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Post by Derrick on Oct 16, 2010 0:01:26 GMT -5
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Post by Eddie Love on Oct 16, 2010 0:21:51 GMT -5
The one on this I'm very pumped for is TRUE GRIT. That looks awesome. And not so much a remake as they seem to be going for really adapting the great novel. (And I predict Bridges pulls a back-to-back Oscar win.)
I wouldn't mind good FLETCH, MAD MAX or FX reboots.
The one I think is dumb is MY FAIR LADY, which I predict won't even get made.
And the one I find offensive is ARTHUR. I don't care if Helen Mirren and Jennifer Garner are in it, Russell Brand isn't funny. Plus, the guy who wrote and directed the original died shortly afterward (thus missing the awful sequel) and isn't around to defend -- or profit from -- his work's being cynically exploited.
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Post by Derrick on Oct 16, 2010 1:49:02 GMT -5
I agree with you about TRUE GRIT. This one has Instant Classic smeared all over it's face. And I do hope Jeff Bridges pulls off another Oscar win. He and Dennis Quaid are two of the most underrated actors of the past 30 years. Year in and year out these guys have been turning in one knock-out, dependable performance after another. And I honestly believe that they simply are incapable of a bad performance. And maybe that's why they're taken for granted. They're just that damn good.
I wouldn't mind seeing a new FLETCH with Sam Rockwell.
Yeah, I kinda doubt we'll see a new MY FAIR LADY. There are some movies that even the greedheads in Hollywood realize they can't screw around with. THE SOUND OF MUSIC is one of them and MY FAIR LADY is another.
We agree again on ARTHUR. Russell Brand simply doesn't have it in him to be a leading man. Now he was totally brilliant in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL as a supporting character. That's because Russell Brand is fine in small doses. But as GET HIM TO THE GREEK proved to me at least, he's just tiring and boring if he's on screen for too long.
And while we're on the subject...you know what movies I'd like to see remade? The flops. The box-office bombs. The movies that make you cringe while you watch them because you know that if somebody...the actors, the writer, the director gave a damn, they could have made a good or even great movie. The movies I'd like to see remade?
ZARDOZ THE AVENGERS HOWARD THE DUCK COBRA THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE GHOSTS OF MARS QUINTET LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER (with Rhona Mitra, dammit!) I COME IN PEACE
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Post by stevejrogers on Nov 7, 2010 19:23:12 GMT -5
Yellow Submarine? I don't see anything listed in that blurb, but usually nothing can happen with anything related to official Beatle stuff without Paul, Ringo, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono giving the blessing. To say nothing about Apple itself. To say nothing about a remake of something that featured actual people as their actual selves. Well, yeah they were voiced by voice actors, but still. Eh, whatever I suppose.
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Post by Derrick on Nov 13, 2010 9:36:25 GMT -5
Yellow Submarine? I don't see anything listed in that blurb, but usually nothing can happen with anything related to official Beatle stuff without Paul, Ringo, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono giving the blessing. To say nothing about Apple itself. To say nothing about a remake of something that featured actual people as their actual selves. Well, yeah they were voiced by voice actors, but still. Eh, whatever I suppose. From what I've heard on The Reelz Channel, the YELLOW SUBMARINE remake is supposed to be 100% Motion Capture/CGI. This would enable whoever is going to do the film to actually superimpose CGI faces of The Beatles on the bodies of the Motion Capture actors. Now I'm sure that I'm speaking blasphemy here, but if they're going to do YELLOW SUBMARINE that way then I'd actually go see it as I think that technology could actually convey the bizarre surrealism of the movie.
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Post by Dino on Nov 15, 2010 2:43:34 GMT -5
I just saw the trailer for True Grit yesterday. It looks like the Coens have another hit on their hands.
Child's Play could be interesting. Hollywood should stick to remaking slasher films -- they turn out much better than their remakes of Asian horror. I enjoyed the Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween remakes and I actually thought the Friday the 13th remake was better than the original.
And speaking of screwing up Asian films, I see Battle Royale and Death Note on here. Ugh. And a live-action version of Akira would be cool, but it should be a Japanese film.
The Crow remake is pretty much on indefinite hold, it looks like. Norrington dropped out of the project because of difficulties with the studio (which could spell bad omens for the film). And Aronofsky left Robocop a while ago. Really disappointed with the latter, I was looking forward to that one.
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