It’s with great trepidation that I wait for the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123.
I saw the preview a month ago, and I knew what they were doing in the first second of the trailer. I couldn’t believe that they were doing a remake - the original was so great.
I’m sure it’s going to suck.
sigh
Shall I throw in the recent Friday the 13th remake? I can’t decide if that, or the recent Terminator is the worst movie I’ve seen this year. I was drunk for Friday the 13th, and it still bored me to the point of tears. Horror movies aren’t supposed to bore you when you’re drunk!
I love this youtube video of Nicolas Cage being forced to watch scenes from the Wicker Man. Excellent mashup.
Even today, The Women remains a very sharp and very funny satire. The Women, however, is
( and that’s one of the more charitable reviews)
Okay, given real life, ya gotta admit that Tony might actually LIKE holding Vince’s jock, though he would prefer holding what’s inside it. 
New twist?
Soylent Green is made outta dogs.
I know it hasn’t come out yet but The Land of the Lost remake isn’t looking too good.
Really. Denzel vs Matthau? Maybe. Travolta Alone vs Robert Shaw (fresh off “Jaws” and “The Sting”), Martin Balsam (not entirely fresh off “Psycho,” but still in the game), Hector Elizondo (who can be a real DIS-credit to his ethnicity, if he’s asked), and Earl Hindman (a workman-like actor, and completely wasted on Home Improvement, unlike Travolta, who walked through his roles on Kotter and “Saturday Night Fever” and hasn’t been forced to act since…EVER?)?
Read the book. Hell, I also read the abridgement in Playboy. Saw the flick. All worked. The 1998 Made for TV worked pretty well, again because of the cast.
The new movie? Again, Travolta has to carry the weight of four characters when he can’t even carry one? Seems pointless. Buy the book and/or rent the original. It’ll probably be cheaper than two tickets to the new one.
I would nominate The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, except that it never was remade. Never, do you hear me?! sob Never!
Which remake:- the novel, the TV series or the LP? Thank goodness it remains unsullied by Hollywood.
I’m skittish because while the book and original Pelham movie were taut minimalist thrillers, this new version looks like yet another opportunity for Travolta to play out his fantasy of being a master criminal with plans absurd in their complexity and carrrrrrrrrazy psycho charm, as he did in Battlefield Earth, Swordfish and to a lesser extent Broken Arrow.
I look forward to reading the summary on moviespoiler.com out of curiosity to see what pointless changes they made, but I won’t be paying to see the movie.
Fame has a September release date. We’ll see what happens.
Not quite 'nuff just yet … you’ve (understandably) forgotten Havana.
According to Wikipedia, all four characters remain separate. I guess they’re pushing Travolta since he’s the biggest name among the hijackers.
“The Invasion” (2007) is incredibly bad, the worst of the lot by far. Like you, I think that Kaufman’s version is underrated, unlike you, I can’t see the point of Ferrara’s interpretation … or rather, it didn’t work.
When people already act like pods, there is no horror when they suddenly … act like pods. That’s why the scenes around the little boy are, in contrast, quite disturbing: when we follow him to day care and all the children are so well behaved, controlled and silent, you get how alien they have become, and - more importantly - how much they have lost.
Then he has to watch his mother turn into a pod, his father dismisses his terror as a nightmare and asks him the next morning whether he wanted to stay with mommy or go back to day care … trapped, helpless and not taken seriously – classic horror.
Btw, we also had some Meg Tilly nudity … but since that’s a given, I see why you didn’t mention it explicitly.
I beg to differ.
Stephen King is a hack, except for “Salem´s Lot”; Kubrick was a hack with no saving grace (and yes, I hold him responsable for AI too).
I didn’t read the book… well not past page 20 anyway but I saw both movies and the tv version was much better IMHO.
HBC could have been a decent Zira. They can’t call it PotA without Zira, Cornelius & Dr. Zaius.
And I’m sorry- as much as I love the Alastair Sim ACC, Patrick Stewart is a very close second. And the Muppets version & the musical Scrooge are just great fun!
But the revisioning ones have gone waaaay too far.
Btw, The Wicker Man wins the thread. But The Hills Have Eyes was close.
Oh yeah- and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein? He was just phoning it in compared to the great Charles Ogle!!!
That last one was a joke
The Producers
I haven’t read much by King; “It” is, imo, a well done horror tale, apart from the ending (which seems to be King’s Achilles’ heel, if I heard correctly). But all in all, I can’t say much about his writing, inventiveness and originality.
But I’ve watched every Kubrick movie … and “hack” isn’t a term, I’d ever use to describe his work. So, I’m seriously curious what makes you say that? Why is Kubrick a “hack”?
Any Steve Martin remake is a guaranteed to shit-dom:
Father of the Bride
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Pink Panther