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taniwharugby

@Rancid-Schnitzel Auction Hunters is likely the same, some of the finds were just too good...I used to watch that, but just got bored when they tried to spice it up with Ton just up and leaving one day, but eventually coming back.

jegga

@taniwharugby they did at least admit that they only showed a tiny number of the lockups they searched and most of them were shit so never got shown , also they actually sold their stuff unlike that other bullshit one where they take it to an "expert" who gives them an estimate.

I read an article years ago about the people who do it full time, they all hope for one big score and most of them never get it. One of the people in the article scored Liz Hurleys locker after she did a runner back to the Uk when Hugh Grant was caught getting a bj from that skank.

Crucial

I have to laugh at the way these shows contradict each other.
You get the lockup and lost baggage ones that claim 'profit' based on what they think the item is worth, then the pawn shop ones that pay out less than half the potential value.
They should do a combined programme where the smartarse buyer thinks he is so clever and goes to the pawn shop and has an argument.
'But my valuer says this teddy bear is worth 2k because it has Michael Jacksons spunk all over it'
'OK, I'll get a DNA test done and if true pay you 200 for it'

Crucial

Finished watching TOTL -China Girl

Now at least I am educated that

all men are complete arseholes and
women may be neurotic messes but it's all because of point 1

Some huge plot holes which I won't spoil.

The only good part is the Alexander character (which at least offers something we haven't seen before) but even he hams it up to some cringeworthy moments.

I liked TOTL, it was moody, had a good 'mystery' behind it and I didn't mind the flaws in the main character as they were part of the story.

TOTL 2 is a feminazi beat up though that totally overplays the women as having to carry mental burdens and the men as being stupid and sleezy.

jegga

Michael , my sensors indicate this will be garbage

Stuff

mariner4life

@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:

Michael , my sensors indicate this will be garbage

Stuff

fuck off with the reboots already!! jesus suffering fuck

seriously, this has to stop. we are in a golden age of TV, with many amazing, varied, and original shows being made, with big budgets and top line talent involved. Why of why are they rebooting this stuff. Especially stuff like this, that won't even really work now? In the 80s a car that could talk and drive itself was pretty fucking cool. Now? It's a google project that will probably roll out not long after this airs. whoop de fuck

Movies, TV, all of it, just fucking stop. Execs spend a little less on coke, and a little more on creative ideas.

jegga

@mariner4life bravo, that was an incredibly accurate rant . Why are these people shitting on my childhood and bizarrely Patrick Swayzes body of work?

taniwharugby

next thing we'll be looking at a reboot of Mash, Greatest American Hero, Cheers, Happy Days or something!

quality rant @mariner4life

mariner4life

@taniwharugby see, of all of those, i reckon you could do something pretty cool with The Greatest American Hero, especially given the prevalence of Superhero movies and TV shows today. Tie in the presence of social media, the rise of the SJW, and you could make a very good social commentary.

taniwharugby

@mariner4life well they re-did CHIPS & Baywatch into movies...

I've not watched either.

Yeah GAH was cheesy AF, so I reckon they'd ruin it by being more clean PC or take out humour all together

mariner4life

@taniwharugby dark is not necessary good.

antipodean

@mariner4life said in TV Serieseseses:

@taniwharugby dark is not necessary good.

Yes, thank you modern day Disney. Some of us wanted the Ewoks to lose and Luke to join the Dark Side...

Rancid Schnitzel

@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:

Michael , my sensors indicate this will be garbage

Stuff

They already did this in the 2000s. I think it lasted 1 season and they even screwed up the (classic) starting song.

Without even Googling I'm going to assume that the Mcgyver reboot was a flop.

jegga

@Rancid-Schnitzel I saw the movie, Kitt was a 57 Chevy and it was bad. Not even so bad it's funny, just really really bad.

Rancid Schnitzel

@jegga said in TV Serieseseses:

@Rancid-Schnitzel I saw the movie, Kitt was a 57 Chevy and it was bad. Not even so bad it's funny, just really really bad.

My youngest is obsessed with cars and has a picture of the original Kitt on his wall. He watched the opening sequence for the remade series on YouTube and was profoundly disgusted.