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Just watched The Taking of Pelham 123. I enjoyed it a lot.
Also watched, for the 2nd time years later, the Total Recall remake. I really enjoyed it the 2nd time round (after hating it for not being enough like the original).
All Quiet on the Western Front
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GoldHeart
05-03-2023, 09:14 PM
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Was the hype worth it ?
Was the hype worth it ?
Fabulous !!
I enjoyed it as much as 1917 !
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James
05-03-2023, 10:56 PM
The Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo is a really good remake.
I liked the Netflix version of Texas Chainsaw tbh. Not sure is a remake though.
GoldHeart
06-03-2023, 12:40 AM
Fabulous !!
I enjoyed it as much as 1917 !
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Oh well that's good then
I liked the Netflix version of Texas Chainsaw tbh. Not sure is a remake though.
:bored: That movie was the biggest pile of dumpster fire i'd ever seen, wasn't even filmed on location and the whole thing looked like a tv set . dreadful characters and terrible awful storyline. And the disrespect of bringing back 'Sally' just to make her a senile embarrassing mess.... was just insulting to the audience. It made a mockery of the memory of her , she was a classic final girl survivor who should have been left alone, especially since the original actress sadly died . So why bring her back just to make it end like that, after everything the character has been through.
Was ridiculous them replacing her with a random person. That's like Jaime Lee Curtis & Neve Campbell who we've all grown up watching and gotten to know through Halloween & Scream , to then be replaced with random actresses who the audience have no connection with..... to then play Laurie
& Sydney :facepalm:.
Mystic Mock
06-03-2023, 12:43 AM
Texas Chainsaw Massacre's 00's Film.
The Hills Have Eyes
Black Christmas 00's Film
Japanese Anime wise Berserk's Golden Age Trilogy is a remake of the 1997 Berserk Anime TV Series if that can count?
user104658
10-03-2023, 09:22 AM
The 1980's surreal musical remake of Little Shop of Horrors is an all time classic.
Niamh.
10-03-2023, 09:37 AM
I really enjoyed the IT remake, remakes are mostly awful though especially when they take a movie that people loved originally(Point Break & Willy Wonka spring to mind) Why do that? Why not pick one that had good potential but weren't that good originally?
user104658
10-03-2023, 10:09 AM
I really enjoyed the IT remake, remakes are mostly awful though especially when they take a movie that people loved originally(Point Break & Willy Wonka spring to mind) Why do that? Why not pick one that had good potential but weren't that good originally?
True, I can think of loads of Sci-fi movies where the concept was amazing, but the writing was sloppy/production was cheap. Remakes usually miss the mark completely.
Then again, Total Recall springs to mind here - yes, the effects are dated and the writing is cheesy but the whole thing was dull when remade. It turns out,w hat makes the original a classic IS the terrible special effects, cheesy Arnie dialogue, and late-80's Sci Fi aesthetic.
I guess that's what you're saying though - you can just take a well liked film, remake it and expect it to be good... because the "magic" that just happened to come together at the time isn't as simple as the plot or script.
Niamh.
10-03-2023, 10:13 AM
True, I can think of loads of Sci-fi movies where the concept was amazing, but the writing was sloppy/production was cheap. Remakes usually miss the mark completely.
Then again, Total Recall springs to mind here - yes, the effects are dated and the writing is cheesy but the whole thing was dull when remade. It turns out,w hat makes the original a classic IS the terrible special effects, cheesy Arnie dialogue, and late-80's Sci Fi aesthetic.
I guess that's what you're saying though - you can just take a well liked film, remake it and expect it to be good... because the "magic" that just happened to come together at the time isn't as simple as the plot or script.
Yeah, that's especially true for Point Break. They went big with the stunts etc in the remake but what actually made Point Break so loved originally was nothing to do with special effects or stunts, it was the cast and their relationships with each other. It had heart that the remake didn't have. And don't even get me started on the Willy Wonka remake :laugh:
I really loved 12 Angry Men but the remake was equally as enjoyable imho
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Oliver_W
10-03-2023, 11:34 AM
I'd say the "obvious ones" were the movies were broken down and rebuilt from the ground up - The Fly, The Thing (not the 2011 one obviously).
Niamh.
