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The Movie Remake Thread
Will:
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--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 04 Aug 2009, 08:59 ---Get the fuck away from Footloose you cunts!
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I'm guessing if they did a Footloose remake, Zac Efron would be first choice to star... you know this to be true.
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Because Shia LeBeeeeeeef couldn't clear time from his schedule?
Joseph:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 04 Aug 2009, 09:20 ---The consistent hack Martin Amis...
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He's definitely written some poor things, but 'Money' and 'Time's Arrow' are quite excellent. He doesn't attempt to play around with grand ideas, but his style definitely works wonders in a few cases.
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 04 Aug 2009, 09:20 ---...better film about loss and identity than anything I've seen Don Delillo come out with, who seems to have written one interesting book ever (unsurprisingly it's also by far his shortest) and I'm not at all convinced he meant it to be ineteresting in the way it is.
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Which book do you think is his best? I can't recall which is his shortest, but I'll guess at 'Cosmopolis', which I haven't read. But you really don't think that 'White Noise' offers anything of value? And though 'Underworld' is something of an overwhelming mess at times, there are passages which are engulfing and rather incredible. Certainly though, he tends towards being a tad overobvious with his ideas, especially in his plays.
JD:
Jimor:
Highlander is one as a franchise reboot I'm not sure about. When it was good, it kept to the basic premise and tried to tell interesting character stories around the concept, often using historical flashbacks to good effect. When it was "re-imagined" it completely fell off the rails and produced 2 of the worst movies ever made.
Total Recall would work if they just made the conspiracy make sense. But I have the feeling a writing upgrade isn't part of the budget.
Fletch has potential just as a generic fun detective/thriller series, it's a matter of getting a good balance of tone. The laconic Chevy Chase style would work as a TV series, but you do need a bit more oomph to a movie franchise.
a pack of wolves:
Oh come on, Highlander did not have interesting character stories. It had people getting their heads chopped off and the only Scottish guy in the film unaccountably playing a Spaniard. It then had a sequel that got even more stupid by abandoning the events of the first film and going into the future so Lambert can could chop off some more heads and a resurrected Connery could die for not much reason at all, and then a bunch of subsequent films I never managed to get all the way through. So long as they remember to include some dodgy accents, make sure nothing makes sense and have good amounts of decapitations then the new one will be thoroughly within the spirit of the first film, and quite possibly a good laugh.
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