All of you apes who think any of these movies from the 80’s should be remade are insane.
Yeah, yeah…everything is essentially a remake since before Shakespeare, but fuck that bullstein.
There are plenty of fucking stories, books and various other stupidity that can be formed into a motion picture.
I don’t need to see the latest hot actor remake and end up ruining movies that define genres.
You’ve all lost your way.
^^ calling us “apes” made me think how much I’d love to see Starship Troopers made again but this time much closer to the book.
The 1997 movie was fun and all but the only thing it had in common with the book was the names of the characters. I mean the reason they set the movie in Buenos Aires is simply because in the book Rico’s mom was visiting there when it got hit. They’re actually Filipino.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I watched the trailer for the prequel to The Thing and it looks like they’re calling it a prequel but it looks a lot like a remake to me. We’ll have to see when the movie comes out but I saw the spider-head thing in the trailer and that’s from the original and I think I saw the spacecraft under the ice just like Oatmeal guy’s ship from the original.
I actually don’t have much of a problem with it though…I love the original, but I’m OK with remakes and reboots as it makes me think of comic books and how they will try new things like new costumes and those Ultimate stories and What Ifs and Infinitys that try taking the story in different directions or from different viewpoints.[/quote]
It’s a prequel because it’s set in the Norwegians camp and addresses the hows, whos and whys of what happened over there prior to the dog/thing escaping to Outpost 31. Also, the oatmeal guy was a thing when he built his spaceship out of radio and helicopter parts, but I’m sure you knew that already.
Speaking of Apes … it’s not really a remake but I guess you could call it a prequel, but I saw a trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes and tbh, it looks pretty fucking awesome
Fight Club 2: Homosex to the Max
[quote]byukid wrote:
Fight Club 2: Homosex to the Max[/quote]
Zac Efron as Tyler Durden and The Biebs as The Narrator…
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I watched the trailer for the prequel to The Thing and it looks like they’re calling it a prequel but it looks a lot like a remake to me. We’ll have to see when the movie comes out but I saw the spider-head thing in the trailer and that’s from the original and I think I saw the spacecraft under the ice just like Oatmeal guy’s ship from the original.
I actually don’t have much of a problem with it though…I love the original, but I’m OK with remakes and reboots as it makes me think of comic books and how they will try new things like new costumes and those Ultimate stories and What Ifs and Infinitys that try taking the story in different directions or from different viewpoints.[/quote]
It’s a prequel because it’s set in the Norwegians camp and addresses the hows, whos and whys of what happened over there prior to the dog/thing escaping to Outpost 31. Also, the oatmeal guy was a thing when he built his spaceship out of radio and helicopter parts, but I’m sure you knew that already.[/quote]
Yeah, but I think they’re calling a prequel set at the Norwegian camp as a pretense.Sort of like in the 2009 Star Trek they said that the main villain going back in time had changed things but for all intents and purposes that was a reboot.
I love the 2009 Trek movie and also have no problem with this new Thing movie.
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
The original Evil Dead was also essentially a remake of “In The Woods” (I think?) a short film by Raimi…moral of the story, dude loves him some remakes.[/quote]
As well as a movie called Equinox. I’m not sure how I feel about a remake it probably won’t be as bloody and I know they won’t do the tree scene, I wish they had just gone ahead and made Evil Dead 4
Btw,they made a Footloose remake. So theres that.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I watched the trailer for the prequel to The Thing and it looks like they’re calling it a prequel but it looks a lot like a remake to me. We’ll have to see when the movie comes out but I saw the spider-head thing in the trailer and that’s from the original and I think I saw the spacecraft under the ice just like Oatmeal guy’s ship from the original.
I actually don’t have much of a problem with it though…I love the original, but I’m OK with remakes and reboots as it makes me think of comic books and how they will try new things like new costumes and those Ultimate stories and What Ifs and Infinitys that try taking the story in different directions or from different viewpoints.[/quote]
The John Carpenter THing was also a sequal/remake of a 50’s horror as well
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I watched the trailer for the prequel to The Thing and it looks like they’re calling it a prequel but it looks a lot like a remake to me. We’ll have to see when the movie comes out but I saw the spider-head thing in the trailer and that’s from the original and I think I saw the spacecraft under the ice just like Oatmeal guy’s ship from the original.
