Confess, Fletch Trailer
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OuterSpace
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While I like the original Chevy Chase Fletch movie, I already lost interest halfway into this trailer. =S
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Fletch and Fletch, Lives are classics.
This looks boring as hell.
It's Jon Hamm trying to be Chevy Chase and failing miserably.
This looks boring as hell.
It's Jon Hamm trying to be Chevy Chase and failing miserably.
I whole-heartedly welcome a return to a just-above-goofy-level of witty banter, silly humour, intrigue and mild jeopardy type of movie content.
However..
From that trailer, the script is seriously lacking.
John Hamm is a watchable and capable actor, but he is miscast for this role. It needs a comedian that can act, not an actor that can.. um.. crack a joke.
Also, the last line of that trailer is not the zinger it thinks it is.
There's also a glaring absence of this:
However..
From that trailer, the script is seriously lacking.
John Hamm is a watchable and capable actor, but he is miscast for this role. It needs a comedian that can act, not an actor that can.. um.. crack a joke.
Also, the last line of that trailer is not the zinger it thinks it is.
There's also a glaring absence of this:
Nada
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I recently bought some of the original Gregory McDonald books and it was fascinating to read them and see how they differ from the movies. Chevy Chase plays the films a bit like a series of SNL slapstick skits but the books are a bit darker and serious with more subtle comedy. Fletch sleeps with a 15year old girl in the first book but that doesn't make the film for example.
Chevy Chase is one of my favourite comedian/actors of that generation and i love his version of Fletch. The first film is an absolute classic that I have watched multiple times and even the sequel was great for the time. Although i feel it hasn't aged as well as the first, i also don't think 'Fletch Lives' it's based on any of the books but i could be wrong...
Whilst that trailer wasn't the fletch were used too, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. John Hamm is a great actor and it will be interesting to see if this is more faithful to the source material?
Chevy Chase is one of my favourite comedian/actors of that generation and i love his version of Fletch. The first film is an absolute classic that I have watched multiple times and even the sequel was great for the time. Although i feel it hasn't aged as well as the first, i also don't think 'Fletch Lives' it's based on any of the books but i could be wrong...
Whilst that trailer wasn't the fletch were used too, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. John Hamm is a great actor and it will be interesting to see if this is more faithful to the source material?
I think it could work out ok. I like Hamm as an actor and he's done a fair amount of comedy./ I do question the inclusion of John Slattery as his boss though as albeit he's a good actor as well, the existing association they have with Mad Men is probably more a negative versus a positive,
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At least Jon Hamm won't piss off his costars like Chevy Chase did with regularity.
I never watched the Fletch movies or read the books. So I can't really judge whether it's doing justice to the material. I did like the trailer and I think Jon Hamm is pretty good in the stuff I've watched him in. Not going to rush to watch it in a theater. I'll wait when it hits streaming.
I never watched the Fletch movies or read the books. So I can't really judge whether it's doing justice to the material. I did like the trailer and I think Jon Hamm is pretty good in the stuff I've watched him in. Not going to rush to watch it in a theater. I'll wait when it hits streaming.
Nada
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Watched this the other day, it's a drier more subtle kind of humour compared to chevy chase's version of Fletch. John Hamm gives a good performance and overall it was watchable if nothing amazing.
There's some lazy comedy though which could be considered 'woke' . Black man says the usual lines about getting shot by police, white privilege gets a mention of course and other subtle modern digs at white people not in the books. It was just eye rolling stuff but expected these days.
There's some lazy comedy though which could be considered 'woke' . Black man says the usual lines about getting shot by police, white privilege gets a mention of course and other subtle modern digs at white people not in the books. It was just eye rolling stuff but expected these days.
I saw it the other day as well. TBH I quite enjoyed it, although I think it was a mistake to put John Slattery in there, not because he's a bad actor, but more that there's too much association with him and Hamm and Mad Men and I found it a little jarring. Still overall entertaining and I wouldn't be opposed to more Hamm as Fletch.