Kevin's Watch

What do you actually want to see get a sequel or a remake? It's an interesting question, and the article reminded me of a show that I fanatically watched......

Sliders. Whether as a movie or a TV show, I'd love to see more of this. Yes, it got increasingly stupid over the course of time (the last season without Jerry O'Connell is nearly unwatchable), but the idea of the show was great, and there were some amazing ideas that I wish they'd expanded upon. Whether as a movie or a TV show, I think there's a lot more story to tell.

Buckaroo Banzai. Yup, and I want the original cast too.

Loved Sliders too.
Buckaroo Bonzai II is a given.

Love to see a blockbuster film version of SPACE:1999 or maybe a new series.

The Logan's Run remake has been in development hell for quite a while and while I like the world that was depicted in the 1976 film I'm concerned a remake would end up being a waste of time ie Total Recall, Robocop.

Lost In Space could use a proper film. The less said about the previous movie the better.

Escape From New York is being developed for a remake and I generally have low expectations for such an iconic character as Snake Plissken but after seeing Tom Hardy as Mad Maxx I think there is a slim possibility that another actor could do good things with the role if it is handled properly.

I thought I was the only one who watched Sliders. I loved that show!!!

Quantum leap is another that I liked the premise of and watched. I hated to see it end although it had pretty much ran itself out of ideas.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker - man that was a great series when I was a kid...

I could also get behind a Space 1999 (probably need to use a different year like 2099) and I could also get behind a better "Lost in Space" that was a bit more serious than the last one. It had its moments but was just cheesy.

Yes, I'd love to see an actual adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Blade Runner was an awful adaptation and a so-so film. I believe Ridley Scott is in the process of making a sequel to BR, but I have no interest in that.

I'll toss another one out there, and I'd be good with either a remake or an original-cast sequel......The Last Starfighter.



But just sayin'........

I watched Buckaroo Banzai for the first time recently. It's a pretty bad film. So 1980s it hurts.

Buckaroo Banzai is an excellent movie! It's endless. The theme music alone is worth the movie.

"Damn John Whorfin and the horse he rode in on!"

"Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"

"I've been ionized, but I'm okay now."

And, to my knowledge, it's where we got the line:
"No matter where you go, there you are."


It's so damned annoying that they never made the sequel.

It's so damned annoying, that they never made the sequel.

FTFY



(More seriously: I read that there were issues with the way it was shot that made it hard to edit, and I think it comes across, it's a little messy. It's also just cheesy as hell.)

Indeed it is! Messy and cheesy! Wonderfully so! It's a crazy romp across the 8th dimension. Don't try to figure it out. Just enjoy the ride - through solid rock!!!

Murrin clearly has no soul.

I'd like to see a remake of The Illustrated Man.
The original movie was really good, what I remember of it, but low-budget.
It seems Zack Snyder has been hired to do the remake, though that one is still to be produced.

There's been some well made 50's sci-fi remakes. John Carpenter's the Thing far exceeded the original.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Fly are two other good examples.
As far as I know there isn't any plans to remake Them.
A movie that begins with a little girl wandering through the New Mexico desert, all alone and in shock, just has to be re-made!
But could giant ants still scare and horrify us? I'm reminded of Starship Troopers when the soldiers went down into the tunnels to seek out and destroy the superbug - that was scary as hell. And horrible!

Cail wrote:Yes, I'd love to see an actual adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Blade Runner was an awful adaptation and a so-so film. I believe Ridley Scott is in the process of making a sequel to BR, but I have no interest in that.

