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I think a lot of people are overestimating the original

posted 8 years ago by Vampire_Von_Suckington
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It wasn't actually that great...fun, but not great. Plus it's aged horrendously! Definitely warrants a reboot, and in the hands of Disney I'm sure it'll be great.

[–] shadaif 8 years ago

I love the original. I enjoy the music and the comic performances. Disney does a pretty good job with remakes. I enjoyed the remakes of Parent Trap and Freaky Friday just as much as I liked the originals so I'm sure it will be possible to like this new Pete's Dragon just as much as the original.

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[–] zigfried-2 8 years ago

My favorite part of the original movie is Mickey Rooney as the town drunk. Because, you know, alcoholism is really funny.

[–] MerylStreeplove4 8 years ago

Agreed!! It's not supposed to be exactly the same or else what's the point?! And you have to think of the technology they had 40 some years ago. We've come a LONG way since then, it's awesome for what it is, the music is fantastic, old style or acting/filming and it's fun seeing movies from long before my time to now, always progressing!

[–] politicidal 8 years ago

Because of the animation for the dragon? Meanwhile Mary Poppins and Bedknobs&Broomsticks are still beloved children's classics. I agree the film wasn't great but it had this charm to it which based off the trailer, the remake doesn't seem interested in reigniting.

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[–] Kitarl 8 years ago

I watched the original recently and, yeah, it's not a brilliant movie in my opinion. The music was certainly good and Helen Reddy is pretty awesome in it... but it's not an inviolable classic. Disney want to ride the remake train through this, go ahead.

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[–] Alondro 8 years ago

Oh no, it was stupid, that's for sure.

Just... this somehow manages to look worse.

Considering the original was a middling story hardly anyone remembers, why even bother remaking it at all?

[–] filmfan1999 8 years ago

Yeah, but this looks awful. I hope I'm wrong.

[–] Alondro 8 years ago

Oh it's not a great movie in the least.

It's just... this barely qualifies as a remake. So little of the original remains other than the name 'Pete', it'd be the same as calling "Sleeping Beauty" a remake of "Snow White" because they both had a princess falling into an enchanted sleep and a wicked beeyatch who was jelly. ;D

[–] dalbrech 8 years ago

The 1977 Pete's Dragon is a prime example of the Mediocrity that overtook Disney after Walt died. It was one of several Disney attempts to have another Mary Poppins,which did not come off.
I have no idea of how the new version will do,but IMHO it is the most likely of the 2016 Disney slate of films to be a box office disappointment.

[–] Alondro 8 years ago

If the dragon had been named Smaug and was eating all the kid's enemies...

I would have found that wickedly amusing. >:]

[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

by Vampire_Von_Suckington » Tue Feb 23 2016 14:56:10
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It wasn't actually that great...fun, but not great. Plus it's aged horrendously! Definitely warrants a reboot, and in the hands of Disney I'm sure it'll be great.

Like I just replied in another thread, the original film looked dated when it was in the theatres and later on TV. It looked like a film from the early 1960s, and not a film with the latest 1970s film technology.

I don't know if it would be a film that I would remake, but it's here.

[–] sinatrachairman 8 years ago

This is exactly what I thought when people started getting angry over the remake. It was a fun movie when I was 8 and I wanted to play tic tac toe on a cartoon dragon, but it wasn't (to me) a "classic".

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