, shameless (call that a comedy if you will) and so on
While they have stuff like How I met your mother, The Big Bang theory etc
I think they should stick with the sitcoms (which they are good at!) and leave the nitty gritty comedies to us
However, I am very biased as I have only watched the English versions of these shows that are being remade in America, so I suppose I can't really form a valid opinion until I watch them I guess
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laurendorward-990-190608 — 14 years ago(August 16, 2011 02:55 PM)
yes it will be awful, American humor is not funny, they are unable to laugh at themselves or produce anything remotely as good as Britain, it will be a PC, mishmash of humor we as a country grew out of over 20 years ago. They should leave our comedies well, well alone
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Marisa_Gabriella — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 06:26 AM)
American humour is not funny? Might I suggest for you to watch shows such as Nurse Jackie, Arrested Development, Modern Family, Louie, 30 Rock, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to name a few? Not to mention classics such as M.A.S.H. and I Love Lucy.
As for you calling their humour politically correct, they have cable channels such as HBO and Showtime so therefore, where there is no censorship. It is far from politically correct. I'm guessing you have never seen Weeds before?
They are very good at going black comedy. I don't know where this myth that Americans can't be funny came from. They can, and television in general in America is much better. Drama or comedy. To me, The Inbetweeners is a fun show, but it's not that funny. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't think writing on the show required much particular skill. Just four teenage boys being, well, teenagers. Even the writers themselves said that most of the situations in the show were based on stuff that happened to them.
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Marisa_Gabriella — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 08:33 AM)
Are you trying to tell me that The Inbetweeners is better than those classic comedies that I posted? Really? How exactly are Arrested Development, 30 Rock and Weeds dated? Have you really watched them?
Mad Men and Breaking Bad pretty much trump anything being made over here. The Hour is the one I have time for.
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laurendorward-990-190608 — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 08:55 AM)
They are nothing to fawlty towers, or steptoe and son, or men behaving badly, or peep show or the league of gentlemen etc etc etc.
We have had some fantastic TV on over here, the hour is fantastic, a few months ago there was the crimson petal and the white, women in love, the night watch, christopher and his kind, etc. I just do not find American TV particularly good and American comedy very funny. You have your opinion I have mine -
TheKidInsideTheFilmmaker — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 11:14 AM)
I don't think many even working in British television would suggest that it's better than American. I often have conversations with people who work in the UK television industry and they all are frustrated at the poor quality TV they have to produce. American Drama and Comedy has been in a golden age for the last 15 years. Television is almost seamless from blockbuster films, The writing is better and the sheer quantity of compelling drama is staggering that there is no way you can get through it all. In Britain, the industry is obsessed with cheap television. Most of the main stations have flag ship shows (BBC Doctor Who, ITV Downton Abby) But think in the middle of those. It's all reality based. Location Location Location, DIY, Gameshows, Come Dine with Me, variety shows.I am not saying that none of these don't have merit. But it's all stuff that they don't have to pay actors or have a big production crew.
Of course we come out with true gems every once in a while, But America pumps multiple good shows almost ever quarterly season.
So the fact that you think American TV is better than British is a matter of opinion, But it would hardly even hold up with many in the industry itself. -
laurendorward-990-190608 — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 12:10 PM)
Its a matter of opinion I think most American shows are overacted ott rubbish, the fact that the UK doesn't even have a 3rd of the budget America has, yet still manages to make great shows like sherlock, the hour etc etc and there are a lot more coming up. Big budget does not equal good quality.
Humor is subjective, the only American show at the mo I find remotely funny is raising hope, the rest are just not funny, and looking at the cinema's tonight I have never seen so many people going to see an American comedy film on this scale, the queue was out the door and is now booked for two days, why, because the TV show is so good and doesn't need a multi million pound budget instead it has a decent writer -
sparky2212 — 14 years ago(August 19, 2011 02:22 AM)
I know taste is subjective, but if you truly do not think American comedies like Curb your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 30 Rock, or Arrested Development are funny, you must be biased against American t.v. in general. Or you just have terrible taste, which I'm assuming is not the case since you like Peep Show, the best show ever.
Contrary to what many Brits seem to believe, American humor can be very self-deprecating and witty. You just have to look beyond the networks to HBO, Showtime, and FX. There are loads of great shows, the past 15 years really have been a golden age for American television.
When it comes to comedies America and Britain are both great, but U.S. dramas blow their U.K. counterparts away. Boardwalk Empire, the Sopranos, the Wire, Dexter, True Blood, Weeds, Mad Men, Walking Dead, etc etc the list of great dramas doesn't end.