Yeah yeah, reboot spiderman 12 times, Bat man too, redo any old movie you want but
DONT FUCKING TOUCH ROADHOUSE.
its prefect, dont fuck with it, just dont
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Yeah yeah, reboot spiderman 12 times, Bat man too, redo any old movie you want but
DONT FUCKING TOUCH ROADHOUSE.
its prefect, dont fuck with it, just dont
And still no Logan’s Run remake, which is a damn travesty.
Speechless NW skier, I understand I mean what the absolute fuck.
Who's gonna be the blind guitarist?
Fletch, w/o Chevy, unpossible.
https://youtu.be/pb2Pu5EjC1s
At the end, if it doesn’t turn out that Chevy had been disguised as John Hamm the whole time, this movie has utterly failed
I heard today about the upcoming Toxic Avenger remake. I don’t know how you mess with perfection like that.
Could be a good movie. But why call it Fletch?Quote:
Originally Posted by This End Up
It’s insulting
Remakes "for a new audience" is just hollyspeak for "we are running out of ideas"
Exactly!!! The worst are the Disney live action remakes of beloved animated classics. Only ones I've watched were Beauty & the Beast and 101 Dalmatians. Both were garbage. Haven't bothered with any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw
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They're not running out of ideas, they just know how to make money. In any given year, the top grossing movies are almost universally non-original material (i.e. remakes and sequels). Audiences go with what they know, and Hollywood follows the money.Quote:
Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw
You want more original movies? Stop going to see remakes and sequels. Tell your friends.
If you say so. Same story, different capeQuote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
There are so many studios making original content that didn't exist ten years ago through amazon, netflix, etc. i think toast has the right idea, why would they take a risk when people continually show up for X-MEN reboot 15. Fucking lame though.Quote:
Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw
Y'all are aware that Fletch is a character from a long-running and celebrated series of novels, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(novel)
Kevin Smith had long been rumored to be making a Fletch film based closer on the source material than either of the Chevy flix.
He was pushing to have Jason Lee star as Fletch, too.
Here's a coupla stories about Smith's aborted Fletch film.
https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLN...n-development/
https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/20...reboot-failed/
While I know zip/nada/nothing about this new John Hamm Fletch, good chances are that it's based on one of the books and is going to be vastly different from the Chevy outings.
I would be willing to bet that the producer's "angle," in regards to this reboot, is that they aren't remaking the Chevy films, but rather re-visiting the source material.
And I am sure they are probably also hoping to spin a franchise out of it, too (there are 11 Fletch novels).
But, on the whole, I am against remakes.
I cringe every time The Rock talks about a Big Trouble In Little China remake.
And for years there was a rumor of a remake of The Wild Bunch, but that seems to have disappeared (Thank God, cuz The Wild Bunch is one of the greatest western films--hell greatest films--ever.
:cool:
:D
Holy shit. I feel ignorant.
I know. It’s me.
11 novels? Damn. Sounds like I got some reading to do.
I feel better about the remake. It’s more like Dune now.
Chevy was awesome. But it’s not his franchise.
Can’t wait to see it now.
P.S.
I am largely against franchises, too.
(although I am one of those idiots Toast alluded to above who keeps going to see sequels and remakes/reboots...) :eek:
:D
Don't worry, I am too. Takes one to know one... or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookeyXXX
Jon Hamm is a pretty funny dude and I am not sure if Fletch rises to the status of No Remakes Allowed. It's not Ghostbusters, who the fuck gave that a green light?
no, it’s hollyspeak for marketing old ideas is more effectiveQuote:
Originally Posted by boltonoutlaw
I tried to read one of the fletch books the movie was based on. Ooof
ThisQuote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
I am going to see that Fletch movie , fk the OP
Blister broke the news on a Ferris Bueller spinoff recently. They might need to digitally recreate 17 year old Sloane to get me interested though.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/a0175251...v4d5o1_640.jpg
The original The Strangers wasn’t that good.
And neither was the unnecessary 10-years later sequel The Strangers: Prey At Night.
Yet, somehow, Hollywood is now producing a reboot and projected trilogy.
Why?
(Well, obviously $$$), but why not spend that money actually financing some original content?
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...in-1235219896/
wow, people are MAD about The Little Mermaid.
eta: morons. not regular people.
Beverly Hills Cop #4 is in production.
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/b...el-1235379225/
Why?
I never saw 3 (and I don’t think a lot of people did; it only made money because of the foreign market and just barely).
According to Wikipedia, this film has been trying to get made since the mid-90s, with numerous starts and stops…
On the Fletch tip, I watched the trailer for that new Jon Hamm starring one and found it lackluster and uninspired.
I was also surprised to see that it got a theatrical release (it’s playing at several cineplexes in Reno).
Go figure.
RS giving high praise to Confess, Fletch and lamenting the current state of cinema:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movi...mm-1234599812/
Prequel or Reboot???
https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/pr...es-1235385877/
Two that are better than the originals:
Night of the Living Dead 1990
The Thing 1982
Casablanca II - you know there' somebody trying to sell this.
While I would agree that 1982 version of The Thing was very good, I would hesitate to compare it to the original (also very good) because it was sooooo different. Critical element: a remake should not actually be a remake, it should depart significantly while still keeping the underlying premise.
In regards to The Thing From Another World (1951) and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982), I’mma be a pedantic putz and point out that, like the Fletch films, they are both based on a piece of literature, in this case the 1938 novella Who Goes There? written by John W. Campbell.
So, technically speaking, Carpenter’s version isn’t really a remake so much as a new interpretation of the source material.
Although, Carpemter is an unabashed Howard Hawks (director of the 1951 film) fanboy…
:D
Then it wouldn’t really be a remake would it? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by PB
(You’ve just defined “reboot”, btw…)
:D
But I could also make the argument that you can have a remake that’s a reboot and vice/versa (a reboot that’s a remake).
I think.
Shit, now I’m confused…
I’mma stick with Brodie’s breakdown (which is really Kevin Smith’s breakdown since he wrote the script):
Where does adaptation fit in?? ;)
Great movie but was it a remake?Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
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Technically, it was a loose adaptation…Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
Please note, I did NOT capitalize adaptation. My argument is that the best remakes are actually adaptations.Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn
Please be serious, Shirley.
“The great thing about genre directors in the 80s, they were thinking ‘What can we make?,’ not ‘What can we remake?’
We’re in a degenerate era today where all they think about is ‘What can we remake?,’ often titles from the 80s…”
- Joe Bob Briggs from an interview in the documentary In Search of Darkness
The original Road House came out at a time of my life I remember fondly, and I couldn't agree with the sentiment more, but ... they did it anyway! Due to some extra special Amazon fuckery, though, it's apparently not going to get a theatrical release...Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLH8d1H8diI
Gotta post this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwgOUzodS6E
I was able to see Jeff Healey live a few times in a small club back then. That dude was one amazing mofo! Night Music also was very special. Only around for a couple years, but one of the best things that's ever been on television.
The director’s words regarding Road House
https://youtu.be/h-vWRLGnTGg