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Except the reason why Blade Runner-like cityscapes were in Episode 2 was because Episode 2 was referencing Blade Runner.
I don't dislike Fifth Element, but I'm still sick of flying car chases. I was mostly thinking of the scenes where the city is in the background looking fake (through a window or balcony or whatever) and unconsciously drawing you out of the movie anyway though. The chase scene from episode 2 does look more like bladerunner (darker, but still cg fake looking), but it's completely ruined by the stupidly silly things going on that I guess I'd not noticed. Not that I am terribly impressed by it anyway, the days of being impressed by those types of special effects are fairly over.
I give leniency to Total Recall as a remake, because they are both based on the same short story (which neither perfectly hits). Both have the same premise, but neither follows the actual plot of the story, which is fine, I'm not trying to detract from them.
I'd love a Bladerunner "remake" under that definition though, maybe one a little truer to the book. : ) Bladerunner is based on a novel written by Phillip K. Dick, who coincidentally wrote the short story both Total Recalls are based on (fun fact of the day).
I'd like a remake of The Seven Samurai or The Maltese Falcon.
A) The original came at a time where the special effects were groundbreaking. Today, we're saturated with cg/digital effects. No "wow" factor.
B) When you can't milk the effects, the performances of your cast have to be even better, and I just don't see anyone today that can fill Ford's, or Hauer's shoes.
C) 95% chance Studio makes it PG-13 aimed at bringing in the teens, with Channing Tatum, Tyrese Gibson, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Jaden Smith, Jesse Eisenberg or other such bull****
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Well, I wouldn't want a Hollywood blockbuster remake. My favorite part about Bladerunner is the fact they mostly stayed true to how Phillip K. Dick writes his main characters. They are usually a little grizzled, middle-aged, sometimes a little overweight, and they're almost always jaded to the way society is being run. Harrison Ford delivered the grizzled, hard-boiled andy hunter from the book. We'd need an actor to fit that bill, someone like Vigo Mortensen, Liam Neeson, or maybe a Baldwin that is good at acting.
I don't think I'd like Ridley Scott to direct a remake, even if he is the go-to science fiction master of the cinema. Joss Whedon, while a good director would probably be the kind of guy a studio would get to direct a big budget blockbuster, so he is out. I'd probably go with Alex Proyas, the director of I, Robot, Dark City, and The Crow. He's a director that I think could best give Dick's edgy bounty hunter residing on a largely uninhabitable Earth a life. Richard Linklater would be a good second.
As for writing, I wouldn't want it to be a remake of the actual movie, but a new adaptation of the book Bladerunner is based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. What I'm basically crafting here is a box-office flop, but I'd love it. : D
I'd love a Bladerunner "remake" under that definition though, maybe one a little truer to the book. : ) Bladerunner is based on a novel written by Phillip K. Dick,
No, no, absolutely not. The reason Blade Runner was good was because of what it changed from Phillip K. Dick's book.
C) 95% chance Studio makes it PG-13 aimed at bringing in the teens, with Channing Tatum, Tyrese Gibson, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Jaden Smith, Jesse Eisenberg or other such bull****
He'll be too busy filming the remake of Overboard with Rachel McAdams where they do a gender-reversal of the main characters.
Cooper is rich, and McAdams is poor.
(oh, and the kids dad died in Iraq or something)
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No, no, absolutely not. The reason Blade Runner was good was because of what it changed from Phillip K. Dick's book.
I would disagree with you here, but I am a very biased fan of Philip K. Dick.
I will agree that to adapt the book more faithfully to screen would probably alienate most people, but not me. That's why it's a movie I would like to see remade, not a movie I think should be remade to be successful or bend to any idea of what is good cinema but my own. Call me selfish, but I've been called worse.
It actually took me a long time to like the movie, I had to become more practiced in separating remakes and adaptations from their originals before I could appreciate the movie as a stand alone concept, not a movie based on one of my favorite books. I will never like Bladerunner as an adaptation, but considering it on its own merits, I enjoy it very much now. I was younger and sillier then, not able to enjoy things I considered inferior. I think everyone goes through that momentary episode of elitism in their life. Oops, there I go, digressing.
A) The original came at a time where the special effects were groundbreaking. Today, we're saturated with cg/digital effects. No "wow" factor.
B) When you can't milk the effects, the performances of your cast have to be even better, and I just don't see anyone today that can fill Ford's, or Hauer's shoes.
