I want a Conan TV series in the vein of GoT. The series will guest feature Arnold as Old King Conan retelling his life's story for his chronicler. The first episode will be the birth of Conan in the mountains of Cimmeria. The first season will be Conan growing up in Cimmeria until he is in his late teens. What do you guys think?
Yes, from what I've heard Arnold will play an older Conan who has been King for many years. Haven't heard about a younger Conan, though. I am going to see this movie whenever it comes due to my love of Conan the Barbarian but I think Conan could really work as a TV show.
That sounds like a good idea, but Hyboria really isn't a complex fantasy setting like Westeros is, so I don't know if it could sustain a show. Standalone movies would probably work better, I just wish they would be made.
Dark and atmospheric Resident Evil movie with slow but very gory action scenes, more focused on the paranoia and despair of the characters as they investigate the mystery around the zombie outbreak and the weird mansion they are stuck in.
+KissingZombie's Channel Although I like the old games and the two movies (guilty pleasure), I don't think you should make a film based on the first game. Many thinks like the puzzles just don't make sense from a story perspective. Hell, a faithful adaption of any of the games seems difficult to me for the same reason. Too much gamey stuff that occupy the player for a lot of the time are neither logical nor interesting for watching. If you really want to make a RE-movie, Zero and maybe 4 might be more interesting, although Zero would look like a ripoof of Train to Busan and 4 needs a makeover^^ But a guy stranded in a hostile village sounds much more interesting. And the cthulhu-like cult could be wonderful^^ And sorry for being an ass, but what made the original game so great?^^
This may be an unpopular opinion but i believe that R7 would make the best Resident Evil Movie if done correctly, even though i would die to see "Jill Sandwich" on the big screen.
Nudity is not an immediate red flag, and then death of a video, on RU-vid. Context matters. There's plenty of videos of breast feeding, and breast augmentation. However, a rap video with titties hanging out at a pool party is likely to get censored or removed. It's all in their public policy.
Lord Tippington the Wise - Atheist Knight of Le Reddit Gentlesirs I wonder if it has anything to do with the number of people who flag a video. I've seen nudity and sexual situations in You Tube videos that can seem pretty surprising sometimes.
I have been thinking that too. With climate change becoming more prevalent, the movie's setting is becoming more relevant. I think the original is quite too 1970's weird for today's audiences. Of course, like with every remake, it needs to be done _right_, as a drama. It can't be treated like the latest Marvel Movie.
I want to see a remake of: 1. "Hancock" as a superhero satire (a satiric way of the superhero concept) made by Edgar Wright 2. "Waterworld" as a full developed post-apocalypse-film written and directed by Christopher Nolan 3. "Mortal Kombat" (The Movie) written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Rated R and least as violent/bloody as the games)
mortal kombat is needed. idk if u seen the "trailer like" mk thing that was on youtube yrs back but it gave "real word" explanations/settings, that would be great but i would still want a game based movie more i think.
Del Toro should be banned from making anything with movies. Hancock is also shit. Waterworld is nothing to be changed upon, and for MK.... You need a timemachine and make the Rebirth done.
I really, really, _really_ want an R-Rated Mortal Kombat movie. Because that PG-13 shit ain't cutting it for me. Yeah, I get the appeal for the classic 1995 movie, but I still didn't like it.
So, in short, a remake has to either have a passion for the original, have a flawed original or both? Seem like fine reasons to me. Better than pure greed.
I agree - at first I thought "what a dumb idea to make a serious Evil Dead movie - it's like making a serious remake of a comedy" - but the end result was pretty cool.
If he makes it more true to the book it would be worth it. The original film only covers half of the book. The second half has Bastion in Fantasia going on a crazy power trip and starting a war.
Resident evil should be remade and Paul Anderson should be issued a restraining order from the production. Make it a closed door haunted house horror with the series iconic stationary cameras. Don't make it a series of films, no over arching plot. Just good horror
Dear Hollywood, please remake either one of these movies which had great concepts but flawed execution: - Spawn - Alien vs. Predator - I am Legend - Johnny Mnemonic - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Hansel & Gretel: Witchhunters I think that's all for now since "Stephen King's IT" and "Tomb Raider" luckily are already getting remade.
I think Time Cop should be remade. Good concept, bad execution. If they get a good actor and a screenplay which can thrown some complexity into it. It can be good.
