The Prisoner

oh man i was forced to watch this dubbed in french in gr. 8 french class. so weird

The original is the closest that the television medium has ever gotten to art.

Zatoichi444 your comment was spot on! I often try to sneak into Blockbuster to avoid the "HELLO!" . Greet me when I am at the counter or when I ask for help that's more natural.

Could not stand the new version. Brooding and boring.  Bland. Lifeless. Number Six is almost always a victim. Only one number Two.

You've got it, man.

Just finished watching the AMC remake of this series. Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel were brilliant.
Checked this vid out on youtube because I now want to get the original on dvd. But this looks like shite, campy drama and bad music.

I watched half of the first ep of the remake and had to switch off the tv because of the stupidity of it. They switched setting/events every 5 min with no explanation whatsoever and tons of weird hallucinations happened for no fucking reason.

What? The remake is garbage The writing was meaningless drivel and the actors were terrible (short of Ian MvKellan who also had the only decent lines)

You are an ignorant, aesthetically impoverished slave.

The original is the closest that the television medium has ever gotten to art.

Why do you have to resort to insults about such a trivial matter of a television program?
Well here is an insult to you: You are an american. need I say more? lol

My brother wrote the former reply, but here's my comment:

The AMC version is using simply the outline of the original series.

The original was written by, directed by AND stared in by Patrick McGoohan himself. If you pay attention to the dialog, you begin to realize that every word exchanged has some deep meaning to it, either ironically or metaphorically. The AMC version, as far as I could tell, lacked everything that made the original still enjoyable after decades.

Watch the original.