League of Extraordinary Gentlemen remake
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Chukzombi
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i think i saw the original once or twice, it wasnt bad, hardly a classic though. a reboot might be ok. sean connery was butthurt about turning down the role of gandalf in LoTR so he figured this would make up for it. it didnt so he retired, it didnt ruin his career, the guy was in his 70s and has an incredible legacy.
Szlia
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I thought there was some clever things done with the script in the first one, like having Tom Sawyer as an entry point for american viewers or adding Dorian Gray to the crew. The problem though is that it was written for 12 years olds, so it was heavy handed tunnel central while the comic was a lot more subtle and assumed a modicum of culture or at least curiosity from the reader.
Srathor
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I am just waiting for the Goonies, Gremlins, Rad, and Say Anything remakes now.
Someone asked about why remakes are so awful. I equate it to remembering your first hot girlfriend, then learning years later that the sweaty asshole in highschool fucked her sideways while joking about you with her.
Sure it has nothing to do with you now, nor the enjoyment you had originally, but that memory is now tainted. God Damnit! I didn't even like the first League movie.
Someone asked about why remakes are so awful. I equate it to remembering your first hot girlfriend, then learning years later that the sweaty asshole in highschool fucked her sideways while joking about you with her.
Sure it has nothing to do with you now, nor the enjoyment you had originally, but that memory is now tainted. God Damnit! I didn't even like the first League movie.
Gavinmad
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You do know that there is a Gremlins remake and a Goonies sequel in the works right? It's still early enough on that the projects may never start shooting, but they're already being worked on.
Miguex
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Ya, I feel the same especially about the Goonies. That movie is about as untouchable as it gets for me. Not worth the risk of fucking it up and ruining the original by association.No, no they are not!
fris
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i liked in a "i know this is really bad, but for a bad film it's not that bad" kind of way. i think it suffered most from trying to take a very dark, R rated subject and turn it into a pg (13?) movie. i never read the comics, but a friend told me how dr. jekyll's formula was to cure his gayness basically, and mr. hyde raped the invisible man to death. i forget the reason but the invisible man had to go, so the team let mr hyde do it. that's some dark shit.
Lanx
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invisible man gave intel on us to aliens and also beat up mental/physical Mina, the only person Hyde cared about (or related to?)
TJT
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Hyde ended that series like a badass too. Stripped naked and walked straight into a bunch of tripods while whistling a tune. Tore down one and beat an alien to death with his bare hands before another tripod fried him.
Quartermain and the plot with Moriarte as a criminal mastermind would be good too. It was cool because he was originally an intelligence officer who was pretending to be a criminal then didn't realize what the difference was, "Am I an intelligence officer pretending to be a crime boss or a crime boss pretending to be an intelligence officer?"
That comic was all kinds of epic.
Quartermain and the plot with Moriarte as a criminal mastermind would be good too. It was cool because he was originally an intelligence officer who was pretending to be a criminal then didn't realize what the difference was, "Am I an intelligence officer pretending to be a crime boss or a crime boss pretending to be an intelligence officer?"
That comic was all kinds of epic.