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Let's remake all the movies from 1984...


my vote is Ghostbusters...whos got something better in the year..1984

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That sounds good to me. A decent remake is rare; one that outdoes the original is unheard of. Get a brain, Hollywood - there are eight million stories in the naked city. Tell those, and draw on all the fictional worlds you can create. Making films and TV shows over is almost always due to plain laziness.

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A decent remake is rare; one that outdoes the original is unheard of.

the thing
3:10 to yuma
the fly
ransom
scarface

all remakes.. all far better than their predecessors.
not trying to justify THIS remake.. just saying that what you said just isn't true..

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no this thread is about re-making films from 1984.

Sixteen Candles would be great. Lindsey Lohan could pull off highschool i think

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Ha! Even if this were the '80s, when they cast 35-year-olds to play highschoolers, Lindsay Lohan couldn't pull that off. First off, she'd have to be sober, secondly she'd have to learn how to act, AND she looks like she's close to 40! Blech! That would be horrible.

Why don't they just re-release all the movies from 1984 in the theaters? That'd be fun, and there would be no butchering of classic 80s films.

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again, people..listen
remaking films of 1984..
How about Beverly Hills Cop with Denzel Washington

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You definitely forgot Canada's own Avril Lavigne, September 27

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I would love to see a BH cop remake but DENZEL? are you crazy?? He's probably the same age as Eddie you need someone younger in a remake. and Denzel isn't much of a comedy type actor.

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"Why don't they just re-release all the movies from 1984 in the theaters? That'd be fun, and there would be no butchering of classic 80s films. "

Now THAT would be a great idea! I would go watch! All the movies i couldn't see in the theaters because i was either too young to go alone or didn't have enough money for... DEF! Ghostbusters, The Thing, Christine, Gremlins (wait, i think i did see that one in theaters.. at least the sequel), Footloose, Dirty Dancing (saw that one in german theaters subbed: bleh), Rooftops, Terminator, Neverending Story, Masters of the Universe, Hellraiser!... or a few i have seen in theaters but wouldn't mind seeing'm again there: The Black Cauldron, Willow, Robocop, Spaceballs...
Looking back the 80's (and some early 90's) had the coolest movies for kids/teens growing up :-D

Recently i finally saw my fav movie of all times on the big screen - Der Himmel Ueber Berlin/Wings of Desire (1987) , which also had a crappy remake in the 90's with Nicholas Cage ffs! - even though i've seen it about a hundred times and can't get enough off. Nothing compares to the big screen experience imo

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With digital cinema expanding the way it has been the last few years, and Blu-Ray quality approaching cinema quality - Why not just let the theatres play DVDs? I'd love to do that, but its really quite difficult for cinema chains to advertise.

When they re-make Ferris Bueller's Day Off... it will be a sad day for the industry.



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"With digital cinema expanding the way it has been the last few years, and Blu-Ray quality approaching cinema quality - Why not just let the theatres play DVDs? I'd love to do that, but its really quite difficult for cinema chains to advertise.
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You can't be serious.

First of all, what do you think the law actually is? Do you think you need a permission from anyone to play something? (Answer: No, you don't. Unless you have consented to being governed by a system that forbids you to, but that's your choice).

Second of all, approaching cinema quality? Not really. What resolution do you think movie theaters are capable of? I know that film doesn't have a "specific resolution", but there is an 'amount of details' that can be approximated with a resolution that gets closest to the same amount.

Blu-Ray has a resolution of 1920x1080. DVD resolution (which you are suggesting, completely destroying your own idea about the Blu-Ray, so why even mention it?) is only 704x480. Would completely disintegrate the point of watching a movie in a theater, if it's going to be a lousy DVD version!

Besides, there's also the framerate to think about. The movie screen needs to be something like 72 fps instead of the typical 29.9 (or something) fps that DVDs require. It's because of how films are projected to show smooth image and fluid motion - by showing the same image multiple times, and so on.

What would be the point of watching an MPEG2-compressed huge-pixels-lores film on a big screen? Even 1920x1080 would not be enough for the movie to actually look the same, though there is the 2K version of 'digital cinema' that comes close to that.

It's hard to find the exact number - I heard Toy Story, Antz, Shrek, etc. were rendered to a resolution like 3800 x something, and some people say the actual resolution would be closer to 5000 x something, and then there's the "4k-6k" explanations, which would put it to 4096×2160 and higher.

If I were to pay to watch a movie on big screen in a cinema theater, I would definitely expect it to be the real resolution, not some lowered one. It just wouldn't be the same - resolution is the most important thing, when you want to watch a movie on a big screen and look good (though the rest of the quality issues are important, too). The big resolution + big screen is the only real thing that would make it actually worthwhile. Otherwise it's just a glorified regular monitor, and I can get that with better quality at home. I mean, it wouldn't be much different from simply watching your own monitor from a really close distance, except that your monitor would look better, because you can see the pixels directly, without so much air inbetween, and other people possibly bothering you, etc.

