Monday, February 21, 2022

I suggest a dark gritty reboot

If you think about it, it’s pretty incredible that I’ve been writing and posting these things pretty much weekly since January 2007 without once mentioning Mr. Magoo. Well, dammit, that stops as of right now. Because I just learned that in 1997 there was a quickly forgotten live action Mr. Magoo movie starring Leslie Nielsen. A little follow-up reading reveals that it was an unfunny piece of crap. Of course it was. Leslie Nielsen? What were they thinking? There is only one living actor capable of taking on this iconic role and doing it justice. That man is Malcolm McDowell.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Nuh, uh - Jim Backus

Unknown said...

Oh, wait - he's dead. Nevermind.

Dave Maleckar said...

I knew that. And so McDowell will have to do, including playing Thurston Howell III in Christopher Nolan's dark gritty Gilligan's Island reboot.