14th June 2010, 5:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th June 2010, 6:09 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Of course I never did like the A-team, but Mr. T did make it hilarious. The new guy just isn't as funny, because he actually sounds like a member of the human race.
ABF, I get your point and agree. Modern remakes of a lot of the 80's are completely unnecessary. For example, is a remake of The Karate Kid really needed? The 3 sequels were already basically remakes of the exact same story (progressively worse each time), and I have no hopes of this one doing anything different. Re imaginings would be far more justified. I can imagine a remake where the kid's master was, himself, the insane trainer he had to overcome. Or, and this is decidedly darker in tone, one where the trainer's pushing the kid to defend himself ends up getting the kid killed and the rest of the movie is the trainer dealing with that. I'm not saying these ideas are any good, and if they do end up being something impossible to make a decent movie out of, DON'T make them just for the sake of doing something new, but that said, these weren't needed.
It's not like remaking King Kong. That makes sense. No matter what argument you make, King Kong looks terrible. You can say whatever you will about "for the times they looked decent" or whatever, but really, seriously? No one alive today is capable of putting themselves in a mental state where that effectively scares them. It's just impossible. You can enjoy it, yes, but never the way it was originally intended to be enjoyed. Today you watch it as basically an interesting history piece and an example of what they had to work with. You could be impressed, but you wouldn't really be scared of the monster. A modern remake of that makes perfect sense.
A modern remake of anything from the 80's? Pointless. Those movies look just fine even by today's standards (the live action anyway). I mean it's in color, it's got decent detail, and they can always remaster it from the film to put it in high definition blu-ray. Heck, a lot of the time they stick it right in the 80's anyway so they can't even try to say it's being "updated for modern times", because it's not being updated! It's useless. Now, remaking old Saturday morning cartoons in live action is at least SOMETHING, that's a new style. It'd be helpful if those live action adaptations were ANY GOOD though, and let's face it, if you are making a movie based on GI Joe, you don't have much to work with anyway.
However, eventually they'll run out of 1980s. Then they'll remake the 1990's. Get ready for yet another Batman reboot, based on the animated series (that COULD be good, Mr. Freeze needs to be taken seriously in a movie for once). Get ready for a live action Gargoyles (which will probably be terrible). Get ready for a live action Sailor Moon (which again, will be terrible).
What else is even left for them to recycle from the 80's at this point? ABF, are they really making a new live action He-Man? Didn't they already make one horrible live action movie from that? Maybe She-Ra? Heck actually the 90's had a lot of remakes from the 70s come to think of it, like live action Scooby Doo, and live action Flintstones (no live action Jetsons yet). Hmm, what else from the 80's... David the Gnome? Nah, no one wants to see a feature length movie about some really helpful guy just sorta sitting around helping old farmers move their crops or chickens count their young. Double Dragon? No they did that... Huh if they really are remaking Thundercats and He-Man... that just leaves...
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God help us... god help us all...
Edit: Actually there's still a lot of live action to rip off, like Alien Nation, or heck, MORE HIGHLANDER, or Doogie Howser, or Alf (minus the sad ending where Alf gets abducted and autopsied by the US government, no seriously, THAT was the last episode).
ABF, I get your point and agree. Modern remakes of a lot of the 80's are completely unnecessary. For example, is a remake of The Karate Kid really needed? The 3 sequels were already basically remakes of the exact same story (progressively worse each time), and I have no hopes of this one doing anything different. Re imaginings would be far more justified. I can imagine a remake where the kid's master was, himself, the insane trainer he had to overcome. Or, and this is decidedly darker in tone, one where the trainer's pushing the kid to defend himself ends up getting the kid killed and the rest of the movie is the trainer dealing with that. I'm not saying these ideas are any good, and if they do end up being something impossible to make a decent movie out of, DON'T make them just for the sake of doing something new, but that said, these weren't needed.
It's not like remaking King Kong. That makes sense. No matter what argument you make, King Kong looks terrible. You can say whatever you will about "for the times they looked decent" or whatever, but really, seriously? No one alive today is capable of putting themselves in a mental state where that effectively scares them. It's just impossible. You can enjoy it, yes, but never the way it was originally intended to be enjoyed. Today you watch it as basically an interesting history piece and an example of what they had to work with. You could be impressed, but you wouldn't really be scared of the monster. A modern remake of that makes perfect sense.
A modern remake of anything from the 80's? Pointless. Those movies look just fine even by today's standards (the live action anyway). I mean it's in color, it's got decent detail, and they can always remaster it from the film to put it in high definition blu-ray. Heck, a lot of the time they stick it right in the 80's anyway so they can't even try to say it's being "updated for modern times", because it's not being updated! It's useless. Now, remaking old Saturday morning cartoons in live action is at least SOMETHING, that's a new style. It'd be helpful if those live action adaptations were ANY GOOD though, and let's face it, if you are making a movie based on GI Joe, you don't have much to work with anyway.
However, eventually they'll run out of 1980s. Then they'll remake the 1990's. Get ready for yet another Batman reboot, based on the animated series (that COULD be good, Mr. Freeze needs to be taken seriously in a movie for once). Get ready for a live action Gargoyles (which will probably be terrible). Get ready for a live action Sailor Moon (which again, will be terrible).
What else is even left for them to recycle from the 80's at this point? ABF, are they really making a new live action He-Man? Didn't they already make one horrible live action movie from that? Maybe She-Ra? Heck actually the 90's had a lot of remakes from the 70s come to think of it, like live action Scooby Doo, and live action Flintstones (no live action Jetsons yet). Hmm, what else from the 80's... David the Gnome? Nah, no one wants to see a feature length movie about some really helpful guy just sorta sitting around helping old farmers move their crops or chickens count their young. Double Dragon? No they did that... Huh if they really are remaking Thundercats and He-Man... that just leaves...
<img src="http://darkjaguar.homestead.com/files/images/rb.png">
God help us... god help us all...
Edit: Actually there's still a lot of live action to rip off, like Alien Nation, or heck, MORE HIGHLANDER, or Doogie Howser, or Alf (minus the sad ending where Alf gets abducted and autopsied by the US government, no seriously, THAT was the last episode).
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