#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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#6 2011-10-15 07:06:19
You know that when they make
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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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