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Practice what you preach, OP
Am i having deja vu? I think I've seen not only this post but also a lot of the comments
Instead of remaking or rebooting successful ~~movies~~ memes. how about vou remake old ~~movies~~ memes that flopped or ~~movies~~ memes that suffered from bad effects and improved them?
depends how recent the movie/show is. but currently reboots of old movies are often terrible compared to the original.
Currently...?
There have been maybe maybe a dozen good remakes, ever.
Or maybe they could come up with an original idea
Crazy talk I know
A remake of Post Grad would hit super well right about now
I think the answer to the question she asks is that an unholy alliance of focus groups, market analysts, and accountants have calculated that the Path to Most Money (tm) goes over in the opposite direction, away from the fun stuff.
I'm sure there's usually good low budget feature-length stuff out there being made, but in today's media landscape it's up to the viewer to find interesting and unique content. It isn't going to be blasted into the faces of all the passive viewers like Avengers 37 will be.
Does mortal kombat count?
Ocean’s 11 is usually the example of this concept done right. The original was pretty bad.
We need a murder mystery that takes place at a Disney world resort or park, produced by Touchstone studios so it can get the R rating. Targeting Disney adults. Disney gets to have their park as a backdrop and set piece for the movie. No 'unmasking' any of the characters, none of the characters did it, and they might actually help out in some cheeseball fashion. The park appears to otherwise be operating around the movie events.
We need a full remake of the movie Brainscan. I loved that movie as a kid and always dreamed of the day when games became so real you couldn't quite distinguish virtual from reallity. Brainscan does a okay enough yet extremely 90's take on it and its just a fun, cheesy, and nerdy horror movie. It would be fun to see what an actual talented writing team and production crew could do with that same story adding what we know now.
Yeah I'd love to live in that world
It’s Dune. Great book but original movie needed improvement
Well they are remaking he man…
and She Ra, but sadly the new versions are owned by separate studios.
Need more Who Framed Roger Rabbit type work.
Let’s not ruin a classic!
Disney's been trying. 'Once More With Feeling' is a whole podcast about the reboots. Did you know Disney remade Pete's Dragon and The Shaggy Dog? I didn't.
Fuck that, just make more theaters and let drama kids re-enact them with their own creative vision
That's actually a fairly good take - they could make a bunch of old scripts and make them enticing to license, and couple that with a small fund to seed some ultra small-scale productions (by Hollywood standards). I like it.
Couple that with remakes on whatever gets traction and it could prove short term profitable as well as raise the overall long term value of their vault. (I hate that this analysis is needed, but unless we change copyright law, this buy-in would be a necessary step.)
Better yet, why not create something original?
We could certainly use a lot more Discworld movies.
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They knew how to do this in the 80s. Little Shop of Horrors, The Fly, and The Thing for example. All remakes that far surpassed the cheesy originals.
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The best example is The Thing. The original film in the 1950s was awkward af. But the 1980s remake by John Carpenter was chef's kiss. Then they made a remake of a remake and it was meh.
Today we see it that way but in the 70s and 80s, the 1950s Thing was hailed as a classic prestige science fiction film. That's why Carpenter's version was trashed at the time. It was dismissed as a grotesque barf bag SFX spectacle that completely disregarded what made the original so good.
The 2011 The Thing wasn't so much a remake as it was a prequel to the remake, telling the story from the Norwegian scientists' camp.
The 1982 John Carpenter remake opened with the last two remaining Norwegian scientists chasing "The Thing" until it reaches the Americans' camp. But they're misunderstood by the Americans. When trying to shoot at The Thing, which has taken the shape of a sled dog, the Americans instead return fire and kill them. Then the Americans explore the Norwegian camp and try to figure out what horrors killed everyone there, while slowly discovering why they were shooting at a dog in the first place.
The 2011 film shows what happened to the Norwegians before the 1982 remake. You're correct, it wasn't as great of a film (hard to compete with John Carpenter), but it wasn't exactly a remake.
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Movie mash-ups.
Back to the Future and Tron.
Blade Runner and Hawaii 5-0
Truman and Silo.
Mrs. Doubtfire and John Wick.
WALL-E and alien.
What I wouldn't give to see a seam of Xenomorphs tear ass through that ship full of obese humans
Sigourney Weaver was in both movies.
Two words: Easy Money
On a vaguely related note, why aren't we making more movies that take a Shakespeare plot and just stuff it in a different setting without trying to hide it? Like 10 Things I Hate about you was Taming of the Shrew.
Tell me you wouldn't watch Mechbeth.
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