UGH! Another remake.

[jake_fink]

Dear Hollywood,

Please buy some brains.

Sincerely,

Angry Man Sick of Remakes.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954074.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

 

[undertaker]

Ditto!!!

My sentiments exactly. :eusa_clap They are never as good as the originals (Ex.. Cheaper By The Dozen).

Regards,

 

[Haversack]

An exception to that rule: _The Maltese Falcon_.

Haversack.

 

[Twitch]

Heck Carpenter's flick was a remake of the 1950s original movie. James Arness was the monster.

 

[The Wingnut]

...so it's a remake of a remake of a movie based on a short story?

Y'know, there are days I wish the U.S. film industry and its culture would magically cease to exist so we could start over from scratch.

 

[Sefton]

I wish they would just re-release the 1982 version to theaters. It's a great film with some terrific actors and the pre-cgi effects are excellent. How about the scene with the 'spider-head'?

 

[jake_fink]

I wish they would just re-release the 1982 version to theaters. It's a great film with some terrific actors and the pre-cgi effects are excellent. How about the scene with the 'spider-head'?

Exactly.

The 1982 film was not really much of a remake of the Howard Hawks film, but was based more on the source material. Ditto The Maltese Falcon and the films that came before it.

This is going to be another bone stupid remake of something that's been done well and still works. It's a presold property like the recent The Fog and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes. And it's an excuse to use cgi instead of those great mechanical effects that Rob Bottin designed for the 1982 film.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Angry Girl Sick of Remakes
Thirteen Ghosts
The Haunting
ones already mentioned including The Fog
Saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre ON A DATE when it was re-released in 1981. Fast-forwarded through the new one, just to see if anything happened, didn't even get to the end before I ejected it.
Liked the Judy Garland A Star is Born AND the Janet Gaynor, however.

 

[dr greg]

the thing

I can't believe they wanna remake that...it's ridiculous, Carpenter's version is a classic, and from what I gather, the critical rejection at the time of just about the best monster movie EVER, pretty well broke his spirit, because he never achieved those heights again.
LEAVE IT ALONE

 

[Doh!]

I remember when Carpenter's version came out and they had a "novelization" in book form; I immediately thought, "Why not just reprint Who Goes There? It's a really good read."

I mean, a book version of a movie based on a previous movie based on... a book?

My head's gonna explode.

 

[Flitcraft]

I remember when Carpenter's version came out and they had a "novelization" in book form; I immediately thought, "Why not just reprint Who Goes There? It's a really good read."

I mean, a book version of a movie based on a previous movie based on... a book?

My head's gonna explode.

Amen, Brother!

 

[Hondo]

I think because of remakes and the current crop of films most of us tend to go vintage era, TCM, there are so many older outstanding films a lot us haven't yet seen. Lets keep the goldern era, and stars of the past alive, to hell with remakes

 

[undertaker]

Brother You Can Say That Again!!

I think because of remakes and the current crop of films most of us tend to go vintage era, TCM, there are so many older outstanding films a lot us haven't yet seen. Lets keep the goldern era, and stars of the past alive, to hell with remakes

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
You are a man after mine own heart. I have become addicted to TCM. I keep the tv at work on it all day. Got caught by the boss the other day. He sayes "Is this what you do all day while I'm out busting my butt on the golf course?"lol lol My reply " As often as I can" He's a good sort of fella and I'm still employed.

Regards,
J.S.

 

[Sefton]

:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
You are a man after mine own heart. I have become addicted to TCM. I keep the tv at work on it all day. Got caught by the boss the other day. He sayes "Is this what you do all day while I'm out busting my butt on the golf course?"lol lol My reply " As often as I can" He's a good sort of fella and I'm still employed.

Regards,
J.S.

It sounds like you have a great boss! I wish mine would let me watch TCM. It's the slow season at my job and I could really catch up on a lot of classic films!

 

[Benny Holiday]

And then there's "House of Wax" . . .

How can you remake that classic? The original had Vincent Price in it, for crying out loud! You don't get any spookier than that!

So now we're replacing suspense and brilliant villainy with blood, gore and Paris Hilton? Aaaargghhh!!!!

As for The Thing - what an insult to John Carpenter. Clearly, plenty of us here will be telling Hollywood what we think of their banality by not wasting our hard-earned money going to see unnecessary remakes.

 

[miss1934]

might I remind you that the "original" house of was from the fifties was really also a remake of the Mystoery of the Wax Museum and that the best things it had going for it were technicolor and being 3-d. and yet hollywood felt the need to again remake it. Hollywood has always remade pictures and sometimes they do much better than before. This happens especialy if that novelty element is present, such as the 3-d or when the turned the already popular Philidelphia Story into a musical and Called it High Society. An affair to remember was a remake of Love Affair and I sincerely enjoyed An affair to remember much better. Then there are such films as Imitation of Life, Both of which star fabulous leading women (claudette Colbert and Lana Turner, respectively) who do the part great justice. I personally don't like sci-fi films in the first place and think the making of this is ridiculous. at least in the fifties they were created as allegories for what directors were not able to openly portray on film. Remakes can be done well, that just doesn't happen often. Discretion on the part of the producers may be too much to ask, I think they are thinking $$$$ not Cultural Contributions.

 

[Lady Day]

This is so strange...

Because I just watched both 'Solaris' films back to back, and was totally shocked, well, scratch that, saddened by the 'dumbing down' of the entire concept of the original film.

Rather than man contemplating what he is and if he can relive mistakes, or if he would want to it was trivialized to man love manic woman.

I knew to jump ship when they remade Planet of the Apes.

Now, if they touch SWAMP Thing, Im bustin' skulls.

LD

 

[Lady Day]

Saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre ON A DATE when it was re-released in 1981. Fast-forwarded through the new one, just to see if anything happened, didn't even get to the end before I ejected it.

Haven't they done that movie about oh, 20 times!? :eusa_doh:

LD