This is why this film was made. The original is not that well known. Although I think the scene where Jimmy is trying to test start the engin with the gun is one of most intense scenes on film.
It is the Kauffman Starter. And remember Mr Townes we have only 7 cartridges to start the engine. Otherwise my work will have been wasted.
Uh, didn’t that trailer just give away the entire plot to the film?
YOUR theory? Plagiarist. Try “just about everyone’s theory”. 
And it’s half-right… the critical flaw in it is the fact that nine remakes out of ten either attempt to re-do either, A: a movie that was close enough to perfect to begin with, or B: a cult classic which still won’t appeal to general audiences and alienates True Fans for tampering with the original.
What Hollywood directors SHOULD do is find stinkeroo movies that just blew chunky-fried chunks and update THOSE… salvage what little good bits there are and patch over the bad. I plan on redoing The Matrix in fifty years for that same reason… first change? Nix the Duracell!
Ocean’s Eleven. God, that orginal sucked.
Are you insane? Dennis Quaid is profoundly yummy and getting yummier as he ages.
The original FotP is one of my dad’s favorite movies, but I’ve never seen it because I don’t much care for James Stewart (blasphemy, I know), so I never took the trouble to seek it out.
I can’t find “Sands of the Kalahari” anywhere. I want to see scary baboons dammit.
I agree. Of all the movies that could be remade, why this one? It just doesn’t have anything compelling about it. Seems like they’re hoping to play off the “Lost” theme, but I suspicious about any movie that has to be advertised this much-- obviously the studio is afraid it’ll be a bomb, and they should know!
Doesn’t it end with him getting kinky with the baboons or something?
Well, you can always come to my family reunion…
Oh I laughed.
That was something about the original I will never forgive, though the plane really did fly, sorta. These modern CGI extravaganzas deserve a Pitting.
The preview I saw implied Ribisi is still designing models.
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I also think that Ribisi’s character would have to be a model aircraft designer. If you look at Pochacco’s posting (in the spoiler box), that type of occupation would not require any knowledge of aerodynamics. I thought that maybe they might change the model plane designer into a designer of “the big stuff” but then that leaves no surprise twist. Basically I think they are just refilming the same story. Also, if they got two stars of the film to talk about it during an episode of “Lost”, I’d say the studio is desperately worried that it will bomb, which it probably will.
They’ve also got Quaid hosting a 'Wing Nuts" marathon on the Discovery channel, I think they are very worried.
Backwards: Original great, remake bad. One of the best movie endings ever. Great theme song by Sammy Davis Jr. etc. The remake had nothing.
I think any one of us could’ve told them it was going to bomb. It has BOMB stamped on its forehead.
And of course Ribisi needs to be a model designer. He needs the skills so he can the Superego and Quaid needs the to be the dispassionate Ego to protect Ribisi from the other men, the mindless and primitive Id, just as he needs to be younger than Quaid so the triumph of Oedipus over Laius can be fulfilled.
Jeeze, when was the last time you saw a movie that blatantly Freudian? 
That was a reference to the WKRP episode.
::Mumbles about people screwing up a perfectly good joke::
Well, at least we’re all agreed it’s either one thing or the complete opposite. :smack:
Perhaps especially because they can’t hope to make up the production costs by selling it to the airline market. It won’t see a third weekend in the theaters, or even ever appear on a TV channel number with less than 3 digits. And I’ve only seen the trailer.
There was no reason to make this flick. None. Why do the studios pull this shit, anyway?
Cashing in on the rah! rah! America craze. I mean we’ve got a bunch of kids over in a couple of desolate places (Afghanistan and Iraq) who want to come home. What better way to capitalize on circumstances than to have movie where a plane full of them crash in the desert and have to fight off guys with turbans and horses while being clever. Look! Our boys are tough and resourceful, why they can even go though local dumps to find armor for their humvees.