>>>>That 10-4 reminds me of when we were kids. Any game we played that had scoring (table tennis, football, baseball etc), if the score ever hit 10-4, it was known as a 'Broderick'. You probably know why.
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>>>Er, that's a big negatory there AP. Was Broderick the guy who sang the song?
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>>No, I figured maybe you'd know. There was an old TV show in the late '50s called "Highway Patrol" starring Broderick Crawford. He must have said '10-4' 20 times in every show. In fact, every mimic I've ever seen who does his voice uses the '10-4' phrase liberally.
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>I thought of that Broderick, too. Probably best known for his starring role as Willie Stark in the original version of "All the King's Men". I had high hopes for the remake, the one that hoped to duplicate the Oscar haul of the original, based on the cast and respect for Steve Zaillain based on some of his previous movies, but ATKM has been butchered by the critics and virtually ignored by moviegoers. A bomb. Looks like Netflix in a few months. I'll watch it based on the cast alone but with very, very low expectations. Like maybe I'll plan vacuuming, dog grooming, bill paying, and basement inspection on the same night.
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>It's probably a topic in itself how movie projects that sound like sure things go off the rails. It must be endemic in the nature of moviemaking that even the best have skeletons in the closet. If you can think of anyone in the movie business with an unblemished record, I'm all ears.

The whole concept of remakes weirds me out a little. Obviously, the films that will get remade are the generally good ones. What that means is that the remake actors are trying to compete with icons. I don't honestly recall a remake that I felt was truly worth spending money on.

Well, ok, 'The Big Sleep' with Robert Mitchum and Sarah Miles was a good movie, but was it better than, or even as good as the original with Bogart and Bacall? Not imho. I just don't see much point (from an artistic perspective - I certainly do from a financial perspective).

I mean, c'mon. Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt as Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy?????