Guest Patrokles Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 (edited) So I'm walking today and I see a poster advertising a remake of the Wicker Man. I am against remakes in general anyway, but it seems to me VERY MUCH as though since Dawn of the Dead was remade a few years back (and did alright at the box office), everyone has been jumping on the 'remake a 30-year old horror movie' bandwagon, and it's a bit naff. If you're talented, do something fucking new. Make something amazing. Don't just ride the coat-tails of an older film just because you can add more fancy special effects. It's lame and it's pathetic and I think hollywood's dollars would be better spent encouraging innovation, not weary pointless retreading. TALENTLESS HACKS, the lot of them. Edited August 18, 2006 by Patrokles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11076 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I concur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Kids today wouldn't watch the wicker man. If a shit remake makes them investigate the origional? Champion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I doubt very much that modern day Hollywood can recreate the creepyness of the original. Nicholas Cage stars in the new one doesn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 (edited) Kids today wouldn't watch the wicker man. If a shit remake makes them investigate the origional? Champion. 180842[/snapback] It's the cynicism of it, though. The Wicker Man is just the latest in a long line of (very specific, genre-wise) remakes, and you can bet that the directors and the studios aren't doing it to raise the exposure of the old films. It's laziness and greed. Edited August 18, 2006 by Patrokles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Kids today wouldn't watch the wicker man. If a shit remake makes them investigate the origional? Champion. 180842[/snapback] It's the cynicism of it, though. The Wicker Man is just the latest in a long line of (very specific, genre-wise) remakes, and you can bet that the directors and the studios aren't doing it to raise the exposure of the old films. It's laziness and greed. 180848[/snapback] Course not. But if a film is worth remaking, it's got to be canny in the first place. If I watch a shit remake, I think to myself "why was it worth remaking?" and go to the original. It doesn't do any harm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I concur 180839[/snapback] and I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Have you seen the so-shit-it-went-straight-to-video remake of Get Carter, HF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 Have you seen the so-shit-it-went-straight-to-video remake of Get Carter, HF? 180854[/snapback] No. Nor have I seen the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11076 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 I concur 180839[/snapback] and I agree. 180853[/snapback] hush you, this is a serious debatr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad-on-the-cocks 0 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 http://thewickermanmovie.warnerbros.com/wickerman.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11076 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 has there ever been a good remake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad-on-the-cocks 0 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Never, the orige was sound, still remember that wank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6918 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 I recently bought The Hills have Eyes original when the new one was at the cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47072 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 The original of the Wicker Man was fucking shit. That's my main gripe with the fact that some dickhead is remaking it. Once was bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 The original of the Wicker Man was fucking shit. That's my main gripe with the fact that some dickhead is remaking it. Once was bad enough. 180913[/snapback] What a lid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 (edited) I'd like to apologise to everyone. In my pissed up state I was obviously in a live and let live kind of mood. Sobriety has returned me to my standard cynical viewpoint. And I stand by the opinion I posited many moons ago..... There's far too many remakes like The Wicker Man Absoloute disgrace. Why's the mother in on it? Where's the folk music? Where's the animal costumes? I'll bet it has a happy ending too. Texas Chainsaw Massacre Miami Vice Superman Returns Poseiden The Omen The Simpsons The 39 Steps The Lake House School for Scoundrels Pathfinder Pulse The Last Kiss 146183[/snapback] Edited August 19, 2006 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 The original was creepy like just caus ethe antagonists were weird scottish islander who probably are that weird in real life - somewhere! Nicolas Cage cant recreate that - he'l probably pull a fucking AK47 and just kill everyone on the island! With an American take on scots - that they all live in sheds and eat battered Deers legs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7312 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 sorry to be pedantic but superman returns, miami vice and the simpsons arent remakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Stop being pedantic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 We should have a sweepstake for which horror flick gets remade next. I think the Nightmare series is too recent, and the Friday series is probably a bit too generic slasher-y. I reckon Don't Look Now, only with a LEGION of deformed dwarven killers slicing a swathe through the Venetian streets. or Rosemary's Baby, only without any of the social satire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 has there ever been a good remake? 180885[/snapback] Oceans Eleven. The original is garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 4183 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 has there ever been a good remake? 180885[/snapback] Oceans Eleven. The original is garbage. 181154[/snapback] I prefer the 2003 Italian Job to the original version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Patrokles Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 This brings up an interesting point, actually- why not remake the films that were potentially great, but suffered from a few things that clearly didn't work/could have been done a lot better? I don't get why remakers remake the films that are generally already acknowledged as pretty great. If you have to remake, remake something you know you can improve upon and do it the credit it deserves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Day of the dead? Jaws - complete with cgi shark? exorcist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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