^Yeah. <sigh> Honestly, it'll probably be fine. Not great, but
fine. For a Netflix audience that mostly aren't going to be fans of the original show/movie, I'm sure they'll like it. But for me these kind of adaptations are insidious, because I know how great a live-action version
could be, and I know that once we've gotten this version, we'll be unlikely to get the version I wanted any time in the next few decades. I don't
like hating on ...say,
Thor: Ragnarok, but it's hard to let go of my vision for the awesome thing that
could have been if they'd just actually adapted the original thing faithfully. Ah well.
Speaking of....
The Tick (22 episodes, ended 2019)
Okay, not a movie, but the short episodes are easily bingeable. It took quite awhile to get the 2 seasons out on Amazon, but they're still there for an audience to find. Creator Ben Edlund adapts and updates his comic/cartoon superhero parody "The Tick" in a broadly enjoyable low-budget comedy. Season 1 is pretty great, and S2 is still good...but with so many other superhero shows out there with much more invested in them, this just couldn't find a big enough audience. I will always love the cartoon and was a reluctant convert to this show, but I do recommend the first season at least.
Wall Street (1987)
Continuing my Oliver Stone marathon...man he knocked it out of the park 3 times in a row right from the start. Everyone remember Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko from this, and his speeches influenced
Glengarry Glenross and
Boiler Room later. But there's a great movie happening besides him with the two Sheens and a stacked cast. I muse more in
my full review, but this film is even more relevant today than it was 2 years before the Black Friday crash.