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Mysterio takes a look at the I SPY feature script

wrong, wrong by bobino	Aug 29th, 2000 05:36:17 PM
What's so wrong about this configuration is the whole basketball thing. How exactly would a basketball player,of any caliber, have consistent access to world players on the political scene. Golf sure. or even tennis again. A Tiger Woods style Kelly would make even more sense. And wouldn't the CIA guy then have to fake coaching an entire team, and not just his contact. What sense does that make?
Sniff, sniff...hey, I just stepped in an "I-SPY" script! by Uncapie	Aug 29th, 2000 06:02:29 PM
You've gotta be kidding!!! It worked once, it failed on tv the second time. No, leave it alone. Now, "Hickey And Boggs", that's a different story! That rocked! But, "I-Spy", leave it alone.
I Spy Angel's Charlies in this knockoff. But sell the F-22 Fight by Regis Travolta	Aug 29th, 2000 06:18:16 PM
I Spy is clearly a casting-contingent project, just hope no one offers the part to Wesley Stinks he's a joke. So it'll probably go to Will Smith and Ben Affleck. Could be worse I suppose.
golly, you mean it's a secret agent story where an old-school wh by tommy5tone	Aug 29th, 2000 07:12:00 PM
why not just CALL it MIB 2? these wibberleys sound like mr and mrs talentless, inspitation-free hack!
What's with the animated gif... by CKent	Aug 29th, 2000 07:38:13 PM
Is that Harry making out with Burt Lancaster? Or is he just hungry?
help by I87D	Aug 29th, 2000 08:50:26 PM
Anyone here know how to access the "Hidden" alternate version of Terminator 2 on the Utlimate Edition (the one with supposedly 5 minutes of never before seen footage on top of the 15 minutes restored on the special edition)? Oh, this is an "I Spy" thread... okay, i'll rephrase my question: "anyone here know how to access the "hidden" alternate version on the T2 Ultimate Edition? thanks!
Secret to Changing the T2 Ending by Darth Brooks	Aug 29th, 2000 09:10:08 PM
This "I Spy" script will hopefully never see a premiere. Like everyone's saying - it's a knock-off of MIB without the giant roach aliens. Up Periscope had a more engrossing plot. - - - oh, and the clue for T2: keep clicking on Cameron's pants leg in the bio section until he leaves Linda Hamilton. Worked for Suzie Amis - that bit-part actress turned herself into a millionaire by finding the "Easter Eggs". Certainly beats guest-hosting on Regis.
Does this sound racist to anyone else? by coop	Aug 30th, 2000 12:15:08 AM
I don't get it. Why can't the black guy be the professional and the white guy be the dumb jock? I'll tell you why, because white people want the cool guy to be white. Now before you start in on me, I AM white, so I'm not being biased. While I'm at it, why is it that every time they make a movie about a bunch of black troubled kids in a classroom or basketball team, it's always the white teacher or coach that shows them about life, pride, achievement, acceptance etc...? Next time they make one of these films, notice who the hard as nails authority figure with a heart of gold is. Sorry about the rant, but this always pisses me off. About the I Spy script, the way they could make this work would be if this was in the same universe as the series, 30 some years after with Bill Cosby as the Man in Charge. Just make this like a next generation thing. Now that I think of it, that just sucks so nevermind. I won't see this film in any incarnation.
oh yeah I forgot by coop	Aug 30th, 2000 12:23:06 AM
Is Harry making out with a Tuna in that animation? I have an animation suggestion for ya, how about a Harry/Survivor crossover? Harry as a naked Richard Hatch? Harry eating the remains of Sue and Rudy?
Coop send your suggestion to Cartuna at the Multimedia link on t by Bari Umenema	Aug 30th, 2000 01:50:08 AM
It sounds like a big budget TV movie, you know another train wreck just like "mild mild mess". So I guess Will Smith really will star in it, why not just team him up again with Kevin Kline they were so good as James West and Artemus Gordon...
I bet one shiny penny that . . . by ol' painless	Aug 30th, 2000 02:35:38 AM
they change the location of the prison from Venezuela to Mexico. Why? Because some asshole Hollywood suit will listen to the pitch and say "Where the HELL is this goddamn 'Fenny-swella' place?? CHRIST, I HATE these invented place names. Put 'Mexico' in there instead. I have a house down there, you can use that."
coop's post by valdar	Aug 30th, 2000 08:15:58 PM
I SO agree! why should there be any problem with the black guy as the level-headed senior partner? great idea, too, casting Cosby as the spy firm's "Q," or promoted director, or whatever. maybe cast Cuba Gooding Jr. as Alexander Scott Jr.!!!
Coop is right by Doc_Nye	Aug 31st, 2000 01:15:40 AM
The thing making I Spy ahead of its time was its use of a Black man as a natural authority figure. The symbolism of depicting him as typically more level headed than his, usually more hasty, white partner was very powerful. I remember what a breakthrough this was - remember it wasn't very long after Amos & Andy. I can nderstand "updating" the material to make the agents seem more equal intellectually. But there can be NO point to making the black agent subordinate to the white agent other than to appease the presumed (but not necessarily true!) sensibilities of a white audience. The Wibberleys are leading us back toward Amos & Andy.

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