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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2008, 12:52:07 PM »
ID4 was a better remake of War of the Worlds

-Munch "course I didn't watch WotW with Tom Cruise .. because right there. . that says suckage" Wolf
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2008, 01:12:40 PM »
bwaaahhhh!

Wrong. The correct answer is that Tom Cruise is great and has yet to make a truly bad movie.
(but ID4 was better than War of the Worlds)
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2008, 04:36:31 PM »
I think we're nearly ready for a remake of The Big Chill.

And I personally feel there should be liberal Brat Package among the cast.
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2008, 04:43:57 PM »
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Reaching back a bit.  Ben Hur, with ol Chuck Heston was a remake of the silent era Ben Hur.  Both were excellent in their own way, and the original Ben Hur had color sequences.

Those sequences were only dealing with Jesus but were there.  There was also a more extensive sea battle that was phenominal.  Hestons version had a better chariot race.

No more remakes for Ben Hur.

Yeah, if they tried it they'd probably put in a podrace in place of the chariot race. Why mess up a great film with an unnecessary remake?
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2008, 05:19:28 PM »
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 The giant purple robot, with whom I generally agree (once I recover from snarfing diet soda into my sinuses upon reading his posts) has surprised me. The Wiz is good, and a cultural icon of its time, but better than The Wizard of Oz?    

That's exactly what I thought. "Ease On Down The Road" and "Home" are songs every bit as good as "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" but...?
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2008, 05:25:10 PM »
I just the trailer for yet another version of The Punisher. This is the third time that Marvel is trying to make the character into a film franchise (Dolph Lundgren and that guy named Jane did versions) so let's hope the third time is the charm.
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« Reply #36 on: November 15, 2008, 09:24:15 PM »
The book that was base on the movie Battlefield earth was pretty good, but the movie suck, and needs a better remake!
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #37 on: November 15, 2008, 10:44:31 PM »
 

There are plenty of movies that could stand being remade. If I taught a film course, I'd suggest to my students that they take, for example, "The Beast of Yucca Flats" and do it better. Shouldn't be hard!

And am I the only person who noticed that The Wizard of Oz used the "It was all a dream!" ending?
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #38 on: November 16, 2008, 03:39:05 AM »
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 The giant purple robot, with whom I generally agree (once I recover from snarfing diet soda into my sinuses upon reading his posts) has surprised me. The Wiz is good, and a cultural icon of its time, but better than The Wizard of Oz?    

That's exactly what I thought. "Ease On Down The Road" and "Home" are songs every bit as good as "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" but...?



The Wiz's score is mostly great, yeah. "You Can't Win" is GREAT--as good as any of Marvin Gaye's voice-of-the-inner-city recordings from that era, "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News" is one of my personal theme songs, and I think "Home" is one of the best-crafted songs ever. It's just so impeccably written. And another great thing about that score is that those songs and several of the others ("Ease on Down," "Believe in Yourself," "Brand New Day," "Mean Ole Lion" among them) are all able to function as standalone songs out of context as well. VERY few (if any other) musicals are able to boast THAT many liftable songs. Great score. Shame the movie was so lackluster.

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I just the trailer for yet another version of The Punisher. This is the third time that Marvel is trying to make the character into a film franchise (Dolph Lundgren and that guy named Jane did versions) so let's hope the third time is the charm.



The fuck? They're doing it AGAIN?? That's like that reboot of the Hulk like three years after they tried it. If that's the case why the fuck aren't we attempting The Saint or The Avengers again? Or Daredevil and Elektra? Why don't we get a Nightcrawler movie? Lameasses.

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And am I the only person who noticed that The Wizard of Oz used the "It was all a dream!" ending?



Pretty sure TWoO invented it. It's everyone ELSE who's cheapened it.
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2008, 09:01:10 AM »
There was nothing wrong with Thomas Jane's Punisher!!!!!
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2008, 09:11:02 AM »
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There was nothing wrong with Thomas Jane's Punisher!!!!!

It's the best movie ever filmed in Tampa!

As for The Wiz, it lost me with the snow tornado.
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #41 on: November 16, 2008, 09:43:06 AM »
bwaaahhhh!

Dolph Lundgren was the best Punisher because after the movie, when he's not the Punisher anymore, he still gets to be Dolph Lundgren. Thomas Jane can't make that claim.
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #42 on: November 16, 2008, 09:49:33 AM »
bwaaaahhhhh!

WRONG, you purple nurple!  Being a Thomas Jane is a far, far greater thing than being a Dolph 'Micropenis' Lundgren.
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2008, 09:49:44 AM »
Point.
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Re: Hollywood and Remakes
« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2008, 10:17:49 AM »
Brilliant Point!
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