Exactly. Fucking EXACTLY. I'd gladly embrace ALL remakes if they are made with heart and passion and an actual creative mind that wants to offer a new spin. Instead most of the time they're just cash-ins to get money from a known title, and they're not even well made.
There has indeed been talk of it... I have to admit, I would love to see a remake of that... I just hope they don't screw with teh story too much as it was simple and perfect as it was... Its only issue is it is dated!!!
Favorite reboot of a beloved franchise in recent memory has to be The Evil Dead remake in 2013. They did an amazing job with it and looking at the behind the scenes stuff you can tell that Producers/Director/Actors (especially jane levy as Mia) were nothing BUT passionate about making that film. And it worked.
I agree with you with the exception of Starship Troopers. A film that is more faithfull to the books would be faaaar more interesting to wacht than the original, a quite flaw film. If the politics of the book is what bugs you, a film that is objective about the setting and lets the audience decided would perfectly work. You can even do a good satire while being faithfull to the books. Putting that aside, I would prefere a miniseries over a film.
A miniseries would be perfect. The thing that made the book interesting was the universe and seeing the philosophy behind it. It doesn't really work as a single overarching story but rather just observing the change of a humble fellow from the Phillipines to a galaxy trotting badass space marine while showing the value of the human spirit regardless of creed or skin color. It's my favorite book for a reason.
Skyler Tesar It definitely deserves the mini-series treatment. I love the movie but other than the title and a few plot points there's nothing in common.
Chaplain Tappman I'd love for them to do an episode about the 1/500 bullet training thing. Like it's the perfect subplot or flashback thing for an episode. They have sharpshooters firing on them an one in five hundred shots is a live round while the rest are blanks. And the only person that dies in the training was due to him rolling too aggressively. It's the perfect melancholy way to end a small story. You probably already knew that but it's my favorite part of the book and I love talking about it.
LOL! While I do agree... I must be fair to Lucas, I sort of get what he was aiming for... Where do all wars start? Not on a Battle field but by Men in High Places with Agendas... So his heart was in the right place - but thats BORING AS SHIT!!! He pout way too much focus on the politics... While essential to understand, it did not need to be the majority of the damn films!!!!
+Warren Marris whether an idea is good or bad doesn't matter. The execution does. The execution is more important than the idea. George Lucas gave the prequels interesting ideas with really poor execution.
DafuqImmaDoing absolutely... I feel live gets a little too much hate though. Honestly, even with the original trilogy, I think he was a man who needed his ambition reigned in... Hence Gary Kurtz ...
The only movies that should be remade are those that had a great or ambitious concept, but we're executed poorly or could have been done better with a bigger budget. Personally I want to see a remake of Event Horizon.
not a remake, only a sequel, at the end they escape in the life Pod. Even Horizon II. Another distress signal is sent to a nearby space crew, The pod landed on another ship that is sending the distress signal. easy Sequel. This time there is no reactor the first ship brought back a demon energy from beyond space and time.
I really want to remake From Beyond, to me it was the creepiest Lovecraft story I've read but the low budget film based off it is terrible. There is also a lot of potential with its concept about a machine that blends our universe with another that's filled with monsters.
Daniel Moreno absolutely, the infernal affair was about the struggles and suffering of working undercover, the things you have to do to maintain identity and be burdened about. the departed lacks this part entirely, making it a cat and mouse comedy that gives you little sense of respect for any character.
I also preferred Infernal Affairs, but that's not saying The Departed was a bad movie. And it did give us the character of Dignam, who wasn't in the original.
I thought the Departed was a really dumbed down version, compared to Infernal Affairs they stripped the characters of any depth, instead of grey we got one dimensional black and white
I love the remake of The Mummy (1999) but think the original from 1932 is good. I can't decided if I like the original or 2005 remake of King Kong more. I would like to see Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver re-adapted because the film versions did not get the stories or the tone right.
Also, as much as I LOVE NIGHTBREED! That's a film I've always dreamed of remaking! Calibrating some of its convoluted story, minimizing some of the film's blockbuster approach, leaning closer to the tone of the novel, maintaining the use of practical effects and developing it into the franchise it deserved to be. And I'd fight to give it an hard R rating.
One thing that I think would be interesting would be _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_, but without kiddifying it all and making it über-family-friendly, and instead going for the tone of the original comics (which were apparently more violent than televised and film versions of the franchise). The 1990 film had elements of the right stuff (including support from the brilliant - and sadly now defunct - Golden Harvest studio) but by the studio pandering to the parents that complained that it was too dark and violent for their children when it came to making the sequels it just feels like a missed opportunity.
