That’s Dune for you.
I won’t stand for this slander of David Lynch and Kyle McLachlan.
I’m still waiting for John Carter 2…
How many more versions of Tron do we need?
Keep em coming. Tron: Legacy is my all time favourite.
I came out of the movie theater wowed and was confused when I went online and saw the reaction.
Fantastic theatre experience. I mean I was on drugs, but I’m sure it was awesome without.
One more.
- T ron.
- R eboot.
- O h fuck, why did we cast Jared Leto
- N ow we’re talking.
Tron Reboot, fuck yeah make it happen!
I would love to see ReBoot (1994) with modern CG. And also a modernized plot, considering we know so much more about computers and the Internet now.
1994 was when the Internet started to spread publicly around the world and became a thing you could access from your very own home. It was this cool new technology that connected humanity across the globe, but most people didn’t really understand it yet.
So shows like ReBoot captured our fascination with the “Information Superhighway” and built a fantasy/sci-fi story around it. Even if it was horribly inaccurate to how computers and the Internet actually worked.
A group is remastering ReBoot with the blessings of its creators from the original DAT tapes, so they are pixel-perfect HD transfers that one could not have seen on any TV at the time.
Look it up on YouTube. Reboot doesn’t need to be remade, the original masters still looks smoking hot. They recovered the widescreen versions, too.
They’re negotiating the rights to do the same thing to Transformers Beast Wars next.
yes
We just need to disavow Ares and make Tron Ascension as originally intended.
Do waterworld again!
Is it a flop? I thought it’s good from recent viewing, no nostalgia involved because i never watched it back then. Wouldn’t mind for another one in that setting though.
I think the movie is amazing, but it was generally panned as an expensive flop. I think the setting is really interesting and the practical effects were out of this world
It was the most expensive movie ever made at the time, which attracted a lot of criticism. It made a profit though.
For some reason some people thought “it’s just Mad Max on water” would make other people not want to see it.
Yes! Then Battlefield Earth!
Waterworld was a flop that got a reappraisal, and is now considered a pretty cool movie. It was really a victim of a critical wall that was against it from the start. That happens with some movies.
Babylon is another. That’s going to get a reappraisal at some point, and become a cult classic.
Showgirls is going through a reappraisal, and people are starting to see it differently. It was a Paul Verhoeven movie, of course it was great.
I want a remake of Tetsuo!
The shaky can of this movie makes me nauseous :(
Kaneda?
Iron man, maybe
Airplane!
Surely you must be joking. That would be awful.
Six freaking hours and nobody stepped up?! Fine, I’ll do it.
Yes, it might be awful, but stop calling them Shirley.
You picked the wrong time to start sniffing glue…
It wasn’t until I was 30 that I finally got one of the most obvious jokes of that film. At all times there’s the constant drone of airplane propellers…on a jet
Surely you can’t be serious‽
Airplane is a remake of Zero Hour, which itself is a remake of Flight Into Danger. I don’t think we could take another level of remakeception. It would probably turn out to be a musical.
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Absolutely not
This only works on like mid movies, maybe. You can’t do it with a film like Plan 9 from Outer Space or The Room because the jank is part of the appeal. But maybe an actually good version of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Sucker Punch, but with a better director?
Uh, they remade The Room starring Bob Odenkirk.
Mid movies with an interesting premise. That’s the point of OP’s post.
Scarface, Omega Man, The Bird Cage, Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean’s 11, Fist Full of Dollars, Vanilla Sky, Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Identity: all remakes. Arguably, the new Dune movies might be considered remakes of a relatively mid original movie, though the new ones are far more tied to the book.
So taking the 1993 mid kids’ movie Rookie of the Year and adapting it to a modem take where the lead is 19 and plays soccer for Arsenal or whatever, would be what OP means. Or redo the 1993 racist POS movie Falling Down. Or Dave, JFC.
Wow I learned some things here.
Question though - I haven’t seen Falling Down in over 20 years. What makes it a racist POS movie? Was I so blind back then?
It’s been a while for me as well, but IIRC it was a lot of POCs playing the microagression villains.
There is no saving Sucker Punch. The fundamental premise of the movie is each rape is a fight scene showing a literal interpretation of a metaphorical struggle. It’s not recoverable.
Why? Why is something so easily explained impossible?
