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# have you seen teh amount of movies they are currently trying to remake?
it's just heartbreaking what they are trying to cash in on...

Flight of the Navigator? Karate Kid? Robocop? Total Recall?

WHY?!?!?
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:09, archived)
# Easy money, I'm guessing.
And a complete lack of creativity on the part of Hollywood. There's still some good stuff coming out from non-US sources.

Sadly, for every 'The Lives of Others' or '36' we get 10 'Saw' sequels and the like.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:12, archived)
# or those god-awful spoof "movie" movies
epic movie, superhero movie, disaster movie, ad infinitum
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:17, archived)
# and then, there's *shudders*
Will 'No, I am funny really' Ferrell....


See also Adam Sandler, etc etc etc etc
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:22, archived)
# Indeed what has happened to the genuinely funny people?
There is no new talent just people who act and we are told these are funny guys and we must find them funny else we are not funny and are void of a sense of humour.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:27, archived)
# Saturday Night Live must shoulder some
of the blame.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:30, archived)
# Americans have lost their sense of humour
as Friday and Saturday Night Live did launch some genuine funny people - Mike Myers, Steve Martin (in his early stuff), Bill Murray etc.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:35, archived)
# Steve Carel is funny
even if his film choices leave a bit to be desired

And I like Seth Rogen too.

But I prefer comedies where they use proper actors.
Like Midnight Run
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:35, archived)
# Midnight Run...
Now there's a fine film.

*highly approves*
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:39, archived)
# One of top five
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:50, archived)
# Shameful, I know, but I did fine Billy Madison funny.
plus it has Bridgette Wilson in it...
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:38, archived)
# Because children are stupid, uppity and precocious
As such, they generally won't go to see "old" films, so if they "remake" them, they're more attractive, they can make more money out of the same francise, and generally buying the rights is cheaper than employing scripwriters and all that bollocks to come up with something original and/or interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:16, archived)
# my favourite
non-remade film is Gone in 60 Seconds.
(dysny don't be a player 2 hater!, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:17, archived)
# not this one
(dysny don't be a player 2 hater!, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:32, archived)
# It's a remake!
sorry
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:33, archived)
# talking about
the original here
(dysny don't be a player 2 hater!, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:39, archived)
# hold the phone!!!!
WHAT??? they are remaking total recall?

*makes tea in a huff*

*decides to use cup instead*
(I helped save b3ta! camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:18, archived)
# I watched Hitchcock's The Birds for the first time the other day.
Partly because Mrs V and I bought a box set of 14 HCs in the sales, and partly because I heard on here that they're remaking it.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:20, archived)
# that is a scary film
it gets in your head, much better than modern nonsense like Saw that rely on shocks and gore. Bet they ruin the remake by changing the birds into Nazguls or something.
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:23, archived)
# My Mum saw it at the cinema when it first came out.
When she got home a pigeon had got down the chimney and was sat waiting for them, all sooty and panicky...
(twattybanjo, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:27, archived)
# its the black ones you have to watch
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:31, archived)
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8080966.stm
also reports of it all over t'internets
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 13:44, archived)