Ok serious one now actually, I think they should re-make "Where Eagles Dare" Eastwood could have a minor cameo role as an ageing Nazi or something like that
Ghostbusters (2016) was a studio-mandated thing that was going to happen SOMEDAY. My hat's off to them for taking a bullet with what was never going to be a particularly popular idea without the original cast in their same roles.
They could have made a great sequel. The New Adventures of Ghostbusters. Have the same cast except Aisha Tyler instead of Leslie Jones. Make Aisha a scientist and Mary Mccarthy the every person like Winston. Have Kate McKinnon be the daughter of Egon and Ghost are coming back into the world. She has to see her uncle Ray for answers and starts up the business again. Make it a passing the torch movie.
I'd say remake Stalker. The original is a classic, but it's certainly not for everyone, but the idea is so appealing that its a shame we don't have a more approachable version. As much as I like Stalker, it really heavy. I think that somebody like Inarritu + Lubezki would make a hell of a job making it a modern sci-fi masterpiece.
Same could be said about Solaris (also filmed by Tarkovski) - and I choose to ignore the George Clooney movie... uh. Tarkovski's visions are amazing and very philosophic but I'd like to see more appealing versions.
Starship Troopers could certainly use a remake (instead of it's obvious hatred of the source material) to tell a compelling story of an 18 year old from a wealthy family wanting to make his first real decision: 1) He enlists in the military of the world government 2) He is challenged by the training like he has never been before 3) He reflects upon his place in society as a member of the military and a citizen 4) He overcomes his fear of failure and death to become a part of a team 5) He realizes he is doing something important and necessary 6) He feels called to become an officer 7) He grows as a leader putting the mission and his men above his personal motivations 8) He comes to the conclusion some things are worth fighting for 9) As a Filipino he is proud of his heritage (as well of all the other troopers of theirs). Yeah, all fascist stuff... the ones that claim Robert Hienlein's book is fascistic are only those upset that he mocked Leftist thinking by saying their ideas were unscientific claptrap from the book's perspective in the far future. Read it for your selves and decide which story you would rather see (Heinlein's, with a unique future society you have NEVER seen portrayed in cinema or Verhoeven's satire that has nothing in common with the book, except the name).
What's wrong with the original Highlander? I loved it, also, the Starship Troopers book is not fascist, Verhoeven never even finished reading the book. If you think the book is fascist you either haven't read it, or you have a very poor grasp on what fascism is.
They really should remake bad movies, but try to make them good. Take a story that had the potential to be good, figure out what worked and what didn't, and rework it so that at what made the film good is still there, while the things that people didn't like are either gone or altered. For example, Alien vs. Predator is a film that had a lot of potential, due to how great the comics and video games were, but the movies didn't include some of the best aspects from the source material. Try again, but instead of scientists and high school students, you give us some goddamn Colonial Marines, and for fuck's sake, don't go PG-13.
As much as I loved Mars Attacks, I would love to see a remake/sequel more true to the trading cards with lots of over the top gore. It would also be cool to repeat what the original did, to get all the big movie stars of the time and kill them all off for the pure schadenfreude. Imagine that with today's big actors.
Some of the 80's action movies are full of great ideas, but pretty mediocre in their execution. I'd love to see a solid remake of The Last Starfighter and The Wraith. With a passionate director, they could go from good to amazing.
That's the problem though isn't it. Even if the director (or whoever) wants to tell a different story based on the source material eventually the studio says make it more like the original movie.
The novel Starship Troopers was not fascistic or right wing. It presented a society where only veterans could vote. I wish the film had presented the ideas unbiased and let the viewer judge the merits of the society. I hope the new film would do this but I think the will focus on power suits since power suits are cool. Thanks for your essay. You made some great points.
Sean Connery's Outland (1981) but that was basically a version of High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper. On a mining moon, Io, the Sheriff has to alone fight off the company (think Weyland-Yutani) bad guys; who are peddling a crazy addictive Nazi-crack type substance that turns the workers into psychos. It has elements of film noir, westerns and sci-fi and is one of the few sci-fis that doesn't have aliens for the villains.
