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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I’ve never read that particular PKD story.
you’re right on that, however i did enjoy the last version, believe it was 2006? well done and followed the original fairly well.
Blessings, bobo
ummm...it was on the list.
The Thing with Kurt Russell was a great remake.
The feature film of Buffy was terrible and the writer had much more control over the superior TV show.
Holden was the ne’er-do-well younger brother. Bogart was the responsible older brother who eventually got the girl.
No...the 76 version was. Jackson’s was mentioned as being a worthy effort.
“Don’t try to remake Roman Holiday.”
Well, it was redone as a TV movie in 87...”Roman Holiday is a 1987 television film, based on 1953 film of the same name...”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday_%281987_film%29
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Put Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, PeeWee Herman in one movie, you need a director who is a experience hamwrangler. Didn't have one.
She was miserable, but she was running a large commune full of every pathetic type of person that could fall prey to those who the capitalistic lifestyle creates. Thanks to Billy Jack, the commune survived.
Whats next Hollyweird?
A remake of “Gone with the Wind”?
But in a pro liberal, Dixie hating, Rainbow agenda themed re=make?
My girls were in high school when the remake was about to come out. I got the original and we watched it - they loved the acting.
We went and saw the remake on the big screen and it sucked. Way too much CGI and way to little acting.
And turning the German Engineer into some crazed fruit loop? Waazzz up with that?
The original - well, Korda’s 1939 version - Four Feathers was also way better than the remake.
True Grit - both had their good points.
I walked out of the theatre.
I remember the wall paintings, but I must have missed the rest of that. I’ll have to go back and check it out again.
He is always pretty intricate with the sets, like in that scene from Life Aquatic where he scrolls sideways through the whole cutaway of the ship. I think the stuff in Rushmore with the kid making detailed dioramas of the plays he dreams up was probably autobiographical.
I’m with you hoping that is not done. That likely couldn’t be done today anyway- all the political correctness would bring it to a standstill.
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