770312
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Post by 770312 on Sept 13, 2016 22:38:58 GMT -6
Does anyone else hate them? I feel like producers/writers/whoever are just being incredibly lazy anymore by appealing to nostalgia rather than taking risks on new ideas. Or maybe they recognize the laziness so many people are afflicted with and don't think people will even try to understand and appreciate something new?
It's downright sad either way.
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StarPanda
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Post by StarPanda on Sept 14, 2016 0:07:22 GMT -6
taking risk is something studios wont do they loose a lot of money and thats terrible
yes remakes are terrible and i dont like it mean not one single remake has gotten me to say wow thats better than the original, Ben Hur who asked for that im glad it bombed the Point Break remake was just no
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770312
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Post by 770312 on Sept 14, 2016 7:55:44 GMT -6
Point Break was so, sooooo bad. That's saying a lot too, since the original had Keanu Reeves. XD
How many billions does the industry have though? Losing a little here and there can't hurt them that muchm
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Ric
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Post by Ric on Sept 14, 2016 11:10:57 GMT -6
They are mostly bad.
There is only one right I have any interest in and it's It. Tim Curry was great but those TV movies didn't really cover the source material very well.
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StarPanda
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Post by StarPanda on Sept 14, 2016 12:27:30 GMT -6
I like the Original Point break its great Keanu was awesome in that
see thats what i wonder, they dish out money for the same old ideas and than those movies bomb so you think they would say "oh lets get something original and see how it goes" but nooo lets try another unoriginal idea, remake or unnecessary sequel and see if we can get it right
alot of money does go into advertising some movies do well world wide so they get a cut of that i think they have enough to spare
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Ric
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Post by Ric on Sept 15, 2016 0:00:10 GMT -6
I actually like Keanu Reeves, especially John Wick recently.
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BUU8800
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Post by BUU8800 on Sept 15, 2016 2:13:11 GMT -6
I mostly just ignore them. Well remakes I mean. There are some good'uns of course, but most are trash.
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chapsthedude
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Post by chapsthedude on Sept 15, 2016 6:27:11 GMT -6
I'm glad that not too many movies I get nostalgic about were remade, but alot of them aren't very good.
The trick is to pick a movie that's either meh or unremarkable to remake so that the new one can blow it out of the water like True Grit, or for older examples, Scarface & The Thing.
Too many studios think remaking iconic films is what will grab the nostalgia dollar, but it just makes people angry, and never captures what made the original movies good. I don't get wound up or upset by remakes, but most of the time they just unnecessarily try to fix something that was never broken, further breaking it as a result.
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2016 6:39:24 GMT -6
I usually try to avoid reboots unless they're being handled by somebody I know I like. Sometimes I sort of "have" to watch though. And usually I go in with a chip on my shoulder so more often than not I'm either "yep just what I thought" or else pleasantly surprised.
Mentioning the Thing, the Carpenter reboot was fantastic. And then there was the reboot of the reboot. Which I have no memory of except that I thought it was fine. Like I didn't hate it.
The Carpenter version still shines through I think just because of the mad creativity with the concept. It was more sort of creatively impactful at the time of its release. Whereas - like most reboots just lack that. They might have the name recognition to do okay box office, but culturally they're usually nothing near the stuff they're rebooting.
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chapsthedude
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Post by chapsthedude on Sept 15, 2016 10:37:09 GMT -6
I forgot they remade the 80's The Thing recently. I was going off how Carpenter took an obscure 50's horror movie and transformed it into its own movie that everyone loved. Can't imagine that the new one is as close to what Carpenter did with it. Same thing with The Fly and Scarface which were ancient films that were reinvented years later into something much more substantial to pop culture.
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Post by BUU8800 on Sept 15, 2016 10:38:58 GMT -6
Slightly off topic but I love how they watch the original in Halloween. And Forbidden Planet I think.
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StarPanda
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Post by StarPanda on Sept 15, 2016 12:15:39 GMT -6
I actually like Keanu Reeves, especially John Wick recently. cant wait for John Wick 2 |
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Jhin
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Post by Jhin on Sept 15, 2016 12:20:53 GMT -6
Isn't japan doing another Death Note movie?
or am i crazy
also isn't there an english deathnote tv series coming to netflix?
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Post by Zintar on Sept 15, 2016 12:23:54 GMT -6
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Jhin
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Post by Jhin on Sept 15, 2016 12:32:46 GMT -6
Yea I just needed confirmation.
I understand it though.
Death Note is massively popular all over the world and also has a rather impressive plot/story line.
But...
To keep rebooting it and shoving it down people's throats?
I'm okay with it, but I can imagine others are not.
SO.
Japanese Movie
English Netflix Original with Willem Dafoe VAing Ryuk
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chapsthedude
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Post by chapsthedude on Sept 19, 2016 17:25:39 GMT -6
Something that drives me nuts is the new remake of The Magnificent Seven, which was already a remake of The Seven Samurai. This new remake is a remake of a remake.
We've seen the "farmers win" line almost as much as we've seen Bruce Wayne's parents getting shot in the Batman movies. I say "almost" because there's thousands more remakes of the original Kurosawa movie so we've got adaptations of the original and adaptations of the adaptations. The only thing that comes close to this many versions of a movie would probably be movies based on Shakespeare plays.
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