Robocop Remake

Mark Joseph
Actor

Why oh why, can't people leave things alone.

It's...going...to...be....crap.

M.


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Alice Henley
Actor

Its not a remake exactly but i hear they are doing a Thundercats movie and I've got to be honest, I can't wait!!! that was my favorite cartoon of all time. THUNDERCATS ARE GO..... I'd do it!


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A remake of a cartoon is cool, they can sometimes be really good!
Thundercats rocked .... I'm waiting for He-man and She-ra, the Smurfs or Gummi Bears! Now there is a challenge!


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I hear they are gonna remake 'WARRIORS'

Please for gods sake No!

This is an iconic film classic, and so stylish...

"Warriors...Come out to plaaaay"

They wanna set it in LA? And do it in this era!

Look what they did to
'Assault On Precinct 13'

Please enough is enough eh!


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charles delaney
Actor, Singer

The Italian Job !

A film about a bunch of West London crooks getting one over the Mafia.

Not entirely sure what L.A. had to do with being in the re-make apart from being shot there!!


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Lee Ravitz
Actor

Remakes are very often bad news - although not always - I think 'The Magnificent Seven', the 1979 version of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' and a few others are as good as the original material they were taken from - but the trouble with modern glossy Hollywood is that it tends to delude itself about why the remake is even being considered in the first place. Essentially, the only 'value' in doing a remake is to make up for a paucity in good current script ideas, ensure that the film will make some money, inasmuch as people will pay to see it on the basis of the film's identity alone/out of curiosity value, and possibly prove cheaper than commissioning an entirely original script? All economics at the end of the day.

But what they ARGUE is that the remake will somehow or other appropriately 'homage' the original much esteemed film which is being remade. Naturally, Hollywood primarily remakes the films that have mass popularity or known cult appeal - it hopes something of the film's original 'cachet' will rub off on the remade version. There are many films with good ideas out there, and poor execution, that I'm sure we'd all quite like to see remade, but these films are rarely touched, of course. On occasion, when a film was not so hot in the first place, a remake, as for instance, 'The Thomas Crown Affair', can actually improve its lot. But, for most of the time, Hollywood aims to remake the already highly popular. And, naturally, this misses the vital point - that much of the original's very appeal will lie in the way it caught a certain cutural zeitgeist, or nostalgia for the era in which it was made, or thanks to the peculiar talent and chemistry of the original actors who starred in the first version, or the fact that it was shot on a pitiful budget but conveys a distinct style, or because the original directorial vision was magnificent, or because its attitude and plotline deliberately eschewed Hollywood sentimentality and predictability. Remaking films that have attained popularity because of any or all of these factors is completely aesthetically self-defeating, because they will never be recaptured. Often, the best 'remakes' realise this, and do very little other than lift a character concept or plotline that once proved popular and craft an entirely new story around it. At its most ridiculous, you end up with something like the shot-by-shot remake of Psycho, which was undeniably an interesting avant-garde experiment if a Warholian like point about the nature of cinema was intended to be explored via it, but as a *film* has to be one of the most pointless things ever shot.


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charles delaney
Actor, Singer

I thought the 'Thomas Crown' remake had less impact than the original as the new story line went PC at the end!
I'm sure the producers still went to the bank in any event. Great appraisal Lee.


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Lee, I honestly believe that your musings should be seen beyond the confines of this site.
You have a real gift for critiquing a situation or topic of discussion.
Keep em coming.


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ALAN WALES
Actor

I'm waiting for the remake of DEEP THROAT. Been preparing for it by reading MOUTH AND THE ACTOR.


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I have to add that I thought 'The Departed' was disappointing and inferior to the original Japanese 'Infernal Affairs'

...and 'Vanilla Sky' was just bad. Check out the original Spanish 'Abre los Ojos' (Open Your Eyes) made about only four years earlier. Penelope Cruz was also in both films.


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