@Esq, just because your Aussie dollar has a higher exchange, doesn't make it more expensive. The exchange could still be beneficial to UKers, not to mention because there aren't as many movies being made in the Australia studios, the rates to rent stages aren't as high. Also, your work force might be more inexpensive than a UK work force. There are lots of reasons, not to forget Government incentives to be included.
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Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:22 pm
Something along the lines of a big red space ship, a long way from Earth... 
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Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:35 am
Too late 
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Wed Jan 21, 2004 1:56 pm
He was indeed. I was watching the film and kept seeing him and thinking of Red Dwarf... I wasn't sure until the credits though.
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Wed Jan 21, 2004 2:29 pm
I really REALLY hope that a Red Dwarf film is never made. the last series was soooooo unfunny even though it looked the best of all. I strongly suspect that a film will take RD to a new nadir of dullness. Lets just remember it as it was - funny. In fact Id rather forget the last 2 series, with the occasional highpoint naturally.
Trust me, it would honk as a film. Totally the wrong medium. Britain has a woeful history of transferring successful tv comedy series to cinema, they pretty much all universally stink. its incredibly difficult for writers to expand out of the 1/2hr primetime format into sustaining interest and humour level for 90mins or more, no matter how talented they are. Very few manage do it, and if Grant and Naylor go ahead will be for the money alone. Sorry to p*ss on your parade, boys, but it peaked a long time ago and has been going downbank ever since. I wouldn't even bother going to see it a t the flix even if it was ever made, which it won't be.
if you don't believe me, look at hugely successful and classic British comedy shows like Morecambe and Wise, superbly written, then performed by a master of comic timing. Their films utterly suck though, embarassingly bad. Tony Hancock - could not master cinema and neither could his writers who otherwise were supremos. Dad's Army, superb sseries, rubbish film. Mony Python is diffferent because it never followed the set sitcom/comedy show format and its surrealism and silliness was always too much fpr the standard time slot, so the move to film was a lot more successful as well a shavingt he advantage of Terry Gilliam behind the camera. Re Dwarf for all its humour and talent was an extension of the old comedy show format (1/2hr primetime Beeb 2) in a traditional ongoing series arc. I absolutely guarantee that as a film it would not work and you'd hardly raise a smile. But it would look good, I spose.
Film and television are hugley different media and rarely translate well. for a start, TV has more close ups, more interior shots and simply lacks the scale and scope of cinema. having said that, tv gives you more time to develop characterisation and you dont need or expect stunning visuals. plus especially with comedy, as Ive said above the writers can fill a 1/2 hr time window with loads of gags buyilding up to a big final gag, but more than an hour is a long time to wait. thats why comedy/dramas became so popular, because they combine both and neither the gags or the drama is worn out before the end.
and if it gets made abroad? I dread to think..
Trust me, it would honk as a film. Totally the wrong medium. Britain has a woeful history of transferring successful tv comedy series to cinema, they pretty much all universally stink. its incredibly difficult for writers to expand out of the 1/2hr primetime format into sustaining interest and humour level for 90mins or more, no matter how talented they are. Very few manage do it, and if Grant and Naylor go ahead will be for the money alone. Sorry to p*ss on your parade, boys, but it peaked a long time ago and has been going downbank ever since. I wouldn't even bother going to see it a t the flix even if it was ever made, which it won't be.
if you don't believe me, look at hugely successful and classic British comedy shows like Morecambe and Wise, superbly written, then performed by a master of comic timing. Their films utterly suck though, embarassingly bad. Tony Hancock - could not master cinema and neither could his writers who otherwise were supremos. Dad's Army, superb sseries, rubbish film. Mony Python is diffferent because it never followed the set sitcom/comedy show format and its surrealism and silliness was always too much fpr the standard time slot, so the move to film was a lot more successful as well a shavingt he advantage of Terry Gilliam behind the camera. Re Dwarf for all its humour and talent was an extension of the old comedy show format (1/2hr primetime Beeb 2) in a traditional ongoing series arc. I absolutely guarantee that as a film it would not work and you'd hardly raise a smile. But it would look good, I spose.
Film and television are hugley different media and rarely translate well. for a start, TV has more close ups, more interior shots and simply lacks the scale and scope of cinema. having said that, tv gives you more time to develop characterisation and you dont need or expect stunning visuals. plus especially with comedy, as Ive said above the writers can fill a 1/2 hr time window with loads of gags buyilding up to a big final gag, but more than an hour is a long time to wait. thats why comedy/dramas became so popular, because they combine both and neither the gags or the drama is worn out before the end.
and if it gets made abroad? I dread to think..
Wed Jan 21, 2004 3:07 pm
and if it gets made abroad? I dread to think..
Fair points I suppose. I first heard about the possibility of a film as the last series came to a close [I quite liked it though and nothing much since until this thread, I don't think it'll get made anyway.
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