Michael Bay to Remake "The Exorcist"

[Otto]

@Stranger On A Train

Well, I do think that he couldn’t do anything to make Pretty Woman any worse. And I’ll admit to a little curiosity about Bay’s take on the American Civil War, which would no doubt include cruise missiles, supersonic stratobombers, and large-bosomed women wielding Desert Eagle pistols in each hand. Now, if he can just work the wisecracking team of Martin Lawrence and Will Smith into the storyline somehow, it might be a hit.

Don’t let him touch Lawrence of Arabia, though.

Dude, you would totally go see Martin Lawrence of Arabia and you know it.

[Dr.Rieux]

According to this week’s Variety, Peter Berg is going to direct another remake of Dune.

[Tuckerfan]

@Eyebrows 0f Doom

Oh come on people! It’s clearly an April Fools Joke.

Funny thing is, I heard about it on a podcast recorded well before April First (and it was downloaded a couple of days ago). Bay is going to be making Rosemary’s Baby, and the other films listed are going to be remade. So if it’s a prank, it’s a good one. On par with Kieth Richards snorting his dad’s ashes.

[Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup]

@Baldwin

Sorry; that was overly harsh and sounded like a personal comment. I should have just said, “We don’t all like a steady diet of moronic shit, and I kinda wish that those $150 million budgets wouldn’t keep getting wasted on said moronic shit when there are so many good scripts going unproduced.” That’s better.

To which I have two replies:

1. I also liked Eastern Promises and Juno. However, no matter how highbrow one pretends to be, there is something universally entertaining about a movie that can be reviewed with the phrase, “shit blowed up real good.”

2. “Moronic shit” is a value judgment. And being “entertained” is as valid a want as being “touched” or “challenged” or what have you. And while you could make thousands of Clerks with $150M, the world doesn’t need thousands of Clerks.

Just because I enjoy explosions doesn’t mean I enjoy explosions exclusively.

@Marley23

Not everybody is as entertained by stuff blowing up as you are, and even aside from that his directing style sucks. I think fight sequences suck when you can’t even tell who’s hitting who because the cuts are too fast and random.

Just because you or anyone else doesn’t understand the joy of shit blowing up real good, that still doesn’t justify the hate for Bay.

And what you think will keep a seat in the theater empty for me, who can keep up with the action.

Stuff blowing up is cool, Marley. No two ways around that.

Secondary to that premise is the necessary conclusion that stuff blowing up for no reason is also cool.

Right, awesome Verizon guy?

[Freudian_Slit]

I have to admit, I’d rather see Michael Bay’s “The Other Boleyn Girl” than the original.

[Marley23]

@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup

Just because you or anyone else doesn’t understand the joy of shit blowing up real good, that still doesn’t justify the hate for Bay.

Unfortunately I think you skated over the actual meaning of my post: there’s other stuff in the world besides explosions, and even if you like stuff blowing up now and then - I’m not allergic to it - there’s still reason to think he’s a crappy, unskilled director.

I admit I’m not really amused by the Verizon ads. Michael Bay still sucks even if he admits it and pretends to be cool with it.