The Prisoner
Nov. 21st, 2009 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI'm trying to catch up on The Prisoner miniseries. My SO loves the original. The new one is bad. It's almost a parody of the original except parodies are supposed to be funny.
The Village and NYC as portrayed in this are both so awful that if he was Dorothy, he'd be saying, "Fuck both Kansas and Oz, let's rejoin that tornado!"
My complaints about the original were that I was unclear on what the problem was. That Village seemed nice. It's the kind of place you'd want to go when you retired. The original 6 had retired. So it seemed like a good match.
This Village seems ghastly. The new 6 asks "Do you have anything [food] that's not a wrap?" The response was, "Why?" I can't imagine living somewhere that didn't have a choice of food. And everything in this new Village seems really sterile. There's no music in the square, there's no square. The architecture is very Americanized instead of Mediterranean.
The new 6 is some dude who is famous for something. I recognized him and his name. Only later did I find out he was in one of those Christ movies, temptation of, passion of, outing of, something. The 2 is Ian McKellen. Ian McKellen is totally wasted on this.
There are gobs and gobs and gobs of untethered flashbacks in the new version. They make this whole thing look like an acid trip. Plus in one of the flashbacks, the dude (who becomes the new 6) lends his phone to a woman and she steals it. How the fuck do you forget to ask for your phone back? I don't think I'd lend my new phone to a stranger regardless. Probably sneeze on it and get H1N1 flu virii all over it. But even if I did lend it, I'd be right there asking for it back. Clearly 6 is a moron when in the presence of an even vaguely attractive female.
Most of the original was about how 6 would outsmart the series of 2s. He would outwit them and cause them to obviously fail. This 6 seems about smart enough to sneeze through kleenex and be surprised that the rest of the world came back after it disappeared forever behind the tissue.
It's not the world's worst movie, but I'm getting a lot of knitting done while I actively ignore this.
ps. While discussing those Christ movies and asking if they were sequels, I was asked to title a hypothetical slash movie. My answer: Christ and Iscariot in the Back of the Chariot.
The Village and NYC as portrayed in this are both so awful that if he was Dorothy, he'd be saying, "Fuck both Kansas and Oz, let's rejoin that tornado!"
My complaints about the original were that I was unclear on what the problem was. That Village seemed nice. It's the kind of place you'd want to go when you retired. The original 6 had retired. So it seemed like a good match.
This Village seems ghastly. The new 6 asks "Do you have anything [food] that's not a wrap?" The response was, "Why?" I can't imagine living somewhere that didn't have a choice of food. And everything in this new Village seems really sterile. There's no music in the square, there's no square. The architecture is very Americanized instead of Mediterranean.
The new 6 is some dude who is famous for something. I recognized him and his name. Only later did I find out he was in one of those Christ movies, temptation of, passion of, outing of, something. The 2 is Ian McKellen. Ian McKellen is totally wasted on this.
There are gobs and gobs and gobs of untethered flashbacks in the new version. They make this whole thing look like an acid trip. Plus in one of the flashbacks, the dude (who becomes the new 6) lends his phone to a woman and she steals it. How the fuck do you forget to ask for your phone back? I don't think I'd lend my new phone to a stranger regardless. Probably sneeze on it and get H1N1 flu virii all over it. But even if I did lend it, I'd be right there asking for it back. Clearly 6 is a moron when in the presence of an even vaguely attractive female.
Most of the original was about how 6 would outsmart the series of 2s. He would outwit them and cause them to obviously fail. This 6 seems about smart enough to sneeze through kleenex and be surprised that the rest of the world came back after it disappeared forever behind the tissue.
It's not the world's worst movie, but I'm getting a lot of knitting done while I actively ignore this.
ps. While discussing those Christ movies and asking if they were sequels, I was asked to title a hypothetical slash movie. My answer: Christ and Iscariot in the Back of the Chariot.
