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Remake, Repeat, Rinse... the holywood long cut...

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Posted 21 July 2004 - 09:25 PM

oceans 12...
the bourne supremacy...
what's next, the Italian promotion???

what the hells going on?

I haven't seen these movies, but it seems to me a very strange pattern...

holywood writer: I'm out of ideas
holywood producer: let's just remake something then...
holywood writer: works for me
holywood producer: ...and that's a rap!
holywood writer: wait i've got an idea for a new film!!!
holywood producer: too risky... people don't want new! let's just do a sequel to thatwe did, that should work enough...
holywood writer: cool!!! i won't have to think of any character names that way!!!
holywood producer: I know, I didn't get this job for taking risks you know!


annyone else agree, or fear this? blink.gif

i don't mean to be cynical... i just seems like an odd thing to do...

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on another note... there are alot of cheap movies out there, low budget action/sci-fi/etc. movies, made for TV movies, that have really cool stories but are just too cheap to watch...

what if money was poored into remaking those? that would be worthwile project don't you think?
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Posted 21 July 2004 - 09:46 PM

First of all, the mere fact that it is a sequel or a remake doesn't necessarily make it bad (and by the way, they are doing a sequel to the Italian Job). After all, what is most people's favorite SW film? ESB, a sequel. Everyone loves Spidey 2. Ocean's Eleven in itself was a remake, and I thought was great (same for the recent Italian Job).

What is bad is that there isn't anything original to go with it. It would be fine if each week we got a Bourne Supremacy, or I, Robot, or Ocean's Twelve, if it was accompanied by a cool, original story. But what's unfortunate is that most of what comes out of Hollywood that is NOT a remake or sequel sucks. It is very hard to come up with a good original idea, and even harder to execute it. So the thing is, sequels and remakes, since they provide the basic story, usually come out BETTER than other films, leading to a vicious cycle of more sequels and remakes until almost no one in hollywood has an original idea in his head. So it's not odd. Just unfortunate.
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Posted 21 July 2004 - 10:56 PM

Yes with your opinions about sequels.

But the Bourne books are numerous, so that one is hardly apt. They knew when they made the first one that it would be a test case to see whthe they should make a series.

ITALIAN PROMOTION.... <chuckle>.
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Posted 21 July 2004 - 11:56 PM

that's okay then about the bourne supremacy if it's aseries of books...

but my main point wasn't about sequels or remakes but about sequels OF remakes...

i thought THAT was weired!!!!
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Posted 22 July 2004 - 06:13 AM

hey, how about a prequel?

THE ITALIAN INTERVIEW AND CALLBACK?

Yes to what you say about sequels to remakes. Just plain psychotic. First time I noticed this was THE FLY II (so awful and sugar-sweet even the fly himself wouldn't eat it).
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Posted 22 July 2004 - 08:16 AM

oooh, prequels to remakes...

oceans 10?

get carter later?

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Posted 22 July 2004 - 11:24 AM

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Posted 22 July 2004 - 09:18 PM

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Posted 23 July 2004 - 12:32 AM

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Posted 23 July 2004 - 10:41 AM

Hollywoods never going to stop with the re-makes and the sequals, Unless another "Movie Trend" is invented.

Well I think the reason they make sequals is because they know the public are going to go nuts when they find out they're favorite movie has a sequal coming out...

Thats why I like to watch indpendent films most of the time. Like Bubba-Ho-Tep, which is good, but I mainly watched it because Bruce Campbell stars in it.
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Posted 23 July 2004 - 11:11 AM

The Quick Hello

The Great Train

The Stepford Girlfriends

Glen

Hello Mr Chips

The Hard-to-See Man

Scent of a Girl (look for this in the Porn thread as well)




And since we're breaking out from remakes-only:

Little Hannah and her Pregnant Mum.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).
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Posted 23 July 2004 - 05:17 PM

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Hollywoods never going to stop with the re-makes and the sequals, Unless another "Movie Trend" is invented.


One movie trend I can remember very clearly was the year of doubles. Somehow, they made two versions of each movie...

Dante's Peak and Inferno
A Bugs Life and Antz
Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line
Deep Impact and Armageddon


It's like seeing double when you're sober.

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Posted 24 July 2004 - 12:17 AM

Close Encounters and Star Wars?


Ok, fine. Not the same movie. Not the same summer. CE3K was released as SW was still in some theaters. Just wanted to credit 77/78 as being a breakthrough period for science fiction in film. And Johnny Williams took a tie for best soundtrack oscar between the two, I believe.

while I'm off the mark,

Sun Classics presents In search of Noah's Ark and the Bermuda Triangle. (and also some Mysterious Monsters film and a Bigfoot pic while we're at it. oh yeah, The Lincoln Conspiracy.) This was as close to Lucas' serials of yesteryear as I got.


Never Say Never Again and Octopussy?


The Passion of the Christ and that other movie about Jesus?




Doubles are great. Sometimes on Saturday Cartoons, All Three networks would have new shows and promotions revolved arouning the cause celebre. Sharks, outer space, dinosaurs. There are tons of resources on the web to view these old ads and schedules if you're interested.
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Posted 24 July 2004 - 01:14 AM

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the bourne supremacy...



This is a good thing. The Bourne Ultimatum is the best book of the series. I'm look foreward to see it on the silver screen!
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