10-03-2023, 11:42 AM
I'd say the "obvious ones" were the movies were broken down and rebuilt from the ground up - The Fly, The Thing (not the 2011 one obviously).
I only ever saw the 80's version of The Fly, it was really creepy though
Oliver_W
10-03-2023, 11:47 AM
I only ever saw the 80's version of The Fly, it was really creepy though
Yeah that's the remake, saw it waaay too young and it gave me nightmares for ages - I'd be eating something, and all my teeth would disintegrate :joker:
The original was a bit ...silly. The scientist and human swapped heads and hands, so there was a man running round with a giant fly head :laugh: here's the iconic (creepy!) ending:
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Niamh.
10-03-2023, 11:51 AM
Yeah that's the remake, saw it waaay too young and it gave me nightmares for ages - I'd be eating something, and all my teeth would disintegrate :joker:
The original was a bit ...silly. The scientist and human swapped heads and hands, so there was a man running round with a giant fly head :laugh: here's the iconic (creepy!) ending:
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omg :laugh2:
i don't knowingly watch remakes because they are usually crap
Look at the original fly, it's a masterpiece :laugh:
Vanessa
10-03-2023, 01:14 PM
The Fly. It's just brilliant.
I really loved 12 Angry Men but the remake was equally as enjoyable imho
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user104658
10-03-2023, 02:38 PM
I really loved 12 Angry Men
The remake is called "TiBB"
All Quiet on the Western Front
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I have the original on dvd. From 1930. 93 years old. It's actually not the oldest film I have on dvd. I have Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" which is 102 years old. From 1921.
I loved Charlie Chaplin .. and his granddaughter who starred in Game of Thrones !!
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Mystic Mock
28-04-2023, 05:58 AM
The remake is called "TiBB"
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Thank you !!
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Barry.
28-04-2023, 07:29 PM
I like a lot of the horror remakes. I also loved the reboot of Ghostbusters
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Martin Scorsese did a remake of a film from Hong Kong called "Internal Affairs" Scorsese called his movie "The Departed"
It's the only Scorsese film to win the best picture Oscar. And rightly so, It was the best movie of 2006 in my opinion and that's saying something because Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige" was also from that year and that's a fantastic movie. I'm sure most of you have seen "The Departed" but if you haven't, then you should.
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Oliver_W
28-04-2023, 10:48 PM
I like a lot of the horror remakes. I also loved the reboot of Ghostbusters
I don't like either version :hehe:
I wouldn't even degrade myself watching that woke version of Ghostbusters.
Some things are remakeable and somethings are not. And if you are gonna remake a classic from its time, then you better make it good.
Even Scorsese failed with doing this when he remade Cape Fear. I know some people like Scorsese's 'Cape Fear" but when you've seen the original then you can see the contempt.
I usually haven't watched the original of any remake, only one I can think of was the one I cant actually remember the name of any of them.
De nero, was in the remake though, on a boat with a solicitors family.
Wasnt bad. Probably better than the original.
Deep? I'm getting the word deep!
Can you imagine if they tried to do a remake of The Godfather, I don't think nobody would dare.
What if the tried to remake The Shawshank Redemption?
I did hear some rumbling rumours that a remake of Back to the future was being considered. Do these people have no shame?
Can you imagine if they tried to do a remake of The Godfather, I don't think nobody would dare.
What if the tried to remake The Shawshank Redemption?
I did hear some rumbling rumours that a remake of Back to the future was being considered. Do these people have no shame?
MJF probably thinks it's his only hope.
(If hes still kicking that is)
Is he?
I understand remakes of classic films if you're making them in another continent, where these films are not as well known and loved. But even that is a stretch in today's World where the global reach is far much further than it was.
Mystic Mock
28-04-2023, 11:24 PM
I wouldn't even degrade myself watching that woke version of Ghostbusters.
Some things are remakeable and somethings are not. And if you are gonna remake a classic from its time, then you better make it good.
Even Scorsese failed with doing this when he remade Cape Fear. I know some people like Scorsese's 'Cape Fear" but when you've seen the original then you can see the contempt.
Tbf to the Ghostbusters remake, you can be a quality product and still be woke imo.
I haven't seen the Film either tbf, but I'm just putting a defense out there that just because a product is woke, doesn't automatically mean that it's bad.
Admittedly though if they've done woke stuff and the product is lazily made then I can see an issue.
