The next major film franchise to get a reboot? Die Hard
I remember a time when Disney, along with other major film studios, were institutions of art and not recycling centers.
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Also, this will likely suck and be forgotten. |
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No. The World. I avoid most 'reboots' because they usually suck. If anyone tries to reboot Back to the Future.....I will hunt them down and kill them. |
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So now it's a Disney property?
Yippee Kiyaay Mother****er ----> Zippity Doodah Silly Goose!! |
This seems completely unnecessary. Can't they just remake A Star Is Born again instead, with a cute female lead for a change?
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gender flip?
Instead of John McClain we get Holly McClain as the hard ass New York city cop. Scarlett Johannson as Holly! |
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Good grief. What’s next, a Godfather reboot?
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Die Hard With a Vengeance was the last decent one.
The rest are shit, and this will be a ****ing pile of shit. |
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It's like the 10th remake. |
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Theaters have become mostly the domain of the loud CGI blockbusters |
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Couple of decades ago a show like Cherynobol would have been made as a movie. The TV mini-series allowed them to show us the culture and system of government that in reality caused the meltdown. |
I think the last movie we went to see in the theater was The Departed.
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Well, it worked so well with other time capsule hit action films like Total Recall and Robocop, it's totally worth it!
Okay, can someone point to an 80's/early 90's action property remade in the past 15 years that worked? I'm not against remaking films, as some of my favorite films are remakes (scarface, the Thing) but I don't get this. Willis caught lightning in a bottle and Rickman went from nobody to a legit actor with this one role. Unless you can duplicate THAT, there's no point. Their performances made the movie what it was. It's not even fair to ASK actors to follow that. |
Dear Hollywood, Please leave the following alone:
Godfather Caddyshack Fletch The Crow Die Hard Back to the Future Indiana Jones The Goonies Etc Etc Didnt work for Total Recall, Robocop, Ghostbusters.......etc etc. |
I think what they need to understand is that alot of these movies don't age well from the 80's. Premises of movies worked really well back then, but now, audiences expectations of a movie going experience have changed.
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<iframe width="950" height="534" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y-1KllfX3Kg" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Slightly different, but presaged by this from last year <iframe width="950" height="534" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nN2yBBSRC78" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> I mean, both of these are adaptations of existing properties, so the narrative has been around for a while. Just seems like they're funneling a shitload of the same stories into the feature release chute ATM. Could be a timing thing, like how the asteroid movies and earthquake movies and White House under attack movies seem to pile up on each other from time to time. |
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Would that be okay? |
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Fletch is a little different from all but Indiana Jones [which since the beginning has been a revival of the old weekly serials which has been around from the beginnning of cinema]. Fletch is a narrative property, with a number of novels at its disposal. So the closest analogy for it in terms of rebooting is Sherlock Holmes or Inspector Clouseau. |
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Melissa McCarthy as Fletch? |
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The problem is Die Hard has been copied by a thousand other movies already and if they do one without Willis as McClaine it becomes indistinguishable from all of the rabble rip-offs it inspired. |
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There's a difference between rebooting an existing work where you reimagine the same story told a different way, and reviving an existing work that already has a bunch of storylines that never got told. Rebooting Casablanca, or The Godfather, is dumb because the entire story has been told and told pretty darn well. Reviving Sherlock, or Fletch, or heck The Avengers [you ARE aware that there was an Avengers before the Avengers of today, right?], in order to realize a catalog of stories is different. It can still go wrong, as can any translation from page to screen, but it's still different. |
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That seems to fall into the category you are describing. |
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Coen's usually do well because they put a compelling signature stamp on everything they do. At worst, I'd call their True Grit superfluous, or unnecessary. But it's well made and not some wild reimagining, so it's not a debacle. |
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The original True Grit isn't a bad movie, but I can think of a lot of John Wayne movies that I like better. The Oscar he won was more of a lifetime achievement award than anything else. It's one of those classic movies that just didn't live up to the hype. I feel the same way about African Queen; yeah, it's okay, but what's the big deal? |
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Ryan Reynolds is the only person that might pull off Fletch. |
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Speaking of horrible remakes, did anyone actually watch the female remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? From the reviews it was apparently as awful as it seemed it would be.
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I'm not sure how to solve this problem. We can blame the studios, but as long as people are willing to shell out ridiculous amounts of dollars to see mediocre remakes (see: all the live-action Disney remakes...) and won't go into theaters for anything new, challenging or unfamiliar, the only shit that's ever going to get bankrolled is bullshit like this. Because they have a pretty good idea that all the people who saw and loved movies in the 80s and 90s are now grownups and likely to see a remake out of nostalgia, and if they won't, their kids probably will, because they've heard about how awesome it is all of their lives.
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If someone had a lot of affection for the original, I can see them thinking that the Coen remake was superfluous, even if it was well made. If someone was less than enamored of the original, I can see them applauding the Coen's doing a superior job. And I . . . sort of . . . fall in the middle. I think both were good, and when I saw the remake I had long had lived with the experience of the original. But the Coen version was so well made, if I had seen it first, I probably wouldn't think as highly of the original. |
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Most 40 and unders have little to no attachment to Dumbo. |
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If, and only if, there was a terrific script and a few great actors with a talented director/producer combo that all lined up to do a movie about Rick and Capt. Renault having ridiculous adventures together through Europe during WW2. I would give that a shot. That's the only interesting story left to tell and it's not worth it unless it's done in spectacular fashion. |
boycott all reboots
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I am not a fan but if the reboot is done well, I can tolerate it. |
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Until these reboots stop making a $1 Billion, they will keep getting made. |
I understand that most remakes/reboots happen for the benjamins. But I don't get why a director more interested in making art would want to remake a classic movie. Like Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley. It doesn't improve on the original in any way, or stand alone as a great movie in its own right. Same with Cape Fear and a host of others.
It makes a lot more sense to remake movies with great premises that weren't executed well. |
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Did anyone load up on Twinkies?
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Citizens rising up to resist the Nazis. That's a wide open story. |
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As far as what happened to Rick and Louie after the events depicted in the film, there was a never-shot script penned called "Brazzaville," the location of the Free French garrison that Louie suggests he and Sam go to in the closing scene. You can read about it here if you give a crap. https://www.blackgate.com/2020/04/27/428025/ |
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