# They're remaking "When Worlds Collide" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221 "2009-05-03T23:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/21 "2009-05-04T12:13:52Z")
I liked the new Mummy films. I would have like Van Helsing a lot better if it & the character had been named something else. A few years ago, wasn’t Spielberg going to do When Worlds Collide? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/22 "2009-05-04T12:59:07Z")
I get what you mean CalMeacham. Personally, I’d love to see the world of Cordwainer Smith brought to the screen in a respectful way, but that’s never going to happen. I hope this is good. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > By the way, I loved Van Helsing – but for all the wrong reasons. I think it’s spectacular Badfilm. Ha, well, I never said it was a great movie, I said it was awesome and I loved it. It’s just so much damned fun! My husband and I got into the goofy mindset of it right away and had a grand old time. I love my husband. There are more than enough Serious Dramas about vampires, Dracula, Frankenstein and the character of Van Helsing, a laugh about them is needed every now and then. This isn’t anywhere near as good as Young Frankenstein, but it belongs on the same shelf, and I think it’s better than at least the 2nd and 3rd Mummy movies. I’d have to see the first one again to jog my memory about it. I remember enjoying it, but not as much as I remember enjoying Van Helsing. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/23 "2009-05-04T13:36:34Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Personally, I’d love it if it were set in the 1930s. (Requiring, as in the book, just the major technological leap of atomic rocket power. That would be major-league cool. 😃 So, of course, they won’t do it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/24 "2009-05-04T14:27:05Z")
Is it not possible that Sommers just likes the story or the '51 movie as a fan, and wants to re/make it from that perspective? I think something along those lines comes through with his other B movie remakes/homages. Not saying they’re all _good_, but I quite enjoy both _Mummy_ movies and _Van Helsing_. Or maybe I just enjoy Rachel Weisz and Kate Beckinsale. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/25 "2009-05-04T14:36:37Z")
Well, that news just gave me some terrible thrills. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/26 "2009-05-04T16:04:49Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > …they start fighting to get on . Someone pushes the rich guy away and runs on the ship. As it starts to take off he stands up and walks away from his chair… > [@equipoise](#): > > yep, this always bothered me. Starting all over with the kinds of assholes who would fight and push away a disabled man to get on the ship. Yeah, the guy was a fuckhead, to be sure, and we all cheered, but still… Actually, in the movie, Professor Hendron had decided that he and Sidney Stanton were going to stay behind. As the rioting workers storm the gates at the bottom of the loading ramp, Hendron throws the switch to retract the gangplank and releases the rocket from it’s moorings. Stanton goes into a rage, rises up from his wheelchair and takes a step. He realizes he can walk as the ship slides away down the launch ramp. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221/27 "2009-05-04T17:30:35Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Why, in the name of pluperfect Hell, do they keep remaking old science fiction movies, instead of making new movies of newer books (or even older, unfilmed books)? If you really want a theory, I was thinking special effects have improved while restraint has not increased, and that’s similar to the climate that inspired much of the original science fiction, when the public was wondering about the limits of technological growth without restraint. Either that or it’s just another moviemaker capitalizing on the name recognition of the source property. > [@](#): > > I’ll bet most Gen-Xers have never even heard of it. Gen-Xers aren’t the audience. They’re all, or mostly, their 30s, and the audience for this movie would be younger. > [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Well, that news just gave me some terrible thrills. :tips hat: Thank you, **Hal Briston**. The “When Worlds Collide” joke is possibly my favorite one in the movie. And it’s also the only reason I’ve heard of the movie in the first place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-remaking-when-worlds-collide/495221.md?page=1)