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!"
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
'Smile Time'
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Connie Neil - May 20, 2009 11:27:29 am PDT #1621 of 30000
brillig
§ ita § - May 20, 2009 11:31:24 am PDT #1622 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Polter-Cow - May 20, 2009 11:39:23 am PDT #1623 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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!
Barb - May 20, 2009 11:52:26 am PDT #1624 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
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.
Strega - May 20, 2009 1:07:42 pm PDT #1625 of 30000
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 20, 2009 1:51:11 pm PDT #1626 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2009 5:59:51 pm PDT #1627 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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?!??!?!
Matt the Bruins fan - May 20, 2009 6:12:01 pm PDT #1628 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Next up: Zack Snyder's Apocalypse Now!
DavidS - May 20, 2009 7:45:05 pm PDT #1629 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Next up: Zack Snyder's Apocalypse Now!
Heh.
"The horror. The hor-BOOOOM!"
Jessica - May 21, 2009 2:12:58 am PDT #1630 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Up.
Up Up Up Up Up Up Up!!!
Is good movie. Wuv it. Want see again.