Seamus McFlanery Not at all. The ideas behind these three are to show a terror that's beyond human comprehension, and although I haven't seen Prince of Darkness, the other two don't need to be remade because they weren't executed poorly besides a handful of scenes from event horizon.
As a fan of the Starship Troopers book, I really cannot agree with you calling the book "right-wing racism" because I remember a specific part of the saying that signing up with the military was OPTIONAL, keyword: OPTIONAL and I know that an optional military service are almost never a thing for fascist countries. In fact, Heinlein was someone who was very vocal towards both right-wing and left-wing politics.
Ive been saying it for years, but here i go again. Crossover of The Incredible shrinking man/The Fly! -At the end of ISM when he slides thru the screen, he finds the "white head fly" and rescues him from that nasty spider. They become friends as the ISM rides around on They Fly (lol) and eventual shrinks away into oblivion. only after the ICM finds a way to show that he and the fly guy are still alive. By spelling it out with cheerios or whatever. ...something like that
Yeh, although instead of using Cheerios they should have a barcode pattern that appears in shadow on the floor combined with a watch that ticks with morse code that a young girl picks up (because that's the only way anyone can understand what Matthew McConaughey is saying...) on a dying planet while her father jouneys through a wormhole that opens near Saturn to where the ISM has journey through the quantum foam because he's Freddy Kreuger....
Remaking Starship Troopers is pointless, the novel is way overrated. A fun read but the film is far superior as I actually gave a shit about the characters and the ending was satisfying. A much better novel is The Forever War, THAT needs to be a big budget R rated film.
I was about to bring up Highlander midway through the video. It is such a great concept with a flawed film. What one I would like to remake: Avatar: The Last Air Bender
It's interesting, because I agree with pretty much everything you say here, but I disagree with you on specifics. I love that you used the phrase 'respecting the original', because I hated Starship Troopers - not that it was a bad movie, but that the only thing it owed to the novel was the name. No one would be remaking the Starship Trooper movie - they'd simply be making the movie of Starship Troopers and having respect for the source material. On the other hand, while Highlander might not have been a great movie, it was original in almost every since of the word. I discovered that movie by accident (theater hopping on my day off when I was 20 years old), and I was amazed by the things it did. I would like to see someone else with more skill and a bigger budget approach the same ideas, but there's no need to redo Highlander, because nothing they do can ever have the impact of the original.
I very much enjoyed the book "Starship Troopers" and was supremely disappointed with the movie "adaptation". I mean, come on! A significant feature of the book is the powered battle armor, something that just screams for a CGI implementation, and they went with BMX bike "armor" instead? They also completely missed the underlying philosophical tones relating to value, responsibility and what it means to be a citizen.
I'd make a good remake of the "The Thing" 2011 version, the prequel to john carpenters version, without jumpscares, CGI and hectic action, i'd make it somewhat similar to the john carpenters version.
Mazaroth They actually had really good practical effects on the set of the remake but decided to "enhance" them with CGI. That is what really bothers me.
I'd love to see a take on The Thing that focuses more on the psychological horror over the body horror. There's an idea that I think is very important to the premise, but that the films never really explore: that you could already have been taken over by the Thing and _not know it_. That the creature can manipulate your memory and perception, and your whole mind and consciousness is just a simulacrum that could be erased any moment if the creature decides to take over. The blood test scene would be less "find the traitor" and more like some horrible AIDS test, where you learn that you're already dead, you just don't know it yet. Basically the human experience of mortality and fragility turned up to 11, plus an examination of the meaning of consciousness and identity.
Well I think some of the cheesy 1970s disaster films should get remade without bad CGI and with truly interesting characters. They tried with The Poseidon Adventure. I think the one (perhaps the cheesiest) to be remade should be Earthquake (1974). Just keep the darn CGI down to a minimum (CGI enhanced scale model work perhaps) and don't make half the planet split open.
Can we compare a Dune or Starship Troopers remake with Robocop? Dune and Starship Troopers are adaptations from a greater source material. You can literally make a dozen movies based on the Dune novel and each could be from a unique perspective. Robocop was written for the screen, what we see on screen is literally everything the source material has to offer. In my opinion Dune wouldn't be a remake or a reboot, it'd just be the 2nd movie to adapt the novel.
I love your videos, as I mentioned last weekend, and I realize that it's because your thoughts are so articulate and on-point. Couple that with well-placed clips of movies I genuinely love, played at exactly the right times to accentuate your thoughts, and it's a perfect combination of education and entertainment regarding my favorite subject -- film. You have a true fan, now. :)
Logan's Run is a great premise but really cheesy in its execution. I also feel its theme of "oppression via luxury" is pretty relevant in the 21st century.
