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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 6, 2018 16:02:15 GMT -5
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 6, 2018 16:12:09 GMT -5
I liked it growing up, but rewatching some and it just wasn't that funny. Still, why not.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2018 16:29:19 GMT -5
Eh, I was in the demographic when they did the reboot on MTV 2 (remember that?), and the problems with reintroducing Celebrity Deathmatch in today's day and age are rather numerous.
1. The novelty worked in large part because it during the late 1990s, which was not only full of "attitude", but also full of personalities that people wanted to see get manhandled for abusing their 15 minutes of fame, which the writers, for the most part, understood the audience they were going for and went accordingly. The 2006 reboot... didn't, and it wasn't due to the people chosen, but rather how the writers looked at them and spoofed them. For example, the Tony Hawk vs. Bam Margera battle pitted a dullard Hawk against "Everything you assume was Jackass" Margera... and bear in mind that a few months later, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 came out, which featured both guys on a worldwide tour of mayhem, before the match became Margera taking on Don Vito (and this was before Bam's show got cancelled due to Vito's lifetime imprisonment for child solicitation), who was a fat slob that ate everything, including Tony Hawk. Another featured Simon Cowell against Ryan Seacrest, which was basically written by the writers as "God, Seacrest is a bitch". Obviously, I have no interest in going back to either incarnation or am looking for this one, but I thought I'd discuss this. 2. The formula of Celebrity Deathmatch where "take who'd you expect to win in a shoot fight... and do the exact opposite" can only go so far. 3. MTV flat-out sucks.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Dec 6, 2018 16:31:48 GMT -5
Ice cub. Why does that amuse me so much? Oh yeah, because I’m immature.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 6, 2018 16:34:47 GMT -5
I might check it out, but I feel Celebrity Deathmatch is very much a product of it's time. I just don't seed it working the same in 2019, it's a completely different world now.
Plus, we're in the smartphone/social media era now. Everyone and their mother has made a f***ing YouTube video roasting celebrities, what can these guys say that isn't already being said in funnier ways elsewhere?
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Post by Spider2024 on Dec 6, 2018 16:35:50 GMT -5
Loved the original series.
Unsure about the 2006-07 reboot. Something was missing, not sure what. Didn't have the same charm somehow.
Anyway, now that it's coming back, release the original series on some sort of home video already!
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Post by Paul on Dec 6, 2018 16:40:00 GMT -5
Rehashing a tired, old concept that wasn't very interesting to begin with. Yup, that sounds like modern media to me.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 6, 2018 16:48:35 GMT -5
This won’t get past the pilot episode since times are so different now. There’s no way something like this won’t have something that gets called sexist, racist, misogynistic, etc.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Dec 6, 2018 16:53:36 GMT -5
There's no way to make this show to exist without being 2edgy4u.
So the pilot will suck, MTV will pick it up anyway and cancel it when no one watches.
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Dec 6, 2018 17:50:06 GMT -5
Pass. I don’t see it lasting more than a season either.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 6, 2018 17:54:03 GMT -5
I bet you one of the episodes will feature a certain American president.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Dec 6, 2018 17:58:42 GMT -5
I wouldn't know any of the people they would likely feature anymore to be honest.
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Post by fw91 on Dec 6, 2018 18:06:20 GMT -5
this is like the 5th time that I hear rumors of a reboot.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2018 19:38:04 GMT -5
I like this news in theory - I was fond of Celebrity Deathmatch back in its heyday (though I found out a year after its revival that it was even revived) - but I don't know (a) if the concept will even work in these more sensitive times, and (b) if I'll even care since I don't know who 75% of "celebrities" these days even are.. I bet you one of the episodes will feature a certain American president. Finally.......Millard Fillmore answers for the Compromise of 1850...
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Post by Fade on Dec 6, 2018 20:06:01 GMT -5
So ...by deathmatch do they mean civil-discourse cause anything else is gonna get complaints these days.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2018 20:22:21 GMT -5
As much as I enjoyed this show as a kid (even had the video game), I can’t see this as a good idea in 2018.
I can only imagine this going very badly.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 6, 2018 20:25:54 GMT -5
It worked in the late-90s because the concept was absurd and unprecendented, the claymation style was rough but endearing, and the voice talent was largely unknowns making it feel like this real underground counter-culture thing.
Once the show petered out in 2000-2001 when they (the show and the network) started getting too-chummy with actual celebrities, tried to make it a storyline-arching narrative and created original mutants who nobody cared about.
The mid-aughts revival was unwatchable because they made it look waaay too clean and played it way too safe. Part of the charm of the original were the subtle verbal barbs about the talent and the satire of the increasingly-corporate sports world. the 2000s version was just "that celebrity is fat, and that celebrity ugly" etc. It tried way too hard to capture the original and yet somehow missed what made the novelty of the original stick for a (by then-MTV standards) considerable shelf-life.
Even speaking as someone who loves Cube, his involvement from the jump makes me pessimistic and skeptical. Having this type of roll-out press release for it screams of missing the mark. Let's remember that the original got its buzz as a surprise airing on New Year's Day '98, which built off of it by airing a 'Deathbowl '98' special as counter-programming to the Super Bowl half-time show. This new reboot really just seems to be a nostalgia cash-grab.
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Post by Ganon83 on Dec 6, 2018 20:48:02 GMT -5
I bet you one of the episodes will feature a certain American president. But Theodore Roosevelt already decapitated Richard Nixon in canon
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 6, 2018 21:42:52 GMT -5
Eh... can't be worse than when they tried to reboot it a few years ago.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Dec 7, 2018 2:30:13 GMT -5
The concept of the original was fun at first but it got stale very quickly and then the mid 00s Reboot was just awful on every level possible.
So if this does wind up getting rebooted yet again I'm going to give it a pass.
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