XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: davidrb999@netscape.net   
      
   Starshine Moonbeam wrote:   
   >   
   > In article <220720041648116974%anybody@anywhere-anytime.com>,   
   > "Anybody"(anybody@anywhere-anytime.com) dropped a +5 bundle of words...   
   >   
   > > In article <5%GLc.11433$Qu5.1984@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Bo   
   > > Raxo"  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > "Straker"  wrote in message   
   > > > news:210720041743220859%sky.diver@moonbase.alpha...   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Frakes is going to need International Rescue himself, because I predict   
   > > > > the Thunderbirds movie is going to BOMB bigtime. It'll do worse than   
   > > > > the original Thunderbirds movies forty years ago, compared to their   
   > > > > respective budgets.   
   > > >   
   > > > I disagree. It's summer, it's aimed at kids, it has lots of sci-fi   
   gadgetry.   
   > > > It'll be this summer's Spy Kids.  Probably come out at number 2 or 3 it's   
   > > > opening weekend and easily to $70 million in box office.  Given the cast   
   > > > list, it probably didn't cost much to make.   
   > > >   
   > > > Expect a sequel.   
   > >   
   > > I hope not. Frakes and the writers have already totally screwed up the   
   > > Thunderbirds franchise with this ridiculous movie ... just like Beavis   
   > > & Butthead have done with Enterprise and the Star Trek franchise.  :-(   
   >   
   > The thunderbirds franchise?   
   >   
   > Dude. What kind of franchise do you think that Frakes is destroying?   
   > This was not a high powered cartoon. You're lucky they dragged it out of   
   > mothballs for big screen fodder.   
      
   Anybody hates remakes. If someone remakes something it's destroying it.   
      
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