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Hesham Al-Rousan

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What is this obsession with remakes?
There have been some bloody awful ones.
War of the WorlRAB
The Italian Job
The Whicker Man, are three that spring to mind.
Are the people running short of ideas for new movies?
 
The Omen (why)?
The Amityville Horror (why)?
Psycho (why why why)?
Poseidon
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills Have Eyes
Planet Of The Apes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Pink Panther

and if not remakes of a Hollywood movie (horror or otherwise) why not remake a Japanese horror...

i.e.
The Grudge
The Ring
 
from what i hear it is a prequel to the series and that is even worse as i want the back story left to my imagination rather than have every last detail laid out in front of me.

i think what is this obsession with prequels could be a thread in itself as i am getting really annoyed that every film where there is even the smallest hint of back story is getting the obigatory prequel treatment.
 
I will never EVER forgive Neil LaBute for what he did to The Wicker Man.Whilst it will contain more of the back-story, it is still ostensibly a re-make. If anyone can do a cracking job, it's Rob Zombie - but I still fail to see the point.
 
from reading a couple of reviews online i think the consensus is that it is a decent horror film but it could have easily been retooled to be a new franchise rather than have the Halloween name and face the inevitable comparison to the original.

it is the same with the 2004 Dawn of the dead remake. This was a great zombie movie in its own right so why did they have to use the DOTD name?

yep, i agree with you about the wickerman remake, i still have nightmares about having to sit through that again.
 
To the post made last year in relation to Oldboy being remade, that has now been quashed, Justin Lin (proposed director) has said in an interview that he doesn't believe it will be made now. I myself hope to god it doesn't resurface in the next few years.

Though equally disturbing to a Oldboy remake is that Battle Royale IS being remade for western audiences and will be released next year, chances of it involving a school setting will be unlikely after Columbine and Virginia Tech so instantly the story will change, unless they go for the Requiem route and use teenage delinquents, which has been rumoured.

Hollywood are ruining great films from the east because they can't come up with original ideas, and it really bugs me.

In some circumstances remakes are ok the remake of DOTD was amazing, but Hollywood is just getting lazy.

Also recently they have just cast Keanu Reeves as Klaatu the alien for the 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' remake
 
Dawn of the Dead was an excellent 'remake', and The Italian Job wasn't really a full on remake either.

The Hills Have Eyes was to me a lot better than the original Craven film.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wasn't a remake, it was just another version of the book and closer, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Can agree with The Wickerman, that was just horrendous.


Even Funny Games is getting a shot for shot remake from the same director as the original... and the director's film Hidden/Cache is also getting a remake last time I heard.

Oldboy is a big mistake, even Bollywood have remade that already and it was terrible. Apparently they remade it without permission?

I also heard about New Line and Battle Royale, I seriously thought Battle Royale would never be remade by America, oh well.

There are lottttsssss of remakes coming. Lottttsss.
 
War of the WorlRAB was great.
Hairspray wasn't really a remake but a film version on the musical based on the original film.
The Hills Have Eyes was quite good.
Dawn of the Dead was good but lacked all of the interesting exploration of the human condition that was in the original.
All prints and the negative of The Italian Job should be destroyed.
Ditto The Stepford Wives, which really mangled the original idea.
Ditto Rollerball, which seemed to miss the point of the original.
Planet of the Apes was slightly OK but a pointless remake of a classic.
King Kong was great and a worthwhile remake.

From Red Dwarf - Better Than Life:
 
Karate Kid remake on the way now too.

The only remakes that really worked were The Thing,The Fly and lately King Kong and this is because they were possible as the originals were either cheesy,dated or could be improved upon.

Although their has been amiable remakes
(Halloween,TCM,DOTD,Hills Have Eyes),enjoyable (Charlie & TCF,Planet O.T. Apes,Italian Job),90% were fairly pointless.
 
The Seven Samurai is being remade.

Why not just dig up Kurosawa & drag his rotting corpse through the streets of DisneyLand, it would be less offensive.

Any idiot who thinks "Hmm *insert classic film title* was good but maybe I can improve it" should be banned from making films.
 
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