I actually don’t have much of a problem with it though…I love the original, but I’m OK with remakes and reboots as it makes me think of comic books and how they will try new things like new costumes and those Ultimate stories and What Ifs and Infinitys that try taking the story in different directions or from different viewpoints.[/quote]
It’s a prequel because it’s set in the Norwegians camp and addresses the hows, whos and whys of what happened over there prior to the dog/thing escaping to Outpost 31. Also, the oatmeal guy was a thing when he built his spaceship out of radio and helicopter parts, but I’m sure you knew that already.[/quote]
Yeah, but I think they’re calling a prequel set at the Norwegian camp as a pretense.Sort of like in the 2009 Star Trek they said that the main villain going back in time had changed things but for all intents and purposes that was a reboot.
I love the 2009 Trek movie and also have no problem with this new Thing movie.[/quote]
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It’s not a remake. The space ship landed in that area and the the Norway camp built their camp around it. They showed the huge space ship at the beginning still trapped in the ice at the Norway camp.
This story is how it was originally found.
The first movie opens up with two of the Norway survivors hunting the animal in the form of a dog.
I’d like to see “The Agony and the Ecstasy” remade. Charleton Heston was great as Michelangelo, but with all the correct facts we NOW know, plus GCI and all, a remake would be epic (provided they chose an top-rate actor… like Johnny Depp or similar.
Also, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” would be a great remake (again, provided the actors are top notch - perhaps teaming up Pitt and Norton once again).
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It’s not a remake. The space ship landed in that area and the the Norway camp built their camp around it. They showed the huge space ship at the beginning still trapped in the ice at the Norway camp.
This story is how it was originally found.
The first movie opens up with two of the Norway survivors hunting the animal in the form of a dog.[/quote]
Ahhhhhh, I missed that.
Makes sense now!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I watched the trailer for the prequel to The Thing and it looks like they’re calling it a prequel but it looks a lot like a remake to me. We’ll have to see when the movie comes out but I saw the spider-head thing in the trailer and that’s from the original and I think I saw the spacecraft under the ice just like Oatmeal guy’s ship from the original.
I actually don’t have much of a problem with it though…I love the original, but I’m OK with remakes and reboots as it makes me think of comic books and how they will try new things like new costumes and those Ultimate stories and What Ifs and Infinitys that try taking the story in different directions or from different viewpoints.[/quote]
It’s a prequel because it’s set in the Norwegians camp and addresses the hows, whos and whys of what happened over there prior to the dog/thing escaping to Outpost 31. Also, the oatmeal guy was a thing when he built his spaceship out of radio and helicopter parts, but I’m sure you knew that already.[/quote]
Yeah, but I think they’re calling a prequel set at the Norwegian camp as a pretense.Sort of like in the 2009 Star Trek they said that the main villain going back in time had changed things but for all intents and purposes that was a reboot.
I love the 2009 Trek movie and also have no problem with this new Thing movie.[/quote]
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It’s not a remake. The space ship landed in that area and the the Norway camp built their camp around it. They showed the huge space ship at the beginning still trapped in the ice at the Norway camp.
This story is how it was originally found.
The first movie opens up with two of the Norway survivors hunting the animal in the form of a dog.[/quote]
Yes, I know all of that…I just mean that even though they’re showing what happened earlier in the Norwegian camp, it basically looks like a remake of the 1982 film.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I watched the trailer for the prequel to The Thing and it looks like they’re calling it a prequel but it looks a lot like a remake to me. We’ll have to see when the movie comes out but I saw the spider-head thing in the trailer and that’s from the original and I think I saw the spacecraft under the ice just like Oatmeal guy’s ship from the original.
I actually don’t have much of a problem with it though…I love the original, but I’m OK with remakes and reboots as it makes me think of comic books and how they will try new things like new costumes and those Ultimate stories and What Ifs and Infinitys that try taking the story in different directions or from different viewpoints.[/quote]
It’s a prequel because it’s set in the Norwegians camp and addresses the hows, whos and whys of what happened over there prior to the dog/thing escaping to Outpost 31. Also, the oatmeal guy was a thing when he built his spaceship out of radio and helicopter parts, but I’m sure you knew that already.[/quote]
Yeah, but I think they’re calling a prequel set at the Norwegian camp as a pretense.Sort of like in the 2009 Star Trek they said that the main villain going back in time had changed things but for all intents and purposes that was a reboot.
