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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 26, 2024 18:52:47 GMT -5
Big Trouble in Little China but a western as it was originally conceived. Only way I would want a remake. Especially not with the Rock as has been bandied about. Maybe years ago when he was willing to poke fun at himself but with macho insecure Rock now you lose the entire conceit of Jack Burton actually being the comedic sidekick. Hollywood: "Say no more! We'll get Chris Pratt right on it!"
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Post by Feyrhausen on Aug 26, 2024 20:38:56 GMT -5
Big Trouble in Little China but a western as it was originally conceived. Only way I would want a remake. Especially not with the Rock as has been bandied about. Maybe years ago when he was willing to poke fun at himself but with macho insecure Rock now you lose the entire conceit of Jack Burton actually being the comedic sidekick. Hollywood: "Say no more! We'll get Chris Pratt right on it!" Wouldnt mind that. Chris Pratt was a decent cowboy in Magnificent Seven. And can play a wannabe macho goof.
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Post by generalrancor on Aug 26, 2024 20:44:37 GMT -5
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Post by tirtefaa on Aug 26, 2024 20:52:02 GMT -5
I could deal with a more book faithful movie of Jurassic Park, though between all the sequels swiping the best unused scenes, it probably wouldn't go over well, I think Jurassic Park left a lot on the table that could make a kick-ass remake. I think the movie hit most of the book's plot points. Really, the only major changes was the subplot about raptors on a boat (which I don't think is needed--it basically existed as a reason to put basically a timer on Grant getting back and restoring power) a few characters different (I preferred movie Hammond to book Hammond, but I liked book Gennaro better) and the river scene/rex escape with the waterfall. It would have been nice to see Muldoon blasting a raptor's leg off with a rocket launcher though. The Lost World though, I would enjoy a book-accurate version of that. As fascinating of a book as Jurassic Park is, a movie version of that would be incredibly dull. Maybe if it was a mini-series or perhaps done as an anime. But as a standard film? It would feel like The Andromeda Strain...whereas you'd want the movie to be entertaining like Westworld.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 26, 2024 20:53:34 GMT -5
Wouldnt mind that. Chris Pratt was a decent cowboy in Magnificent Seven. And can play a wannabe macho goof. You're not wrong, but it's also the laziest choice possible.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 26, 2024 22:36:43 GMT -5
The Lost World was just ok as a novel, even Crichton didn’t want to write it. But it’s probably better than “the Weekend Sarah Wouldn’t Stop Touching Shit After Telling Everyone Not to Touch Shit and Everybody Dies” the 2nd movie was. Sarah still managed to be less annoying than the Greenpeace guy who was singlehandedly responsible for everything that went wrong AND got away with it without being eaten.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Aug 26, 2024 22:39:38 GMT -5
Akira live action Battle Royale Visitor Q I am really surprised a Battle Royale remake wasn't made a few years ago when Battle Royale type video games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds were hugely popular. Seemed a pretty obvious thing to do. Actually, I don't remember any movies coming out to jump on the battle royale craze.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 26, 2024 22:44:38 GMT -5
Sarah still managed to be less annoying than the Greenpeace guy who was singlehandedly responsible for everything that went wrong AND got away with it without being eaten. Vince Vaughn in a Jurassic Park movie felt super out-of-place at the time, and ten times more so in 2024.
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 28, 2024 11:15:44 GMT -5
There is a series of films based on one book by Dean Koontz called WATCHERS that is about a government program to create a super intelligent Golden Retriever, psychically connect it to a genetically combined ape-like monster that sees the dog being praised while it is tortured. The plan? Drop the dog into enemy territory where it will infiltrate an enemy combatant's camp because everyone loves dogs and release the monster that will MURDER EVERYONE to get to the dog it hates so much. That way, the dog, super smart and all, will know to flee, will infiltrate another enemy camp, and the process will repeat until the monster finally gets the dog.
Heck of a program.
Anyway, the super smart dog realizes what's going on and is like, "Nah, son." and escapes, causing the monster to break loose and start jacking things up while the government tries to keep it all covered up.
They made FOUR movies based on this one idea by just changing the main character. In the first movie the dog befriends a teenage kid (played by COREY HAIM) and the monster waylays most of a small town (including a rather fun chase scene through a school when the town sheriff sees monster chaos and flees in a very "I wasn't elected for THIS!" fashion) while government man MICHAEL IRONSIDE is close behind.
The second movie is closer to the novel where the dog meets up with a soldier and they have to team up to fight off the monster in the third act.
The third movie is a direct sequel to the second where the dog was taken from the soldier and put on an actual mission, complete with monster murdering a small encampment while the dog runs away, and the soldier from the second movie is sent into a Predator situation to get him and his dog killed by the monster so the government will have officially covered up their previous film. It is essentially Air Bud vs. The Predator and I love it.
The forth movie uses a cop instead of a soldier PLAYED BY MARK HAMIL who runs off with a lady scientist from the lab and the dog to end up fighting off the evil government people and flee the monster that looks like a bigfoot because the film was directed by John Carl Buechler and that dude did a lot of Bigfoot films and probably had something lying around.
