Another pointless remake on the cards?
Another pointless remake on the cards?
The West London of my youth is now on dvd
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"Filming is due to start in Miami in 2008 under the direction of Paul W S Anderson, who made Resident Evil."
It doesn't bear thinking about.
It doesn't bear thinking about.
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Oh dear....Remember the US remake of Get Carter?
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Yes Jack, may god forgive them.
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Looks like another good film thats going to be fucked up !thumbsdown!
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Arginald Valleywater
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Please no. It will end up as a PR exercise for Irish Americans.
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Why do they bother?
Originality IS out there........ when you see a film as superb as Pan's Labytrinth or Sin City, the talent is there to make things happen.
Yet....... we still get fed remade guff, which violates the memory of a previously good film.
In rare cases, depending on your stance, the remake can actually be superb, eg The Fly, The Thing, but for the most part the a remake just makes you revisit the original.
Why there was remakes of The Wicker Man and Get Carter, I'll never know. Not just from a critical standpoint: these were superb films in the first instance. A modernisation of each wasn't merited; additionally, these films are nigh-on 30 years old!!! Sure, remakes and spinoffs of Chaplin, Frankenstein, Dracula, Nosferatu et al.... I understand (just), as they are in excess of 60 years old and may need brought to the attention of a new generation via The Hallowed Remake.
To remake relatively recent films is stupid. Then again the majority of Americans are stupid, as is America itself. Hollywood, an ugly manifestion of all things wrong with America, is the town of the vain, the silly, the stupid. Remakes come out of the arse-end of Hollywood.
Hollywood might rape the likes of It's A Wonderful Life, Casablanca, or even Ben-Hur soon. You never know.
They'd remake The Shawshank Redemption, even Spiderman 3 !laugh!, (Spiderman 3 2) tomorrow if they could.
Hollywoooooooooooooood, fuck, yeah!!
Originality IS out there........ when you see a film as superb as Pan's Labytrinth or Sin City, the talent is there to make things happen.
Yet....... we still get fed remade guff, which violates the memory of a previously good film.
In rare cases, depending on your stance, the remake can actually be superb, eg The Fly, The Thing, but for the most part the a remake just makes you revisit the original.
Why there was remakes of The Wicker Man and Get Carter, I'll never know. Not just from a critical standpoint: these were superb films in the first instance. A modernisation of each wasn't merited; additionally, these films are nigh-on 30 years old!!! Sure, remakes and spinoffs of Chaplin, Frankenstein, Dracula, Nosferatu et al.... I understand (just), as they are in excess of 60 years old and may need brought to the attention of a new generation via The Hallowed Remake.
To remake relatively recent films is stupid. Then again the majority of Americans are stupid, as is America itself. Hollywood, an ugly manifestion of all things wrong with America, is the town of the vain, the silly, the stupid. Remakes come out of the arse-end of Hollywood.
Hollywood might rape the likes of It's A Wonderful Life, Casablanca, or even Ben-Hur soon. You never know.
They'd remake The Shawshank Redemption, even Spiderman 3 !laugh!, (Spiderman 3 2) tomorrow if they could.
Hollywoooooooooooooood, fuck, yeah!!
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Why bother taking a risk with originality and innovation when you can just recycle something ? Around the time that 'The Departed' came out last year the original played on C4. As much as i've admired Scorcese's films I watched 'Infernal Affairs' and felt no need to go and see The Departed. 'Infernal Affairs' was great and doubtless a lot more subtle than 'The Departed' ... so why bother ?
A lot of what made 'The Long Good Friday' a good film was of it's time. The brit gangster thing in films hadn't been seen for a few years by then, there was the IRA aspect, and the urban redevelopment/docklands angle. How is that going to translate to Miami? Okay, I know that's not the point .. it's not a 'sacred text' and they can do what they like with it, but all the money I could spend on 'The Long Good Friday Mk2' is staying in my pocket and will be spent on a cinematic experience which hasn't been predigested.
A lot of what made 'The Long Good Friday' a good film was of it's time. The brit gangster thing in films hadn't been seen for a few years by then, there was the IRA aspect, and the urban redevelopment/docklands angle. How is that going to translate to Miami? Okay, I know that's not the point .. it's not a 'sacred text' and they can do what they like with it, but all the money I could spend on 'The Long Good Friday Mk2' is staying in my pocket and will be spent on a cinematic experience which hasn't been predigested.
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The Last Word
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Well at least it might draw peoples attention to the original, which for those who haven't seen it would be no bad thing.
More depressing news: Invasion, the third Body Snatchers remake with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, is said to be shockingly bad. I love the original and other two versions (they make a fine trilogy), so this I'm dreading. Out this summer.
More depressing news: Invasion, the third Body Snatchers remake with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, is said to be shockingly bad. I love the original and other two versions (they make a fine trilogy), so this I'm dreading. Out this summer.
"Let's do it..."
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Any remake of The Long Good Friday will be a bag of shite.
London's docklands were a key component of the film, lose them and you lose the whole point. Plus, the idea was that Britain was in deep shit (true, it was made in 1979), and that only a gangster like Harold Shand, with the help of the Mob, had the balls to try and turn it round. If you get rid of all that context what do you have? A few explosions and a bit of shooting.
Not all remakes are rubbish though. The version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland was excellent, better than the original in my view, and a genuinely frightening film. But as a rule of thumb, if the original film was brilliant, any remake will be shite. Who would want to see a remake of Bullitt, or Goodfellas?
London's docklands were a key component of the film, lose them and you lose the whole point. Plus, the idea was that Britain was in deep shit (true, it was made in 1979), and that only a gangster like Harold Shand, with the help of the Mob, had the balls to try and turn it round. If you get rid of all that context what do you have? A few explosions and a bit of shooting.
Not all remakes are rubbish though. The version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland was excellent, better than the original in my view, and a genuinely frightening film. But as a rule of thumb, if the original film was brilliant, any remake will be shite. Who would want to see a remake of Bullitt, or Goodfellas?