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Quite dead sorry to say, but June Lockhart was pretty hot back in the day wasn't she?
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
Michael Rennie is talking to you from beyond the grave.
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
I am not automatically against new spins on old stuff, or remakes or movies based on old things. It's all in the execution.
I see that it can go different ways
1) Gets the original, makes a loving update that keeps the spirit (or even improves it) and makes for something entertaining at least, beloved at best. The single best example I can think of is the Addams Family movie(s), which not only did a decent take on the TV show, but also incorporated a ton of sight gags straight from the original comics and had an excellent cast, to boot. Sure, there are some changes that aren't improvements (Uncle Fester is so good in the TV show) but it's more than made up for elsewhere. I loved the Addams Family movies ton. (The broadway musical, not so much.)
2) Ironic twist on the original. This one is much trickier, as it can leave the purists cold and if the movie isn't good, then the deviation gets blamed for the mediocre product. OTOH, it can produce fun movies like the Brady Bunch movie.
3) Cash in. Make a standard genre movie using old characters.
4) Misses the point entirely. Gets the characters wrong, gets the appeal of the original wrong, isn't good in its own right. See Wild Wild West. Or don't. Also, Addams Family Musical.
As far as Phantom and Shadow movies, I liked both pretty well. I'm not very familiar with Phantom and only a little with the Shadow (and some from comics which themselves were deviations from the original) but I liked them on their own.
As far as Mr Peabody, it seems to be #3. The characters don't seem wrong, but it's looking like a mediocre rendition. It's premature (there have been bad trailers before) but it looks like they can't mimic the humor of the original and have lame kid-movie gags instead.
Wait, there's more than one movie called Wild Wild West?
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I have no problems with remakes, provided that they have SOMETHING new to add.
Night of the Living Dead 1990 was a good one for me, as it managed to keep the flavor of the original and elevate Barbara's character from catatonia to competency.
Replace Barbara with Renfield, and that's the one good thing about the NBC version of Dracula. The rest mostly sucked, and not in the good way.
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Wait.
Is that a positive review or what?
Sounds pretty awesome to me.
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I'm not saying that a good remake doesn't exist, but that the percentages are tremendously against it.
Also, was The Thing really a remake? Or was it "let's use this title and this approximate background idea and make a completely different story/movie?". For example (even though this is based on a book and not another movie), the Will Smith "I am Legend" takes the title and a rough idea of the premise, and makes a completely different story (including a different ending that redefines what the title means).
I think every version of I am Legend--original book, comics, multiple movies (included different cuts of the Will Smith one) all have different endings. I'm not sure if there are any two in the entire group of adaptations that are the same.
And while we're on the topic of Will Smith, "I, Robot" was another example of exactly what you're referring to here. Took the name and the three laws of robotics from Aasimov and nothing else in the entire movie had anything to do with the books.
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In other words, it's all Vlad's fault.
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Though I'm pretty sure if we ever meet rl, you get a free junk shot on me.
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Vlad is neither good nor evil. He is simply Legal.
Wild Wild West was a TV show before it was a movie. It's notable in that it's basically the first example of steampunk. It's spoofy James Bond stuff (as was very popular in the 60s) set in the old west.
Is it a dichotomy paradox to constantly be looking forward to your weekend, despite knowing that each day rushes you headlong closer to your doom?
I want these clixed: Doc Savage, Fu Manchu, Tarzan, The Shadow, The Green Hornet & Kato, Conan, Solomon Kane, The Phantom, King Kong, Universal Monsters, Black Orchid, Manhunter (Paul Kirk), Xemnu the Titan, unclixed Kirby Fourth World characters, and Lilith, Daughter Of Dracula.
Is it a dichotomy paradox to constantly be looking forward to your weekend, despite knowing that each day rushes you headlong closer to your doom?
I'd say, "No."
Each moment, each BREATH brings you closer to your doom. Life, itself, may be considered this dichotomy, but looking forward to something is what makes enduring that dichotomy worth doing.
What is it about the weekend to which you look forward so much?
"Do you think you're better every day?
Oh, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave!"
(39 HUMOR pts) 2 X points for why I chose "39")
Each moment, each BREATH brings you closer to your doom. Life, itself, may be considered this dichotomy, but looking forward to something is what makes enduring that dichotomy worth doing.
What is it about the weekend to which you look forward so much?
"Do you think you're better every day?
Oh, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave!"
(39 HUMOR pts) 2 X points for why I chose "39")
I assume you're keeping yourself alive, and you hope to be rogered by 39 Freddy Mercury impersonators.