06-06-2023, 02:42 AM
(06-03-2023, 08:27 PM)Belly Button Wrote: I do remember that interview with Arnie, but that's about all that I personally know of with regards to any 'extras' of 'behind the scenes' for this film. There's bound to be outtakes of some sort out there at the least, but I've never personally come across anything.
I know 'Junior' has come for some flak in the past, but I honestly didn't think it was a bad film at all. If anything, it was probably about 20 years ahead of it's time. Sure, it wasn't perfect. Far from it. However, for what it was for when it was made, I thought it was an alright effort. It certainly accelerated my interest in Mpreg, but obviously back in those days I didn't even know Mpreg was a 'thing'.
I would think a re-make with more modern filming methods and better prosthetics would be a good idea. I'd happily watch it and I suspect in this day and age, whilst it would obviously have it's critics (and that's fine...), I feel it would be much more popular the 'second time round'.
He's Expecting on Netflix seemed to do pretty well and wasn't horribly received. They did veer from the manga it was based on quite a bit and it took some darker turns but I don't mind adaptations doing their own thing like some people do.
Junior is a lot of people's introduction to Mpreg that are millennials I think, and it does get some deserved criticism because it is a product of its time and could be improved on. However, I do tend to give it credit because it is also one of the first more mainstream Mpreg movies to do something significant; it did play Arnold's pregnancy and desire to be a father straight. It was sentimental to the point of saccharine very often but I can forgive that because Arnold being pregnant wasn't the comedy. You didn't laugh because: "Ha-ha! This big man is pregnant and that can't happen!" by appealing to some of the worst stereotypes you sometimes see when Mpreg is the punchline to a joke. The sincerity of a story surrounding a man who becomes pregnant by (admittedly very threadbare) science and struggles with both the unknowns of that and going to lengths in protecting the child he wants to have deserves at least a little love from me. There are quite a few things I would update and change but at least it is a movie with some heart behind it.