Amph What's ripe for a remake?

you mean not have to be he-man? or just embrace his prince adamness?

 

or are you saying prince adam is repressed? see, i don't see it that way. prince adam is simply low-key. he-man is balls-out. it's more of a mood thing.

 

Flight of the Navigator was a fun movie, growing up. But I watched it again recently to reminisce and not much really happens once he's in the ship. The movie's all lead-up. Once he's actually in the ship, they just go for a pee-break, look at some exotic alien specimens, and then fly around asking for directions to Ft. Lauderdale for 10 minutes and the movie's over. It also doesn't have the wide family appeal like a movie like E.T. or Super 8 has. You can watch those as an adult and there's still pathos for Elliot and the alien, or the kids in Super 8. There are cute moments that everyone can laugh at, there's wider appeal. In Navigator, by contrast, all the gags are just funny for the kids. Flight of the Navigator is ripe for a remake.

 

A healthy, well-adjusted gay man?

 

yes, exactly. i always thought the he-man persona was a product of the repression, but i will concede that the show never really delved into bedroom politics and it's possible that eternia was more forward-thinking than i thought.

 

Gritty remake of The Santa Clause where Billy Bob Thornton plays a depressed alcoholic. One night, Christmas Eve in fact, Santa Clause and the elves come into his house to deliver presents, so Billy Bob, assuming they're burglars, loads up the shotgun and blows everyone away while recording the whole thing.

 

A Birth of a Nation remake with a twist that the white guys were really the villains all along.

 

The Day the Earth Stood Still. The twist in this version is that Klaatu is here to wipe out all the sheep on Earth unless Israel and the Palestinians commit to a treaty by the end of the week. Jews and Arabs are forced to unite for their mutual love of shawarma.

 

The Matrix Rebooted

 

A remake of Volcano where's there's an actual volcano rising out of an L.A. hill/mountain top, as opposed to lava flowing out of the tar pits. You can bring back Tommy Lee Jones, but to spice things up, have Rob Ford in the Anne Heche role.

 

KRULL

 

Transformers.

 

What ignorance is this?

Books, Juliet. They're not just something people write about the further adventures of Dr Who Gives a ****.

Bond's origin is well documented.

And Violent Violet Menace, the difference is that a remake involves a property that has already been realised for the screen being re-realised by another creative team. With Bond, it was the same creative team, the same producers, the same entities, they just decided after the abortion that was Die Another Day that they should stop making idiotic Bond films and go back to Fleming. They've done this after their other worst excesses, usually when Roger Moore is involved.

Now, Batman Begins is a reboot of the film continuity, but it's a different creative team than the Bond ones. Bond's really an exception in this case.

 

Spider-Man ... It's been far too long since his last reboot

 

R rated The Dark Crystal.

 

Any mediocre movies we've probably never heard of or watched and promptly forgotten.

 

Ender Sai, I suppose that's a fair point. I understand where you're coming from; they're going back to the same source material, so it's not a reimagining, not a remake. I'm with you on that, but I'd say as far as the medium of film is concerned, it can be considered a remake as they are starting fresh. Looking at it isolated to film, the deciding factor, I guess, would be whether or not they share continuity.

If, say, a comic book writer and his creative team decides to start his own serialised universe over with a clean slate, does that not count as a remake/reboot? I realise that hardly, if ever, actually happens, but theoretically.

 

"Gort... shawarma barada nikto."

 

Casino Royale is more like a prequel than a remake or reboot, but it's not even that, just a story produced out of sequence.

 

Well, no, because that would imply it's setting up the films that follow. It's emphatically not doing that. Despite the cretins on the James Bonding podcast struggling with the concept, the events of Dr No -> Die Another Day don't happen in the remade universe.

 

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*nods politely*

*backs away slowly*

 

I would love to see a remake on Spawn.


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i think you can make the argument that cringer, as a homosexual cat or tiger or whatever he is, is repressed, but i don't feel like prince adam is at all. i think the thing for him is that he just can't be he-man all the time. he needs downtime to just chill and not have all the expectations of being THE guy continually thrust upon him. he's there as he-man when he needs to be, he does the work, and then he removes the mantle until he's needed again. i'm not saying he doesn't enjoy being he-man. he obviously does, but maybe being he-man all the time would rob him of this enjoyment.