Hollywood's Lack of Imagination

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In the past couple of days I've discovered that Starship Troopers and An American Werewolf In London are to be remade.

What is the point?
 
Ricardodaforce said:
In the past couple of days I've discovered that Starship Troopers and An American Werewolf In London are to be remade.

What is the point?
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Maybe they'll make a film version of Starship Troopers that actually does justice to the novel. It's a brilliant novel on several dimensions - the coherent vision of the armed forces of the future, the moral issues around volunteering and service, and the way it plays with the readers' emotions. If you don't get a lump in your throat when The Lieutenant dies, you aren't fully human. But the film was shallow, puerile rubbish.
 
There are originality but people don't watch them.

Films that I watched recently that made an impression include The Neon Demon, Swiss Army Man, The Account. They are not amazing amazing but pretty good.
 
not sure but there is a fascination in watching old films i love TCM and the talking picture channels
 
To be fair, there are plenty of original, small budget, VERY good films released; they're just not "blockbusters".
 
Never seen either! I really don't get the remake of a film, I cant think of one that was better than the original.
 
Enjoyed both originals, Jenny Agutter, Denise Richards and Dina Meyer are going to be a tough act to follow.

Vote for worse remake has to be The Day The Earth Stood Still, awful and please never try with Forbidden Planet, sacrilege
 
Some stories are good enough to deserve a second telling (or more). Not sure that applies to either of the titles in question though!

For example, the 1996 version of Pride and Prejudice (Ehle / Firth) is vastly superior to the 1940 version (Garson / Olivier). I'm very glad the BBC didn't say "Oh, there's already a film, let's not bother."
 
They can only improve with CGI, Jenny Agutter is irreplaceable :love::love::love:.


Just starting to watch Where Eagles Dare, NOT TO BE REMADE EVER.
 
onomatopoeia said:
Some stories are good enough to deserve a second telling (or more). Not sure that applies to either of the titles in question though!

For example, the 1996 version of Pride and Prejudice (Ehle / Firth) is vastly superior to the 1940 version (Garson / Olivier). I'm very glad the BBC didn't say "Oh, there's already a film, let's not bother."
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Like the remake, but can't agree with the series being better than that film.
 
Assault On Precinct 13 remake was dire, RoboCop was grim too and don't even mention Edge Of Darkness
 
Raymond Lin said:
There are originality but people don't watch them.

Films that I watched recently that made an impression include The Neon Demon, Swiss Army Man, The Account. They are not amazing amazing but pretty good.
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Art movies that were pretty awfull.
 
viv1969 said:
Like the remake, but can't agree with the series being better than that film.
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I got really cross with the 1940 film as it reinvents large parts of the story, deletes characters, changes others, etc. The screenwriter could have just trusted that the reason the novel is so popular has something to do with the story and not mucked about with it.
 
onomatopoeia said:
I got really cross with the 1940 film as it reinvents large parts of the story, deletes characters, changes others, etc. The screenwriter could have just trusted that the reason the novel is so popular has something to do with the story and not mucked about with it.
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Never seen a film yet that doesn't muck about with the book on which it's based.
 
StewartR said:
Maybe they'll make a film version of Starship Troopers that actually does justice to the novel. It's a brilliant novel on several dimensions - the coherent vision of the armed forces of the future, the moral issues around volunteering and service, and the way it plays with the readers' emotions. If you don't get a lump in your throat when The Lieutenant dies, you aren't fully human. But the film was shallow, puerile rubbish.
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It was done as a B movie. It was supposed to be like that.
 
cambsno said:
Never seen either! I really don't get the remake of a film, I cant think of one that was better than the original.
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Heat (1995), but to be fair LA Takedown (1989) was always an interim version of Michael Mann's concept that he intended to return to.
 
Heres hoping they don't remake American Werewolf in London, Landis direction was superb and a great cast and still 35 years later I've not yet seen a better werewolf transformation scene. One of my favourite films and one of the few I own on bluray.
 
viv1969 said:
Never seen a film yet that doesn't muck about with the book on which it's based.
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I've just finished reading The Eagle Has Landed, and compared to the film there are several differences but I can honestly say that the film is improved for the changes it makes. The book does fill in a lot of back story and detail missed from the film, e.g. how Devlin obtains the vehicles.

The Bourne series.. completely different in the books compared to the films. Books and film are both excellent, but written/made for different times and both better for their differences.
 
viv1969 said:
Opinions are like arseholes........
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but yet you feel poeple are not entitled to them, so where does that leave your bottle of red wine whit?
 
cambsno said:
Never seen either! I really don't get the remake of a film, I cant think of one that was better than the original.
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IMHO Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, and The Thing, were better the second time around.
 
onomatopoeia said:
Some stories are good enough to deserve a second telling (or more). Not sure that applies to either of the titles in question though!

For example, the 1996 version of Pride and Prejudice (Ehle / Firth) is vastly superior to the 1940 version (Garson / Olivier). I'm very glad the BBC didn't say "Oh, there's already a film, let's not bother."
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I mostly agree but then hollywood remade the remake with Keira Knightly and dear lord it was awful
 
I initially read the thread "Hollywood's lack of immigration" !

My contention with these remakes is how "modern" and also how far removed everything seemingly is from what they're adapting.

Take for example the movie Dragonball. Growing up I was a massive fan of DragonBall Z. After having seen the movie, dare I say I was almost offended ! Same also goes Thunderbirds, heck even the creator of that disliked the movie as well, the vehicles loosely resemble what was in the TV series, my toy model has a more striking resemblance.
 
I now read they are going to reboot the X-Men movies. WTF! They are not even that old!
 
Oldboy was a bit of a travesty - the Korean version was infinitely better. Only saving grace was Christina Olsen
 
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