Hollywood Reboot #10,293,824,734,530,298 -- Jurassic Park
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I think Hollywood just doesn't want to spend money on new stories. Plus, we writers are incredibly expensive. Yeahhh... that's it.
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If you're facepalm-ing at that, how do you feel about the fact that Fox is going to film an American "Torchwood" pilot, possibly with John Barrowman and possibly not, but either way definitely making it a good 99% less gay?
So, they are making a live action version of Republican Space Rangers, then?
But seriously, a lot of scares about American versions of British series rarely pass the pilot as far as I know, just look at The IT Crowd remake with Joel McHale or the Father Ted remake with Steve Martin, oh wait, you can't!
See, there's hope that there's no hope for them.
I love dinosaurs, so I'm definitely there, but I will damn sure facepalm myself, either person sitting next to me, and every person on the way out of the theater if the 'different direction' they're taking the movie is some sort of 'dinosaurs are taking over the world again' motif.
I liked the idea of islands with their own self-sustaining dinosaur populations.
I liked the idea of islands with their own self-sustaining dinosaur populations.
About the reboot, hopefully this will lead to a horrendous quagmire of idea cannibalism and movie incest that shall lead to a second Hollywood reborn just like what happened when the studios collapsed on the late 60's.
Pffffffffft. XPHollywood's just doing their part for the environment.
You know, recycling.
There goes my epiphany of the day >.>
The Spiderman reboot is even worse. More robot dinosaurs, I can dig it. But redoing a series that's not even a decade old? At least they're ditching Tobey Maguire.
You just watch, they'll be announcing an Avatar reboot next week no doubt. Right before they start proactively rebooting franchises that haven't been invented yet.
You just watch, they'll be announcing an Avatar reboot next week no doubt. Right before they start proactively rebooting franchises that haven't been invented yet.
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27 Dracula movies since 1931. You want to tell me this is anything new?
http://www.draculas.info/movies/movies_by_year/
Popular stories get remade more often than unpopular stories. How else to explain 52 Robin Hood movies in the last 70 years?
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/CAMELOT/rh/rhfilms.htm
Rebooting isn't new. It isn't even anything to get worked up about. Rebooting Batman seemed to be pretty successful, didn't it?
http://www.draculas.info/movies/movies_by_year/
Popular stories get remade more often than unpopular stories. How else to explain 52 Robin Hood movies in the last 70 years?
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/CAMELOT/rh/rhfilms.htm
Rebooting isn't new. It isn't even anything to get worked up about. Rebooting Batman seemed to be pretty successful, didn't it?
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But the Jurassic Parks are, what? 10 years old?
I love Zorro. I loved Zorro the Gay Blade. But I'd love even more a new swashbuckler. Oh, wait, I got one: Pirates of the Caribbean! But then they sequeled it to death.
Dinosaur movie? Great. I'm sure there are a few kick-butt scripts around Hollywood that'd be cool and fun. Film THOSE, Hollywood, please!
I love Zorro. I loved Zorro the Gay Blade. But I'd love even more a new swashbuckler. Oh, wait, I got one: Pirates of the Caribbean! But then they sequeled it to death.
Dinosaur movie? Great. I'm sure there are a few kick-butt scripts around Hollywood that'd be cool and fun. Film THOSE, Hollywood, please!
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Jurassic Park is about 20 years old, so it's not out of reach. OTOH, it's a film that people watched and are familiar with; the effects, while no longer state of the art, are strong enough that the movie still stands up; and -- most importantly -- it was by Steven Spielberg and so was extremely good. I think it's probably too early to remake this and have it be a truly blockbuster film experience.
I know, "Planet of The Dinosaurs."Hollywood's just doing their part for the environment.
You know, recycling.
Hey, there's a new story named Pirate Latitudes, it's in that old-fashioned format called a book. Have they begun the "update" to movie form yet?
Is there anything that guy wrote that was NOT made into a movie or TV show?
I don't find it surprising that they're doing remakes of stuff that's 15-20 years old, because the 15-20 year olds who watched that stuff are now in their late thirties and early forties, and they have kids who are now almost the age they were when they first saw the original. But showing the original seems so lame, since digital effects have progressed so much since the eighties, so they reboot the whole series.
It's nothing to complain about. If you don't like the idea of a reboot, go see an original film. They're still making them--The Blind Side, Lovely Bones, District 9, Avatar, to name just a few--and they're doing well.
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I'm going to "reboot" the novel Gone With The Wind because nobody reads the original any longer.
This. This was my main reason for posting it.
Rebooting isn't always a bad thing, but I'm a Crichton fan. I dislike the idea of the franchise being run away with without any input from the person who originally created it (which clearly will never happen now, since Crichton passed away in 2008). Sequels and stuff tend to turn into crapfests when you deviate from the source material, IMHO.
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you know... back in the day, I lied to my family to go out and watch this move again... on my own, in the movie theatre at a 10 pm showing. Sigh.
The last time I went to a movie alone.
However, remakes? Already? More CGI dinos?
The last time I went to a movie alone.
However, remakes? Already? More CGI dinos?
Ya know, I never liked Jurassic Park.
If you wanna go for Chriton book movies, I'd say Andromeda Strain was the best one. Seriously,the...original, I mean. Not the new one.
If you wanna go for Chriton book movies, I'd say Andromeda Strain was the best one. Seriously,the...original, I mean. Not the new one.
Things like this make me want to rip my hair out. Jurassic Park is a very well-known and well-loved movie. And it isn't that old. If they are going to insist on making remakes, why not go for much older classics? Maybe movies that the young generation today might not even know? Like Arsenic and Old Lace? One of my faves, and I would be curious how that could be updated. Or Some Like it Hot? Of course, the ones they have done haven't been that good. The Out of Towners, the original was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen, the remake, meh. Maybe you really shouldn't mess with something that is already great?? What about taking an old, crappy film and remaking it? Then it has to be better than the original? Or maybe I am just kidding myself.
Every now and then, reboots/remakes work. What if Carpenter had never redone The Thing? That said, many of them suck.
I still say that Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy 1 and 2, Pans Labyrinth) should remake Nightbreed.