Hollywood needs to just go away

[SAnd]

I tend to agree that remakes stink. The problem is there have been some good remakes so I can't condemn them all out of hand.

I liked Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More as much as the original. Bruce Willis did a good job on the remade remake of A Fistful of Dollars.

The Magnificent Seven was as good as the original.

For completely different reasons I like the Omega Man and Night of the Comet which were later versions of The Last Man on Earth. I did not like the Will Smith I Am Legend version of Last Man.

I enjoy both incarnations of The Mechanic.

There are others but I'll stop there.

There are plenty of other remakes I don't like though. I can't see how they can redo Blade Runner without screwing it up.

As mentioned before one big problem on remaking older movies is the political correct bullshit. PC makes it impossible to not ruin it. Look what they did to the original Star Wars when they first released it on DVD. I'm glad they did finally released it in original form.

It just shows that movie makers and investors can be lazy and timid too.

It isn't just movies. I hate remixes of music. If you're too lazy make your own version of a song don't screw up someone elses music. That's stealing and obscene.

[Ronin13]

I tend to agree that remakes stink. The problem is there have been some good remakes so I can't condemn them all out of hand.

The Magnificent Seven was as good as the original.

As mentioned before one big problem on remaking older movies is the political correct bullshit. PC makes it impossible to not ruin it. Look what they did to the original Star Wars when they first released it on DVD. I'm glad they did finally released it in original form.

It just shows that movie makers and investors can be lazy and timid too.

It isn't just movies. I hate remixes of music. If you're too lazy make your own version of a song don't screw up someone elses music. That's stealing and obscene.

I loved 7 Samurai- I think that Kurosawa was a genius! And to be honest Yojimbo was great, and Last Man Standing (with Willis and Walken) was equally great. Just as long as they do it right- kinda like with Magnificent Seven and Last Man Standing, they weren't feudal Japan flicks but took the story and adapted them to the western genre.
I agree with music- hence why I hate Puff Daddy or whatever he calls himself now... sampling everything? How about being original!

[DANGERTASTIC!]

I can't wait to see the new Footloose and Dirty Dancing!

I do wish they'd remake Avatar though, because that movie sucked balls.

You didnt like Avatar? Just watch Dances with Wolves...same thing, only aliens instead of indians

[Zundfolge]

You didnt like Avatar? Just watch Dances with Wolves...same thing, only aliens instead of indians

You didnt like Avatar? Just watch Pocahontas ...same thing, only aliens instead of indians

[Ah Pook]

Hollywood needs to just go away

I'm down with that.

Just got through with Your Highness. No it wasn't my choice. Absolute waste of time. This is becoming the norm for movies. No imagination. No intrique. No intelligence. Just the same lame formula.

[Marlin]

Hollywood peaked in 1939. Been a slow downward spiral ever since.

[lead_magnet]

Hollywood peaked in 1939. Been a slow downward spiral ever since.

[Bailey Guns]

With me, I guess I can put up with all the crappy movies that come out cuz I don't watch that many. I rarely pay to go to a theater. I wait til it's on Netflix or TV.

I can't put up with all the celebrities who think just because they're famous they should constantly be spouting off about their ideals. Not saying they aren't entitled to an opinion, just there's a time and place to promote it. When I'm paying to see you, that isn't the time.

My ex-girlfriend (who's currently my wife of 22 years) once got really pissed at me while we were dating. We had tickets to a John Denver concert in Omaha that had been heavily promoted on Offutt AFB. Most of the crowd was military or military family members. Offutt AFB was home to Strategic Air Command (controlled all the nuke forces) at the time.

JD gets on stage, sings a song or two, then goes into a fucking political diatribe about the evils of nuclear weapons, can't we just all give each other a hug and get along, etc...

I yelled out that he could go fuck himself and told Mrs BG that I was leaving. She was embarrassed but apparently didn't wanna walk home. I think she got the picture when about a third of the crowd was walking out with us. Everyone was bitching about what an asshat JD was.

His music is great. He's a dumbass. That's the kind of thing I don't like about celebrities.

BTW...the remake of True Grit was fantastic.

[Ronin13]

I can't put up with all the celebrities who think just because they're famous they should constantly be spouting off about their ideals. Not saying they aren't entitled to an opinion, just there's a time and place to promote it. When I'm paying to see you, that isn't the time.
JD gets on stage, sings a song or two, then goes into a fucking political diatribe about the evils of nuclear weapons, can't we just all give each other a hug and get along, etc...

I yelled out that he could go fuck himself and told Mrs BG that I was leaving. She was embarrassed but apparently didn't wanna walk home. I think she got the picture when about a third of the crowd was walking out with us. Everyone was bitching about what an asshat JD was.

His music is great. He's a dumbass. That's the kind of thing I don't like about celebrities.

BTW...the remake of True Grit was fantastic.

+1000! I would have walked out too... it's similar to the whole Dixie Chicks incident... SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SING! We don't care what your political beliefs are, we want to hear your music. Unless you're Bono and you're saying something like "These innocent people died at the hands of a tyrannical, abusive government, Sunday, Bloody Sunday!" I don't think we should lash out as harshly as they did with Dixie Chicks, and I really think it was childish and immature for Toby Keith to lash out too (Like his music, but after meeting him, he's a dick!). Celebrities, and I don't care if they have an IQ of 200, are fucking dumb and they need to just be our damn monkey in a box and entertain, that's why they pay Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly and Cooper to talk on TV, not why they pay Matt Damon.

[Zundfolge]

Well here I go complaining about Hollywood being all lame and then I see this.




OMG I've been waiting for Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series to be made into movies since I was 10!

If Disney screws it up I'll shoot that damn mouse in the head myself. But based on the trailer it looks pretty good ... the only obvious deviations I saw from the books are the fact that John Carter shows up on Mars naked in the book but clothed in the movie (which I actually prefer) and it looks like the green men are a little smaller (should be 18', but making them 8' wouldn't bother me), And John Carter had short hair and was cleanly shaved (minor style bit, but frankly having him with long hair makes his character look like Conan or any other swashbuckling fantasy character of the last 4 decades) Oh, and I don't see any guns ... there were cool guns with exploding ammo in the books.