Remakes

[ratsy]

It's the same with TV... I mean Heroes Reborn, Supergirl...blah blah blah..Give me something new!!!!

I want to see a really good horror television show...not American Horror Story (which leans on some good stuff but ends up not good) Penny dreadful setting was nice, but the story bogged me down I gave up after 3 episodes. I tried Salem too and again, the setting is cool, but nothing seems to really happen.

Wait...what are we talking about? Where am i?

Oh, if we move to sequel, not remake, I am looking forward to the new Ash vs Evil Dead

Okay, now I'm back on track!!!

best remake is Evil Dead 2, a remake of Evil Dead...

I knew my ramblings would get me there

 

[JunkMonkey]

Huston's 1941 Maltese Falcon was a remake that is better than the 1931 version.

 

[BAYLOR]

John Carpenter's The Thing is, I think, a better version than Howard Hawks' The Thing from another World, enjoyable though the original is.

John Carpenter's version was more in line with the John W Campbell story Who Goes There, which both films were based.

 

[Ursa major]

So it's a better adaptation rather than a remake that happens to be an improvement on the original?

 

[BAYLOR]

So it's a better adaptation rather than a remake that happens to be an improvement on the original?

Most remakes tend to not be an improvements over the original . One Notable exception to this. David Cronenbergs 1986 remake of The Fly.

 

[Ursa major]

They're both adaptations again, in this case of The Fly.

 

[Michael Colton]

One thing that people tend to forget about remakes/reboots is that they almost have to be made. When a production company buys the film or television rights to something, they have to keep utilizing it. If enough time goes by, it will revert back. This is why you see endless Spiderman, Superman, etc. They can't stop making them or they will lose the rights.

 

[Mark Ragland]

Anyone here remember the movie Road House starring the late Patrick Swayze? Yesterday, I saw that they're going to do a remake with MMA fighter Ronda Roussey in the Swayze role.

Thoughts?

 

[clovis-man]

Enjoyed Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds,even though I don't like Tom Cruise. 'Twas an action packed, scary survival film.

I was surprised to see that the Spielberg film was, in fact, a remake of the George Pal original. I somehow expected a new look at the H. G. Wells novel. In point of fact, I enjoyed the (modest) homage to the 1953 classic. Discounting the "Tom Cruise moments" I thought it was actually pretty good.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I was surprised to see that the Spielberg film was, in fact, a remake of the George Pal original. I somehow expected a new look at the H. G. Wells novel. In point of fact, I enjoyed the (modest) homage to the 1953 classic. Discounting the "Tom Cruise moments" I thought it was actually pretty good.

I agree. Right up till the moment where

In a scene almost recognisably drawn from a scene in the book, our hero meets a character called Ogilvy hiding in a cellar. (In the book Ogilvy was an astronomer, the character in the cellar was just called 'the artilleryman'.) There are Martians all over the place and they are trapped, forced to keep quite in case they are discovered. Ogilvy's character is digging a tunnel and his continuous noise is putting them all in jeopardy. Our hero decides he has no option but to kill Ogilvy to save his own and his child's lives. He blindfolds his daughter and tells her to to sing while he goes to do the deed. This could have been - should have been - a horrible, terrible moment. Our decent, hard-working, loving family man forced to do something so horrible to protect those he loves. But it isn't. It isn't because the film-makers chickened out of making it a horrible terrible moment by making the character of Ogilvy a creepily weird possible paedophile, so repulsive that people just wanted him disposed of. There was no moral ambiguity. Cruise was acting his cotton socks off in this scene but the moment had gone. Ogilvy was broad brushstoke evil and therefore Cruise's character was entitled to dispose of him. Wouldn't it have been so much more interesting if Ogily had been nice. Helpful, friendly, nice - but just dangerously noisy. Wouldn't that have been one hell of a scene? Damn right it would. Oscar time all round I think, but Hollywood leading men don't kill 'nice' people do they? Three minutes later (having remembered he's an action hero) Cruise is blowing up previously impregnable Martian war machines with a couple of hand grenades he just happens to find lying about and reuniting his family. The End.