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Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Mallardz » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:01 pm

So I just watched the Spanish film [REC] I had seen "Quarantine" first but I think [REC], although clearly made almost same, was much better.
They have also managed to cock up
"Let The Right One In" - "Let Me In"
"Ring" - "The Ring"
"The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" - A film with the same name
"Friday the 13th"
and "The Italian Job"


Okay, so I personally liked "The War of The Worlds" and "Dawn of The Dead" but I never saw the originals so it's an unfair biased opinion.


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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:30 pm

The remake of Mrs Miniver is just awful. The scene where the titular heroine breaks out an ack-ack gun and starts blazing away at the Heinkels, whilst roaring " take that, ye doity Kraut baystards" being particularly pitiful.
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Post by Azathoth » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:33 pm

Because it is cheap and guaranteed to fill cinemas. If people refused to part with their money at the box office to watch yet another shitty remake they would stop doing it :sighsm:
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Azathoth » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:34 pm

You forgot the italian job too. How dare they, the money grubbing bastards ;ob;
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Animavore » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:43 pm

Mallardz wrote:Okay, so I personally liked "The War of The Worlds"...
You're dead to me.
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Post by Mallardz » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:44 pm

Jynx wrote:
Mallardz wrote:Okay, so I personally liked "The War of The Worlds"...
You're dead to me.
Well the film I didn't but I liked the look of the ships and all the ways they could kill, their sweet murderous tools. That's it really. So I guess that's not the film.
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Animavore » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:48 pm

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Mallardz wrote:Okay, so I personally liked "The War of The Worlds"...
You're dead to me.
Well the film I didn't but I liked the look of the ships and all the ways they could kill, their sweet murderous tools. That's it really. So I guess that's not the film.
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Post by Pappa » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:06 pm

I saw REC yesterday. I loved it.
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Post by Rum » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:08 pm

I do tend to agree. But there are exceptions. I loved Seven Samurai, but the Magnificent Seven was a pretty damn good film too!
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Post by Animavore » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:11 pm

Rum wrote:I do tend to agree. But there are exceptions. I loved Seven Samurai, but the Magnificent Seven was a pretty damn good film too!
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Kaison » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:18 am

Jynx wrote:
Mallardz wrote:
Jynx wrote:
Mallardz wrote:Okay, so I personally liked "The War of The Worlds"...
You're dead to me.
Well the film I didn't but I liked the look of the ships and all the ways they could kill, their sweet murderous tools. That's it really. So I guess that's not the film.
I'm keeping tabs on you from now on.
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Aside from the lame way they introduced the Martian vehicles and how they entered them, I liked the movie. It was entertaining. Oh, the sub-plot with the son was a bit of FAIL, too.

Overall, remakes are bad, but they don't have to be. It just seems that most have been.
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by Azathoth » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:34 am

The rob zombie remake of friday the 13th was another exception. Actually better than the original
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by maiforpeace » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:39 am

The remake of Psycho. :tdown:
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by locutus7 » Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:45 am

Projects on tap: Henry V, this time with americans; it will resemble West Side Story. Ashton kucher to play Henry, Demi Moore his french paramour.

Polanski's Chinatown, this time contemporary and upscale with younger, better looking actors yet to be cast (young audiences want aspirational role models).

Casablanca, directed by James Cameron. Will possess surreal special effects, relocated to Los Angeles (naturally), with Mark Wahlberg and Emma Stone to star.

Yong people buy the tickets so remakes will be targeting them.
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Re: Why do Hollywood ruin films we love?

Post by charlou » Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:02 am

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