Movie review thread...

mariner4life

Movie execs really are a shower of fluffybunnies aren't they? Do any of these remakes actually even live up to the original, let alone improve on them?
 
Why remake movies people like? Remake movies that could have been cool, but kinda got fucked up.

mariner4life

Oh, i watched "Jake the Giant Slayer" on the weekend. Yea it's a kids movie (ish, a lot of people get killed) but i thought it was pretty entertaining. looked cool, and the characters were pretty funny in the main.

NTA

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Movie execs really are a shower of fluffybunnys aren't they? Do any of these remakes actually even live up to the original, let alone improve on them?

Why remake movies people like? Remake movies that could have been cool, but kinda got fucked up.[/quote]
Because movie execs are a bunch of risk-averse fairies. They go with what they know makes money, rather than trying new stuff. And the fluffybunnys put too much money into it as well.

I'm watching "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" which I recorded from SBS so it's the original Swedish version. Budget $13 million - box office $104 million = $8 return.

English version with Daniel Craig: budget $90 million. Box office $232 million = $2.5 return.

Silly pricks. Hollywood is hampered by a greedy union system though.

jegga

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Heres hoping these latest remakes crash so they don't even consider remaking those two, the special effects might be a bit ordinary by todays standards but they are still cool as fuck to watch. I bought them both for me and my boy to watch when he came to stay in the weekends.
 
I like Mariners idea of remaking movies that got fucked up the first time around, first on my list would be Prometheus followed by Ali with no involvement at all from Will Smith this time around. .

taniwharugby

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Because movie execs are a bunch of risk-averse fairies. They go with what they know makes money, rather than trying new stuff. And the fluffybunnys put too much money into it as well. I'm watching "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" which I recorded from SBS so it's the original Swedish version. Budget $13 million - box office $104 million = $8 return. English version with Daniel Craig: budget $90 million. Box office $232 million = $2.5 return. Silly pricks. Hollywood is hampered by a greedy union system though.
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I watched the original first, and the English version seemed almost a carbon copy (scenes, script) but in English...
 
God help us if they try to remake Point Break, I will boycott, mongrels, get some new ideas or fix someting that was broke (as NTA says)
 
As Bodhi would say, Back off Hollywood, seriously!

NTA

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="427480" data-time="1399532512">I watched the original first, and the English version seemed almost a carbon copy (scenes, script) but in English... </blockquote>
 
Which is different to the Asian remakes because they tend to change locations rather drastically

nostrildamus

The 1920 remake of Hamlet starring Asta Nielsen (as a woman playing a man) is Freud freaking fantastic!
Not many other great remakes come to mind, I thought Jude Law was good in Alfie, but some of it, bah.
Action movie remakes, strangely, are usually crap, Conan in particular. Casino Royale was ok, but something was missing.

Milk

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="427286" data-time="1399443660">Gerard Butler has dropped out of the remake of the best movie ever made, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' class="bbc_url" href='http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/gerard-butler-drops-point-break-701703'>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/gerard-butler-drops-point-break-701703</a> to concentrate of London has fallen a sequel to Olympus has fallen . Apparently they are also remaking [read that as remake into a steaming turd like Red Dawn] Romancing the stone ,Road House, Short circuit , War Games and a whole bunch of movies I loved as a kid .No mention of Labyrinth or Flight of the Intruder though thank fuck.</blockquote>
 
The best news from your post is about the sequel to Olympus Has Fallen. I don't care what sort of ridiculous Taken 2 style story telling they have to do to pit Gerard Butler against a whole bunch of terrorists, I will watch it and I will love it.

raznomore

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Because movie execs are a bunch of risk-averse fairies. They go with what they know makes money, rather than trying new stuff. And the fluffybunnys put too much money into it as well. I'm watching "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" which I recorded from SBS so it's the original Swedish version. Budget $13 million - box office $104 million = $8 return. English version with Daniel Craig: budget $90 million. Box office $232 million = $2.5 return. Silly pricks. Hollywood is hampered by a greedy union system though.
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This particular case you are forgetting the fact that fat lazy Americans hate movies with subtitles. So a great movie with a great idea needed to be remade so that those fat lazy Americans could see a movie they will ultimately forget and probably in later years come across the original and claim someone has stolen "their" idea and made a low budget version of it.

raznomore

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The best news from your post is about the sequel to Olympus Has Fallen. I don't care what sort of ridiculous Taken 2 style story telling they have to do to pit Gerard Butler against a whole bunch of terrorists, I will watch it and I will love it.
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If Willis can keep Dying Hard then Im sure Gerard can carve out a mildly successful franchise/career by Falling everywhere.

