Doctor Who (The Fuck Is This Series Aimed At Anymore?)

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Re: Doctor Who (The Fuck Is This Series Aimed At Anymore?)

Post by McGinnis » Sun May 29, 2022 3:44 pm

Kugelfisch wrote:
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Nobody in Europe knows the 70s movie, dude.
I'm in Europe. You're wrong

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Re: Doctor Who (The Fuck Is This Series Aimed At Anymore?)

Post by Kugelfisch » Sun May 29, 2022 5:21 pm

McGinnis wrote:
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Kugelfisch wrote:
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Nobody in Europe knows the 70s movie, dude.
I'm in Europe. You're wrong
You're not a measure for normalfags. Shaft was the perfect example to compare with Dr. Who.
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Re: Doctor Who (The Fuck Is This Series Aimed At Anymore?)

Post by McGinnis » Sun May 29, 2022 5:48 pm

Kugelfisch wrote:
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Shaft was the perfect example to compare with Dr. Who.
No, the longest running or most popular German TV show, that would have been the perfect comparison. Not an iconic crime film with an equally iconic title theme

Shaft had popularity outside of America, as many American films do because American culture is world culture. Dr Who is virtually unknown outside of Britain. Before the reboot the only Americans who watched it were hipsters, sci-fi nerds and writers of The Simpsons (but I repeat myself). Since the reboot it's managed to find a slightly bigger audience of American hipsters and sci-fi nerds

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Post by Kugelfisch » Sun May 29, 2022 6:09 pm

Yet, I have never met anyone that knows Shaft. Starsky and Hutch, yes. But not Shaft.
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Post by McGinnis » Sun May 29, 2022 7:11 pm

Well I never met anyone who didn't know Shaft, so we'll agree to differ

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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Sun May 29, 2022 10:03 pm

In my fellow Kraut's defense, I don't think blaxploitation was ever "a thing" in the land of Luther and Goethe.
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Post by McGinnis » Sun May 29, 2022 10:26 pm

Which is his point, but 'It didn't really catch on here in Germany'/= 'It wasn't a global success'.

I mean, ignoring Britain and other English speaking foreign markets, the Frogs, certainly at that time, raved about American cinema. They also love black people

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Re: Doctor Who (The Fuck Is This Series Aimed At Anymore?)

Post by Kugelfisch » Mon May 30, 2022 1:21 pm

My point is that Dr. Who is comparable to Shaft, which, in my experience, is the case.
A movie from the 70s that has just about zero market penetration outside of its home nation.

You know it. Fine. I know Dr. Who as well, which doesn't mean the average non-bong would know the show, perhaps outside of having heard about it at some point.

Shaft is no Kojack, Miami Vice or Magnum P.I., which are actually well-known everywhere.
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Re: Doctor Who (The Fuck Is This Series Aimed At Anymore?)

Post by McGinnis » Mon May 30, 2022 3:01 pm

Kugelfisch wrote:
Mon May 30, 2022 1:21 pm
Shaft is no Kojack, Miami Vice or Magnum P.I., which are actually well-known everywhere.
Those are TV shows. You're comparing apples with oranges

No shit one two hour movie didn't have the same market penetration as three hour-long TV shows that ran for years and had hundreds of episodes. You really shouldn't have switched and said the original film wasn't well known either. At least when said you were talking about the Shaft TV show that would have been indisputable. The TV show wasn't a success anywhere

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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Mon May 30, 2022 4:07 pm

McGinnis wrote:
Sun May 29, 2022 10:26 pm
Which is his point, but 'It didn't really catch on here in Germany'/= 'It wasn't a global success'.

I mean, ignoring Britain and other English speaking foreign markets, the Frogs, certainly at that time, raved about American cinema. They also love black people
But Germany stands above all else in the world. Please educate yourself about the full lyrics of the German national anthem.
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