Comments on: More Unnecessary Remakes On The Way

By: It’s The 80’s Again: Romancing The Stone & Overboard Remakes - Screen Rant

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:46:44 +0000

[...] ago, we brought you news that 20th Century Fox was remaking the Michael Douglas adventure film, Romancing The Stone ,with Eagle Eye’s Daniel McDermott penning the script. Now the film has a director in the form [...]

By: Anniekins

Anniekins — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:21:08 +0000

Remakes are Hollywood’s way of saying we are totally out of original ideas. We have nothing to offer. We are dead in the water so we have to remake old movies. Enough said.

By: darkbhudda

darkbhudda — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:02:23 +0000

I think Hollywood should focus on remakes more, but only by remaking every crappy movie they released in the last 5 years and this time make decent movies out of them.

I watched They Live for the first time a few weeks back and absolutely loved it. Did not see any cheese whatsoever.

By: RastaZen

RastaZen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:14:16 +0000

@ greenknight33

if you decide not to choose , you still have made a choice

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:40:46 +0000

@ Jon

and there in lies the rub..the illusion of free will is just that if all you are given to make is bad choices…They give us a bunch of bad options and we are led to believe we made the best “choice” we could..Sometimes it’s best to choose nothing..I’d rather not choose than be left with nothing but bad options..

Cheers

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:31:48 +0000

@greenknight333
Thats a good point. My favorite example of that comes from South Park. A couple of years ago they had an episode where Stan’s school was changing mascots, and the kids were supposed to vote to choose who they wanted. The two choices? A giant douche and a turd sandwich. Clearly a nod towards the real life elections we face all the time, yes we have a choice, but the choices are not always good.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:12:22 +0000

Free will may bite the big one but there will always be a choice.. just probably a bad choice and a really bad choice

By: INK

INK — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:25:27 +0000

@Ken J

Open that can and this thread will quickly become have the largest comment count on the site. Even though I agree, let’s not. Or did I just turn the opener a little more?

By: Ken J

Ken J — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:20:39 +0000

Well greenknight, enjoy your free will while you can. Something tells me we will have much less of it in the near future. Call me psychic if it happens.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:10:34 +0000

Remakes are going to happen and we have two choices to see them or not..Isn’t free will grand?

By: INK

INK — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:46:46 +0000

I loved the original DTESS. I’m still not sure about seeing this one in the theaters.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:13:47 +0000

Well we’re giving away the original “Day the Earth Stood Still” here on the site.

Vic

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:21:35 +0000

I may not like it, but I do understand. But you understand my point. My belief is that if you are doing a remake/reboot,you should at the very least establish some sort of recognition to the orignal.
I once had this awesome idea of starting up a theatre and showing a wide range of older films, long past their orginal release dates. But there is simply no market for something like, espcially with the advances in DVD technology (ie Blue Ray).So i totally know what you are saying, belive me I did the research.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:00:49 +0000

Well, if it’s not profitable, there’s no logical reason for them to do it. You don’t start and run a business to NOT make money you know…

And you do understand that movie theaters actually have to kind of buy or rent the movies in order to play them right? So they most likely wouldn’t do that unless they think they can make back the money in ticket sales. At least that’s how I think they do it…

But either way, if you’re running a business you’re not going to intentionally do things that you know will not make you any money… That’s just dumb.

By: Metallicat79

Metallicat79 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:07:27 +0000

I think I mentioned this already in Jon’s aforementioned site with regards to remakes/reboots. My theory is that it is ok to remake/reboot a film or film franchise, but what studios should do is release the orginal’s along with the remake/reboots, this, I belive, will help the younger generation(s) understand that the remake that they are watching is not the orginal.
However, since most, if not all, studios consist of Nazi money grabbing buttheads, they won’t, because it will distract from the new finished product that they are trying to market. (insert profanities here).

By: Wiseass

Wiseass — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:14:34 +0000

@Vic

Yeah, sorry Boss.

@Charles Darwin

Sorry Charles, couldn’t help myself.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:20:54 +0000

Actually my first thought was that Charles Darwin came back because he MISSED us!

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:53:17 +0000

LOL, be nice, boys. If CD wants to contribute to the site in a civil manner he is more than welcome.

Vic

By: Ken J

Ken J — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:45:15 +0000

Come on wise, charles darwin wannabe is trying to do his part and be generous to help out this website and keep it alive by visiting it. Don’t you know Vic was so scared when he heard he was not coming back that he was shaking in his boots? I mean, I was nervous, I like this site, but when he said he wasn’t coming back, I realized how fragile it is and that it could be over in a heartbeat. We should cherish the time we have and hope Darwin keeps coming back to keep this site alive. I mean, man, he’s so important, we can’t afford for him to not come back and read Vic’s reviews. Who knows what kind of ripple effect that might have on other movie sites…

By: Wiseass

Wiseass — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:36:23 +0000

@Charles Darwin

Didn’t you post in the Punisher: War Zone section about never coming back? What happened? Did you get lost?