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Invasion of the Premise Snatchers

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SleeperCylon:
Can you imagine...an alien virus...that turns every classic movie it touches...into rehashed fluff?

Come on now, isn't there a single writer in Hollywood who has both an original idea *and* a big budget?

It's like they're banking on their target audience not being old enough to know the original existed.

I bet the good guys even win in this one.

Blue Kitty:
italian job

*shivers*

Jimmy the Squid:
I'm not against the idea of a remake but I've yet to see a remake that is really very impressive. I didn't mind Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes because that was more of a retelling of the story rather than a tired rehashing of what we've seen before but still, it wasn't amazing. They're making The Last Man with Will Smith in the lead role (no, it isn't Y: The Last Man, it is a remake of The Omega Man which I believe starred Charlton Heston or someone like that...) and that might be good. I haven't seen the original so I don't have a baseline off of which to judge it. I shall let you know...

wm_star:
My husband and I have been bitching about this for several years, because it really does seem to be a trend in movie-making right now.  I am also not necessarily opposed to the idea of a re-make in general, but I think that to make it worthwhile, it has to either go in a completely different direction, or it has to be way better than the original.  Honestly, in the case of Ocean's Eleven, the re-make is just an all-around better movie.  Most of the time, though, that's not the case; and increasingly, we seem to be seeing shitty re-makes of shitty old movies.  Like The Italian Job, previously mentioned.  For example - The Stepford Wives?  Why?  Why the fuck, why?  The original is okay - not earth-shattering, but okay.  The re-make, despite several great cast members, was terrible.  Why re-make a movie that's going to be shittier than the original?  With Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, however - while I personally like the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder better - I understand that Tim Burton was going for a creepier, more fantastical, weird re-telling of the story, and I was interested to watch it, just to see the story a different way.

Our theory is that the public will finally revolt against re-makes when someone tries to do The Wizard of Oz, which of course, just cannot be done, and it's a movie that appeals to almost every person in the general population (ie, not a genre piece that most people don't care about).

Oli:

--- Quote from: wm_star on 10 Aug 2007, 04:52 ---shitty old movies.  Like The Italian Job

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WHOA WHOA WHOA! The original Italian Job is a fantastic piece of cinema and I will not hear a bad word said about it.

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