C) 95% chance Studio makes it PG-13 aimed at bringing in the teens, with Channing Tatum, Tyrese Gibson, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Jaden Smith, Jesse Eisenberg or other such bull****
In case it wasn't clear, I was definitely referring to a remake with better acting talent. Hauer did a great job as Roy, but I'm not convinced that they couldn't find someone today(Anthony Hopkins maybe, Ian McKellen possibly) who could also do a great job. And Harrison Ford honestly was just passable. I'd love to see Leo in that role, I think he would do excellently. I'm sure I could think of a couple of others if I really needed to.
I agree that Keanu did fine in the first Matrix, but it was only due to dumb luck because the one role he is good at playing is what happened to be needed for that movie. He was pitiful in the sequels(to be fair, everything about the sequels was pitiful, and Highroller is legitimately the only person I know that likes them).
I'd like to see the first three Terminators remade. None of this Sarah Connor Chronicles bull****. The fourth was pretty cool. The others were great but I'd be interested in seeing a modern spin on the classic story.
Predator, as well.
I wouldn't mind seeing the original Alien rebooted, either, since the first one was SO BORING for so long.
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I'd like to see the first three Terminators remade. None of this Sarah Connor Chronicles bull****. The fourth was pretty cool. The others were great but I'd be interested in seeing a modern spin on the classic story.
What, exactly, would you like to see that constitutes a "modern spin"?
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I'd like to see the first three Terminators remade. None of this Sarah Connor Chronicles bull****. The fourth was pretty cool. The others were great but I'd be interested in seeing a modern spin on the classic story.
Predator, as well.
I wouldn't mind seeing the original Alien rebooted, either, since the first one was SO BORING for so long.
Something that isn't so painfully obviously based in the 80's.
The first one was MADE in the 80s. If you don't like that it takes place in the time in which it was made, don't watch it!
The fourth Terminator was awful. It's a soulless, loud, pointless film. Even Christian Bale couldn't add any humanity into that film and it's a film about humanity trying to survive.
The first one was MADE in the 80s. If you don't like that it takes place in the time in which it was made, don't watch it!
I don't have a problem with it being in the 80's. I just said I wanted a more modern twist on it. I would be interested in seeing modern technology shape how the Terminator finds Sarah Connor. For example: The Terminator checks social media networks (such as Four Square and Facebook) to locate Sarah Connors in the area and see where they are in public (since people do that check-in thing from locations or whatever) and yeah. It could double as a statement to society: Your information that you put on the internet is accessible to killer robots from the future. Be more careful.
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The ridiculous amount of on-again, off-again news on the matter. How many scripts have you heard about? How many dream casts have you heard about (my favorite was the next-gen group made up of Jud Apatow regulars)? How many times has Bill Murray delayed the project?
The same thing has been going on with that film for years and people still have hope? The latest I read was that they would begin production in 2013 without Bill Murray and that was sometime last year. Not only would that suck, but we're past the half way point of the year with nothing doing.
Concerning Terminator. That's stupid. If you're going to make a film about social networking be dangerous then make that film and don't remake a classic (actually, I'm pretty sure they've made more than one film about the dangers of the internet).
The problem with most remakes, this applies to The Terminator, is that they're not needed. We don't need a remake of The Matrix, The Terminator, Blade Runner, Alien, etc. because those films are amazing films on their own. We don't need to revisit them because they are fine on their own.
I don't have a problem with it being in the 80's. I just said I wanted a more modern twist on it. I would be interested in seeing modern technology shape how the Terminator finds Sarah Connor. For example: The Terminator checks social media networks (such as Four Square and Facebook) to locate Sarah Connors in the area and see where they are in public (since people do that check-in thing from locations or whatever) and yeah. It could double as a statement to society: Your information that you put on the internet is accessible to killer robots from the future. Be more careful.
Wait isnt that what happened in T3? i mean i remember the Femme Terminator checking that kind of info, and also why Connor tried to avoid leaving a digital fingerprint.
A modern twist nowadays tends to revolve around shaky cam effects, lens flare, super slow-mo shots among other things, oh and say what you will about the cheesy campy scripts of the 80's but this generation has done absolutely nothing close to that level of quality with a very few exceptions.
