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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3289204" data-attributes="member: 4090">Physically, I think McConaughey is a good fit. I've just never been that impressed with him as an actor to really know if I like the idea or not.As far as playing the movie straight, I think a Magnum movie is a bit lighter fare in general than most of the other movies that they camp up and bastardize for the big screen (Starsky &amp; Hutch, the Dukes of Hazzard, I Spy, etc.) Magnum, P.I. always had a comedic element to it, and heck- Magnum was constantly breaking the fourth wall with his grinning at the camera (not to mention the narration)- so I think they can pretty well play it just like the show and be all right.(Which isn't to say that they might not do something really ridiculous with it, but I do feel they have some more leeway to do so.)I love that show. Glad it's finally out on DVD now, and sad that I get out of work a hour too late to catch it on KDOC. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Whatever they do, I hope they don't run with the strangeness that came in towards the end of the show's run where they strongly alluded to Higgins being Robin Masters. It is pretty clear that- for all that early seasons liked to light-heartedly suggest it- Robin and Higgins are two entirely different people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 3289204, member: 4090"] Physically, I think McConaughey is a good fit. I've just never been that impressed with him as an actor to really know if I like the idea or not. As far as playing the movie straight, I think a Magnum movie is a bit lighter fare in general than most of the other movies that they camp up and bastardize for the big screen (Starsky & Hutch, the Dukes of Hazzard, I Spy, etc.) Magnum, P.I. always had a comedic element to it, and heck- Magnum was constantly breaking the fourth wall with his grinning at the camera (not to mention the narration)- so I think they can pretty well play it just like the show and be all right. (Which isn't to say that they might not do something really ridiculous with it, but I do feel they have some more leeway to do so.) I love that show. Glad it's finally out on DVD now, and sad that I get out of work a hour too late to catch it on KDOC. :( Whatever they do, I hope they don't run with the strangeness that came in towards the end of the show's run where they strongly alluded to Higgins being Robin Masters. It is pretty clear that- for all that early seasons liked to light-heartedly suggest it- Robin and Higgins are two entirely different people. [/QUOTE]

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