Russell Brand is pissing me off
As much as I’m a fan of Russell Brand and all the shit he’s pulled, today he’s pissing me off. Russell Brand has approached a studio to remake the Dudley Moore classic “Arthur.” Why? I certainly understand why some comics take a movie just as a paycheck. If someone offered me the lead in Benji for 10 million I’d practice humping legs for a year. But, if I was starving in a ditch I wouldn’t shit on another comic’s masterpiece. Does Russell want to remake Arthur because it doesn’t hold up anymore? I still spit beer watching the skeet shooting scene - BANG “Pull… hit the bullet, hit the bullet!” The Arthur movies were not about a funny drunk, they were about “the” funny drunk. Over 20 years later when an impression of a drunk male is performed, it’s 100% Arthur. They will not be made better, so why bother? The only thing that would make this movie acceptable is if he is planning on doing a CGI remake where the only change is Russell Brand replacing Liza Mennelli.
