Which forthcoming remake leaves u the angriest/most hopeful?

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Postby Kevin McCallister » Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:52 pm

We're talking about cinemas here.
And we have to do something about the subject character limit.

ANYWAY, like everybody else I was very hesitant about the upcoming The Thing prequel, but it turns out that they're going to use actual sfx and make-up and all those forgotten tools. So now I'm very much looking forward to it.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36131/ ... m-revealed

Also, Cronenberg directing his own remake of The Fly oughta be awesome, Goldblum or no Goldblum.
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Postby Bob511 » Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:56 pm

Wizard of Oz Set for 3-D Remake wrote:Inspired by the box office success of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, executives at Warner Bros are pressing ahead with an update of the childhood classic.

The studio is weighing up two rival projects which take Frank Baum's original story as their starting point, and will be very different from the 1939 film starring Judy Garland.

The first is Oz, produced by the team behind the Twilight franchise and aimed at the teen market.
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Postby Kevin McCallister » Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:59 pm

Oof.
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Postby No Good Advice » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:01 pm

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896037/



and The Birds remake is such an unbelievable idea I refuse to take it seriously until it hits the screen
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Postby Bob511 » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:02 pm

I suppose I'm neither angry nor hopeful about that, really.

It might even be amusing, in a life-imitates-The-Critic sort of way.
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Postby sky cracks open » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:08 pm

i heard a rumor of a remake of The NeverEnding Story.

it's one of my top childhood nostalgia movies, so i think i'm both angry and hopeful.

more on the hopeful side though.
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Postby Ted Pikul » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:11 pm

Get these motherfuckin birds off my motherfuckin roof
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Postby fox » Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:12 pm

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Postby Jeremy » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:10 pm

Looking forward to Tin Man thunderstorm baseball.
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Postby Jeremy » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:10 pm

I'm glad they're finally remaking Iron Man 2.
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Postby accidentswillhappen » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:11 pm

spiderman reboot is gonna be weird
also nightmare on elm street will be good i hope
wow all these people are going to hell!
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Postby accidentswillhappen » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:12 pm

Kevin McCallister wrote:Also, Cronenberg directing his own remake of The Fly oughta be awesome, Goldblum or no Goldblum.

haven't heard about this but whyyyy
the original is a masterpiece
it's gonna be like haneke remaking funny games but probably worse
or i guess it could be good but again, why
wow all these people are going to hell!
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Postby accidentswillhappen » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:13 pm

is the worst remake ever gus van sant's psycho?
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Postby Amblin » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:22 pm

I don't know if this is remake or "reboot" but clips are up now...

http://www.predators-movie.com/
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Postby wolferine » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:42 pm

david gordon green doing suspiria

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Postby manvstrees » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:45 pm

poltergeist remake is the biggest bummer
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Postby Amblin » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:48 pm

I am looking forward to the black people version instant-remake of Death at a Funeral
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Postby Amblin » Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:51 pm

Also Karate Kid will probably be the biggest one of the year. With Nightmare on Elm Street and remakes of some of the slasher/80s horror films there shouldn't be much of an issue as they are often stretched into several sequels with the character being resurrected again and again betraying the original as much as any remake might. The Nightmare remake for this year does look pretty good.
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Postby Kevin McCallister » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:02 pm

accidentswillhappen wrote:
Kevin McCallister wrote:Also, Cronenberg directing his own remake of The Fly oughta be awesome, Goldblum or no Goldblum.

haven't heard about this but whyyyy
the original is a masterpiece
it's gonna be like haneke remaking funny games but probably worse
or i guess it could be good but again, why


He wants to take advantage of modern technology (cg). I imagine that the studio was looking for any director to remake The Fly, so he picked it up himself so he could fool around with computers and save his horrid fly child.

I mean, it could be worse. The Videodrome remake is unfathomable. I can't imagine how an exec could watch a movie with so much S&M and stomach vaginas and think it could sell to a new audience. They say that it's going to be more of an action movie involving "nanotechnology" (which is, what, I dunno), but if it's going to be so different they might as well call it Cellphonearena or Internetcube cause it's not like many Friday night filmgoers are that familiar with the Videodrome title to begin with.
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Postby sky cracks open » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:08 pm

Amblin wrote:I don't know if this is remake or "reboot" but clips are up now...

http://www.predators-movie.com/


which reminds me, Ridley Scott directing a prequel to the original Alien could be interesting
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Postby Kevin McCallister » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:08 pm

Kevin McCallister wrote:
accidentswillhappen wrote:
Kevin McCallister wrote:Also, Cronenberg directing his own remake of The Fly oughta be awesome, Goldblum or no Goldblum.

haven't heard about this but whyyyy
the original is a masterpiece
it's gonna be like haneke remaking funny games but probably worse
or i guess it could be good but again, why


He wants to take advantage of modern technology (cg). I imagine that the studio was looking for any director to remake The Fly, so he picked it up himself so he could fool around with computers and save his horrid fly child.

I mean, it could be worse. The Videodrome remake is unfathomable. I can't imagine how an exec could watch a movie with so much S&M and stomach vaginas and think it could sell to a new audience. They say that it's going to be more of an action movie involving "nanotechnology" (which is, what, I dunno), but if it's going to be so different they might as well call it Cellphonearena or Internetcube cause it's not like many Friday night filmgoers are that familiar with the Videodrome title to begin with.


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Postby Quixotic » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:12 pm

So. Have any remakes ever been better than the original?

Only thing I'm coming up with is Battlestar Galactica.
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Postby gucci man » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:12 pm

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Postby Kevin McCallister » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:15 pm

Quixotic wrote:So. Have any remakes ever been better than the original?

Only thing I'm coming up with is Battlestar Galactica.


It's been a long time since I've seen the remake but I recall enjoying the American version of The Ring more than the original.
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Postby sky cracks open » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:16 pm

Quixotic wrote:So. Have any remakes ever been better than the original?

Only thing I'm coming up with is Battlestar Galactica.


Star Trek, arguably

edit: are we only counting it as a remake if they reuse the original story?
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Postby saranclaps ultra mode 9000 » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:17 pm

Veber remakes are just so pointless, because his films are already so populist that the only attributable reason to a remake happening is Francophobia.

The Man Who Fell to Earth, Aronofsky's RoboCop and Logan's Run I'm most hopefully about.

Amblin wrote:I don't know if this is remake or "reboot" but clips are up now...

http://www.predators-movie.com/
It really saddens me that the director is the guy who wrote and directed Kontroll.
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Postby marble » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:17 pm

probably that american let the right one in remake

gonna be terrible
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Postby acapelli » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:20 pm

the thing, presumably
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Postby findom earle » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:03 am

wolferine wrote:david gordon green doing suspiria

most hopeful

it's been way too long since ive seen that. i think i have it laying around somewhere too.

anyway i was gonna post the rocky horror remake but apparently that got cancelled. really looking forward to not seeing the birds though.
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