Science Fiction Movie Releases (Scheduled)

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I loved Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. He managed to be utterly manic and yet bring in a certain sense of wistfulness. I used to watch that movie several times each summer as a kid, vacationing in my grandparent's place where they had a video cassette player. Another recurring favourite was Murder on the Orient Express.

 

[mac1]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I believe The Poseidon Adventure, Taxi and Spartacus are due soon, if they havent already been released. GGGGRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! DAMNED HEATHENS!!!!!!! Please God, if any film execs are watching, stop it!!!!

 

[Princess Ivy]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

i've never liked wilder, to manic for my tastes. and wonka was never manic. i hope depp does a better job of it.

 

[polymorphikos]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I believe The Poseidon Adventure, Taxi and Spartacus are due soon, if they havent already been released. GGGGRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! DAMNED HEATHENS!!!!!!! Please God, if any film execs are watching, stop it!!!!

I love Taxi. The ads for the remake alone raise bile in my throat.

 

[ravenus]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I quite agree with Foxbat, but I'll be lining up to see the new Willy Wonka movie too. I loved the book and the original movie, and if anyone in the current set of Hollywood actors had to re-essay the role, Depp is a great choice.

I agree...Depp ought to be given roles like this where he's not allowed to sleepwalk his screen time.
I hear Burton will not be making this as a musical, which is a bit of a pity since I thought the songs added a bit to the dream/nightmare flavor of the original.

Oompa Loompa alrighty.

 

[littlemissattitude]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

Just as long as they don't decide to remake "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Aaarrrggghhhh. Horrible movie.

 

[ravenus]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

Just as long as they don't decide to remake "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Aaarrrggghhhh. Horrible movie.

Hey I liked that in my childhood. It was some Ian Fleming work, right?

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I'm terribly dissapointed the Wonka remake won't be a musical. The songs were an integral part of the book, too.


I wonder if Depp's Wonka will be modelled after Wilder's or the illustrations in the book, which showed him as a dark-haired chap with a goatie, and dressed in top-hat and tails.

 

[ravenus]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I'm terribly dissapointed the Wonka remake won't be a musical. The songs were an integral part of the book, too.
I wonder if Depp's Wonka will be modelled after Wilder's or the illustrations in the book, which showed him as a dark-haired chap with a goatie, and dressed in top-hat and tails.

Take that infobyte with salt, coz it's hearsay.
I suppose it'd be easier to have Depp as a dark-haired whatever. He'd look very iffy if they modeleld him after a completely different actor like Wilder.

On an aside, if you haven't as yet seen the Mel Brooks directed The Producers, YOU MUST.

 

[dwndrgn]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

Just as long as they don't decide to remake "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Aaarrrggghhhh. Horrible movie.

I love that movie! It's fun and silly and just a little over-the-top

 

[The Master™]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

When will Hollywood stop making bloody remakes of classics??? Jeez, can't people come up with loads of original stuff???

 

[Maledoro]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

Even "I Dream of Jeannie" is no longer sacred...

 

[polymorphikos]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

The irony is that we are really the bosses of Hollywood, since we pay their bills, but they don't give a rodent's buttock what we say. I think it's because the majority of people actually like the tripe that's being produced.

...

*shudders*

That was a very chilling thought.

 

[The Master™]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

But can't we just blame the millions of bored Americans and their kids who go to these kinds of films???

Why re-hash classics??? You know damn well it will be crap...

Whatever next??? A remake of a remake of a remake??? Let's remake ET and make the little critter a psycho-killer!!! BWAHAHAH!!!! Or Bambie, where his mother is armed!!!

When do you think they'll remake Mr Ed??? Or Francis the talking donkey??? Or the Odd Couple??? Or some of Alfred Hitchcocks classics???

 

[littlemissattitude]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I love that movie! It's fun and silly and just a little over-the-top

I know, I know. Once again, my strange taste in films shows itself. I honestly can't say why I didn't like this one, only that I disliked it so much that I have actively avoided seeing it again. And, yes, I think it was based on something by Ian Fleming. I love the old 007 films, so go figure. But, I haven't seen any of the newer ones - there is only one James Bond, and it isn't Pierce Brosnan. Although if they'd make one with either Hugh Jackman or Ewan McGregor as James (both names have been bandied about as possibilities), I might reassess my position on the matter.

 

[Princess Ivy]

Re: 2005 Summer Releases...remake haven

I hate chitty chitty also, as well as mary poppins and bedknobs and broomsticks, although thats more because my kids watch them so often.

Hollywood keep re-making classics for the simple reason that they have absolutly no immagination and are afaid to take a chance on a new idea! As soon as something good comes out, its cloned to death, then re-made.

And BTW i think they did re-make the odd couple! and they re-made psyco, although i refused to watch it on principle (not indicitive of my disgust enough, need another, will find...

ah, there you go)

 

[McMurphy]

Interesting Autumn 2005 Releases

Take a look at some of the more interesting films to be released in theaters near the end of this year, and let the rest of us in on your thoughts about them:

Devil's Rejects (August 5th) -It is Rob Zombie's next film. This time it appears to be a crazy pulp fiction thriller about serial killers on the road, '70s style.

A Scanner Darkly (September 16th) -Another film adaption of a Philip K. Dick book. This one is starring Keanu Reeves. At least it isn't Ben Afflick this time around. Hollywood, please, please don't screw up yet another great piece of work by this author.

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (September 23rd) -My thrill of this depends entirely on how well his remake of Willie Wonka turns out.

Wallace and Gromit (October 7th) -I didn't like Chicken Run so much, but I have always loved the Wallace and Gromit pieces.

George Romero's Land of the Dead (October 21st)-As long as it is more of his take on zombie movies, I am game.

Harry Potter's Goblet of Fire (November 18th) -I'm going to it if for nothing else to, you know, be able to take part in when everyone is talking about it.

Chronicles of Narnia (December 9th) -I wonder how dated the overt Christian themes will seem on the big screen. Regardless, I loved the books as a child, and I am defidently standing in line to see it.

Underworld 2 (December 9th) -The first one made it clear that the makers really wanted to tell you what happened next. I didn't like the first one, however.

King Kong (December 16th) -Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong? Who ISN'T going to see that???

 

[polymorphikos]

Re: Interesting Autumn 2005 Releases

Blind people and children under ten years of age?

 

[Leto]

Re: Interesting Autumn 2005 Releases

Me. I don't like King Kong story.

 

[The Master™]

Re: Interesting Autumn 2005 Releases

Some interesting releases, certainly...

And to be honest, I doubt very much that I'll want to see any of those...

King Kong is way off my list, Fay Ray was the pinnacle - all that screaming!!! Although I wasn't expecting the Godzilla movie to be good, but was pleasantly surprised!!

I really enjoyed Underworld, so I'm expecting the second to be bad...

If Goblet of Fire is done by the same director as the last one, FORGET IT!!! Whoever edited it didn't know what they were doing, and the direction was too flawed - especially when the funamental information was missing!!!

Other than that, I'll probably wait on them coming to TV and waste my time then watching them...