Hell everything now a days has to be 'gritty dark goth intense' without any regards of what actually fits the movie or what actually mattered in the movie (in the case of reboots).
One of the reasons Pacific Rim is so go is because it doesnt take itself seriously, it knows that its a silly movie, but takes that concept, that understanding rather seriously (there is a difference).
A lot of the 80's and early 90's films did this and its something that just doesnt sink in in todays movies.
In short, wanting a movie redone with updated graphics/settings = cool but rather uneeded.
Adding 'this generations' twist' to movies that STILL hold up rather well script and execution wise but not graphically wise = HELL NO!
Honestly its like asking a reboot of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"... it makes no sense to do so... (but i will admit, possibility of Freakazoid cameo tempts me)
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League of Extraordinary Gentleman, this time aimed at a similar market to the graphic novel not the PG-13 pile of crap we got.
Fox has ordered a pilot for a new TV series and has committed to airing that pilot even if they don't pick up the series. The League is getting a do-over, but it's probably not going to come close to the original vision.
No, anything to get that bad taste out of my mouth.
I just hope that the Guardians of the Galaxy movie doesn't fall into the same traps.
As far as movies I want remade, I'm already getting a new American Godzilla movie, so that's out of the way.
I'd also like to see a Dragonball Z movie that doesn't suck. Preferably by that Snyder fellow, since awesome action and little plot seems to be his forte.
The Thing had a reboot (prequel) a couple years ago, and it sucked.
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I don't dislike Fifth Element, but I'm still sick of flying car chases. I was mostly thinking of the scenes where the city is in the background looking fake (through a window or balcony or whatever) and unconsciously drawing you out of the movie anyway though. The chase scene from episode 2 does look more like bladerunner (darker, but still cg fake looking), but it's completely ruined by the stupidly silly things going on that I guess I'd not noticed. Not that I am terribly impressed by it anyway, the days of being impressed by those types of special effects are fairly over.
Models and miniatures just look cooler to me.
I'd love a Bladerunner "remake" under that definition though, maybe one a little truer to the book. : ) Bladerunner is based on a novel written by Phillip K. Dick, who coincidentally wrote the short story both Total Recalls are based on (fun fact of the day).
I'd like a remake of The Seven Samurai or The Maltese Falcon.
A) The original came at a time where the special effects were groundbreaking. Today, we're saturated with cg/digital effects. No "wow" factor.
B) When you can't milk the effects, the performances of your cast have to be even better, and I just don't see anyone today that can fill Ford's, or Hauer's shoes.
C) 95% chance Studio makes it PG-13 aimed at bringing in the teens, with Channing Tatum, Tyrese Gibson, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Jaden Smith, Jesse Eisenberg or other such bull****
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I don't think I'd like Ridley Scott to direct a remake, even if he is the go-to science fiction master of the cinema. Joss Whedon, while a good director would probably be the kind of guy a studio would get to direct a big budget blockbuster, so he is out. I'd probably go with Alex Proyas, the director of I, Robot, Dark City, and The Crow. He's a director that I think could best give Dick's edgy bounty hunter residing on a largely uninhabitable Earth a life. Richard Linklater would be a good second.
As for writing, I wouldn't want it to be a remake of the actual movie, but a new adaptation of the book Bladerunner is based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. What I'm basically crafting here is a box-office flop, but I'd love it. : D
No, no, absolutely not. The reason Blade Runner was good was because of what it changed from Phillip K. Dick's book.
What, no Bradley Cooper?
He'll be too busy filming the remake of Overboard with Rachel McAdams where they do a gender-reversal of the main characters.
Cooper is rich, and McAdams is poor.
(oh, and the kids dad died in Iraq or something)
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I would disagree with you here, but I am a very biased fan of Philip K. Dick.
I will agree that to adapt the book more faithfully to screen would probably alienate most people, but not me. That's why it's a movie I would like to see remade, not a movie I think should be remade to be successful or bend to any idea of what is good cinema but my own. Call me selfish, but I've been called worse.
It actually took me a long time to like the movie, I had to become more practiced in separating remakes and adaptations from their originals before I could appreciate the movie as a stand alone concept, not a movie based on one of my favorite books. I will never like Bladerunner as an adaptation, but considering it on its own merits, I enjoy it very much now. I was younger and sillier then, not able to enjoy things I considered inferior. I think everyone goes through that momentary episode of elitism in their life. Oops, there I go, digressing.