NTA

Been browsing through a few I borrowed from a friend at work - spoilers ahead.
 
Centurion - really enjoyed this, having caught only part of it on TV one night. Nice and gritty, Fassbender good as usual, and it displayed some of the actual Roman things (i.e. they're not all white dudes from Rome) that I enjoyed from a historical accuracy point of view. However, I can't completely believe that ambush would have worked. The Romans from Caesar's time took warfare to a whole new level and the activity (or lack of) from their scouts would have been a massive warning, particularly if Dominic West was half the general his men thought.
 
Red 2 - liked this almost as much as the first, though this one was far more espionage than explosions. Malkovich and Mirren are great value, and Mary Louise-Parker has given her character another dimension. Zeta-Jones is still a fox.
 
The Book Of Eli - post-apocalyptic religious western? Yeah guess so - reminded me a lot of Mad Max 2. Denzel Washington pretty solid in a movie that used a minimum of dialogue to deliver. You sort of forget that Mila Kunis is starting to collect some serious roles on her resume, and while this isn't necessarily one of them compared to Black Swan, the fact she's holding her own against Washington and Oldman gives you pause to consider her talent.
 
The Wolverine - was worried about this one after the yawn-fest that was Origins, but this was pretty good I thought.
 
Warm Bodies - as a self-professed zombie nutter I had to suspend my disbelief for the whole "come back to life" thing. Really interesting premise though, and Hoult and Palmer along with Malkovich did a great job.

Sneakdefreak

The Purge - It is 2022 and USA has 1% unemployment and everything is dandy because one night out of the year all citizens are allowed to purge i.e commit mass murder, rape, crimes to get it out of their system. The movie follows one family trying to see out the night in their secured home. The incest queen from GoT plays the wife.
 
A great idea for a movie but the writers really phoned it in which was a shame. 6/10

Nepia

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If Willis can keep Dying Hard then Im sure Gerard can carve out a mildly successful franchise/career by Falling everywhere.
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Can I unlike this? Olympus Has Fallen is not even half the movie Die Hard is and Butler has about a 10th of the charisma of Butler (Willis). 
 
Maybe I dislike this movie so much because I paid $18 to go and see it when a fairer value would have been about $3?
 
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Warm Bodies - as a self-professed zombie nutter I had to suspend my disbelief for the whole "come back to life" thing. Really interesting premise though, and Hoult and Palmer along with Malkovich did a great job.
 
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<div>I really enjoyed this movie, but then I'm not really a zombie nutter - I prefer the Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, World War Z types, to the old school zombie flicks.</div>
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<div>Palmer makes the movie all the more enjoyable as well ....</div>

NTA

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Butler has about a 10th of the charisma of Butler. 
 
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Yes. He's a parody of himself ;)

taniwharugby

I, Frankenstein - supernatural action movie, 6.5/10, was decent enough, bit different to other Frankenstein movies, more super-heroish, is based on a graphic novel I think.

mariner4life

Watched 2/3 of "The Lone Ranger" on saturday but turned it off as it was a complete steaming pile of crap. 
 
Watched "Elysium" last night. Had wanted to see it for ages, now wish i hadn't. What a load of crap.

Nepia

Monuments Men: This had bad reviews everywhere but I really enjoyed it. It's a comedy drama and some of the reviews I read took it way too seriously. I'm now reading the book which is interesting.* The one issue I agree with is that it lacked a focuses narrative ... which I think it could have done quite easily by having them work towards one goal ... which they kind of did near the end.
 
Jack Ryan Shadow something: The latest Jack Ryan movie with the everywhere and overhyped Chris Kline as Jack. I find it odd he's a big star as Gerard Butler would out charisma him just picking his nose rather than shouting "This Is Sparta". Wasn't a bad movie, also had Kenneth Brangah as a russian baddie, Keira Keightly as Jack's girlfriend, and Kevin Costner as his mentor and boss. TBH, a movie based around Costner would have been more interesting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
*I've been reading a few books based on TV and movies lately. Orange is the New Black was a good read. I'm struggling with Lone Survivor because although the guy seems quite bright and well read he comes across as a cliched USA is great war mongerer at times ... whereas in other parts of the book he seems to be a really thoughtful guy. It's a bit weird, and every time he gets gung ho I put the book down and wait until I've got nothing else to read before picking it up again.

taniwharugby

Pretty sure Brannagh directed Shadow Recruit too??

Nepia

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Pretty sure Brannagh directed Shadow Recruit too??
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Yep. I watched it because I just watched the Graham Norton show that had him and Knightly on it the other night.

Crucial

For the Bat-Geeks out there. A sneak peak of the new Batman and Batmobile from the set of Batman v Superman
 
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