"Adopting the book's more right-wing fascist tone" You're taking your talking points from Verhoeven, are you? Seriously: what elements of the book would you say are fascist? That being in the military can be an honorable thing? If so, is "Rabble in Arms" fascist? "The Red Badge of Courage"?
Yep, this pisses me off. Heinlein was more of a libertarian and the book simply outlines that the people who should be able to have a say in controlling the direction of society are those who have put their lives on the line to defend it. Non-military people aren't oppressed - and all of them can earn the right to vote by serving.
No, no! They need to do it with an australian native lesbian-transgender-woman (a man operated to a woman who loves women) who is in a wheelchair, and is a neo-feminist activist who uses the influence to make all men operated to women. That's the only way.
Why do a remake when you can do a George Lucas esque re-edited 'Special Edition' that adds in CGI, color, and a lot of other pointless additions. And then make it very hard to get the original version. Far cheaper and more profitable.
I think a darker more grown up remake of Labyrinth would be good. The story of an immature spoiled child who hides in a fantasy world from the pervasive threat of growing up is forced to deal with a threatening but appealing older man who awakens not only her sexuality but a sense of responsibility and purpose that comes with adulthood, while also accepting her new family, step mom and step brother. I think the original Labyrinth hinted strongly at a number of psychological issues that young women entering adulthood might encounter, but kept it fairly light since it was for children. I'd like to see a version smart and meta enough for an older nostalgic crowd that is also suitable for a teen crowd, like a PG-13 version. NOT Tim Burton! No muppets, no songs. Sort of like what A Company of Wolves did for Red Riding Hood. Ok, maybe some muppets.
I've always wanted to remake the early 80s slasher movie FADE TO BLACK. A narrative with great ideas, great scenes and an awesome lead performance. It's just some of its subplots, pacing and visual direction left me with a lot to be desired. I'd honestly take it into a different genre, instead of it being about a vengeful sexually repressed movie nerd, mine would be a romantic comedy about a woman working in a video store in the 90s. She'd be obsessed with movies, hoping that her next love interest would fall into the sentimental movie cliches she loves, her expectations would be done in classic film styles and contrast from her reality... I suppose it'd be less of a remake and more of a movie done in a similar genre, like I Wanna Hold Your Hand vs Detroit Rock City.
I want to remake Batman and Robin, keep the themes of family and loss, cut Poison Ivy and Bane altogether, cut Batgirl, keep Alfred dying and cut the campy tone. Everything else can be salvageable into a really interesting and deeply analytic film about the Dark Knight vs grief and death. Call it "Batman: Mortal"
Enter The Dragon is going to be remade: www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2157213/enter-dragon-remake-bruce-lee-must-be-spinning-his-grave-leave-kung The Exorcist has been rebooted into a TV show: www.bing.com/search?q=exorcist+remake&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=d99095a7507545fbb65c24de1bd66bce&cc=AU&setlang=en-US Wickerman has been remade: www.bing.com/search?q=The+Wicker+Man&filters=ufn%3a%22The+Wicker+Man%22+sid%3a%22ee52b60f-f296-1c4d-ba2a-56427e9b6816%22&FORM=SNAPST Rocky has also been remade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Balboa_(film)
A good recent remake was King Kong of peter Jackson, or true grit of 2010. And also that cult of dreed 2011. But man I love Peter Jackson work on classic 1933 movie
I largely agree, but I entirely disagree on Starship Troopers. I loathe Verhoevan's version; I feel he missed pretty much everything that made the book great - the ideas, not the power armour. He wanted to crap on Heinlein's ideas, and only made his own the weaker in doing it.
As much as I like some aspects of Starship Troopers, his politics got in the way of the movie. Veerhoeven read about two chapters and put the book down, because "muh fascists." He then decided to satirize it, except, since he hadn't read the book, he was actually satirizing a shallow charicature of what he imagined the book to be. This made the satire of the film very one-note, shallow, and obvious. In other words, it sucked. A shame, because the film had a lot of good elements.
Remakes of *LOGAN'S RUN (1976) & FLASH GORDON (1980)* from a Director with a powerful vision and intense passion, would be Fantastic !! I really like the original films, tho they can certainly be improved upon...
