here's a hint, ANYTHING, with that useless eater, no-talent hack brand in it, IS GONNA SUCK!!!
Posted on 08/03/2012 12:29:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
With the opening Friday of "Total Recall," thoughts immediately turn to the subject of movie remakes...
Remakes are nothing new in Hollywood, although movie studios prefer to call them "reboots" or "re-imaginations." For some reason, the word "remake" has a negative connotation among moviegoers. Perhaps it's because it seems like a lazy and unimaginative way to make movies...
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Two movies, I pray never get remade, but I fear will eventually be remade:
The Dirty Dozen
The Warriors
That’s right, and Sarah Michelle Gellar was “Amazing” .
Disagree with you about the Star Trek reboot...though Chris Pine needs to sound less whiny!
Scarface (1932) versus Scarface (1983) - I’ll take Pacino
It’s going to be interesting. Arnold’s Total Recall was a travesty based on a great story. I have hopes that this one stays truer to the source material, hence making a better film.
Of the list, I have two disagreements.
The 2002 version of Mr. Deeds was better than the original. Capra fans everywhere will now hate me. Sorry, but the new version was actually funny.
The 2010 Wolfman was head an shoulders above the rubber-masked original.
Good, it’s not supposed to.
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-film-as-fun-watchable,14333/
here's a hint, ANYTHING, with that useless eater, no-talent hack brand in it, IS GONNA SUCK!!!
Heston: Great movie, doesn’t stand the test of time.
Walberg: Horrible movie in every sense of the word.
Franco: Amazing movie that surpasses both of them.
Speaking of Denzel and remakes. His remake of Scott Glen’s, Man On Fire was horrible. Nowhere near as good as the original.
Come on, fair is fair. King only tried his hand at directing once, Maximum Overdrive, more than a quarter of a century ago. He did just fine as a screenwriter.
As an adjunct to this discussion, I just got this morning the 70th Anniversary edition of “The Wizard of Oz”
For any true movie fans and historians out there, all I can say is GET THIS!!!!
The color and detail is amazing, I’m seeing things in every scene that I never noticed before.
And it’s a two disc set that has over 3 hours of extras about the cast, making the movie, and Baum, the author.
“I just found out this morning that Total Recall doesn’t go to Mars this time.”
Which is an improvement.
I just re-read the source story. No actual trip to Mars. Covers little more than a city block, actually. And includes a second twist.
“We can remember it for you, wholesale”
Philip K. Dick
How-ya-do-ya!
Strangely in the director’s commentary of the Man Who Knew Too Little on DVD, The Man Who Knew Too Much was not even mentioned.
It was a good movie but you would think they might have put in something about Marrakesh or Anders Chapel or something.
The Taking of Pelham 123 was a bad remake.
I actually liked the 1976 version of King Kong.
Ocean’s 11 with Julia Roberts was bad too - the original told you that crime doesn’t pay.
Well, the version of The Shining that you liked so much, was brilliant because it was a Kubrick movie. What you’re watching is Stanley Kubrick’s brilliance, not Stephen King’s story. It deviated heavily from the book, and King fans weren’t happy with it. Kubrick especially downplayed Danny’s pyschic abilities, which Halloran calls the Shining. Fans were understandably unhappy that a detail so crucial that it lent the work it’s very name is so underplayed.
Ditto for Salem’s Lot. The orginal with David Soul took so many liberties with the novel that it’s barely the same story. The remake did a much better job, especially with Barlow.
I think it was William holden
The Maltese Falcon was made twice before they got it right with Bogart on the third try.
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