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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Now while im almost totally against remakes some certain things might get my attention.
The prospect of someone like Christopher Noland ever remaking Dune or Soylent Green is something i would definitely see. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | While I don't see a need for them... they don't bother me either. So I personally would give pretty much any remake a chance. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,853 |
| | Posted: | | | | I really hate it when filmmakers remake good movies. They are already good.
If you must do a remake, find a so-so movie that had great potential but failed to deliver.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | While I'm not a big fan of pure remakes, I do enjoy seeing different takes on classic stories over the years. In particular, the various interpretations of Robin Hood or The Three Musketeers will usually draw my interest. Other than that, I find most remakes to be pretty lame. They're basically taking what was once a good story-based film, and removing dialog, adding special effects and putting in quick edits for the current attention deficient generation. It's not really my bag. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2009 | | Posts: 2,248 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting mdnitoil: Quote:
While I'm not a big fan of pure remakes, I do enjoy seeing different takes on classic stories over the years. In particular, the various interpretations of Robin Hood or The Three Musketeers will usually draw my interest. Other than that, I find most remakes to be pretty lame. They're basically taking what was once a good story-based film, and removing dialog, adding special effects and putting in quick edits for the current attention deficient generation. It's not really my bag. Ridley Scott's WW2 telling of Robin Hood was pretty laughable. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
While I don't see a need for them... they don't bother me either. So I personally would give pretty much any remake a chance. This. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 101 |
| | Posted: | | | | Logans Run
10 Little Indians | | | | Sometimes you are the bowling ball, sometimes you are the pins. |
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| Registered: April 16, 2008 | | Posts: 347 |
| | Posted: | | | | When I first saw this thread nothing in particular came to mind. This morning I thought of Cecil B. DeMille's "Four Frightened People". This film suffers from the same post silent era overacting that are typical of his films. Normally this is overlooked because of the spectacle; this one because of the story.
It's part of the Cecil B. DeMille Collection. I had never heard anything about this film and was more than pleasantly surprised when I watched it. If you've never seen it I recommend not looking into it further but simply watching it. To me it had just the right amount of predictability balanced with unpredictability. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Avatar | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bbbbb: Quote:
Avatar The White Ribbon | | | | Thorsten |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'd love to see Arthur C Clark's 2001 Space Odyssey with todays technolgy and no Pan Am .., and Please if you do remake this masterpiece let's have no sound in space .... and no 'name' actors either .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,853 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
...and Please if you do remake this masterpiece...     2010 is in much more need of a remake than 2001 is. --------------- |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | ?? 2010 is a not even worth watching let alone redoing ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think that's what he means - they made such a hash of the first one, they need to remake it and do it justice. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | right I see .., But we should start with 2001 first then 2010 ... then maybe down the road 2061 and then finally 3000 .... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,777 |
| | Posted: | | | | I must be missing something, what exactly is wrong with the existing 2001? |
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