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Laga - Aug 22, 2009 4:46:23 pm PDT #3830 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Y'know, someone should redo this and fix [the ending...

Joe vs. the Volcano.


Scrappy - Aug 22, 2009 4:48:12 pm PDT #3831 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Remake Four Weddings, with an actual actress in the Andie Macdowell role.


Juliebird - Aug 22, 2009 5:09:43 pm PDT #3832 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I can't say as there's movies that I'd want remade so much as tweaked, while still retaining the majority of the original elements such as casting, directing, cinematography, score. If I liked a movie enough to be bothered by it's flaws and want a do-over, then I don't want a complete makeover.

So I'm sure there's tons of movies that if remade, I'd love them, but they'd be based on movies that I hate to the core, and wouldn't even fathom wanting to watch any version of them, let alone wish for a remake.

But yes, the new SW trilogy I'd love to see done right/better. And on that note, I'll take a remake of LotR with a different director and producers and writers. And someone else playing Gimli.


le nubian - Aug 22, 2009 5:15:22 pm PDT #3833 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I already want HP:HBP redone.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2009 5:20:14 pm PDT #3834 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'll take a remake of LotR with a different director and producers and writers. And someone else playing Gimli.

I'm with you on the Gimli. Unfortunately for JRD and luckily for my viewing pleasure there was that latex allergy, so he barely showed in it...and then he showed himself to be a racist fuck, so even the times he was apparent grated.

But for the most part I really liked the production, and where I disagreed with it I have to concede that they were at least painstaking if wrong.

As for the SW trilogy, I'd be totally okay with it unmade, rather than remade.


Jessica - Aug 22, 2009 5:22:21 pm PDT #3835 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I would love to see a director's cut of Idiocracy. That poor movie was cut to ribbons by the studio and dumped onto DVD, but there are such flashes of brilliance in there that really regret not being able to see the movie it was supposed to be.


Juliebird - Aug 22, 2009 5:28:08 pm PDT #3836 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

But for the most part I really liked the production, and where I disagreed with it I have to concede that they were at least painstaking if wrong.

Production was gorgeous and fantastic, and it was painstakingly, microfocusedly detailed to a fault. There was so much love and craftsmanship put into the world building that the stories and characters seemed to come second.

Unmade for Epidsodes 1-3 is a viable option, but then I remember as a kid it finally hitting me that the movies were labeled 4, 5 & 6, and that there was intended to be more backstory, and it got me excited. So it's a nostalgic wish on my part.

Oh, and I want Ladyhawke rescored. And "Now that I'm a Woman" removed from The Last Unicorn. And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2009 5:36:56 pm PDT #3837 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

then I remember as a kid it finally hitting me that the movies were labeled 4, 5 & 6

I read somewhere recently that they weren't initially numbered that way--but I can't remember where I read it so I can't cite any authority.


DebetEsse - Aug 22, 2009 5:52:16 pm PDT #3838 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

The BF and I were discussing how one might re-make the entire Star Wars sage to make it work episodically (so that the "I am your father" reveal is still a reveal, even if you watch from 1)

And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.

With hair the color of autumn and skin like wintry cream.

In 30 years, I hope some of the kids who grew up with Harry Potter do a Peter Jackson and re-make the HP books properly (i.e.--with affection, devotion, and knowing how the damn thing ends before you start writing). Possibly as annual BBC mini-series for 7 years.

I know that there are movies I've seen where I've said, "Your basic idea was good, but wow did you screw it up." Can't recall many of them, though, at the moment.


§ ita § - Aug 22, 2009 5:58:39 pm PDT #3839 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

And Buttercup needed to be played by a much more beautiful actress.

Man, I think Robin Wright was (and still is, really) breathtakingly beautiful. And she got the vapid just right too. I'd have tweaked the production values on the movie, if anything, but I love it just as is.