And tbh I haven't seen either version of Cape Fear.
They did the, remake of the hills have eyes as well.
I, ashamedly watched both, probably 20 years apart
Cape fear..that was the one.
Like when superman got all woke and scared about what his powers could do.
Mystic Mock
28-04-2023, 11:27 PM
Can you imagine if they tried to do a remake of The Godfather, I don't think nobody would dare.
What if the tried to remake The Shawshank Redemption?
I did hear some rumbling rumours that a remake of Back to the future was being considered. Do these people have no shame?
Hollywood has no creativity left.
The odd thing comes out that's decent, but the overall Hollywood entertainment has gone to the dogs imo.
MJF probably thinks it's his only hope.
(If hes still kicking that is)
Is he?
I saw him recently at some function or other on telly … he was sadly unrecognisable .
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MJF does remarkably well considering his illness
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Mystic Mock
30-04-2023, 04:10 AM
Hollywood is honestly terrible.
Not because of it being "woke" but because they can't seem to come up with a good idea if it slapped them up the face at the moment.
It's honestly a shame to see as I always depended on Hollywood for my Live Action content because the UK by and large were terrible for my taste, and I didn't wanna be stuck just watching Japanese Anime all of the time for my TV viewing habits.
I think that I'll have to bite the bullet eventually and just go with a Korean Show, I know that some of them do get rave reviews, maybe they'll know how to do entertaining Live Action content, along with the Germans on my two that I have experienced with them.
hollywood has never come up with a good idea, that's not what they are about :laugh:
Mystic Mock
01-05-2023, 12:20 AM
hollywood has never come up with a good idea, that's not what they are about :laugh:
Well tbf The Matrix, Minority Report, Saw 1, Star Wars.
They're all Hollywood Movie concepts that were well made imo, and entertaining to watch if you like their style.
Sadly the quality in Hollywood is dead nowadays, I can accept the fact that nearly everything that they make nowadays is an adaptation, but the flatly written characters, the poor plotting, bad pacing, and general lackluster vibe is what is doing me in with modern Hollywood at the moment.
Well tbf The Matrix, Minority Report, Saw 1, Star Wars.
They're all Hollywood Movie concepts that were well made imo, and entertaining to watch if you like their style.
Sadly the quality in Hollywood is dead nowadays, I can accept the fact that nearly everything that they make nowadays is an adaptation, but the flatly written characters, the poor plotting, bad pacing, and general lackluster vibe is what is doing me in with modern Hollywood at the moment.
you managed to name 3 films in a 20+ year period. If that doesn't prove my point, what does :smug:
Mystic Mock
01-05-2023, 07:21 AM
you managed to name 3 films in a 20+ year period. If that doesn't prove my point, what does :smug:
Well if we do count adaptations then The Dark Knight and some of the other Superhero stuff were really good a few years ago.
For me Hollywood stuff has really hit the ****ter since 2018, and it's not really looked back since imo.
James
01-05-2023, 10:59 AM
Hollywood films in the last few years have been all about the franchises and known IP.
It's just too difficult for original ideas to get an audience.
2019 was a good year, then the Covid thing happened.
Joker
1917
Le Mans 66
The Irishman
Once upon a time in Hollowood.
All from 2019.
After we got live action Beauty & Beast I’ve been hoping for live a action Tangled - ideally starring Ryan Reynolds and Jennifer Lawrence
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Vanessa
01-05-2023, 12:26 PM
The Departed is a great remake, probably my favourite.
I also like Dune. Found the original movie a bit silly but this is much better.
Batman Begins, Cape Fear, Freaky Friday and Oldboy to name a few that I've enjoyed.
Barry.
01-05-2023, 03:25 PM
I don't like either version :hehe:
You don’t like either of the Ghostbusters?
Chile….
Mystic Mock
01-05-2023, 08:35 PM
Hollywood films in the last few years have been all about the franchises and known IP.
It's just too difficult for original ideas to get an audience.
That's probably saying one of three things about the current situation in Hollywood at the moment.
1. Audiences are narrow-minded and aren't willing to give new IP's a shot.
2. The current crop of writers and directors are talentless hacks that can't come up with anything new that's actually good.
3. It's both issue 1 and issue 2 rolled into a terrible mix.
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