Monday Apr 05, 2021
034. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Agents Scott and Cam scamper up scaffolding with Fred Ward while decoding 1985's Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.
Directed by Guy Hamilton. Starring Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston, George Coe, Charles Cioffi and Kate Mulgrew.
Check out Walter Chaw's article "Remo Williams Never Became the American James Bond, But It Definitely Represented America (For Better and for Worse)"
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4 years ago
greatest contribution to the arts. I wasn't a fan of Fred Ward as Remo, and Joel Grey as Chiun? Not defending it, but that was then and this is now. I have always enjoyed the movie. It is Remo and Chiun lite.
4 years ago
Hey guys. I agree with you on the Remo Williams movie, for the most part. My generation was excited for the Nicholas Hammond Spider-Man TV movies, so to see Remo and Chiun on the big screen (or on constant replay on HBO) was AWESOME! If you watch it without having any context, it SUCKS. Read the books (at least the first five). They can be read in one sitting. They go into the relationships between Remo and Chiun. You didn't say anything about Chiun believing that the SOAP OPERA is America's