'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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I think the remake thing is getting out of hand, lately.
Hasn't it been out of hand for the last few years, really?
But it really is getting out of hand. They're remaking—excuse me, rebooting—Cliffhanger. CLIFFHANGER. Look, I love that movie, but there's no reason to "remake" it. It was Die Hard on a mountain. Just rip it off and call your movie something else if you're that intent on making one. Isn't that cheaper than getting the rights or whatever?
::sets off to write Die Hard in a Die Hard Movie Convention::
You know, I don't think the new Holmes movie can be any worse for the canon than Young Sherlock Holmes or a number of other movie variations we've seen in the past.
rip it off and call your movie something else if you're that intent on making one
I bet the producers said, "But won't everyone just say 'It's just a remake of Cliffhanger'?"
"I know! We'll just call it Cliffhanger!"
"Brilliant!"
He had a little help there.
It's not the only movie he had looked younger in. That's just the one where deaging him was the point. Not everyone washes out without looking like the lens is coated in vaseline.
You know, I don't think the new Holmes movie can be any worse for the canon than Young Sherlock Holmes or a number of other movie variations we've seen in the past.
Young Sherlock Holmes was awesome!
You know, I don't think the new Holmes movie can be any worse for the canon than Young Sherlock Holmes or a number of other movie variations we've seen in the past.
I loved YSH, but then again, I was also seventeen and nursing a mad crush on Anthony Higgins (Rathe).
I also absolutely love the score to that film and wish to high heaven I could find it.
I'm not remotely concerned about damage to the canon. The canon can look after itself. I'm concerned that people keep making movies I really ought to be interested in, except they look so crappy. Hollywood is not meeting my entertainment needs, and it's a drag.
I thought Wrath of Khan was about how obsession destroys the obsessed. All that "to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee" stuff. Which makes it a whaling yarn, when you get down to it.
Really, all it lacked was Khan lashed to the outside of the Reliant with a harpoon when it exploded.
They're remaking—excuse me, rebooting—Cliffhanger. CLIFFHANGER.
Christ, the remake stupidity is so large - there are plans in the works for remakes of SUSPIRIA and VIDEODROME?!!?!?!? Whatever you think of the originals (I love them both deeply myself) they are two movies that are almost inextricably linked to their directors. W?T?F?!??!?!