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The Movie Remake Thread
elizaknowswhatshesfor:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 04 Aug 2009, 06:16 ---
A Fistful of Dollars? The Magnificent Seven? Evil Dead 2? The Thing? Invasion of The Bodysnatchers?
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I did say I was trying to rack my brain to think of some, I knew they were there.....
If they do touch Kind Hearts.... I will storm the studio. That film is so perfect.
I find the whole, remaking Asian horror films so there are no subtiltles & white folk in them to be fairly aborhant, not because I'm a purist particularly, it just seems somehow unfair to the people who made the originally, like Hollywood is saying "Well done for making an awesome movie, but we can do it better" WHich they can't IMO.
It's all a bit Mad Max with American accents for me.
Will:
--- Quote from: elizaknowswhatshesfor on 04 Aug 2009, 05:44 ---
Honestly are there no good stories left in the world? Really?
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There are plenty of good stories left in the world. Unfortunately, most of them happen to exist in books...books that require a modicum of reasoning, thought, and intelligence to follow. This works not at all with the current climate of dumbed-down, explain-everything-even-the-obvious Hollywood money-whoring that drives people to theaters.
JD:
Get the fuck away from Footloose you cunts!
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Will on 04 Aug 2009, 07:45 ---There are plenty of good stories left in the world. Unfortunately, most of them happen to exist in books...books that require a modicum of reasoning, thought, and intelligence to follow. This works not at all with the current climate of dumbed-down, explain-everything-even-the-obvious Hollywood money-whoring that drives people to theaters.
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There's a heavily large amount of awful storytelling in books too, I'm not at all sure the ratio is any better there. The consistent hack Martin Amis has written short stories about terrorism and I can't imagine they'd be able to get near the sophistication of a film like Paradise Now. And Moon is a much 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.
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 04 Aug 2009, 06:59 ---I don't know - some of Corman's work with Vincent Price and AIP to adapt Poe to the screen are very good, and are as close as I'd come to saying we shouldn't interfere with Corman's work....
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Don't get me wrong, I really like an awful lot of films Corman had a hand in. The Masque of the Red Death is superb and Price is at his best, but it's still an adaptation and not the first of Poe's story. In any case the man was hardly a purist, he'd steal and rework things all over the shop. To balk at the idea of remaking something he produced or directed doesn't seem true to what he did in his own practice.
--- Quote from: elizaknowswhatshesfor on 04 Aug 2009, 07:05 ---It's all a bit Mad Max with American accents for me.
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But with far fewer opportunities for hilarity, sadly. And it is a shame that so many remakes have followed the line of sanitising things for Western audiences by big budget Hollywood films that whiten it all up it makes it harder to remember all those great remakes that were about taking liberties and playing around with existing stories. We think of the terrible Day Of The Dead or buggered up versions of The Ring or Godzilla instead of the inventive back and forth between noir and westerns in the US and Japanese samurai films, or Bollywood stealing from a whole bunch of spaghetti westerns to make Sholay.
Faker:
--- 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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