Comments on: James Wan to Direct MacGyver Movie https://filmjunk.com/2012/11/12/james-wan-to-direct-macgyver-movie/ The World's Longest-Running Movie Podcast Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.33 By: Chris Klecker https://filmjunk.com/2012/11/12/james-wan-to-direct-macgyver-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-6175681 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:46:21 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=86601#comment-6175681 It’s also possible that James Wan wants to expand his interests into action. There was a time when people didn’t think of John Carpenter as anything but a horror director, but after movies like Big Trouble in Little China or They Live, it’s certainly possible for a director to “surprise” his audience. Granted I’m not a fan of Saw, nor is this writing team helping believe this is going to be a good movie, but anything can happen.

]]> By: mattressman https://filmjunk.com/2012/11/12/james-wan-to-direct-macgyver-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-6103072 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:29:10 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=86601#comment-6103072 i tried to rewatch macgyver recently and the appeal is definitely nostalgia. everything else about the show is pretty bad. almost un-watchable. the only episodes that i could get through were the ones that had murdock in them.

]]> By: La Menthe https://filmjunk.com/2012/11/12/james-wan-to-direct-macgyver-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-6102557 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:32:50 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=86601#comment-6102557 What made MacGyver work was its exaggeration, and the charm that was set in the tune and the square styled episodes. Despite how cheesy it was, it was always interesting (maybe it’s just nostalgia on my part, as I grew up with the series) to see a new adventure with MacGyver in every episode – whether it was spying in Eastern Europe, getting out prisoners in a South-American prison, combating Big Foot in Alaska, or helping local friends like his grandpa in their everyday problems. They were all accompanied by the same composition in directing – the same music, the same suspense-building, the same story structure, etc. This was something they were able to partially maintain in their made-for-TV movies in the 90s. But it will probably never be the same today. They lack the same technological equipment in the camera, effects, etc – not to mention Richard Dean Anderson’s young face and allure. At their best, they could replicate MacGyver on a similar extent as Spielberg did with Indiana Jones in The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – which we all can agree was a very disappointing affair.

Comparing MacGyver to Indiana Jones is no exaggeration, as MacGyver in many ways was the TV-version of classical 80’s adventures like Romancing the Stone, Young Sherlock Holmes and The Golden Child .

We’re probably going to get a typical modern action film disguised as MacGyver – where they move away from the over-elaborated situations he is in to more subtle circumstances, and from MacGyver’s unrealistic ” ingenuity” to inventiveness that stick more closely to reality. I wouldn’t be surprised if the even gave the series a darker and serious tone – something that would totally ruin the series’ magnetism.

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