#2 2011-10-13 22:50:20

They're also remaking Footloose. Hollywood, LEAVE OUR SHIT ALONE.

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#3 2011-10-14 07:35:29

Re-made songs and movies. What happened to the creative geniuses? Even most of the new original stuff is like it comes from a cookie cutter.

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#4 2011-10-14 07:45:19

Bigcat wrote:

Re-made songs and movies. What happened to the creative geniuses? Even most of the new original stuff is like it comes from a cookie cutter.

Even though 99+% of everything is and always has been crap, the current business model in "Hollywood" (for want of a better descriptive) is set up to repress and strangle new ideas.  It needs breaking.

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#5 2011-10-15 06:35:49

Its times like these that I'm glad I have Flash Control for Chrome installed.

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#6 2011-10-15 07:06:19

You know that when they make "Citizen Kane 3D - Back to the Farm" that Hollywood might as well turn off the lights and go home.

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#7 2011-10-16 04:43:02

Wha....???

Some people still haven't finished processing the Carpenter version: http://www.metafilter.com/106720/Intrig … -The-Thing

It is is my all time favorite horror movie. Return of the Living Dead is 2nd. (Good horror movies, in my book,  require that everyone dies).

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#8 2011-10-16 11:03:09

Carpenter's The Thing is one of the great treasures of the horror genre, and one of the first DVDs I purchased when we finally broke down and got a player.

That said, you probably know that it is a remake of a movie from the 50s (and a crap-ass movie that one is; sheesh), which is itself a ripoff of a wonderful old pulp story from (I think) the 30s.

The stupid remakes/prequels/"reboots"/"re-imaginings" will die a well-deserved death and be forgotten.  If any of them are any good, they'll endure.  For instance, I thought the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead was quite good and was worth watching.  And 28 Days Later was an interesting "re-imagining" of the basic zombie story which hit most of the standard narrative points wonderfully well.  (The sequel, though, was shit.)

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