I kinda thought we were going to get a new Howard the Duck for a second. That would’ve been hilarious either way it panned out.
I think we should take something really underrated but improve it. Off the top of my head, The Rollerblade Seven.
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I nominate _The Room _by Tommy Wiseau. It coulda been good.
On a vaguely related note, why aren't we making more movies that take a Shakespeare plot and just stuff it in a different setting without trying to hide it? Like 10 Things I Hate about you was Taming of the Shrew.
Tell me you wouldn't watch Mechbeth.
There have been a bunch: Throne of Blood is Samurai Macbeth. Warm Bodies is Zombie Romeo & Juliette
Macbeth... IN SPAAAAAAACE!!!!!
What about remaking foreign movies into domestic interpretations? La Pacte des loups could use an update.
This only works on like mid movies, maybe. You can't do it with a film like Plan 9 from Outer Space or The Room because the jank is part of the appeal. But maybe an actually good version of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Sucker Punch, but with a better director?
Mid movies with an interesting premise. That's the point of OP's post.
Scarface, Omega Man, The Bird Cage, Thomas Crown Affair, Ocean's 11, Fist Full of Dollars, Vanilla Sky, Wizard of Oz, The Bourne Identity: all remakes. Arguably, the new Dune movies might be considered remakes of a relatively mid original movie, though the new ones are far more tied to the book.
So taking the 1993 mid kids' movie Rookie of the Year and adapting it to a modem take where the lead is 19 and plays soccer for Arsenal or whatever, would be what OP means. Or redo the 1993 racist POS movie Falling Down. Or Dave, JFC.
There is no saving Sucker Punch. The fundamental premise of the movie is each rape is a fight scene showing a literal interpretation of a metaphorical struggle. It's not recoverable.
Uh, they remade The Room starring Bob Odenkirk.
They knew how to do this in the 80s. Little Shop of Horrors, The Fly, and The Thing for example. All remakes that far surpassed the cheesy originals.
The 80s version of The Blob is terrifying.
I was scared of the colour pink for like 3 years in primary school.
How many more versions of Tron do we need?
One more.
- T ron.
- R eboot.
- O h fuck, why did we cast Jared Leto
- N ow we're talking.
Tron Reboot, fuck yeah make it happen!
Keep em coming. Tron: Legacy is my all time favourite.
Do you want Fantastic Four? That's how you get Fantastic Four
[raises hand] which Fantastic Four... Last I counter there were like five... I think... I lost count.
Well, there was the "We want to keep the rights" movie from the... 90s, I think? Then the two with Jessica Alba, then Fantfourstick, then the MCU version. So, yeah, five by my count.
Do waterworld again!
Is it a flop? I thought it's good from recent viewing, no nostalgia involved because i never watched it back then. Wouldn't mind for another one in that setting though.
It was the most expensive movie ever made at the time, which attracted a lot of criticism. It made a profit though.
I think the movie is amazing, but it was generally panned as an expensive flop. I think the setting is really interesting and the practical effects were out of this world
I want a remake of Tetsuo!
The shaky can of this movie makes me nauseous :(
Kaneda?
Pink Flamingos - Sausage Supreme
IYKYK
Interesting. Who plays Divine/Babs?
Airplane!
You picked the wrong time to start sniffing glue...
Airplane is a remake of Zero Hour, which itself is a remake of Flight Into Danger. I don’t think we could take another level of remakeception. It would probably turn out to be a musical.
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Surely you can’t be serious‽
Surely you must be joking. That would be awful.
Absolutely not