| Author | Message | ||
     Barker |
 I cant wait. Now that its cold outside my mind wanders. (Message edited by barker on December 04, 2007) | ||
| Jaimec |
Him and John Rambo. I wonder whatever happened to that long rumored "Mad Max" sequel with equally aging Mel Gibson? | ||
| Brinnutz |
YESSIR!!! But, in the meantime, I'll the National Treaure 2...=) | ||
| Hughlysses |
That should be pretty cool. I'm looking forward to "I Am Legend". I finally got around to reading the story last week. We'll have to see if Will Smith can do as well as Charlton Heston. | ||
| Djkaplan |
The series of sequels steadily went downhill for me. I'd pay to see another Mad Max sequel, though. Love those movies in the trilogy, every one of them. Great villains! | ||
| Thumper74 |
I Am Legend looks great. I thought the Omega Man movie (remake of a movie BEFORE that) was okay (zombie fan/nut here), but it got slammed. Apparently this is supposed to be the one to see. I'd like tearing through downtown New York in a 500 horsepower Mustang... Or driving golf balls off the deck of a ship. There are Rambo trailers on YouTube that are ultra graphic. (At work, can't link you to them) | ||
| Hughlysses |
Thumper74, have you ever seen the original movie? I had forgotten until I read it again recently that the current remake was originally planned to star Arnold Schwarzenegger and be directed by Ridley Scott. | ||
| Djkaplan |
"The Omega Man" was cheesy, but it was good cheese. I watched it on DVD just recently and got a big hoot out of it. It still scared my girlfriend for as lame as the zombified makeup was. I love the title of the book... "I Am Legend". Makes a great title for the remake. | ||
| Thumper74 |
I saw the original original a LONG time ago on Big Chuck and Little John (late night movie hosts on Channel 8 in Cleveland) and own Omega Man on DVD. Omega Man was scary 30 years ago, cheezy now, but then again so was Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, etc. | ||
| Hughlysses |
That one might be worth trying to find just to have the "set". The book (more of a novella really) is pretty cool. It was written in the 50's (for instance, Neville's vehicle is a Willys station wagon) but the story holds up pretty well. | ||
| G234146 |
Ridley Scott is one of my film heroes. Along with Kubrick, Kurosowa, and other rouges! | ||
| Danger_dave |
............no. | ||
| Cereal |
I'm just hoping that George Lucas doesn't destroy another franchise. He rejected a couple of scripts, then wrote it himself. My faith in him plunged after SW Eps 1-3. It's not going to stop me from seeing it opening weekend though. | ||
| Jayvee |
Not Harrison Ford again, is it? He's like 65 years old now, isn't he? He could play the former Sean Connery role by now... | ||
| Cereal |
The original idea was that the movie would take place in the '60s so the character would be Harrison's actually age instead of trying to make him look younger. I'm pretty sure that Shia LaBeouf is playing his son. | ||
| Barker |
 indy ride'n be-ach  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
I dont pay to watch sequals, tri makes, or quad peats. Simple rule, I have as yet found a movie that was worth the exception. (you usually end up seeing them on cable months, years later) And not even going to bother bad mouthing "remakes" | ||
| Cereal |
Didn't LOTR: Return of the King win an Oscar or two or three...? Best sequel: Jewel of the Nile. Best remake: Lost in Space. Just kidding. I agree with you on the remakes. Especially sequels to remakes, like Cheaper by the Dozen 2. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Well, I think Aliens is better than Alien, but not by much. Of course, the III and IV more than made up for that...  | ||
| Eboos |
The remake of The Thing, and the Invasion Of The Body Snatchers were great. Pretty much all of the remakes after that sucked. The worst money I ever spent was watching the new version of Amityville Horror. | ||
| Hughlysses |
The remake of The Thing, and the Invasion Of The Body Snatchers were great. +1 on "the Thing", but which IOTBS remake do you mean? 1978 (Donald Sutherland) or 2007 (Nicole Kidman)? The original (1956) was pretty dang creepy. | ||
| Bads1 |
Even Jaws is coming soon again. | ||
| Djkaplan |
The Alien movies jumped the shark after the second one... they were all crap after that, especially the horrible Alien vs Predator abomination which was surprisingly successful at the box office. They fooled me out of my money... and they'll probably do it again. | ||
| Djkaplan |
I don't even bother with the Rocky movies anymore. The first one was good, the rest were stupid. Instead of another First Blood sequel, there should be a Rocky vs Rambo: The Beginning Of The End of One of Them. | ||
| Jaimec |
Actually, "Rocky Balboa" was not a bad movie at all. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. | ||
| Hardcorps |
The thing about the LOTR is that it was three different books, and was more like one really long movie apposed to three seperate movies that had different plots. I don't know it that makes any since, but it is kind of like Band of Brothers, which I know is a mini series, but you know it is not the same as doing 1 2 3 of a movie. ramble ramble ramble | ||
| Thumper74 |
The Thing remake? Are we talking the 1982/1983 version with Kurt Russel? Is there a newer version? I've wondered what it would be like with modern special fx. | ||
| Blublak |
Alien was an original idea. Brilliantly executed by a great film maker and excellent cast and crew. Aliens was actually John Camerons idea 'placed' in the same 'universe' as the original - kind of extending the first story and tying it in with Ripley as a central figure we could all recognize. It also had top notch cast and crew bringing it too life. Then came some really good (and some not so good) comic book 'extensions' of the stories. III, IV and V were based more and more loosely on something like five of those comic book stories - III was supposed to have been the 'they bring one to Earth' story, but it was too expensive, or some such, so they had signed a star and decided to make what they thought everyone would think was a 'cool' story out of one of the 'side stories' from the comics. They also decided to include Ripley (not a good idea since she wasn't in any of the stories they were butchering, but they had her under contract so what the frak?).. IV was a total 'invention' of God knows what, having really no basis in any previous stories and was placed in some far off time, in some far off place and once again, I'm sure they figured the 'Drawing Power' of the stars would make up for the fact that it made no sense, had less story and really didn't do anything for anyone that had half a brain. V was a destruction of a very good comic series where (in the future) a colony planet ended up with the 'Alien' infestation, placed there by 'Predators' setting up a grand hunt. They of course, butchered the story of the innocent folks caught in the middle of what turned into a war, since the 'Predators' hadn't counted on all the 'hosts' for the 'Aliens'.. Of course, they couldn't tell that story.. They had to screw it up and make what they gave us.. As with a lot of things, it seems that the movie studios want to try original ideas less and less since the sheeple will always pay to see the same thing re-hashed over and over again. Then, if they do go to a good story, they have to 'alter' it to make it .. well.. usually worse.. Not sure why they can't take a proven seller and go with it.. but they seem to make money at it... So until that stops, the movie writers and producers really don't have to worry about an original, well crafted idea sneaking in too much. Sad. But true. Ok, semi-rant off.. | ||
| Hughlysses |
The Thing remake? Are we talking the 1982/1983 version with Kurt Russel? That one is a remake of the 1951 original starring James Arness (yes, Marshall Dillon) as the monster. That original was pretty creepy too. Much like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it played off of Cold War era fears of being taken over from within. | ||
| Blake |
"The Alien movies jumped the shark after the second one... they were all crap after that, especially the horrible Alien vs Predator abomination which was surprisingly successful at the box office. They fooled me out of my money... and they'll probably do it again." That is one of my and my wife's absolute favorite action flicks. I think it about burned a hole in our DVR. |
