re: 'The Fall Guy’ Kicks Off Summer Movie Season With Disappointing $28 Million Debut

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I'm old enough to remember when The Fall Guy was on TV.

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Same here.

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Which makes me old enough to say "Who the frick thought it was a good idea to make a movie based on it?"

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Hollywood has been doing movie re-treads of old tv shows for over a decade now, it's the ultimate form of saying "we have so few new ideas and aren't really concerned about developing them".

That said, the movie was related to the show only by the name of the movie, the main character's name and his profession. Everything else was either an easter egg (the truck, the theme song at the end, etc) or typical rom-com fare.