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#167635
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Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter Note bolds. These movies do not suck; they are campily self-aware, and targeted at both adults and children. I could point to numerous examples of this in each, but it would take too long.


Well, I know they don't suck (and I love them), but I found them in like the $5 bin at the store and they didn't do all that hot at the box office. I wonder if that is just because America has poor taste in films and want to spend their money on things like "Jurassic Park 3," "DOOM: The movie," "Alien vs. Predator," "Rumor Has It." My god...I can't believe it. Hollywood is so desperate for film material that they are using an older, more sucsessful movie to be the base line for their new movie. A movie based on a movie is not a good sign.

You just hit the nail on the head.
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#167277
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Movies you enjoy even though you know they're bad
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
These movies either really suck, or are just really lame - yet I still love them. A lot.

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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
The PowerPuff Girl Movie
Minority Report
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (I know that the only reason I love this movie is because Mark Hamill is in it.)
Pearl Harbor
Space Camp (I once watched this movie 5 times in one day)
Twister

Note bolds. These movies do not suck; they are campily self-aware, and targeted at both adults and children. I could point to numerous examples of this in each, but it would take too long.

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#165820
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The truth about remakes...
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Originally posted by: greencapt
As not to get my blood pressure up this morning...

Here's my personal rule of thumb for remakes:

If you set out to remake a MOVIE (basing your remake on the original film), its probably a bad idea. If you are going back to the source material (book, etc) and trying to do what you think is a better job then you *might* be ok (or even if it sucks your heart might be in the right place.)



I'll concur. One thying I would love to see is a remake of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. As much as I enjoyed Blade Runner, I'd love to see what a talented filmmaker like Darren Aronofsky could do with the source material. Of course, I'll probably get crucified for this suggestion. I still feel that for all of its visual inventiveness, Blade Runner suffers one fatal flaw: Ridley Scott and his screenwriters didn't "get" the book.
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#165759
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The truth about remakes...
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I have to say that one of the best remakes I've seen recently was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I watched it with the kids last night and was impressed by how it successfully incorporated elements of the novel that had been left out in the previous version. I know a lot of people complained about the direction in which Johnny Depp took the Willy Wonka character, and while I may not agree with some of the decisions he made as an actor, it was not enough to negate the rest of the film.

Simply put: Well done, Tim Burton; I can finally forgive you for what you did to Planet of the Apes.

With respect to the issue of other greedy remake eras, there have been films that have been remade on several occasions (The Maltese Falcon, anyone?), but not on the same wholesale scale as the current era. Hollywood really needs to start looking outside for more novel ideas. The success of independent film in recent years shows that.
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#165448
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Noooo! "Westworld" remake initiated by Schwarzenegger in 2003?!
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Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
Why doesn't Hollywood merely re-release the old films again? That'd be more honest in my opinion - and cheaper (And I'd get to see it in a theater).

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Because they think no one will go see a movie in theatres when it's already out on DVD. For the most part, they're correct, but I miss the old days when theatres would grab a group of films on rerelease and organize marathons and festivals with 'em. New Line tried this a couple years back with the LOTR movies, but no one's had the cojones since.

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#164784
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
I hate it when I can't find a film in widescreen format.


So do I. Except when it's supposed to be in fullscreen (some of Kubrick's).

MYTH! Kubrick only insisted that some of his films only be available on video in 1.33:1 because he was disgusted with the alternatives (pan-and-scan, which destroyed his compositions, and letterbox, which preserved the compositions at a reduced resolution [at the time]).