Balzteed

JNS

The stupidest idea for a weapon ever in the history of "how the fuck did the actors ever keep their faces straight" cinema.

More movies that Hollywood will almost certainly rape for money? Evil Dead trilogy. Flight of the Navigator. Star Wars (Oh wait, too late). Lawrence of Arabia (not sci-fi, but just wait; it'll be set in Gulf War 1, where instead of the British fucking the Bedouin, it's the Americans fucking the Shia!)

Escape from New York... really? They're really remaking it? How? Why? Just the landing on the World Trade Center roof makes it impossible to do without either breaking the plot or sticking flags in our eyes.

antipaganda

diverguy

EGN

B

@El Bandito- I agree. Sin City was a brilliant adaptation of a static visual medium. Barbarella should be right up his alley. In fact, I think he could improve the original by updating that lame-ass dialogue. Rodriguez is perfect for Barbarella.

MemphisBuddha

kstop

It'd be a great story: plane carrying a hetro guy who's never had his eyebrows done and doesn't like cocaine crash lands in the west village. He meets up with a chick who's never had a $3000 handbag and they have to escape a Manhattan populated with marauding gangs of hipsters, fashionistas and packs of rabid toy dogs.

This is a New York I long to escape from....

James Tiberius Quirk

Littlebitsofpaper

Now, another Snake Plissken movie with Kurt Russell in it...

Wait, I thought he was dead...

tk.

Anyway, if someone wanted to remake "Lagan's Run" and actually stick with Nolan's original book series, it might be worth it. The 70's movie had to compress the world (and Mars adventure series) down to a domed city because of effects and budget. A modern version could easily handle a world-wide chase and escape to the Mars sanctuary.

steven522

Ourobolus

aspiringexpatriate

My logic circuits just had an logigasm. That was so obvious it's perfect!

Anyways, I'm not voting in the poll... simply because movies shouldn't be remade unless you're 1000000% fucking certain it's going to a/ do the original justice and b/ be fucking awesome.

Like a Barbarella/Rodriguez film.

El_Bandito

jcormier

trekkie

Rodriguez doesn't always do a sci-fi channel version. He also has done plenty of movies with their share of sex and violence.

aspiringexpatriate

shehanum

Journey to the Center of the Earth is old enough to be in public domain, and while it may be hard to render the mood of the book well, maybe they can get the rights to Rick Wakeman's orchestral score and do some better special effects.
I'm fine with Keanu in Day the Earth Stood Still if they can do something appropriate and modern with the plot. (Robots. Lots of Robots. no...)

Dune's too deep and difficult to do in less than a miniseries or LOTR epic, but if you could grab enough of the modern global-warming concern for ecology and the Moslem-vs-Western world conflicts sensitively enough you could maybe find something of value to say that keeps some of the sixties/seventies zeitgeist, though nobody takes psychedelics these days. On the other hand, another cartoon about riding sandworms just wouldn't be worth it.

Somebody suggested doing Logan's Run. In the original Asimov story, people got killed off at sixty if they hadn't proven to be valuable to society, so you still get to kill off us boomers who were approaching the don't-trust-anyone-over-30 deadline of the previous movie. You can dump the silly religious cult bits from the original, and you'd have to lose the babes in diaphanous gowns, but it might work if you find something worth saying.

billstewart

All_Thumbs

bitgod

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Hitting the surface of the water should be enough impact to kill them because of how long and how fast they fall.

His cellphone works at the center of the Earth?

And while I commend them for shooting/releasing in 3D, there's going to be plenty of cheesy moments (like the charming shot of Brendan Fraser spitting on the camera) that are only there because of the 3D aspect.

This movie is going to suck.

Bluecell

Gort lurches out of spaceship, says "whoa."

victheremin

arachnophilia

Now, Land Of The Lost "could" be good, but ONLY if the use the 90's Opening.

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Szin

They could do it like bewitched, about the show/behind the scenes, or make it actually "land of the lost" and I'd love it.

Especially if they kept the same crappy stop motion FX.

Dillenger69

We spent the first semester reading about three dozen short stories from things like Asimov's and OMNI, and we'd spend at least two days talking about each.

We spent the entire second semester simultaneously reading the novel and watching the movie Dune. I don't think a single person walked out of that class liking the movie, when compared to the book.

Anyway, that high school produced a hell of a lot of sci-fi fanatics, and it was probably because of that class, and the only teacher who taught it.

Naikrovek

Jim (The Canuck One)

dshramek

NefariousNewt

Huh. Why do I want potato chips all of a sudden?

JennaW

Why not try making a brilliant Science Fiction comedy film out of Stanislaw Lem's CYBERIAD? Why not shoot for doing script of Corwainer Smith's NORSTRILIA? How about an attempt at doing Harry Harrison's DEATHWORLD?

This, I feel, is why Hollywood is ultimately doomed, and why indies like the Coen brothers are chipping away at the film trade. More power to them. Maybe someday we'll get a science fiction producer with the requisite imagination and gumption to strike out in some new directions...by moving FORWARD...

Hekkashesh

That said, remaking the top-of-the-chart blockbusters of yesteryear and modern Japanese horror flics is worthless; if there's already a good version of a movie, the new version is already forced to fight with its source material on top of its contemporary competition.

Balius

iCurmudgeon

El_RapeO

nekussa

codydog

codydog

The problem is that if you flick through your TV listings these days, you're more likely to find the remake being shown rather than the original.

sir_eccles

brucifer

As for the Rest...*shudders*

ghost

Certainly, no one would ever propose that "Gone With the Wind" or "Casablanca" be remade, so why is it considered okay to remake a Science Fiction masterpiece?

Discrete-Daniel

But then that Damned "why don't we mock and destroy Land of the Lost" remake keeps making my ears droop, my lips curl back, my fangs extend, and I start barking at people and trying to bite them.

92BuickLeSabre

RRich

That movie should never be remade.

For obvious reasons.

Woodwater

>>>>> JAWS! <<<<<<<

Starring: Samuuel L. Jackson
Guest starring: Bruce Willis
Directed by: Michael Bay

Featuring genetecally engineered CGI sharks and a gunboat equiped with rocket launcher, and a really big flamethrower.

Signature SLJ line: "You MADE these motherfuckers? They damn near bit my balls off!"

Pham_Nuwen

steven522

Pham_Nuwen

femto

bjarmson

Benjo

I like "Chip Chillios" in Death Race, but agree making them prisoners takes some of the coolness out of it. Why can't we make movies today that are so outragous, why do they all have to be in the "this could really happen NOW!" vein?

I'm voting for day the earht stood still. there is no way in hell Hollywood can remake that without it being a total crap-fest. and probably making $350 million bank, too *cough, cough independence day cough, cough*

dirtybacon

Frozen-Tex

So what is the point of Death Race 2000 without the homesewn "F" jerseys?

pinafore

Ryan H

Falconfire

NefariousNewt

Taed

Mister Adequate

mgcramps

AmishJohn

ManchuCandidate

Who didn't get that people NOT talking was CRUCIAL TO THE WHOLE DAMN THING????

ComicDork

Missing option "all of the above".

sir_eccles

IrisMR

gods-n-clods

Tim Faulkner

MilesFromNowhere

Pigmann

My dream Dune movie has the aesthetic sensibility of the David Lynch with a bit of a tighter storyline than the miniseries. Maybe one day, with motion capture and digital effects someone could re-edit/ recreate the Lynch Dune but with the story intact? That'd work for me.

Gyrus

Grrsn Dn

keithldick

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★