'I'm Looking Forward To This TV Series Movie Remake'

[Panthera Pardus Nigresco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD07YT4qNuI

[CybrSlydr]

You know what's so disappointing to me?

How everything these days is a remake or "re-imagining" of an old series.

Granted, there are a few gems like Battlestar, but the complete and utter lack of originality and the refusal of the networks to take risks on shows (Firefly, anyone?... talk about criminal...) is disheartening to say the least.

[Panthera Pardus Nigresco]

Sid & Mart Krofft said in an interview that there are distinct differences in the movie & their TV series :)


You know what's so disappointing to me?

How everything these days is a remake or "re-imagining" of an old series.

Granted, there are a few gems like Battlestar, but the complete and utter lack of originality and the refusal of the networks to take risks on shows (Firefly, anyone?... talk about criminal...) is disheartening to say the least.

[CybrSlydr]

The trailer is slow to load for me, so I posted without having watched it.

And I'm sure there are big differences. Just like Old vs. New BSG.

However, I'm speaking of a general trend rather than using this as a specific example.

[wilbur whately]

i don't like the idea of changing things. i think it looks funny, but if they are going to make a movie of land of the lost, i think it should have 2 things we can count on

1) it should be close to the original show, and not something entirely different that they gave the name to

2) bubble boy should get to write and perform the score.

***on a side note, sid and mary kroft are still alive? WOW!
if somebody asked me, i woulda guessed there was no way they survived all the drugs.

[Panthera Pardus Nigresco]

if somebody asked me, i woulda guessed there was no way they survived all the drugs.

They both have denied use of drugs :)

[wilbur whately]

They both have denied use of drugs :)


H.R. puffinstuff, lidsville, the bugaloos the evidence speaks for itself.

[Panthera Pardus Nigresco]

H.R. puffinstuff, lidsville, the bugaloos the evidence speaks for itself.

"Claims of drug references
The Krofft brothers have responded in several interviews to popular beliefs that subtle drug references existed in the show.[10][11][12] For example, the title character's name "Pufnstuf" has been interpreted as a reference to smoking hand-rolled (H.R.) marijuana (puffin' stuff)[10][11][13][14][15][12] — Marty Krofft has said the initials "H.R." actually stand for "Royal Highness" backwards[14][15] — and the show's theme-song lyric "he can't do a little, 'cause he can't do enough" has been read as referring to the addictive nature of drugs. Pufnstuf has quotes like "Whoa dude!" and other "hippie" slang words. Lennie Weinrib, the show's head writer and the voice of Pufnstuf, has said, "I think fans gave it a kind of mysterious code-like meaning, like ‘Ah, was Pufnstuf puffing stuff? Like grass?’ Was it psychedelic? Was it drug oriented? Not to us, it wasn’t."[16][17] In one 2000 interview, Marty Krofft answered the question by saying, "The Krofft look has a lot of color, but there were no drug connotations in the show," and he addressed the topic at length in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2004, in response to the question, "OK, let's get this right out in the open. Is 'H.R. Pufnstuf' just one giant drug reference?":

“ We've heard that for 35 years. We did not intentionally do anything related to drugs in the story. People thought we were on drugs. You can't do good television while on drugs. People never believe you when you say that, but you can't. The shows were very bright and spacey looking. They may have lent themselves to that culture at the time, but we didn't ascribe that meaning to them, and I can't speak to what adults were doing when they were watching the shows. We just set out to make a quality children's program. "