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2008-11-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

12 Upcoming Hollywood Remakes Of Sci-Fi Classic Movies

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Is Hollywood really this brain dead? Dealers cutting their coke a bit too much?

Posted by Raj 2008-11-27 01:03|| 2008-11-27 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Wait until you see the trailer for Tiny Trek Adventures. (Real title shamelessly stolen from Ace of Spades HQ).

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-27 01:29|| 2008-11-27 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 In addition to being moonbat leftists, they are devoid of originality.

No wonder domestic movie watching is down so much.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-11-27 07:35|| 2008-11-27 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Okay, Termintor IV and Ghostbusters III are understandable. It's common to milk a successful franchise and I look forward to a new Ghostbusters movie. Remake Robocop? Any of the tohers? Foolishness.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-27 08:25|| 2008-11-27 08:25|| Front Page Top

#5 In the remake of Alien the huamns ask themselves why the Alien hates them and then determine it is Bush fault. Then they tie hands with the Alien, sing Kumbaya and bring the man-etaing thing to Earth.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-27 08:38|| 2008-11-27 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Just when I thought that the lack of originality couldn't be any more obvious...
Damn... just... damn.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-11-27 08:48|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-11-27 08:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Have a look at forbidden planet...

The special effects are STILL up to date. Way ahead of its time.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-27 08:54|| 2008-11-27 08:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Can we call this the result of a 'Detroit Bubble'. A corporate cultural echo chamber that keeps making products devoid of creativity or integrity. A static institution in a dynamic evolutionary environment that rewards adaptation is eventually going to die. The question is how much else of the society are they going to drag down with them?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-27 09:00|| 2008-11-27 09:00|| Front Page Top

#9 More movies I will never see.

Hollywood is completely brain dead and needs to be left to die.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-27 09:11|| 2008-11-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Drive in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs has a rule for how to make a successful sequel. But it would also apply to a remake.

"A sequel should be exactly the same movie as the original."

He noted that when this rule was followed, the sequel was a success, and when it was not, the sequel was a stinker.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-27 09:17|| 2008-11-27 09:17|| Front Page Top

#11 ...I MIGHT go see a Ghostbusters III or a Terminator sequel that wraps up the story, but I wouldn't touch any of the others with a 12-parsec pole. They were products of their time, and could never, ever be topped. The new The Day The Earth Stood Still - with Keanu Reeves running the gamut of emotions from A to B - is sheer blasphemy compared to the sublime original, especially when you add the PC crap that will certainly be a part of it and all the others.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-11-27 09:20|| 2008-11-27 09:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Real life is bizarre enough for me. Forget the Sci-Fi and remakes. I'll save my money for Australia.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-27 09:25|| 2008-11-27 09:25|| Front Page Top

#13 "Have a look at forbidden planet...

The special effects are STILL up to date. Way ahead of its time."

True enough, BP. But for WAY ahead of its time, check out Lang's "Metropolis".

Posted by no mo uro 2008-11-27 10:11|| 2008-11-27 10:11|| Front Page Top

#14 As has been said times too numerous to mention, who really gives a rat's a$$ what Hollywood does? "Remakes" are simply an excuse for lack of any original ideas. It should be only a matter of time until Hollywood self destructs...one can only hope.

Posted by WolfDog 2008-11-27 10:28|| 2008-11-27 10:28|| Front Page Top

#15 This looks more interesting...

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/14361

Hopefully.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-27 10:49|| 2008-11-27 10:49|| Front Page Top

#16 Casting the role for Frankenstein? John F'n Kerry!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-27 11:03|| 2008-11-27 11:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Zero's cabinet is stitched together from the politically dead.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-27 12:29|| 2008-11-27 12:29|| Front Page Top

#18 When they remake Mothra I will commence mining Hanna-Barbera material for a workable HR Puffenstuff, Lidsville or Sigmund and the Seamonsters script.

Posted by Super Hose 2008-11-27 14:02|| 2008-11-27 14:02|| Front Page Top

#19 The Day The Earth Stood Still

Is going to be utter shite.

He is here to save the planet from Humanity and Global ~~Warming~~ Climate Change!

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. Klaatu himself already has a negative opinion of humans, and when barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides they shall be exterminated so the planet with its rare ability to sustain complex life can survive. It is up to Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) and her stepson Jacob (Jaden Smith) to convince Klaatu humans are worth saving: but it may already be too late.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-27 16:03|| 2008-11-27 16:03|| Front Page Top

#20 FYI it comes out December 12. Be sure not to see it.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-27 16:10|| 2008-11-27 16:10|| Front Page Top

#21 Yes, I believe that the re-make of the Day the Earth Stood Still will join the ranks of the re-makes of Rollerball and the deep sea version of Outland as proof that drugs are bad!

Posted by bruce 2008-11-27 16:16|| 2008-11-27 16:16|| Front Page Top

#22 The original "When Worlds Collide", a British Sci-Fi flick created on fifty-cent budget, was so bad it was camp. I read both the novels - "When Worlds Collide" and "After Worlds Collide", and they were definitely stereotypical of 1950's British science fiction - which isn't a complement. Better special effects won't save a lousy script, and the original script was TERRIBLE.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-27 16:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-27 16:48|| Front Page Top

#23 when barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides they shall be exterminated

Ah so Klatuu is a faithful Muslim, liek me - ridding the world of Jews (and everyone else in the process, but thats not importants)

Posted by ImaDinnerJacket 2008-11-27 20:19|| 2008-11-27 20:19|| Front Page Top

#24 Well, the coudl nto have gotten a more wooden leading man: Keanu Reeves.

And according to more reading I've done, Reeves was involved in a lot of changes ot the script.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-27 20:23|| 2008-11-27 20:23|| Front Page Top

#25 The Creature will need some tasty morsel like in the days of old, not one of the current skinny skanks called stars.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-11-27 21:10|| 2008-11-27 21:10|| Front Page Top

#26 "L1ndsey distrusts the creature's intentions, when he's really just trying to get her to eat a sandwitch..."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-27 23:01|| 2008-11-27 23:01|| Front Page Top

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