Halloween

[Tiplodocus]

I won DEVILS REJECTS in a 2000AD competition.

Watched it and realised I was a winner and a loser at the same time.

Couldn't give it away quick enough.

I think I'd rather be subjected to the kind of sick torture that Rob Zombie puts in his films than actually watch one again.

Or go see that Catherine Zeta Jones in a romantic comedy - can't quite figure out which is worse.

[TordelBack]

The Michael Mann version of Last of the Mohicans is splendid too.

What's interesting about that superb and endlessly rewatchable film is that it is indeed (allegedly) a remake of the Randolph Scott 1930's version rather than a "new" adaptation of the (excellent but very different) book.

By the way, I really want to read SpookytheCat's defense of Ghosts of Mars!

[Wils]

If you really want depressing, click the below link to see what upcoming remake will be starring blokey from 300.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0984981/" target="_blank">[Sob!]

[Satanist]

I've seen that film over 200 times as I used to watch it every day when I came home from school, until my mum finally got sick of it and taped over it.
The only good thing I can say about a remake is its gotta be better than the LA one.

[Satanist]

I've seen that film over 200 times as I used to watch it every day when I came home from school, until my mum finally got sick of it and taped over it.
The only good thing I can say about a remake is its gotta be better than the LA one.

[Byron Virgo]

"The only good thing I can say about a remake is its gotta be better than the LA one."

Don't tempt fate, it'll only kick you in the balls when you're not looking...and just imagine how bad The Thing remake is going to be...

"Having said that, there are some good remakes out there. I can't remember any examples, off hand."

The Maltese Falcon, Per un Pugno di Dollari, Heat, The Killers, One Million Years B.C., Twelve Monkeys, The Thin Red Line, and so on...but of course these are the exceptions that prove the rule.

[Keef Monkey]

What is it with Carpenter remakes lately anyway, everything he's done seems to have been remade recently or a remake's in the pipeline. I understand he'll be making quite a bit of money from the whole thing but surely that's outweighed by the fact that the younger generation will now wrongly think The Fog was that shit movie with her off of Lost.

[vzzbux]

When they remade the Fog I thought maybe they were going to do it book style instead of American off shore ghost pirates.
I mean a Porton down expeiment which warps the brain and having half of london wiped out in a gi-normous explosion.
When they say loosely based on the book by James Herbert they really mean it. Fucking Yanks,  No Offence.

AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH. I,m off to cool down again

[Keef Monkey]

Dumbest remake in my opinion has to be The Shining, where Stephen King apparently commissioned the tv movie thing because he doesn't like the Kubrick one. Guess which was better?

[Byron Virgo]

The Shining remake was directed by Mick Garris, the man behind the Masters of Horror TV series.

I avoided the 'new' Shining like some sort of wacky plague, as it promised to remain ruthlessly faithful to the source material, and if I've learned one thing, it's that with Stephen King, it pays more to mess about with the story (The Shawshank Redemption, Misery) than it does to be ultra-faithful (Thinner, The Stand).

[SmallBlueThing]

"When they remade the Fog I thought maybe they were going to do it book style instead of American off shore ghost pirates.
I mean a Porton down expeiment which warps the brain and having half of london wiped out in a gi-normous explosion.
When they say loosely based on the book by James Herbert they really mean it. Fucking Yanks, No Offence."

Er... you do know that Carpenter's The Fog is NO RELATION WHATSOEVER to James Herbert's The Fog, don't you? It's not meant to be an adaptation. The two things- book and movie- just happened to be made during a five year period. Herbert's The Fog came out in 75, Carpenter's in 80. One is not in any way related to the other, and was never supposed to be.

I think this confusion came about (and you're not the first to think this) because there is also a Dennis Etchinson-penned novelisation of the film, which was in the shops at a time when James Herbert was at his most popular.

But no, no link whatsoever.

Steev

[vzzbux]

Thats OK then, all this time i've been stewing, Still thought the film was shit though.

[SmallBlueThing]

How very dare you, sir! (madam?) You are talking about one of my top three films of all time. That, Am.We.London and The Wicker Man.

Steev

[vzzbux]

Its not sir, I work for a living. Sorry army flashbacks.

Perhaps my judgement was clouded or influenced by the fact that I had just read the book and deliberatly went and watched the film. I am talking 20 years ago though. Still probably wont change my opinion though.



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[Peter Wolf]

 Perhaps when all these hollywood studios doing remakes of previous films run out of films to remake they could go back to the beginning again and remake all the remakes all over again instead of coming up with an original idea.

 A remake of The Shining is just a little bit pointless.I havent seen the remake and i dont want to either.

 As for Escape From New York i never liked that film much in the first place.I remember seeing that film at the cinema with my dad and was very disappointed in it.I also didnt like escape from LA either.

 I did once see a very interesting docu on the making of The Wicker Man.It was all about the filming of it and how they had to do a lot of improvisation to create the settings etc.It was just unbelievable how they managed to pull that one off and create a film that is actually convincing and disturbing.Just about everything a major hollywood film studio failed to replicate in  its remake of.

 The only remake that i will say is any good and actually added something to the original was the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.It managed to be quite convincing as was the original.The idea of adding the archive footage to the beginning and end of the film was quite clever.

 Watching the remake of the Wicker Man killed off any curiosity i had about remakes.

 I have never seen any of the Halloween films nor Friday the 13th either.