Why don't producers remake such a beautiful concept instead of struggling with zillions of gimmick scripts? I mean, this one is quite satisfactory ok, but today's tech would provide more entertaining visuality and the script could be improved and enriched in some ways.
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They could improve this one quite a bit without trying too hard! But the Robinson Crusoe/marooned sailor/astronaut/Fed Ex guy (Tom Hanks) etc etc is a much-overdone idea by now. But if they do please lose the monkey and for godsakes don't have anything remotely humanoid the Crusoe character comes into contact with. Oh and don't have remarkably unbelievable gaps in logic and odds like the hero finding potable water so easily- and air from rocks...
sharenothing MUST be remade.
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I'm with you.there is no originality out there. Leave a decent movie alone. It's so bad that in Beowulf the title character screams out his name exactly the same ways as Leonidas screams out "We are Sparta!" in The 300. Jeez get a clue. Remake a bad film or ,here's a novel idea, come up with something ORIGINAL!
share"We are Sparta"?
Please tell me you actually saw 300?
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Actually the air-from-rocks idea may not be so far fetched after all! Go see my post to this board on Martian percholates.
shareYES YES !!!! And we can call it - - - -ENEMY MINE!!!!
share"Oh and don't have remarkably unbelievable gaps in logic and odds like the hero finding potable water so easily- and air from rocks..."
Just for the record:
It's been determined by the rovers and Mars orbital missions that large quantities of water ice, if not running water, exists less than a meter below the surface of Mars even at low latitudes. So much so that if a small meteorite kicks up enough surface material the ice is kicked out and can be seen from Mars orbit, and it persists for quite some time. Some of this water is also embedded in the subsurface rocks.
Turns out that back in the 70's Viking's digger arm missed it by only a few inches.
Heating either the subsurface rocks or the ice proper using a solar furnace would release water in significant quantities. Heat the water more with, for example, a larger solar furnace and you could well extract oxygen and hydrogen fuel from them.
Not only that but the proposed Mars Direct mission even has a means to extract methane fuel and oxygen from Mars atmosphere using the Sabatier reaction: CO2 + 4H2 ---> CH4 + 2H2O. Translation: they'd take liquid hydrogen then mix it with Mars CO2 atmosphere to get up to 112 tons of O2 and methane.
So, save for the absence (so far!) of standing water this movie wasn't too darned far off the mark.
One of the things I don't understand is why he was walking around with an Oxygen tank that he took sips of every ... ??? 30 minutes? I didn't get a good feel for the interval. Seemed almost random. What was that about? Is that to imply that the air has some oxygen, but the levels are so low that the losses accumulate to the point where the air is poisonous? I realize that this is completely untrue, but does it even make sense? If the atmosphere contained, say, 85% of the Oxygen of our atmosphere would we be able to breathe for 20 minutes before needing a sip of air? Can the human body behave that way? Would it eventually adapt?
shareInteresting. I don't have the answer ,but I was reading about all the people who die climbing Everest, and it was said that at that altitude, humans are essentially slowly dying. Many die in sight of the summit from high altitude sickness.
I don't know if a snort of pure oxygen every half hour would help, but take a look at this sign;
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Altitude_Sickness_Warning.jpg
Well, have ou seen the movie "Enemy Mine"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/
The story is similar. It is a veritable remake of RCoM.
NO REMAKE!!!
shareAbsolutely. No remake. The film is fine the way it is. Hollywood spends too much money remaking films when films about new stories should be made.
shareyeah this would loose its cool feel if they remade it. it would be filled with CG [ = cartoon animated] 3D flyovers and CG helicopter circle pans showing us just how cool and real a 3D landscape can look generated by a computer.... because... you know.... we've NEVER seen anything like THAT before, not in the last 50 fake looking CG movies, oh no
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turtletommy is right. we let this movie get away with a lot of plot holes and inaccuracies because of the time period. this was made before the moon landing. if this were remade today, it simply wouldnt fly. Where does he get water? oxygen? how does Friday look so human? With modern science, we know that it is overwhelmingly unlikely that any one of these things happen, never mind all three.
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Actually Robinson Crusoe on Mars explained the water and oxygen issues--partly by making Mars far more hospitable than it was known to be even in 1964. As for Friday looking so human being an issue one only need to point to the success of things like Babylon 5 and Stargate to see that is total nonsense *that* position is. Nevermind that Star Trek is effectively *still* doing the 1960s humans with weird make up are aliens stick some 40 years later and still making money hand over fist.
While the idea of a Martian Odyssey ala Stanley G. Weinbaum movie is interesting you would never be able to sell the idea well enough to get such a movie made. Weinbaum's aliens are ALIEN in every sense of the word and that along with the lack of the level of action that today sci-fi films seem to require would doom any idea of a 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' like remake.
Somewhere on this board there is a link to a time magazine article which indicates the possibility of retrieving oxygen out of rock. Not that it would be as easy as happened in th movie, but some ideas in these old movies aren't quite as far-fetched as they seem.
OH WAIT! I FOUND THE LINK!!!
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1120755,00.html
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I agree that this could be a great story remade (even though Enemy Mine is pretty much a remake). I think there are great possibilities here if done right. Only problem is they probably wouldn't do it right (or even close to right). If they decide to remake it, I'm sure I'll check it out, then I'll probably be appropriately disappointed!
shareRemake?
Like we need ANOTHER rape of an allready existing film.
how is remaking a film a rape? there are tons of classic/great movies that are remakes. john carpenter's the thing (in the top 10 films of all time) is a remake of the thing from outer space. alot of remakes are very popular, whereas the originals have never been heard of. such are: the magnificent seven, the fly, the last house on the left, vanilla sky, a miracle on 34th street, etc, etc, etc. hell, even the ten commandments and scarface are remakes! there is nothing wrong with remakin a film. and, like others have said, it brings new light to the originals. i had always wanted to watch war of the worlds and the day the earth stood still but had never gotten around to it until they were remade. but, yes, some remakes really suck and are nothing compared to the originals. but that is a matter of opinion. if you don't like it, then don't watch it. my only criteria for remakes is that they should wait long enough for the originals to be forgotten/unknown by today's generation. but, thats just my humble opinion
shareWhy MUST anything be remade? Can't studio's just come up with any new ideas?
The lack of creative thinking in Hollywood is sickening. Things get remade not to make them better, but just to make a buck...
I usually don't do a lot of bragging about the 80's (most of what I enjoy artistically is from the mid 50's to the mid 70's), but it seems that the 80's was the only period of decent remakes.
One good thing about remakes, though, is the fact that the original gets more attention (and usually good DVD release)
Please no remake. How about a sequel instead?
The alien slave-drivers did not die off at the end, that was never resolved. Conceivably there is a very good story waiting to be told after Draper and Friday travel to Earth. The aliens could track that ship all the way back to Earth. We could find out more about their home planet and other worlds they had enslaved.
Perhaps it would just end up being a War of the Worlds type invasion movie though. Hopefully it would take on a bit more of a forward thinking scientific approach like Crusoe on Mars....as well as possibly carrying over some of the styling choices.
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