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DaveL
03-07-03, 08:32 PM
A remake of "Willard"!

Because the original was such a good movie, of course. :rolleyes:
mnkywrch
03-07-03, 09:08 PM
What was the original?
Railbird
03-07-03, 10:57 PM
What was the original?

'wrench showing his age...


It sucked, I'll leave it at that.
DaveL
03-08-03, 12:41 AM
Originally posted by mnkywrch
What was the original?

They're running a commerical trailer on TV for it. After seeing the trailer, ask yourself if there was any reason in hell why this movie, which was done 30 years ago, had to be done again.

That will answer your question.
Napoleon
03-14-03, 09:40 AM
This is not exactly a glowing review of the remake.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/movies/14WILL.html?th

edit - sorry I forgot you need to be signed up on that site to view the story.
mnkywrch
03-14-03, 09:56 AM
Originally posted by DaveL
They're running a commerical trailer on TV for it. After seeing the trailer, ask yourself if there was any reason in hell why this movie, which was done 30 years ago, had to be done again.

That will answer your question.

I asked the same thing when I saw the trailer for Days Of Thunder.

I mean, it was OK when I saw it the first time and it was called Top Gun, but...

I gave up on Hollywood long ago. Almost all of the major studio stuff is dreck. This summer is going to be a summer of sequels that didn't need to be made.

The last two movies I think I really liked were http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/glyphs/1D7/U1D745.png (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0138704) and Being John Malkovich (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120601) .
chop456
03-14-03, 12:01 PM
Okay,

Ask yourself why First Blood has been remade. "Hunted" yeah, right. Even Crenna's line about "A good supply of body bags" was virtually duplicated for the new movie.

How about a semi-original idea once in a while? Tarantino's new film at least promises to be ....uh...different.

This is why I visit the theater maybe once a year.
Cam
03-14-03, 01:31 PM
Speaking of remakes. HERE (http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=14725) comes another butchered classic! :rolleyes:

Why do they insist on doing this sort of crap!
rabbit
03-14-03, 05:07 PM
I recently discovered channel 550, the Independent Film Channel, on my Directv and have gotten kinda hooked on it. The independents are cranking out some pretty good stuff compared to the cookie-cutter studio crap.
Don Quixote
03-14-03, 06:35 PM
Originally posted by rabbit
I recently discovered channel 550, the Independent Film Channel, on my Directv and have gotten kinda hooked on it. The independents are cranking out some pretty good stuff compared to the cookie-cutter studio crap.

Agreed. We watched "7 days in September" on that channel recently, what a gem.