In case it wasn't clear, I was definitely referring to a remake with better acting talent. Hauer did a great job as Roy, but I'm not convinced that they couldn't find someone today(Anthony Hopkins maybe, Ian McKellen possibly) who could also do a great job. And Harrison Ford honestly was just passable. I'd love to see Leo in that role, I think he would do excellently. I'm sure I could think of a couple of others if I really needed to.
I agree that Keanu did fine in the first Matrix, but it was only due to dumb luck because the one role he is good at playing is what happened to be needed for that movie. He was pitiful in the sequels(to be fair, everything about the sequels was pitiful, and Highroller is legitimately the only person I know that likes them).
This.
I'd like to see the first three Terminators remade. None of this Sarah Connor Chronicles bull****. The fourth was pretty cool. The others were great but I'd be interested in seeing a modern spin on the classic story.
Predator, as well.
I wouldn't mind seeing the original Alien rebooted, either, since the first one was SO BORING for so long.
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What, exactly, would you like to see that constitutes a "modern spin"?
Something that isn't so painfully obviously based in the 80's.
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The first one was MADE in the 80s. If you don't like that it takes place in the time in which it was made, don't watch it!
The fourth Terminator was awful. It's a soulless, loud, pointless film. Even Christian Bale couldn't add any humanity into that film and it's a film about humanity trying to survive.
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I don't have a problem with it being in the 80's. I just said I wanted a more modern twist on it. I would be interested in seeing modern technology shape how the Terminator finds Sarah Connor. For example: The Terminator checks social media networks (such as Four Square and Facebook) to locate Sarah Connors in the area and see where they are in public (since people do that check-in thing from locations or whatever) and yeah. It could double as a statement to society: Your information that you put on the internet is accessible to killer robots from the future. Be more careful.
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The ridiculous amount of on-again, off-again news on the matter. How many scripts have you heard about? How many dream casts have you heard about (my favorite was the next-gen group made up of Jud Apatow regulars)? How many times has Bill Murray delayed the project?
The same thing has been going on with that film for years and people still have hope? The latest I read was that they would begin production in 2013 without Bill Murray and that was sometime last year. Not only would that suck, but we're past the half way point of the year with nothing doing.
Concerning Terminator. That's stupid. If you're going to make a film about social networking be dangerous then make that film and don't remake a classic (actually, I'm pretty sure they've made more than one film about the dangers of the internet).
The problem with most remakes, this applies to The Terminator, is that they're not needed. We don't need a remake of The Matrix, The Terminator, Blade Runner, Alien, etc. because those films are amazing films on their own. We don't need to revisit them because they are fine on their own.
Wait isnt that what happened in T3? i mean i remember the Femme Terminator checking that kind of info, and also why Connor tried to avoid leaving a digital fingerprint.
A modern twist nowadays tends to revolve around shaky cam effects, lens flare, super slow-mo shots among other things, oh and say what you will about the cheesy campy scripts of the 80's but this generation has done absolutely nothing close to that level of quality with a very few exceptions.
Hell everything now a days has to be 'gritty dark goth intense' without any regards of what actually fits the movie or what actually mattered in the movie (in the case of reboots).
One of the reasons Pacific Rim is so go is because it doesnt take itself seriously, it knows that its a silly movie, but takes that concept, that understanding rather seriously (there is a difference).
A lot of the 80's and early 90's films did this and its something that just doesnt sink in in todays movies.
In short, wanting a movie redone with updated graphics/settings = cool but rather uneeded.
Adding 'this generations' twist' to movies that STILL hold up rather well script and execution wise but not graphically wise = HELL NO!
Honestly its like asking a reboot of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"... it makes no sense to do so... (but i will admit, possibility of Freakazoid cameo tempts me)
League of Extraordinary Gentleman, this time aimed at a similar market to the graphic novel not the PG-13 pile of crap we got.
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Since you brought up comics, what about a new Daredevil? And/or Elektra?
Is it too soon to get a Green Lantern reboot?
No, anything to get that bad taste out of my mouth.
I just hope that the Guardians of the Galaxy movie doesn't fall into the same traps.
As far as movies I want remade, I'm already getting a new American Godzilla movie, so that's out of the way.
I'd also like to see a Dragonball Z movie that doesn't suck. Preferably by that Snyder fellow, since awesome action and little plot seems to be his forte.
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