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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Chat - Non Pinball/coin-opp Discussion => Topic started by: pinnies4me on November 24, 2008, 09:49:12 PM
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Blasphemy!
Just saw the ad... how could they think perfection could be improved???? Please, someone destroy the prints!!!! :(
What next - A new Gone with the Wind - Eye of the Hurricane
Casablanca - The Next Generation
Planet of the Apes... hang on, they did that... look how great that turned out!
Sheesh! Has everyone who ever had an original idea given up????
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I hear you my friend - loud and clear.
My perfect world ended when they remade "get carter" and put Sly in the lead role.
Have i watched it?... Theres no need to...its got Sly in it
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I jusr saw the ad on TV... I've never seen the original. The trailer of the new one looked great..
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I jusr saw the ad on TV... I've never seen the original. The trailer of the new one looked great..
Stop it Strangeways, you're killing me!!!! !*!
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Looks like I have to do a bit of research on this film... I'm upsetting the natives %.%
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Saw it as a kid back in '76. couple of scenes stuck in my head - the typewriter melting and the sea turning to steam. I had just turned 10 at the time and England was in a heatwave and drought. The roads were melting and steam coming off Brighton beach. I was terrified, convinced the world was ending! LOL!!
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I'll have to source that original copy !
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Any half decent video store will have it in the "Classics" or Sci-Fi section.
Over the last few years the quality of what Holywood is churning out is pretty bad. Special effects, once the thing of much money and time, can be generated on a PC of no more power than I'm typing on right now. So the plot can be stolen from a good film or book, rewritten to remove any need for cerebral involvement from the audience (War of the Worlds remake, Planet of the Apes remake, I am Legend (remake of Omega Man which admittedly was a remake of the Vincent Price 1964 film etc etc etc)).
With cheaply available special effects the originals seem pale by comparison, but they had to rely on plot and structure for their effect, something lost on new audiences. It was the Planet of the Apes remake that heralded the remake frenzy of old Sci-Fi, and with what we've seen over the last few years, I hold little hope for the new Day the earth Stood Still.
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You will know the end of the world has come when:
A Clockwork Orange - the Musical
Comes to your local theater. It would probably be made by Disney.
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What about "The Exorcist" - The Broadway Musical...
I'd hate to be in the front row %.%
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I agree, most remakes are dreadful. Some have done themselves justice, but its few.
What gets me is the latest insult, " re-imaging " of classic movies. House Of Wax 1953-classic.-----House Of Wax-Paris Hilton?????? They are re-imaging the Lost Boys and Rocky Horror, possibly featuring Marilyn Manson as Frankenfurter! This to me proves that a ton of people in the movie industry have completly lost it. A classic, is a classic for a reason. Someone go to hollywood and tell em, please. @.@
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I dunno, but they just don't make 'em like they used since "Debbie does Dallas"