Fascism and Nationalism aren't the same thing, just like Socialism and Communism are not the same thing and I completely disagree with your assessment of Starship Troopers. I think a faithful, patriotic telling of the source material would be interesting. Im going to guess, though, you think it's a bad idea because it will embolden Brexiters. This is like saying Wagner is a bad composer because Hitler liked his music. In other words, it's bullshit.
I'd watch Starship Troopers. They wont make a better film, but they might make a different film. I actually quite liked the book and wouldn't mind seeing a more true to the book movie.
Some films should obviously be left alone. Great films in particular. Like the Crow, The Thing, RoboCop, etc.. A film like Waterworld however, that had great ideas, but was poorly executed, ripe for a revival..
Sweet, I'm a recent subscriber and I would love to hear what you have to say about the Raid. It's definitely up there as one of my favorite action films.
Remakes suck donkey balls and so do prequels ( Cough, cough Star Wars Prequels). Now Hollywood is being sneaky and recycling old movie franchises and adapting them into poorly rated tv shows. Just to name a few Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour, and Training Day. I mean wtf else is next and what other good franchise will Hollywood try to drain out next?
I know but the Hellraiser remake is in a development hell so long, even Barker was asked to write the script for it with a "threat" - If you wouldnt do it, someone else will do it worse than you. I really love to see the new adaptation of that story after so many bad sequels.
I guess it probably will be then. Like Halloween was. Then Friday the 13th. Then Nightmare On Elm Street. Oh well. Yes the sequels are mostly terrible. After 3 it got real bad. I think 4 was the last theatrical release for the series and it bombed bad. Was pulled in like 2 weeks where I live at least.
i would personally use old Analog filming equipment to give it the original 80's grit then transfer it to digital. Doug Bradley is 62 years old but i would not use any other actor as Pinhead. I really have invested much time in thinking of how I would start the story with a "collector" and a china man selling "the box"
I'm still waiting for an Event Horizon remake. Done by Wan, Snyder, Fincher, maybe Aronofsky or Scott, someone with dark style, but who let us be part, feel - not watch - the terror inside the protagonists. I don't think the original was bad, I liked it so much, but with the current technology, a better gradient, and a closer perspective with the characters, can be an 11/10 film.
Hey Rossatron. Did you get to see the movie Elite Squad, from the director of Robocop's remake? José Padilha? It's quite different to see working on an action movie without the studio interfering so much. Elite squad is a film that resembles much more the original Robocop than the remake, is action movie that explores social problems and criticizes society, and thats why i was hoping for a good remake... And Elite Squad is first time that the Padilha worked with the Wagner Moura (Escobar in Narcos).
I'm a big fan of both Elite Squad films. It's one of the main reasons I was upset to see Padilha so messed around by Hollywood, since the guy is clearly a real talent.
Since I'm Brazilian I'm suspicious when I say the movies are good. I've watched Sicario twice this year, I'm going to re-watch Elite Squad to see how good the movie works out compared to it. Anyway, I'm writing some of my stuff and although the media is not cinema, your videos end up giving a good insight into how to write action scenes. So, thanks for the good work!
When I’m a successful writer director I want to remake “Robin and the 7 Hoods” - hear me out. The movie has very strong and funny scenes, as well as some fantastic songs: Mr B-O-O-Z-E, My Kind of Town and Style - but in other places it drags and the jokes don’t always hit very well, and that really breaks my heart because I remember seeing it once as a kid and loving it. The Rat Pack is the Rat Pack, you would never in a million years be able to recreate them, so the cast of the remake would still have their chemistry but just in different ways, with some crooners but also maybe some more modern R&B artists to spice it up a bit - the songs would still be solid crooning though, maybe a bit more “La La Land”-esque however to modernise. Some details I’d change: - Keep the songs above but scratch the others (I love Bang Bang but it just isn’t as strong as the rest), and compose new ones. - ensure the jokes are snappy and land much better - aim the movie at a PG or 12 rating, I thought the corpses inside concrete blocks was a bit morbid for a cheery musical - although was pretty badass at the end, if a bit last minute - make it clearer who the 7 hoods are, give them more dimension, and give the femme fatale much more sinister screen time - basically keep the Mr Booze scene the same because it’s awesome but make the editing a little snappier and the dancing more grand I mean I’m just hurling shit at a wall here to see what sticks but this was fun to think about.