The only way it would be worthwhile - and mind you, I think it's a great idea, and would definitely want to see those good old 80's movies on big screen, and often wondered why there aren't theaters that play ALSO older movies, and not ONLY new ones (I mean, what's the point? Why do people love NOVELTY so much over QUALITY? I already wondered this in the BBS era, when people got 'credits' in certain BBSes for uploading something NEW, rather than uploading something GOOD (even if the BBS didn't have it before)). Would be a great business idea, especially nowadays - people would gather to those movies in huge crowds, but then the big corporations wouldn't be able to offer the movie-themed meals etc. so your kids can be poisoned with fast food easier, etc.) - ..

..ok, this got a bit long, so I will start the previous sentence over again.

The only way it would be worthwhile, is if it was shown exactly the way it was shown originally, in the 80's - OR with equivalent resolution and picture and sound quality (or better).

A DVD certainly wouldn't cut it!


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Funny you mention "35-year-olds to play highschoolers" in the 80s when Kevin Bacon was 25 when he made Footloose and this Kenny Wormold guy was 26

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Thats what I've always said! If everybody's feeling retro and wanting to see 80's movies in the theatre, just re-release them! I guess what keeps the world spinning in Hollywood though is to rip off of them instead.

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"Why don't they just re-release all the movies from 1984 in the theaters? That'd be fun, and there would be no butchering of classic 80s films."

That's what I love about living in LA. Every summer there are tons of outdoor movie screenings. I just saw Weird Science and The Breakfast Club the other weekend. Awesome! I love watching movies from the 80s again, esp on the big screen b/c I was too young to see them in the theater or drive-in when they originally came out.

I wish they'd stay away from remaking any 80's movies esp John Hughes movies. Those movies helped define that time period, that generation. You can't recreate the same feel. You can't go back. I love the 80's, I listen to 80's music all day at work but I don't want current music to try to emulate it. It's not the same.

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Do not touch Sixteen Candles...I hit hard.

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Leave my movie ALONE. I would be crushed if they remade 16 candles its perfect the way it is.

Especially don't put some crap Lohan in it.

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All of the King Kong movies were better than the orginal. The sad part is that every one of them is boring for the first half of the movie until they get to the island.

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i don't know man... i just looove the charm of the original stop-motion b
&w... then again, i'm a sucker for the early years of cinema. nonetheless, i much prefer the original (only king kong i have on dvd) over every other king kong movie after that, even over the polished otherwise welldone Jackson remake... just a personal taste

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Scarface?????? Are you out of your *beep* mind? No one should ever remake that masterpiece.

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I believe the point was that the DePalma/Stone/Pacino Scarface was a remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks film - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/

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no dummy. they said scarface was a remake.

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Actually, you are proving the argument you were trying to disprove. Rare does not mean non-existent. It means infrequent compared to the norm. What you did is called the exception proving the rule. The reason you could name those films so quickly is that they are the exception rather than the rule. It is easy to remember the rare feat b/c the mundane is ... mundane.

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NO...Scarface dose not need a remake! Best movie ever by far and a remake will be a slap in the face of Al Pacino.

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The Pacino Scarface IS the remake. *facepalm*

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Actually you do need to justify as all of the remakes you mentioned SUCKED! I can give you more examples of crappy remakes:

True Grit
Cheaper by the Dozen
The Parent Trap
Yours Mine and Ours
The Pink Panther

There are others but I'm sure you won't agree. It is time for Hollywood writers to quit scratching their balls and actually start writing original scripts again.

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The True Grit remake kicked *beep* a$$! That movie was amazing.

Beautiful is better than terrific...better than Dutch apple pie.

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Yes, it was awesome.
But overall, my heart sank when I read the headline of this thread......

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I actually thought the OP was joking until I kept on reading posts. Just sad.

Beautiful is better than terrific...better than Dutch apple pie.

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the thing
3:10 to yuma
the fly
ransom
scarface

those remakes succeeded because they were about artistic vision. a remake of footloose has one obvious motivating factor. money. bank on the nostalgia of those who saw the first movie and disguise it as some sort of update for a new generation who can also relate to it for some reason, despite them never having lived in the times which inspired the original. but i'm sure the spin machine will be able to weave a convincing lie. like how this generation has had to put up with the oppression of the bush administration or some harebrained nonsense like that.

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Just to point out on this note ,while the essential parts of the story "who goes there" has been used in The Thing From Another World ,Carpenters The Thing is actually far closer to the original source material ,so not really a remake ,but a version closer to the story .

