No one mentioned the truly horrible “The Truth About Charlie”? I mean, “Charade” is one of my absolute favorite movies, and that remake was just a travesty.
The 1999 version of “The Haunting” taught us that the antonym of “wisdom” is “bontness.”
Just heard on the radio this morning that a remake of “Slap Shot” is going into production.
Where are they going to find dopey-looking triplet hockey goons to play the Hansons?
But more to the point, WHY?!?!?
I usually don’t mind Hanks but I think The Ladykillers remake would’ve been considerably better if the CBs’ had cast Christopher Walken (or even Kevin Spacey) in that role. Having Steve Buscemi as one of the gang would not have hurt either.
The Hansons make a good living making appearances at hockey games even today. They could do it if necessary.
They’ll probably rewrite the roles and give it to the other Hansons or the Jonas brothers. twitch
The first Imitation of Life (1934) is an okay movie that is a little interesting for its era. Sirk’s 1959 Imitation of Life is a masterpiece and among the best movies ever made.
Generally, I really don’t have a problem with remakes. If the people involved have a good story or an interesting take on an existing story, I’d love to see it. Unfortunately, the powers that be, grab any name that is known and then build a half assed story around it.
For example, Tim Burtons Planet of the Apes was dreadful. They could have done several things to make it better. They could have followed the book the story was based on which would have been one way. One idea I think could have worked is to take the story that Stalin had tried to create an army of ape/human hybrids during his rule. It didn’t create the army he wanted, but deep in Siberia, the few “successes” of the project were still around.
Much later, the decedents of colonizers on another planet return to earth to find the ape hybrids in control then learn that it was humans playing in “gods domain” that caused the humans to lose their position as top dog on earth.
I may not have explained that well, and the idea may suck, but it can’t be any worse that what we ended up seeing.
As for the Pink Panther, when I see Martin do his Clouseau it looks to me, like some guy trying to do a cheesy french impression. I don’t by him as a “real” person. They should have introduced a completely new characters. I think they were on the right path with Revenge of the Pink Panther and having a totally new detective. Unfortunately, the story didn’t evolve, they basically did the Sellers character with someone else and the results were crap.
And this differs from the original how? I have zero interest in the remake and the sequel, but Peter Sellers was pure Velveeta. Funny, but cheesy.
Yes, in fact I did notice what the IMDB page says.
It also says that Khel is a remake of both BS and DRS.
Khel Plot : Khel (1992) - Plot - IMDb
Movie connections : Khel (1992) - Connections - IMDb
Is this reliable information? I see almost no connection in the plot, except for a con man saying he hasn’t eaten for days. Other than that, no connection.
I don’t find the supposed movie connections very plausible, sometimes. Quite often, in fact. This is one of them.
Am I the first to mention Woodstock?
Get the Phelps brothers from Harry Potter to play hockey and find a lookalike. The original Hanson brothers weren’t played by real triplets, anyway.
Scarily, they’re remaking Bonnie and Clyde with . . . Hilary Duff. See the scathing article in the Sun Times.
There. Is. No. God.
That article specificially says its not a remake. In fact, the whole blurb seems to be little more than an excuse to slam Hillary Duff and falsely credit the catty remark to Faye Dunaway.
I don’t necessarily give the entire blame to Burton for the pedestrian quality of the POTA “re-imagining.” A lot of it had to do with Fox’s executive meddling and the pressure to quickly produce a $100M+ action/sci-fi epic just before a seemingly-unavoidable combined writer & actor strike was going to shut down Hollywood for months. Of course, the dual strike ended up being averted so the rush job turned out to be for nothing.
In any case, even going back to the first series, the POTA movies seem to have a tradition of not fully exploiting the possibilites offered in their central premise.
Which one? Musically, I thought the 1994 one was pretty good. However, the one they did in 1999 was a fiasco.
I probably didn’t explain it very well, but I do agree that Sellers was cheesy. I just wanted to say that in spite of that, when I watch him, I see Clouseau. With Martin, I see him “doing” Clouseau, rather than the character of Clouseau being performed by the actor. Not sure this makes any sense, but can’t think of another way to put it right now.
The question is, will it be Ghostbusters III or Ghostbusters II II?
It could be done with an otherwise new crew if Bill Murray agreed to star in it as ghost.
We may need a second thread to rip apart reboots of movies, such as “The Mummy” and the imminent “Wolfman”.
I would have enjoyed the former much more if it had a different title.
I’ll say the Dune mini-series was needless. It had a chance at expanding on the DeLaurentiis movie but they went cheap by filming in Prague and using nearly unwatchable costumes. Add William (Movie-Ruiner) Hurt and you got crap.
I’m nervous about the new Dune movie.
Several of the ones I’d list have already been named – The Pink Panther, Charade, Planet of the Apes, Psycho
I’ll add:
Flight of the Phoenix – the original with Jimmy Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, and Ernest Borgnine was perfect. Why redo it?
The Day the Earth Stood Still – haven’t seen the remake yet, but from what I’ve seen, I dont see the point. The original is a rare example of a good science fiction flick.
Manhunter --Michael Mann’s first take on Thomas Harris’ novel was compelling and great. Did we need to remake it just so Anthon Hopkins could play Hannibal Lector in it?
The Day of the Jackal – Fred Zinneman’s version was perfect. Why remake it and screw it up?
I’ll disagree with the earlier post about King Kong – I loved Jackson’s film. It wasn’t pointless – it was a considerable re-imagining of the original, especially interesting for how it re-imagines Carl Denham, Ann Darrow, Captain Engelhorn, the Venture itself, and Jack Driscoll – not to mention Kong himself. The special effects were gorgeous, but the screenplay was incredible itself. If you want to see a pointless remake, look at the 1976 travesty with its Lorenzo Semple script.