Can it be done? Maybe. But the problem with making a metaphorical struggle a physical fight is that the audience for both is drastically different. Many people affected by rape hold a feeling of helplessness about the event. A Zach Snyder 300 style fight scene is literally about exerting control and overcoming. For a person to make such a drastic emotional pivot begs the question were they were ever feeling at all?
how about we gut the premise but keep the badass ninja schoolgirls and campy explosion-filled fight scenes and charmingly dated CGI, and let Angela Robinson direct it
somebody PLEASE remake
American Mary
Daybreakerscool ass premises but flawed executions
They remade Dune, and somehow managed to make it worse.
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Interesting. Who plays Divine/Babs?
Harris Glenn Milstead
They meant in the suggested remake.
Do you want Fantastic Four? That’s how you get Fantastic Four
[raises hand] which Fantastic Four… Last I counter there were like five… I think… I lost count.
Well, there was the “We want to keep the rights” movie from the… 90s, I think? Then the two with Jessica Alba, then Fantfourstick, then the MCU version. So, yeah, five by my count.
What about remaking foreign movies into domestic interpretations? La Pacte des loups could use an update.
As long as they follow OPs premise. There’s been lame US remakes of good movies where they could have just watched the original with subtitles. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, for example.
On a vaguely related note, why aren’t we making more movies that take a Shakespeare plot and just stuff it in a different setting without trying to hide it? Like 10 Things I Hate about you was Taming of the Shrew.
Tell me you wouldn’t watch Mechbeth.
There have been a bunch: Throne of Blood is Samurai Macbeth. Warm Bodies is Zombie Romeo & Juliette
The Lion King (1994) is Hamlet.
“O” (2001) is Othello.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is based on two minor characters of Hamlet.
She’s the Man (2006) is Twelfth Night.
Romeo + Juliet (1996) is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) is Homer’s Odyssey. Not Shakespeare, but a brilliant modern retelling of one of humanity’s oldest surviving stories. In the same vein as the above mentioned films.
These are all I can think of off the top of my head. Not to mention dozens of modern Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth retellings over the years. Those three alone are the more popular Shakespeare stories for reinvention on the big screen.
Love Romeo + Juliet. The first gunfight and when Mercutio shows up are highlights.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, they use tons of the original dialogue, even down to calling their guns swords.
Mercutio was one of the best parts of that movie. He and the soundtrack were so great.
That “Love me, love me” song was on the radio constantly for months after that movie came out.
Macbeth… IN SPAAAAAAACE!!!
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Can do other classics too. Clueless is such a fun adaptation of Emma.
I would be so much more interested in Shakespeare if the cast were replaced with giant war robots.
I kinda thought we were going to get a new Howard the Duck for a second. That would’ve been hilarious either way it panned out.
I think we should take something really underrated but improve it. Off the top of my head, The Rollerblade Seven.
Let’s have multiple reboots going at the same time. I think it would be great to have like three reboots of Jurassic Park going at the same time with different directors. I want to see a full length Wes Anderson take on the film, but also a Zach Snyder take and maybe a Danny Boyle take competing on the same weekend.
Doesn’t that pretty much describe DC? At one point, they ha Juaquin Phoenix Joker, DCEU, and the Robert Pattinson Batman all kinda overlapping.
Somebody ought to remake Demolition Man
Completely perfect as it was, no? Stallone and Snipes having a great time chewing the scenery and playing off each other, Bullock perfect as the ingénue that’s down to cyber; lots of iconic ratburgers, sea shells and Taco Bell. Admittedly, the far off year of 2032 doesn’t seem that far off any more.
If we’re going to be remaking action movies from 1993, then I’m voting for Hard Target. JCVD is amazing at kicking things but terrible at anything that does not involve kicking things; don’t mind some dumb stylish action but you don’t have to be stupid.
Taco Bell
Pizza Hut if you saw the international version of the film. Taco Bell wasn’t well known outside the US at the time, so they changed the restaurant to something more familiar for international audiences.
Don’t fuck with perfection!
Because nobody will fund a huge production that’s based on something that didn’t do well. Are you nuts? Are you going to go up to people and ask for 50 million dollars or whatever and say we’re going to take this thing sucked that nobody liked and we’re going to redo it.
I mean, they’ve made how many Percy Jackson movies? Pretty sure no one likes any of them.
Disney’s new show is actually pretty good
In a similar vein, the Series of Unfortunate Events movie was a weird and ultimately disappointing adaptation but the Netflix series was incredible
I thought the black guy was funny if you look at his feet
