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Topic: Remakes - Why Does Hollywood Bother
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Barry Attwood
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1411
From: Enfield, U.K.
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted February 28, 2006 10:13 AM
I can't see why "John Carpenter" has allowed an executive producer credit on the remake of his 1980 classic horror "The Fog", it is awful, with no style or imagination. The basic story is the same, but the handling is terrible, this had a 15 certificate, and I was expecting to have a few jumps in my seat like the original, but I found myself just shaking my head with disbelief as this terrible remake. The original 1980 film had a terrific cast, fine acting and special effects (for 1980), and a taut script, with just the right balance between shocks and revelations, and it boasted the terrific foreward by "John Houseman", but the 2005 remake is a waste of celluloid, and early contender as the worst film of the year, can't Hollywood come up with new ideas anymore, they just have to re-cycle the same tried and tested formulas, what a pity, especially when they tamper with one of my favourite horror film (I still have my own 8mm print too!).
Have any of the forum members seen any remakes, or TV spinn offs that have drove you to desperation i.e. "The Dukes Of Hazzard" film.
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted March 08, 2006 12:11 AM
I gotta agree on one thing... you go to the movies for the real-film, big-screen experience... but inexperienced projectionists and shoddy management ruin it for you, and my wife and I have sat in near-empty theatres at least the last five times we went to see a movie, and I'm talking probably a timespan of two years here. I've had four super-saver tickets in my wallet for months and there isn't even anything playing that we feel compelled enough to go see and use these tickets! I think a little part of why we all love screening super-8 films is the simple truth of "If you want something done right, do it yourself" - when you're in control of all the technical stuff, the setting up and ensuring a flawless screening and viewing experience, then you don't have to live with poorly framed or out-of-focus images, or even bad sound... one time during Star Wars III my wife had to leave the room and ask management to fix the sound because it was nearly inaudible after the movie had started. Odd, since all the commercials and previews had been BLASTING us out of our seats right up until then!!
-------------------- Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*
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