I love all 4 of them. It's been over 20 years since one was made.
I WANT MY AIR BUD VS. MONSTER reboot already.
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Aug 28, 2024 12:43:32 GMT -5
Terminator , but that has already had something like three reboots already...
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Post by jm on Aug 28, 2024 12:44:14 GMT -5
I think the movie hit most of the book's plot points. Really, the only major changes was the subplot about raptors on a boat (which I don't think is needed--it basically existed as a reason to put basically a timer on Grant getting back and restoring power) a few characters different (I preferred movie Hammond to book Hammond, but I liked book Gennaro better) and the river scene/rex escape with the waterfall. It would have been nice to see Muldoon blasting a raptor's leg off with a rocket launcher though. The Lost World though, I would enjoy a book-accurate version of that. That’s fair, I read the book every few years and just wish the movie was more like it. Like I said, all the good scenes not used were taken for all the other movies. The Lost World was just ok as a novel, even Crichton didn’t want to write it. But it’s probably better than “the Weekend Sarah Wouldn’t Stop Touching Shit After Telling Everyone Not to Touch Shit and Everybody Dies” the 2nd movie was. Don't forget "Gymnastics - 1, Raptor - 0" that was also in the 2nd movie.
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Post by fw91 on Aug 28, 2024 13:39:19 GMT -5
Only a matter of time before they remake The Outsiders with the success of the musical. There’s enough plot differences to differentiate it from the original.
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Post by agent817 on Aug 28, 2024 13:47:05 GMT -5
Only a matter of time before they remake The Outsiders with the success of the musical. There’s enough plot differences to differentiate it from the original. It could happen, even though I can feel the negative feedback coming about how the 1983 film is "fine the way it is" or how "it will ruin the original." Personally, when it's an adaptation of a book, I usually see the films as different takes on the story.
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Post by fw91 on Aug 28, 2024 13:58:56 GMT -5
Only a matter of time before they remake The Outsiders with the success of the musical. There’s enough plot differences to differentiate it from the original. It could happen, even though I can feel the negative feedback coming about how the 1983 film is "fine the way it is" or how "it will ruin the original." Personally, when it's an adaptation of a book, I usually see the films as different takes on the story. I saw the musical. It won’t ruin the original.
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Post by chrom on Aug 28, 2024 14:14:18 GMT -5
The Lost World was just ok as a novel, even Crichton didn’t want to write it. But it’s probably better than “the Weekend Sarah Wouldn’t Stop Touching Shit After Telling Everyone Not to Touch Shit and Everybody Dies” the 2nd movie was. Sarah still managed to be less annoying than the Greenpeace guy who was singlehandedly responsible for everything that went wrong AND got away with it without being eaten. Barely less annoying than the mother from 3 who spends all her time screaming and screwing things up
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 28, 2024 14:26:48 GMT -5
If you look really hard enough, there are some differences in technology and fashion to some degree. There are a lot of things even in the 2000s that feel dated by today's standards. I guess one of the big fashion changes is that stuff that was considered outdated in the 90s and 2000s--mullets and perms, are weirdly back in fashion now. But that would mean making Marty into either a mulleted or brocolli-haired douchebag with tight trousers that end above the ankle and no socks. By and large though, I think you could take a regular person from today and drop them in the mid to late 90s and they wouldn't look all that out of place. Whereas Marty entering the 50s stood out like a sore thumb. The scene where Marty enters the 1950s--I don't see how they can replicate that with the 90s and have it seem just as bizarre and unusual and distinctive. The closest I can think of is Totally Killer, and the focus of the "out of time" aspect was the social attitudes, and seeing how different the adults they know are.
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Post by Totorob101 on Aug 28, 2024 14:35:49 GMT -5
The never ending story, I adore the first two films and the book and I reckon they could do something great with the material today.
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 28, 2024 14:50:19 GMT -5
Logan’s Run isn’t a bad movie, but it is so relentlessly 70s that a remake does feel like it could do more justice to the concept. A lot of 70s sci fi is like that; ZPG is an intriguing premise that simply needs an actual production budget of more than 10 dollars to better execute its ideas. I remember seeing that there was a Logan's Run remake in the works, but I think it went into development hell.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 28, 2024 15:05:38 GMT -5
Logan’s Run isn’t a bad movie, but it is so relentlessly 70s that a remake does feel like it could do more justice to the concept. A lot of 70s sci fi is like that; ZPG is an intriguing premise that simply needs an actual production budget of more than 10 dollars to better execute its ideas. I remember seeing that there was a Logan's Run remake in the works, but I think it went into development hell. There's been talk about it for close to decades now. I recall a website that had old rumor mill speculation about it that mentioned Leonardo Dicaprio as a possibility and described him with "of Romeo+Juliet fame". We're not far off from the time where talk of a Logan's Run reboot will be so long lasting that if it existed in Logan's Run, it would have to renew because it was 30 years old.
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Post by PHD-FENDERBAUM on Aug 28, 2024 15:21:56 GMT -5
Pretty sure Equilibrium is basically a modern'esc Logans Run.
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