I am sooooo tempted (especially since I live WAY closer to you than I used to) to buy the making of movie about blade runner (called Dangerous Days) and sending it to you (or figuring out some way of getting you to watch it.) as a film guy I think you would really love the documentary (I personally think you could teach a film class using the documentary) but also I think you might gain a better appreciation for the film on it's own without comparing it to the source material.

of all the things you and I disagree on, this has to be the one that sticks in my craw the most.

in point of fact, I really would love to see an actual adaptation of DADoES too as I loved the story very much and have always conceded the fact that Blade Runner has very little to do with the source material.

btw, Hitchcock was notorious for radically changing plots and characters from novels he had adapted for film. just sayin.

on topic, I'm kind of excited about the upcoming remake of The Stand because I hated the tv version so much but I know it's dangerous to have high expectations.

also Cary Fukunaga is adapting and directing It so I looking forward to that too.

it's king's work from book to film that has most often disappointed me so those are the films I'd most like to see remade.

here's my obscure one, I'd really like to see (and I didn't watch the tv series so I don't know if any of this was ever addressed) but I'd really like to see a direct sequel to Stargate with old james spader and mili avital in it. I think it'd be cool to see them reprise those roles and find out what happened to them. again, forgive me if the tv series addressed those characters, I didn't watch it.

lucimay wrote:but I'd really like to see a direct sequel to Stargate with old james spader and mili avital in it. I think it'd be cool to see them reprise those roles and find out what happened to them. again, forgive me if the tv series addressed those characters, I didn't watch it.

It's been so long since I saw the movie or series...but much of the series shared some main characters from the movie. Played by different actors, of course...and follows long arcs on them [all the way through the entire 10 seasons, and beyond into the spin offs a bit for a couple of them].

OTOH: I'm pretty sure I saw a rumor that the guys who did the original film are working on a trilogy of movies---a reboot of the first, followed by 2 sequels. That cast won't be the same, I assume. And I assume the story will be at least somewhat altered. So you might get a very loose nudge/wink interpretation of your wish.

Yeah, IIRC the guy who made Stargate always wanted to make two sequels, and wasn't at all interested in what SG-1 did with the franchise. He wanted to ignore all that and go with his original plan for the series, which was completely different.

I enjoyed Stargate quite a bit, and would have loved a sequel.


About the best I can say about BR is that it's trying too hard to be deep, cerebral, and artsy. In some cases you can wander from the source and tell a great story (The Shining), but in BR's case it abandons the meat of Dick's story in favor of a noir detective film. That's great, but Scott doesn't do a good job of telling that story.

Eh, I'd prefer more originals and fewer remakes myself.

Are all these movies that you guys loved so much, you just want more? Or were they done so poorly in the original, they should be redone to do them justice? [If so, I vote the Star Wars prequel trilogy.] Or do the movies themselves seem incomplete and/or too wide in scope so that they are just begging for that "next chapter?"

I think it's a variety of things.

Some movies were great, and you want to see more of them.

Some movies were great, but hampered by the limited technology of the time, and you want to see it modernized.

Some movies had a great premise but were poorly realized, and you want to see it done right.

I'd like to see proper treatments of both The Stand and It. Won't happen, as no one's gonna film a pre-pubescent gangbang, or the massive scope of The Stand, but there are still better versions than what we've got.

Zarathustra wrote:Eh, I'd prefer more originals and fewer remakes myself.

In general, so would I. I'd also prefer more of the originals that were really original.

But for remakes...all the things you suggest, a variety of reasons as Cail says.
I liked the noir take of BR, and the movie generally...but I can easily understand Cail's dislike...it doesn't do justice to its source---visually or story [in both senses...it isn't really the same story, AND it isn't as well written/well told a story].

So, yea, different reasons for different films. But I'd be all in favor of remakes being either a lot rarer, a lot better, or a bit of both.

I had to Google Dr.Phibes, and still can't remember having seen that one.
Reminded me of Dr.Cyclops.
I saw that one back in the day when cinemas ran double features.
Dr.Cyclops was the B movie. Can't remember the main feature, (GI's in the Pacific).

I had always remembered it as a black and white film:

Wikipedia wrote:The film is also the first American science fiction film made in Technicolor,[citation needed] and Schoedsack took care that the special effects in color were effective.

funny how the memory can play tricks on us.

Valley of the Gwangi could be a good one. Cowboys and Dinosaurs, what could be better!