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Post by CMWaters on Jan 3, 2014 10:58:09 GMT -5
A recent trend in Hollywood has seen the remakes of movies that got their start in the 80s. There were horror ones such as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street, action ones like Conan The Barbarian, and I'm sure many more that I'm just not thinking of since I just woke up.
SO, my question is, what movies from the 80s do you fear getting remakes?
I have two myself:
-Back To The Future: Honestly, I'm surprised that this hasn't been put up for a remake, since we're rapidly approaching the date of Back to the Future II's future scenes. But I just know that if they remade it, with a 2010s Marty going back to the 80s, it just wouldn't feel as good as the original.
-Short Circuit: CGI Johnny 5, for one. That and I don't think they'd be able to do the humor they did with him back then nowadays without degenerating into the "comedy" you see in some of today's bad comedy movies.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 3, 2014 11:16:05 GMT -5
Didn't someone try to start a rumor about BTTF 2K1x with Justin Bieber?
And Short Circuit keeps weaving through "will they" and "won't they". Yeah, have Michael Bay direct it, then Johnny 5 can fart and pee! And EXPLOSIONS. And instead of Ben, he can bring to life the Indian taxi cabs from that Robot Chicken Transformers 3 sketch, so he can create an Avengers-like Bayverse between SC and TF! And don't forget the Alien Turtles. Yay, he can use special effects to have multiple Megan Foxes in different characters with that idea!!!
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 3, 2014 11:19:42 GMT -5
One of these days somebody is going to try and remake Stripes and it will flat out blow goats.
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jan 3, 2014 11:20:00 GMT -5
Flash Gordon.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jan 3, 2014 11:20:31 GMT -5
they live.
highlander.
ghostbusters.
indiana jones and the:
labyrinth.
blues brothers.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Jan 3, 2014 11:20:50 GMT -5
oh and gremlins.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 3, 2014 11:22:54 GMT -5
Some asshole will remake it "dark and gritty" Although I'd mark out when the new Flash would say he's STAR QB OF THE NEW YORK JETS and everybody starts laughing their ass off at him. |
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jan 3, 2014 11:28:21 GMT -5
Some asshole will remake it "dark and gritty" Although I'd make out when the new Flash would say he's STAR QB OF THE NEW YORK JETS and everybody starts laughing their ass off at him. So if they were to remake it you would want Mark Sanchez in it then My Choices Gremlins Repo Man The Toxic Avenger |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jan 3, 2014 11:33:22 GMT -5
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Post by BRV on Jan 3, 2014 11:47:52 GMT -5
In 2010, Sam Ayer (End of Watch) was pegged to direct a remake of "Commando" starring Sam Worthington. And because this is a just and fair world in which you're not allowed to just up and remake "Commando", it's been stuck in development hell for going on four years now. Let this be a lesson that you don't EVER try to remake "Commando". You don't see some piddling artist trying to recreate the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Jan 3, 2014 12:12:39 GMT -5
Ghostbusters
The Princess Bride
The Goonies
Big Trouble in Little China
Oh and one I don't fear:
Top Gun
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Post by ZERO on Jan 3, 2014 12:19:33 GMT -5
Didn't someone try to start a rumor about BTTF 2K1x with Justin Bieber? I heard this as well. Wasn't there a rash of proposed remakes of films starring Bieber? I'm convinced people started those rumours to mess with people. |
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Post by Biggtone23 on Jan 3, 2014 12:56:14 GMT -5
Field of Dreams with Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds instead of Joe Jackson. If you inject it he will come...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 13:10:09 GMT -5
I don't even want to think about it.
The film industry is all too eager to rape classic intellectual properties they feel will pop so much as a modest nostalgia dollar.
I'd say one out of every fifteen remakes has a little life in it. The rest are useless hack jobs that absolutely NO ONE was clamoring for. Enough already.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 13:13:24 GMT -5
My mind went right to BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, but I'd kinda be interested to see that remake. Kinda. With the knowledge in advance, accepted by all, that it just couldn't be better than the John Carpenter/Kurt Russell movie. My other pick is INDIANA JONES. Though getting it away from Lucas could be a good move.... It's weird....even though it was basically a complete screw-up of a Flash Gordon adaptation (gone was the pulp vibe of the comic strips and in its place was an expensive Italian interpretation of what STAR WARS had done a couple years earlier), it's really the best adaptation (IMO) of Flsah Gordon that exists. Also, don't remake the 1980 movie.....just interpret the original comic strips & serials in a different way. (A BUCK ROGERS movie would be the same kind of thing - go a different route thematically vs. doing a remake of the TV show, which itself had a STAR WARS influence.) |
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Post by The Man They Call Asher on Jan 3, 2014 13:15:29 GMT -5
Every Kurt Russel movie ever.
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Post by mizerable on Jan 3, 2014 13:16:16 GMT -5
It's only a matter of time with most of them. It's really amazing how much of our pop culture comes from the 80's. A huge chunk of identifiable characters and stories really made it THE decade to remember. While there was a little bit in the 90's, it had definitely dropped off very soon after. It's interesting to look back at.
Oh, I can definitely see Gremlins getting remade soon.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 3, 2014 13:27:19 GMT -5
Some asshole will remake it "dark and gritty" Cause you know, BATMAN.... As I have been saying, Bats and his mood are now DC's Poochie pretty much. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 3, 2014 13:28:27 GMT -5
If true, I can accept it. Ahnuld = entertainment, intentional or otherwise. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 13:34:26 GMT -5
The thing about a lot of '80s movies like the Blues Brothers or Stripes is that since they weren't based on pre-existing properties, they pretty much existed only as vehicles for the stars to do their thing. I can see something where the story is more important than the performers, like Gremlins or Flash Gordon, working as a remake easily, but not something like, say, Beverly Hills Cop, where you're watching it to see Eddie Murphy.
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