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Peter Berg directing. WIN.
Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg - THE $6 BILLION MAN
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as long as they re-use that sound effect, I'm in!
Very happy to hear that the 'comedy' remake has been ditched. 
Having Lee Majors cameo as Oscar Goldman would be way too obvious, wouldn't it? 
No, the comedy version was the worst news ever. With this I'm still willing to wait and see.
Simultaneously intrigued and revolted.
The sound effect wasn't around until either the second season or late in the first season if I recall.
And the first time it was used for the robot Steve was fighting.
Yeah, somebody thought it sounded cool--like explosions in space. Remember when Star Trek didn't have sound in space?
$6 Billion sounds like way too high of an inflation over the $6 Million dollar man. High-end fighter jets don't cost that much!
Marky Mark? Meh. Could work... I guess. He was... "tolerable" in Transformers 4, more or less.
Marky Mark? Meh. Could work... I guess. He was... "tolerable" in Transformers 4, more or less.
Yeah. This sounds awful. I just keep thinking of Wahlberg in clips from the Transformer movie and The Happening.
Bleh. I'll wait for a trailer.
I would think developing and making bionics would cost a whole lot more than a fighter jet, which has decades and decades of technology to build upon.
Bleh. I'll wait for a trailer.
I would think developing and making bionics would cost a whole lot more than a fighter jet, which has decades and decades of technology to build upon.
It underwent a complex evolution. The "ta-ta-ta-tang" sound was first heard in "Day of the Robot" as one of the sounds made by the evil android. Later on in the first and second seasons, it tended to be used for the sound of forceful lateral motion through the air, as a sort of slow-motion "swish" sound -- a fist or club being swung, a flying kick, etc. In "Dr. Wells is Missing," it was even used to accompany the sound of a strong but non-bionic thug swinging a lamppost at Steve. Since most of the instances of forceful slow-motion swinging/punching/etc. were done by Steve, it's hard to tell where it crossed the line from being a "swift lateral movement" sound effect to a "bionic exertion" sound effect. But it wasn't until late in season 2 that this became unambiguous. "The Bionic Woman" (the initial 2-parter within 6M$M) featured its first use for a bionic jump, and either that or the second-season finale featured its first use to represent bionic crushing. (I forget whether the shot of Jaime Sommers accidentally crushing a tennis ball had the sound effect.) It wasn't until season 3 (and The Bionic Woman season 1) that it was firmly in use as a bionic sound effect and began to be used for all non-sensory bionic actions, including running.
As for the $6 billion price tag, maybe it refers to the cost of the entire research project rather than simply Steve's own parts.
No, I don't. They've always used space sound effects in Trek, going back to the original Enterprise "whoosh" sound that was made by Alexander Courage hissing into a microphone.
A serious moviee with of course of some humor in it, if done properly could turn out to be a good movie. I can't quite agree with the old sound effects and slow motion scenes in a modern movie working very well. But I would hope that the movie could contain some of music of the old show.