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I would love to remake really old, experimental silent films from the earliest days of cinema. 1890-1920, those years. Bizarre, dream-like stories with insane, mind-bending visuals for the time would be fantastic to see again with today's technology.
True Grit? The Fly? The Thing? The Ring? - Shit, even Charlton Heston's Ben Hur was a "remake"... It's honestly okay... For the right reasons, - but shit, if this 7 minute essay can't get to you, then I won't. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? No; not the right reasons....
So "The Thing from another World" should have never been remade by John Carpenter? Or "The Blob"-Remake from the 80s? Those were bad Movies? I didn't know. And call me a Heretic - I liked the "Evil Dead"-Remake as a more serious, yet still cheesy, take on the original Movies.
Those movies that have really, really good remakes needed remakes because just having a new idea wasn't good enough the first time they tried. Also, 9 out of 10 movies are terrible and unnecessary anyway. Original or otherwise.
Years late, but the Starship Troopers novel is not "right wing, fascist". The only way you could come to that conclusion is if you either didn't read the book at all, or read it with the explicit intention of coming to that conclusion. Obviously both of these are bad faith behaviors, but it wouldn't even bother me as much if this hot-take didn't completely fly in the face of your whole video. Starship Troopers is just as much of an ideal remake as Dune for virtually identical reasons. To say that "they can't make a better film than Verhoeven" is utterly missing the point. The goal is to be an accurate adaptation, which would make it fundamentally different from Verhoeven's version. You were willing to compromise your own point just to say something objectively wrong.
I'd like to see the A-Team get a reboot, this time given a realistic and gritty approach. Maybe have them start from the beginning when they were all still in the military, disobeying an order from their superiors to rescue Hannibal (their commanding officer) from a ISIS stronghold. I'd personally have a 10-manned squad to start with, then have the movie be a shootout survival movie like 'Siege of Jadotville' and at the end only have Face, Murdock, BA, and Hannibal be the survivors. Then at the end of the movie you could have them being arrested for disobeying orders that got soldiers killed even though all of them wanted to go in and rescue Hannibal, this would then setup the sequel and having it about them escaping and going on the run.
Theres also a difference between recycling a concept and recycling a script, The Crow and Highlander are prefect examples of this, Eric Draven and Conner McClouds stories have been told and retold already, but reusing the same concept with new characters I'd love that! The origenal Highlander and everything that followed after it had a recurring failing they had no endgame they always talked about this great prize but what was it, to be mortal and able to knock up your girl? A remake could solve probloms like this. But Christopher Lambert and Brandon Lee are those characters, and should'nt be reimagined even The Joker with Heath Ledger instead of Jack Nicolson are more then just different interpretations there different stories, tones, and universes.
first and foremost, you need to find where on the spectrum the original movie falls, or what areas it covers: -Should it be remade -Does it Need to be remade -Is it Worth it to be remade -Was the lack of current available technology a detractor? (and, though this can be fiercely debated: are the actors' in the original too iconic/what made the movie what it was, which should make replacing them with more current actors have a negative effect on the remake.) lots of things to consider, I think. I watched the ghostbusters remake, and while I went in expecting the worst, the only things I felt were missing were more varied humor, and more heart. poltergeist? the actors were far too iconic for a remake to be successful, partly because it had a successful sequel and we were used to the actors. the upcoming IT movie? No idea. Both the Rings and Blair witch movies that just came out sucked ass (in the bad way), and really didn't do justice to the originals. tl;dr It's complicated.
I'd have a go at falling down if I was a director. Brilliant concept and I'd like to try to modernise it while still keeping the topic universal so it doesn't get dated.
Out of interest why do you think remaking Infernal Affairs is okay? I mean The Departed is great, but Infernal Affairs was perfect and The Departed didn't do anything new at all.
The Starship Trooper film absolutely trashes the original book which was neither right-wing or fascist. In fact it was quite explicitly democratic, the enemy was far more fascinating, the way in which combat was carried out (non conventional warfare utilizing extremely advanced technologies) was just more interesting, and the big philosophic questions behind the novel were essentially dismissed. The director saw a title and claiming it to be based on the book wrote a story that wasn't even in the same world; to be fair it never had to be the exact same story, but he showed a blatant disregard for the source material: he admitted to not even reading the novel. I realize that exact justice could never really be done, but this was one of my personally favorite books and I am disappointed that the film sodomized the novel.