Kevin's Watch

CovenantJr wrote:I am enraged; there's another remake on the way. Hot on the heels of Transformers and Ninja Turtles, we get:

www.aintitcool.com/node/32895

The success of this movie completely depends on who plays Cheetara and what her costume looks like.

I used to LOVE thundercats!

I'll be seeing it.

I'm wearing my thundercats t-shirt for the premier.

I'm wearing my Thundercats underroos.




Right now!

Whats an underoo...dare I ask?

Wikipedia is your friend.

Cagliostro wrote:Wikipedia is your friend.

See, now I'm scared for life. Thanks Cag.

Sweet dreams tonight...


heee heeee....

Warmark wrote:I used to LOVE thundercats!

I'll be seeing it.

A friend gave me the entire first series on DVD for my birthday this year, so I've been watching a lot of Thundercats lately.

Tigra's still the best.

Haha, I used to like thundercats. I can easily wait for the DVD though. Live action? I dunno...

--A

So as I settled in to watch 1408 today, I was hit with two previews for upcoming films that should never have been made.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0427392/

The Invasion. Yet another remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I've got several problems with this. First and foremost, I can't stand Nicole Kidman. She's horrible in everything I've seen her in since Dead Calm, and she generally speaking doesn't do good films.

But even more than her, why? This appears to be a relatively rote retelling of Kaufman's brilliant 1978 version, apparently with the idea that somehow her son can stop the invasion. Puleeze. The film was remade in the early '90s with a somewhat interesting military angle and a phenomenal performance by Meg Tilly. Do we really need another version, or is there some sort of law that says this film needs to be remade every 15 years?

www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/

Halloween. Why oh why oh why? Carpenter's film is hands down the scariest thing I've ever seen. There's absolutely nothing about that film that either needed improvement or could be improved.

Rob Zombie remaking Halloween is akin to Paul W.S. Anderson remaking Star Wars.

It just goes to prove that movie makers are all out of ideas.

I don't mind the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers so much, but I wonder like you do why every few years another remake of it has to be made.

As for Halloween, they've always left me a bit cold. I joke that Halloween III: The Season of the Witch was the most enjoyable of the lot because it stepped outside and came up with an original plot, despite that plot being as dumb as Fabio. Even he can't believe it's not butter. Umm...anyway.

I do have to say that I pledge my slasher loyalty to Jason. That's my industructable killer of choice, no matter how silly and tongue in cheek they got. In fact, the sillier, the better, I say.

But Rob Zombie, eh....I've been avoiding his films since I saw House of 1000 Corpses. I love a good fun slasher flick, but I dunno....I didn't see the fun in this movie, and moreso, I was really creeped out that it had this sort of feel that someone was really getting off in a very disturbing way on the violence. I can't explain it, but I found it really unsettling, and not in a way that I like movies to be. It felt more like a snuff-porno. I don't know how better to explain it.

One movie that I wouldn't mind seeing remade by Americans is Audition. I have a feeling that it will suck, and that it might get changed stupidly, but I'd like to see an attempt anyway. It's a little slow moving, but so damn good.

IotBS is a great story, and one that is easily updated for the times. It's been called the Hamlet of sci-fi/horror, and I tend to agree. That said, I just can't see it being done better than the '78 version.

Nope, can't see Zombie doing anything for Halloween.

Cail wrote:
Halloween. Why oh why oh why? Carpenter's film is hands down the scariest thing I've ever seen. There's absolutely nothing about that film that either needed improvement or could be improved.

Rob Zombie remaking Halloween is akin to Paul W.S. Anderson remaking Star Wars.

Jeez. Leave Halloween alone. God, next thing you know, someone will want to destroy Prince of Darkness or In the Mouth of Madness.

LORD FOUL'S BRAIN wrote:Speaking of remakes.....www.mania.com/54312.html

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a classic. Why mess with it?!





What's up with Hairspray? How can anyone remake a John Water's film? His movies are so bad they're a riot. What makes his films so enjoyable is the terrible acting and low budget feel. I can't imagine what an all-star cast will do to this one (John Travolta in Divine's role??? Travolta=Revolta.)

Tulizar wrote:
What's up with Hairspray? How can anyone remake a John Water's film? His movies are so bad they're a riot. What makes his films so enjoyable is the terrible acting and low budget feel. I can't imagine what an all-star cast will do to this one (John Travolta in Divine's role??? Travolta=Revolta.)

It's a movie version of the Broadway version, which was a musical remake of the movie. Kind of like the recent movie of the Producers being a movie version of the Broadway version of the original movie. Confusing, no?

I can't imagine why anyone would want to remake a John Waters film. No one is ever going to capture his cheese.

Cail wrote:I can't imagine why anyone would want to remake a John Waters film. No one is ever going to capture his cheese.

Not to advocate this at all, but apparently someone felt someone else had all new cheese for us to smell, laid out on the same old sourdough.

Watched Hitchcock's Psycho.

Had actually seen Gus Van Sant's remake first, which allows me a different perspective on his supposedly sacrilegious crime of redoing this classic. Nonsense, I say. I enjoyed both versions.

But it would sure be great if I could go back in time to sit in with the audience at the original film's premiere. How freaked out people must've been...

My dad saw Psycho when it first came out. And according to him, the hype you hear today about how freaksed people were is not overdone.
When the shower scene happens ... EVERYONE was freaked. He said when the blood starts spinning down the drain cut with her lifeless eyes, he became ill.


It caused quite the stir...

oops, sorry, to add to that, my dad said that the one thing he always remembered from that scene was teh sound of teh knife entering the body. That stuck in his mind forever.
(made by striking a watermelon, so I read....)

on the topic of remakes, the classis "Sleuth" is being redone.
The original was fantastic and starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. In the remake, they have Michael Caine (playing Olivier's role) and Jude Law ...

sounds interesting, yet, I'm sorry to sound like a prude, "WHY" remake this classic? There is nothing about it that needs a revamp! No updated FX needed, no obsolete references...
C'MON!

But the cast is interesting ... and whose directing?... Kenneth Branagh...

Hmmm ... damn it, I hate when a remake sounds good....