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Actually a decent remake IS rare. The poster didn't say there were no good remakes, just that they were rare.

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The Thing wasn't a remake, it was a prequel.

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The Thing remake is awful compared to the original.

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So true!!! Leave my high school movie alone.....make up your own damn new one for the new generation!!!! I know no story is "new", but you don't have to remake EVERY movie from the 80s, or 70s, or 60s. About 1% end up decent....JMO

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Maybe not all remakes, but Footloose doesn't need a remake. Just watch the original!

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The Wizard of Oz was a remake, that is considered a classic. The Thing from 1982 was sort of a remake of Thing of Another world. Both movies took elements from the book, Who goes there. Ocean's 11 is a remake and better than the original. So before you say all are ruined think before you post. That is just a few examples.


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How about no remakes on ANY movie. They get ruined every time they are remade.

I have to disagree. The new version of 3:10 to Yuma is my all-time favorite movie. The new Karate Kid is pretty dang good.

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I agree cause Footloose sucks now.

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they dont now how to make good movies anymore now footloose then true grit im glad john wyane is gone.cant they come up with there own movies.

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Sometimes, TV and movie remakes are better than the original. The Ring was much better than Ringu as was Quarantine better than .REC. The new Battlestar Galactica was amazing. What Hollywood needs to stop doing is making SEQUELS to already crappy movies, like Cars.

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Tell me you're kidding, those have to be 2 of the WORST examples i could ever imagine!?!?!

RINGU was FAR more creepy, darker, and grittier... it actually felt like a horror movie! That flashy piece of crap Hollywood gave us was what "Batman Forever" was to Burton's classics!

Quarantine ruined the movie before it even started using so many recognizable actors... how could you buy into it even for a minute??? And let's not forget that it was damn near scene for scene with the original... talk about a TOTAL friggin' lack of imagination!

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Actually, the remake of True Grit is a lot closer to the book than the John Wayne version.

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when the source material is a book or play, it's a little different, because then it's an adaptation (think of all the versions of Shakespeare's plays that have been put to film) and from what I have heard, the new True Grit is closer to the book, just like the newer version of Lolita.

but this remaking of films is really out of control, it's always been done, but not to the level that we are seeing now.. and poorly..

part of the beauty and fun to Footloose was the MUSIC!!! it's a film about DANCING and the freedom of that... ugh... plus the acting looks really bad...

kids should just rent the original, turn up the volume and have a blast!!!

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"all remakes.. all far better than their predecessors. "

Scarface was not better than the original. 3:10 to Yuma wasn't even close to as good as the original. I'll give you The Thing... But come on, in the 100 years or so those are the ones you came up with? Ben Hur anyone?

"The Ring was much better than Ringu as was Quarantine better than .REC"

I like The Ring, it was on par with the original, but Quarantine was lame as hell by comparison....

And for the True Grit talk, I wish people would actually read the book and see both films before commenting. Both films are fairly faithful to the book, but in different ways at times. They both changed things, left things out, and contained many of the same scenes. I don't think it would really be fair to say either was 'much closer' to the book.



AAAAAnnyway... Getting back to the thread. Remakes of movies from 1984...

Let's remake The Karate Kid... oh wait..

How about A Nightmare on Elm Street... oh wait...

Blood Simple...oh...

Children of the Corn... oh damn...

1984? That was already a remake... Well, I'm sure they will do it again.

Ok how about...Red Dawn? Oh that's already happening?

Alright...hmm.. what about... The Never Ending Story? Oh that's already happening too, you say?

How about Firestarter? They can't be remaking something like that yet can they? They are?

Let see... How about something weird... like The Toxic Avenger.. I bet they haven't thought of that one. Oh they did?

Oh well... Running out of movies from that year.... The last Terminator movie sucked, but more importantly for this discussion, was a box office disappointment. So I bet that will be next.

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"And for the True Grit talk, I wish people would actually read the book"

If I didn't read the book, then I wouldn't have mentioned it, now would I!

"Ok how about...Red Dawn? Oh that's already happening?"

The Aussies have a version of Red Dawn as well, it's called: Tomorrow, When the War Began. Red Dawn was the first thing I thought of when I watched it.


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NO! They DO NOT get to remake The Terminator. Those movies should've stopped after three, because Schwarzenneger was the movies. I hate the fact they remade Total Recall, and refuse to watch it.

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True Grit (2010) it's not really a remake. It' a new adaptation of the novel, and a more faithful one at that than the '69 version... It's also a better movie than the John Wayne version..

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Oh Hell no!!!! They f-up all the best 80's movies both horros, romantics, comedies and now they want to take on our dance movies? Hollywood is being pathetic! What is the damn point of watching something that was already made?

