You sir, if you are not already working for a movie production house (perhaps specializing in remakes of already good movies for quick cash), should avoid seeking a career in the movie production business. Seeing as it is already full of talentless, money worshipping, lazy, soul destroying, shameless hacks. Your particular ideas, while still offending the public at large who like old movies the way they are and don't want their memory tarnished by shoddy remakes, would also be looked down upon by the other no good talentless hacks out there.
If on the other hand you do already work for one of those production houses and are perhaps vetting your ideas with the public before recommending your production house buy up the rights to this film, then I dutifully suggest that you seek redemption by removing yourself from polite society by placing yourself in solitary confinement on a deserted island. Take some of your producer friends with you. Please, do everyone a favor.
For everyone else reading this poor, pathetic thread, do any of you notice that whenever you visit the page for a really good movie from a few decades ago, there is sure to be someone there asking everyone what they would think of a remake of this and who would you like to see cast in it and here is what I would change about it? Is IMDB being used by producers to vet ideas about easy to make remakes? Are we in fact helping them to put out substandard product based on well made movies, whose only crime was to have been made before the 14 to 25 year old crowd had a chance to see them? Will using the same script and adding todays special effects make up for the substandard acting that inevitably infests these remakes? I say that if these parasites who have taken over Hollywood cannot come up with ideas of their own then they should step down and hand the reigns of power in Hollywood to a new generation of film makers who are willing to take a chance instead of retreading older movies into mediocrity.
Anyone else who agrees deserves a swift, solid kick in the posterior. Enough with remakes, and cease the idiocy of making a remake thread for every classic film.
Remakes: for the greedy and ignorant. I am neither.
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DirtyGrainius
16 years ago
Nicely put. Although I wonder if a "new generation of film makers who are willing to take a chance instead of retreading older movies into mediocrity" truly exists.
jaustin035, on Sun Dec 16 2007 18:50:29, wrote something that made me laugh.
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solex10
14 years ago
What I said to another person, I'm also going to say to you:
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What about all of those stage productions of Man Of La Mancha? Aren't they 'remakes' of a sort?
Get this through your snobby head; most people on this board and off it don't like this version of Man Of La Mancha-that's why there are discussions about possible remakes. Also, I find it hard to believe that Hollywood producers go on IMDB looking for movie remake ideas in the message board when they most likely have full workdays; even if they did, so what?
If you don't like this discussion, stop being a troll and don't click on it when the subject title appears on your computer screen. Very simple!
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tucostevens54
9 years ago
I have an alternative. Why not only add remake threads for bad films. There's no reason to remake a good film, it was already great, but remake a bad film, and make a better one instead.
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