I love the 2009 Trek movie and also have no problem with this new Thing movie.[/quote]
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It’s not a remake. The space ship landed in that area and the the Norway camp built their camp around it. They showed the huge space ship at the beginning still trapped in the ice at the Norway camp.
This story is how it was originally found.
The first movie opens up with two of the Norway survivors hunting the animal in the form of a dog.[/quote]
Yes, I know all of that…I just mean that even though they’re showing what happened earlier in the Norwegian camp, it basically looks like a remake of the 1982 film.
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I’ve thought a little about this: This prequel plays on the same elements of paranoia and human responses to utter annihilation as the first one did. So in that essence it is very similar to the first one. However, to me, there’s an element that’s new in this one that wasn’t in the first one (well it was there for about 5 minutes).
In this one, the Norwegians apparently bring in a couple Americans to help with the study of what they find in the ice so now there’s an initial level of mistrust or unfamiliarity among some of the people. Before it was one large group of similar men (Americans) that had an initial large thing in common. In this one, there’s technically two groups separated by culture and language. Now I’m not sure how much, if at all, they’d use that to develop a feeling of paranoia, but that’s a new element that is largely overlooked.
But, yes, a lot of the main themes are similar to John Carpenter’s The Thing.
I think in the trailer for the new movie I even saw a head with legs.
Again I must say I’m looking forward to the new movie and I have no problem if it hits many of the same notes as the 1982 film, I’m just saying that they may be taking advantage of the back story so that their movie won’t look like it’s just copying the 1982 film.
Sort of like in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where they said that the skulls were those of interdimensional beings. I had a few times after that movie where I said I didn’t like having aliens in an Indy movie and people would say “But they weren’t aliens…they were interdimensional beings!”
They’re for all intents and purposes the same thing.
Or in the 2009 Star Trek where many fans (not me) were angered that everything had changed. The way they explain it in the movie is that the bad guy going back in time changed history, but at the end of the day you have new actors in the roles, with a different looking ship so it is a reboot.
I’m OK with that too…Star Trek needed to fun fast and exciting again, and I’ve been a fan for 26 years.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
I’d like to see “The Agony and the Ecstasy” remade. Charleton Heston was great as Michelangelo, but with all the correct facts we NOW know, plus GCI and all, a remake would be epic (provided they chose an top-rate actor… like Johnny Depp or similar.
Also, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” would be a great remake (again, provided the actors are top notch - perhaps teaming up Pitt and Norton once again). [/quote]
“Butch…Sundance Kid” would be a GREAT movie to remake! I’d love to see “The Sting” remade as well. Perhaps with George Clooney playing Gondorf, Joseph Gordon Levitt playing Hooker and Sean Connery playing Doyle Lonnegan.
And speaking of Doyles, how about a remake of the French Connection?
It is official…Spike Lee is named as the director for the “Old Boy” American remake
Mind you, they initially had Spielberg tasked for it and had Will Smith as the lead. That has since been tossed in the air and shot down with nukes.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It is official…Spike Lee is named as the director for the “Old Boy” American remake
Mind you, they initially had Spielberg tasked for it and had Will Smith as the lead. That has since been tossed in the air and shot down with nukes.[/quote]
I don’t know why Hollywood feels the need to do this. Old Boy is such a good movie. Just release theatrically in North America…oh wait that’s right, it’s subtitles. Wouldn’t want to have people read.
But, at least Spike Lee is doing it. If it were Spielberg and Will Smith I would hunt them down and make them live it out in real life…but never let them out…or feed them…except to each other.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I think in the trailer for the new movie I even saw a head with legs.
Again I must say I’m looking forward to the new movie and I have no problem if it hits many of the same notes as the 1982 film, I’m just saying that they may be taking advantage of the back story so that their movie won’t look like it’s just copying the 1982 film.
Sort of like in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where they said that the skulls were those of interdimensional beings. I had a few times after that movie where I said I didn’t like having aliens in an Indy movie and people would say “But they weren’t aliens…they were interdimensional beings!”
They’re for all intents and purposes the same thing.
Or in the 2009 Star Trek where many fans (not me) were angered that everything had changed. The way they explain it in the movie is that the bad guy going back in time changed history, but at the end of the day you have new actors in the roles, with a different looking ship so it is a reboot.
I’m OK with that too…Star Trek needed to fun fast and exciting again, and I’ve been a fan for 26 years.[/quote]
I didn’t notice any real effects in the trailer. oo
All I saw were the Americans and those crazy Swedes getting all hyped up!