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After the night rider thread, here's a related question -

do you think remakes are good?

I would never go to see a remake of a film if i have already seen it.Maybe there would be some people who would see it because they haven't seen the original.

Also i think that everyone compares the remake to the original.

I would much rather go to see an original film.

It is the same with music - i get fed up with the singers all singing the same song - i would much rather hear something new.

sulking

Funny, this sort of question came up on another forum I frequent... the person was talking about how much he enjoyed the "Miami Vice" movie and I said I wasn't interested since I remember the series, enjoyed it, and making a movie out of it would ruin the memories.

There are a few remakes out there that are good, I'm sure, although I can't think of any off the top of my head, but generally it just seems an easy way to make a buck without showing any creativity or originality. Same thing with sequels; unless a series of movies were already planned ahead of time... and even then, it's questionable. Case in point: the "Matrix" movies. They could've (should've!) stopped after the first one.

Some remakes are ok but what about originality and creativity? Seems to lack thought just to re-hash what someone else did.



Case in point - Steve Martin's version of Father of the Bride, a pale imitation of the fantastic original.



G4's Bohemian Rhapsody - makes me want to spit!

jimbo;739340 wrote: :wah::wah: immy spitting ... that would be like the queen lifting her leg up and farting .... its just wrong :wah::wah:







all pink panther remarks are well ..... spiting material when you have had a very bad chest infection that starts to get better and you start coughing up .... well you get the picture





dont blame me immy brought it up first :wah:


I can do that too!!!:sneaky:

Turning the Jack Nicholson 1960 original Little Shop of Horrors into the musical version was a stroke of genius. I enjoyed the first but the musical was out on its own.

I think remakes which switch genres are potentially worth doing and that goes for cover versions as well, there are some amazing punk versions of songs you'd think you knew well before they let rip on them.

Straight let's do it again remakes are dire, I can't think of a version of anything which didn't make me wince. What was done with The Wicker Man was a crime.

jimbo;739312 wrote: my original sulk when you said the Hoff was to fat to get in his care was a much better sulk








yes but my sulk lasted a lot longer than yours.

Its very rare that a remake is as good as the usually classic film or music it replaced, but there are exceptions I just can't think of them, I am sure someone who has a better memory will say what they are. I think these are the films that will be remade in the next 12 months.

Gone with the Wind: It will be set in the ghetto with the reanimated corpse of Tupac playing Rhett-(the daddy) Butler and Beyonce Knowles as Scarlett O Powersauce. It will be set in LA as everything happens in LA and nothing existed until LA thought of it first. There will be lots of strangley completely unarousing sex scenes and a pompous rap sound track mixed by Dr Dre and some Serial Murderer from god knows where.

The Godfather: This will be made with Adam Sandler as the Godfather looking after 3 crazeeee kids with some supposedly hilarious (i.e. sickingly maudlin and completey unfunny) results. It will be set in LA as everything happens in LA. The script will be written in 8 minutes by someone on the freeway, and it will involve lots of very annoying buzz words that executives can use to justify their lazy fat arse Xmas bonuses. The Tossers.

Cassablanca: This will now be set not in Cassablanca but in LA which is far more interesting than Morrocco. Starring Jake Gylindhall and the other Gay Cowboy dude who will be cross dressing for this one. Rick and his strangely masculine girlfriend will run a fresh new club for the kids, who will rap about how ansgty their relationships are, the love interest will be played by some ethiically acceptable non entity who will talk ***** for about one and a half hours and then it will end.

The Shawshank Redemption: Remade as a movie about how people in LA keep it real all the time and have issues that other less fortunate third world places like Paris or Oregon don't have. It will stay J-Lo, Madonna, and Morgan Freeman will also be in it, but this time he will be playing Madonna's long lost black brother who lost his memory in a UFO accident. The movie will be about some issue or another involving overly-emotional and spoiled teens who will talk incessantly about their pathetic lives as if it was really, like important and stuff.

World War II: This will be remade with Americans playing Americans and Americans playing British, and also Americans playing Germans and Americans playing Japanese because no one want to hear foreigeners with funny accidents, and anyway the only interesting things that happened where things involving Amercians anyway, who started the war in 1856, invented all the tanks and guns, refereed the battles including the Battle of Ghettysburg, the LA Riots and the Rodney King Trial, and also stopped the way by Nuking Gadaffi who was working for the evil American cigarette corporations (you can check all these facts and more on the McHistory channel). The lead will be played by Will Smith, Adolf Hitler will be played by Jim Carrey, and General Stonewall Jackson will play himself. Brilliant. It will of course be set in LA.

jimbo;739377 wrote: a truly brilliant post hoff .... i mean gallybally :D


My car is going to get you. :rolleyes:

There were talks of remaking Casablanca with Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, back when they were gossip fodder.

Seriously.

Snooze;739386 wrote: There were talks of remaking Casablanca with Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, back when they were gossip fodder.

Seriously.


See, I wasn't that far off. They could have gotten a robot to play Ben Affleck anyway, you know, those robots in Japan that makes cars, it would have a wider emotional range anyway.

Galbally;739405 wrote: See, I wasn't that far off. They could have gotten a robot to play Ben Affleck anyway, you know, those robots in Japan that makes cars, it would have a wider emotional range anyway.




:wah:

Gone with the Wind: It will be set in the ghetto with the reanimated corpse of Tupac playing Rhett-(the daddy) Butler and Beyonce Knowles as Scarlett O Powersauce. It will be set in LA as everything happens in LA and nothing existed until LA thought of it first. There will be lots of strangley completely unarousing sex scenes and a pompous rap sound track mixed by Dr Dre and some Serial Murderer from god knows where.









Nononononono! You can't remake one of the best films ever made, I won't allow it, I'll....I'll...........well I don't know what I'll do but it won't be pretty!!!!







One of my fave bits of GWTW is watching the scene at the depot of all the injured and dying soldiers and trying to work out which ones are the dummies. Sad I know but it's a hobby.

Imladris;739822 wrote: Gone with the Wind: It will be set in the ghetto with the reanimated corpse of Tupac playing Rhett-(the daddy) Butler and Beyonce Knowles as Scarlett O Powersauce. It will be set in LA as everything happens in LA and nothing existed until LA thought of it first. There will be lots of strangley completely unarousing sex scenes and a pompous rap sound track mixed by Dr Dre and some Serial Murderer from god knows where.









Nononononono! You can't remake one of the best films ever made, I won't allow it, I'll....I'll...........well I don't know what I'll do but it won't be pretty!!!!







One of my fave bits of GWTW is watching the scene at the depot of all the injured and dying soldiers and trying to work out which ones are the dummies. Sad I know but it's a hobby.
Well Immy everyone needs a job and I believe you are very well suited for the spot the dummy job..

YZGI;740002 wrote: Well Immy everyone needs a job and I believe you are very well suited for the spot the dummy job..




After all this time reading Jimbo's stuff - I can spot a dummy a mile off:D:D