And another reboot which I don't really mind as long as it doesn't suck.
Real Genius Movie Reboot Set As NBC Comedy Series
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And another reboot which I don't really mind as long as it doesn't suck.
Hmmm, I'm torn. I love the movie but am apprehensive about how this might turn out. A bad sign straight off is "work place comedy". I guess a show about college kids doesn't hit the right demographics?
Well, there's one easy place they can improve on the original - the casting on "Mitch". I always thought the actor they used in the movie was the worst part of the film.
Well, there's one easy place they can improve on the original - the casting on "Mitch". I always thought the actor they used in the movie was the worst part of the film.
Sounds like a cross between Big Bang Theory and The Office, to be honest.
Auto correct strikes again!
Lazlo = Broots
(Broots is from "Pretender")
I don't know how they can call it a reboot if the only resemblance to the film is the title and possibly character names, which they must have had to pay a price for. The series description sounds no different than anything else on TV with a workplace setting, unless that workplace is the college, in which case it sounds like "Community" to me, though I've never seen it.
And/or a rip off of Mike Judge's Silicon Valley
Agree. In the film, it was based at a college with genius students. It sounds like The Big Bang Theory, but about the students instead of professors.
I'll watch it if it's funny.
I just don't see the point of this show, other than to try to sponge off the popularity of The Big Bang Theory.
Agree. That is the reason. Back in the '80s when Magnum P.I. was a hit a series called Matt Houston was created. When Three's Company was a hit We Got It Made.
etc.
Dr. Funkenstein
Lieutenant Commander
Eh?
This wasn't a movie that was fun because of the premise, but because of the cast. How do they not get that?
This wasn't a movie that was fun because of the premise, but because of the cast. How do they not get that?
As I grew older, and got a job in the defense industry, Real Genius didn't age so well for me. Most of the film is still pretty funny, right up until they commit fucking treason.
Ah, so it is treason to stop your country from carrying out illegal assassinations? Glad I don't live there.
Um. Whut? I must be forgetting part of the film, 'cause I don't remember any assassination attempt in the movie. I remember a CLASSIFIED US government laser system test that our "heroes" sabotaged by sneaking onto a military base, sneaking into a military aircraft, and sabotaging the computer, out of self-righteous anti-military liberal rage.
You try sabotaging a classified military weapon test and see what the charges are.
Plus of course the charges, probably from the FBI, for causing said weapon to fire on a civilian neighborhood.
Yes, I'm afraid, whatever your motivations, it's treason to sabotage a military program. It's what enemy spies do.
You try sabotaging a classified military weapon test and see what the charges are.
Plus of course the charges, probably from the FBI, for causing said weapon to fire on a civilian neighborhood.
Yes, I'm afraid, whatever your motivations, it's treason to sabotage a military program. It's what enemy spies do.