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Go to Seanbabys home page to read some of the un-edited reviews, prior to him going all respectable like.
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I dunno, maybe the cheestastic over-the-top-itude of Brando: "I simply cannot abide this heat" and then Kilmer trying to overcheese that...(which he did)
Oh, and how about Fariaz Baulk gettin' all slinky with the quasi-Indonesian dance and later wit' da cool-ass wire-fighting with Azazello--PURE UNADULTERATED FUN!
Plus, Ron Fuc&!ng Perlman as the Sayer of the Law.
C'mon people, compared to the 1932 and 1977 filmed versions of the story this one SLIGHTLY ROCKED!!!
sorry, i feel almost strongly on this subject.
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[thatguywiththeglasses.com]
And I promise that's the only shameless plug for another website I'll ever give.
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The only good thing that come from "godzilla" was what Kitamura did in Godzilla Final Wars:
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"I always knew that tuna-head wasn't up to much!"
Thanks.
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The remake even by arbitrary standards was atrocious, a perfect example of horrid use of both CGI and live action, but compared to the original?
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And I think War of the Worlds and Death Race should be ON the list, not runner's up.
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Jerks.
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If you can break your mind away from the expectation that this is going to be anything other than a vague remake of _The Longest Yard_, with roller skates thrown in, there's actually a fair amount of entertainment in there; it's kind of like the original _Fast and the Furious_ in that if you have expectations, you'll hate it, but if you don't, it's a reasonable amount of fun.
The same goes for _Death Race_; it's *not* a remake, it's just stealing the name, but if you can detach your mind from expectations, there's some value there. It's a good two, three notches above your average made-for-the-Sci-Fi Channel movie, and has Ian McShane clearly having a ball. (Yes, I'm defending a Paul W.S. Anderson movie; he can't suck ALL the time. Just most of it.)
As for the others; no, there is no excuse for the U.S. _Godzilla_, nor for the _Planet of the Apes_ remake. _Invasion_, _Moreau_, _Stepford Wives_, those had behind-the-camera excuses for being disasters - I hear that the original ending for _Stepford Wives_ was *much* better, but it was a downer, and so they had to reshoot, as U.S. audiences don't *do* downers, according to studio execs. They don't do crappy added-on megahappy endings either, sadly...
I'm a bit puzzled as to why Carpenter's _Village of the Damned_ is on the list, though. Almost like van Sant's _Psycho_, it's pretty much a shot-for-shot, line-for-line remake, and isn't that bad, as long as you can ignore the fact it's in color.
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