Tocky on 12/5/2011 at 01:49
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A remake of Day of the Dead that doesn't suck shit. The actual remake that exists now is unbelievably bad.
And I never liked the original film all that much either.
I don't think the premise of being stuck in a mall supports a full length flick very well. You need the full scope of takeover. You need World War Z. The Walking Dead is trying and it's close but either WWZ or Day by Day Armageddon might capture the desperation and battle fatigue better without all the overblown drama. On the other hand Night of the Lving dead did both in a small house and hasn't been beaten yet. You wouldn't think you could screw up survival horror.
As for Alien 3, I wouldn't want it redone without being rewritten completely.
The one I want to see redone is The Running Man. Instead of being a comedy have it follow the book exactly. The book was damn good. Had I seen the movie first I would never have bothered reading the book because I would think it too was silly. It was about determined vengence reaching out for a target so insulated it considered itself unreachable. Sort of how you wish 1984 would have ended.
Scots Taffer on 12/5/2011 at 02:13
Off demagogue's post and in direct contradiction of my previous post: remake the SW prequels. :cool:
henke on 12/5/2011 at 06:07
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I always read your posts attentively
Glad to hear it. :)
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To me, you're not saying you want a remake per se to reinvent the story in another telling so much as you wish the original had never been made...
Uuuhhh... not really. Let's not make this more complex than it has to be.
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So even if we imagine the original had never been made, we should still expect they'll come to pretty much the same movie; if they have a reason to do it differently now, why wouldn't they have just done it then?
My OP was written from the perspective that the originals defenitely
had been made and that - hopefully - whoever is remaking the movie will learn from the original production team's mistakes. But yeah, chances are of course that the production of the remake will be plagued by a whole
new set of unforseen problems.
G Freeman on 12/5/2011 at 15:24
Attack of the killer tomatoes
It was a B-rated movie but it was good but this time they should have more realizm instead of the Cheezy effects they did
june gloom on 12/5/2011 at 18:26
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I don't think the premise of being stuck in a mall supports a full length flick very well. You need the full scope of takeover. You need World War Z. The Walking Dead is trying and it's close but either WWZ or Day by Day Armageddon might capture the desperation and battle fatigue better without all the overblown drama. On the other hand Night of the Lving dead did both in a small house and hasn't been beaten yet. You wouldn't think you could screw up survival horror.
I said (
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DayOfTheDead) Day of the Dead, not Dawn. And the Dawn remake was really good, to be honest. Less so the original, but I chalk that one up to it being kind of outdated and unintentionally cheesy. (Most 70s and 80s zombie movies were cheesy, though.)
gunsmoke on 13/5/2011 at 00:00
Every time one of the old movies that is near and dear to my heart, such as: House of Wax, House on Haunted Hill, TCM, 3:10 to Yuma, etc, they just make it worthless and an embarrassment to the creators of the original works.
That said, NONE. Leave Britney mah movehs ALONE!!!
Keeper Beege on 14/5/2011 at 05:38
This movie is one of my absolute favorites, as is the book:
Inline Image:
http://www.jdmfilmreviews.com/images/7-faces-of-dr-lao.jpgSeeing as how the movie came out in 1960, I'm really surprised it hasn't been remade/re-adapted by now, especially since due to the Puritan attitudes of the American film industry back then, the 1960 film left a lot of the good stuff out. If someone like Guillermo del Toro or another good fantasy director oversaw a remake of this, I'd be unbelievably happy.
nbohr1more on 15/5/2011 at 22:29
War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Godzilla, The Time Machine
Essentially any "modernized" Hollywood version of a classic work that tries to reconcile anachronisms in the originals to appeal to "modern" audiences.
This has to stop.
Peter Jackson was absolutely correct to set King Kong in the 1930's.
Likewise, the above should be remade (again) to hold true to the era they were imagined in.
For example:
War of the Worlds:
All the alien machinery is strictly by 1890's mechanical engineering standards. All sorts of cogs and belts and steam-work contraptions. The actors are dressed in 1890's fashion and speak with the colloquialisms of the age.
As close as possible to how HG Wells (or his 1890's audience) would imagine the novel visualized.
If the original was born in the cinema then set the remake in the same era it was born in.
Just update the visual effects, maybe make the character development more realistic, good acting is good acting no matter the era...
Don't change the damned era so that "kids will think it's cool".
The kids and adults that you think will relate to a "modernized version" don't really exist.
Would Lord of the Rings be MORE successful if it were set in 2001 and the score was by Linkin Park and the Elves had modern military weaponry?
C'mon Hollywood! :mad:
(Yeah, I'm sure there is some Hollywood mogul who would read that and lament the lost marketing opportunities for a "hip-young" LoTR franchise... :eww: )
nicked on 16/5/2011 at 07:00
Pirates of the Caribbean proves you can have a period movie that still appeals to twats. :D
Martin Karne on 18/5/2011 at 18:32
Well this reminds me, please do not make any Thief movies, it will ruin the ambient with techno garbage.