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Well these are films from 1984 I can think of.I didn't mention Red Dawn because that's coming soon,and Karate Kid was already done.Beverly Hills Cop?Gremlins?Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom?Runaway?Purple Rain?Police Academy?Romancing The Stone?Splash?The Flamingo Kid?Missing In Action?Silent Night,Deadly Night?(rumour has it they are trying to get this one done)The Natural?Night Of The Comet?Once Upon A Time In America?Revenge Of The Nerds?The Killing Fields?Making The Grade?The Neverending Story?Sixteen Candles?Starman?The Terminator?This Is Spinal Tap?Places In The Heart?Oxford Blues?Johnny Dangerously?Tightrope?Starman?Streets Of Fire?Star Trek III:The Search For Spock?Dreamscape?Supergirl?Friday The 13th:The Final Chapter?The Pope Of Greenwich Village?Top Secret?C.H.U.D.?The Last Starfighter?Moscow On The Hudson?The Bounty?Cloak & Dagger?The Cotton Club?First Born?The Philadelphia Experiment?Breakin'?Birdy?Body Double?Bachelor Party?Amadeus?Against All Odds?Teachers?Greaystoke:The Legend Of Tarzan?The Woman In Red?All Of Me?Dune?The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai?Angel?Blood Simple?2010?Flashpoint?The Hotel New Hampshire?or how about the movie 1984?

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I tend to think the films that make the better remakes are the ones that originally flew a bit under the radar. Based loosely on that premise and from your '84 list I might green light "Night of the Comet" (no one would expect it to be any good), "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai","Dreamscape"and definitely wouldn't mind seeing a large budget remake of "1984"

LOL to remake of Star Trek III: The Search For Spock - This would be hilarious if they made it completely separate from JJ Abrams Star Trek with different actors and didn't bother remaking the installments before it.

I don't see how the Red Dawn remake will work. If you were young and saw this during the cold war it was much different.

Nightmare on Elm Street remake was IMO was worse than any of the bad sequels to the '84 classic. Does anyone remember the naked chick in the waterbed scene? Good stuff. That was definitely creative.

I will not be seeing the Footloose remake. I didn't even want to see the original. Blood Simple was an awesome '84 film. Less = More. I would not like to see it stand in line and prepare to be tarnished like the rest of the remakes to come...





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Dreamscape to me was a good movie.Can you imagine what they could do with that film with better special effects?

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I tend to think the films that make the better remakes are the ones that originally flew a bit under the radar. Based loosely on that premise and from your '84 list I might green light "Night of the Comet" (no one would expect it to be any good), "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai","Dreamscape"and definitely wouldn't mind seeing a large budget remake of "1984"


That's my mantra, actually. Remake movies that had good potential, but were either not well received or could be fleshed upon. The problem is, the only reason they remake movies nowadays is to tap into the franchise name. A known franchise/name already has fanbase willing to see these movies, but the problem is, these movies AREN'T made for those people(original fans). It's kinda like a contradiction, actually. "Let's remake THIS movie because there are people who are familiar with this name. There's already a fanbase, so the money's going to be there, but, to attract a broader fanbase, let's change it drastically. Maybe to the point of alienating the existing fanbase. Who cares, they are going to see this movie anyway because of the name, and even if they dislike it, still paid the money to see it, and are still part of our earnings.". I think the ideal dream of making a good remake is to have it NOT step on the toes of the original, not alienate the original fanbase, yet be accessible to a new generation. The thing is, people believe DRASTIC change in the formula for the sake of change is the only way to speak to a younger audience. Even if that change means axing what worked for the original. Like the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!".

Funny you mention Dreamscape, because I think Nolan was thinking of that one when he did Inception. There's a lot of similarities between the two. I think the fact that many hailed Inception as being totally original comes from the fact that Dreamscape is fairly unknown. Had it been bigger, people would've picked up on the connections.

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Based loosely on that premise and from your '84 list I might green light "Night of the Comet" (no one would expect it to be any good), "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai","Dreamscape"and definitely wouldn't mind seeing a large budget remake of "1984"

Come to think of it, remaking "Night of the Comet" and "Dreamscape" wouldn't be a bad idea...I would put "Altered States" (I know, it's 1981) in that list as well.

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Well they are going to be making a Ghostbusters 3 looks like it is coming out in 2012 with most of the original cast

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I would be ok with them remaking Gremlins, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Supergirl,

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Still waiting for the sequel that's mentioned at the end of Buckaroo Banzai!

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Joe Dante so rumour has it has been talking about remaking it himself .

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My vote is for Splash staring Scarlett Johansson.

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