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Mr. Archy - would I be correct in assuming you don't have a girlfriend?
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My issue with remakes is this: it's not that I hold films sacred, but unless they're going to radically alter the story, they're just showing me something I've already seen and know. That's why something like Hills Have Eyes works so well - they completely reinvented the story so you really couldn't anticipate what was coming next. They kept the core idea enough so that it WAS a remake, but altered it dramatically too. Then you get something like The Omen remake and you know exactly what's coming. They're just telling the same story all over again. Put it this way, Stephen King writes a book, you read it. Another person writes the same story again with minimal changes - would you read basically the same book again? I don't, I want something new. Hollywood is basically cannibalising itself. It's run short on originality and they place their bets on what has sold previously rather than gamble on something new. But, as I always say - they want new ideas? Well listen up studio execs, there's these things called libraries full of original work....
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Films are so often made under such perilous circumstances and pitfalls, uncontrollable disasters, and compromises to make a return on the monies invested, that something that turns out as good as The Evil Dead or Videodrome is like capturing lightning in a bottle. It surely cannot be done a second time...
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The problem I have with the film industry at the moment is they are acting like they have run out of ideas. 2 out of every 3 films are remakes sequels or just cashing in on a franchise We have a list here to vote on the remakes but lets not forget for every one film we mention there is probably 5 we don't mention Assault on precinct 13 Salems lot Fright nite Children of the corn defiantly 100% worst remake I've ever seen Bangkok dangerous Rollerball Fame Crazies 3:10 to Yuma Fog Straw dogs Arthur Italian job Clash of the titans Pink panther When a stranger calls Stepfather Hitches Total recall War of the worlds Ocean 11 Funny games The list of remakes is endless its like the film industry wants to rewrite every film made and make them a remake Don't get me wrong the odd remake is fine and acceptable and works brilliantly Scarf ace The thing Invasion of the body snatchers Fly But there is to many and a constant flood of them like they have not got owt else better to do We had just about every j horror remade and here a few in the pipeline Birds Black hole Robocop Brood apparently as we'll as videodrome that's been mentioned Dune Drop dead fred Flash Gordon Fletch Flight of the navigator Highlander Honey I shrunk the kids Porkies Red dawn Carrie Child's pLay West world Pet cemetery Point break Barbarella Death wish Time bandits Leather weapon Wild bunch Romancing the stone That's just a few but could find at least another 70/80 Moral of the story is the remake scenario is getting beyond a joke and look like no film at all is safe hell I'm surprised they. haven't remade Star Wars and plans for lord rings remake isn't in the pipeline certain films should just be left alone, |
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The thing is the remakes that are good (The Fly, The Thing etc) are by directors who have an impressive body of work in their own right and are clearly interested in the original. These days you get Nightmare on Elm Street directed by the guy who did the Smells Like Teen Spirit video and Michael Antichrist Bay getting his hands on the rights to all of the classics. The current trend of 3D just makes things worse too. "Ok so the prequel to the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was awful. I know! Lets do another reboot/quasi-sequel but in 3D!"
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Again list is endless But the trend of sequels can also get irritating as we'll if a film is made and its connected to the other films and there a story connecting it then that's ok(ish) But it when you just get films that churn out sequels or cash in for sake of then that get on my nerves |
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![]() Sorry, that made me ![]() Brutal crime drama centered around the illegal scarf knitting trade, and the one man who can knit better then any of em . . .
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It's easier to remake a movie then it is to come up with an original idea. It's just laziness on behalf of everyone involved.
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