After watching the original Hellraiser with the SO recently I’ve decided it was just way ahead of its time. Crappy movies like Hostel and The Ring show how far horror movies have come in terms of setting and mood.
Make it less corny and more evil and it has the potential to be one of the creepiest, nastiest horror movies ever made.
The Most Dangerous Game and Sunset Boulevard
I don’t have a link, but Clive supposedly is preparing a remake.
You know, a remake of THE WICKER MAN set in a remote area of the U.S. would be interesting. A very religious cop, maybe Baptist or Catholic, & a free-love
New Age/neo-Pagan enclave that seems much happier & easy-going than the cop… but the worst thing would be a tragedy-haunted self-help-tape-addicted Nicolas Cage vs an Amish-Womynist commune. Thank God that’ll never get made!
Will Smith!!! Arrrghhh… ok I want a do over!!!
Actually Running man is a good idea… It* was a perfect comment on “reality TV” which is odd since it preceeded those programs.
Now, done right, it would be great Satire
*The book not the gawdawful Film.
That’s interesting. The dvd we rented had an interview with Clive in which, at the very beginning, he said something along the lines of, “And hopefully this will be the last I ever have to talk about this damn movie…” When I heard that I figured he was totally off-board with Hellraiser anymore. I haven’t kept up with it all so I’m probably way wrong.
As long as they’re doing adaptations of 1980s cartoons, why don’t they make a good version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe? One set on Eternia rather than Earth. And with Orko, dammit!
What about The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?
I bet they’d screw it up, as with the horrible film version of The Avengers.
Spider-Man 3. The previous two were so good that it seems a shame this turned out to be such a hit-and-miss affair. Give them a second chance and they might get it right.
Ditto Superman Returns. Ditch the clumsy and utterly impossible task of trying to make it somehow segue with the Chris Reeve movies. Just start over and have fun bringing the story up to date for a new generation.
Ditto the first Fantastic Four movie. Dunno about the forthcoming sequel, but the first one was a severe disappointment on so many different levels. Shame. It could have been, well… fantastic.
Ditto the appalling Thunderbirds live action movie from a few years back. Do not make it into ‘Spy Kids’. Do not get it directed by an American who doesn’t understand the national treasure he’s handling and besmirching, let alone one from a tired sci-fi TV show. Do keep Gerry Anderson on board as a creative constultant with some real input, such that he’ll be happy to endorse the finished product.
You see, I don’t think it’s just old movies that need remaking.
I’ll bet you anything the remake replaces the white suits and black gas masks with modern military NBC suits and camo, which simply do not look as striking. This isn’t an idea I just came up with on my own - people on the IMDb forum for the Crazies remake were suggesting it. But I agreed with it as soon as I read it.
I am totally against the idea of remakes. I can’t think of a single remake that I’ve preferred to the original version.
I just finished reading 'Mildred Pierce" and was telling a friend about it. She asked if it could be remade as a movie today since sex is more acceptable. I asked whether she meant a retro piece like “LA Story” or “Black Dahlia” or a contemporized version. She picked contempory so I retold the story to her as played in NYC with a black family. You know, it worked. (I was rather proud of my version, it starred Queen Latifah as Mildred, Bernie Mack as Burt Pierce and Will Smith as Monty Burgeron.)
You heard it here.
So, I take it you’re not a big fan of The Maltese Falcon?
**]The Malese Falcon
Moby Dick
The Ten Commandments
The Man Who Knew Too Much ** (YMMV)
**The Lord of the Rings
King Kong** (Comparing Jackson to diLaurentiis)
I can only think of one. Cape Fear.
If by “slightly” you mean “in no way whatsoever”, you would be correct.
I liked The Thomas Crowne Affair remake much more than the original.
For some reason I always think that Ewan McGregor would be good in a remake of Sunset Blvd.
OK, you’ve got me there. But I can’t think of any remake released in my movie-going lifetime that wasn’t a shameless butchery of the original.
I discussed this in another thread awhile back but I thought that if they ever had the chutzpah to remake Sunset Boulevard, it should be set in the music industry with the two main roles gender-switched. The “Norma Desmond” of this version would be a legendary but now reclusive rock star from the 60’s (sort of a composite of Bob Dylan, Phil Spector, and late-stage Elvis) who fosters delusions that he’s still relevant. The “Joe Gillis” character would be a struggling singer-songwriter who, by accident, finds her way into burnt-out rock star’s house with tragedy ensuing.
(Of course, I suggested this before Spector’s current legal troubles. Thus, one could almost say this idea for a remake has been overtaken by reality and made redundant.)