Nightmare on Elm Street 2010

Jukee

restlesssoul wrote:

also, cant they just leave Goonies alone? i will see the second one, but man.....it'll probably suck.

What?! there's going to be a second Goonies??

dcfaithful

JM9427 wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

Is it really going to hurt you to receive $10 million as opposed to $25 million?

no, but i think the thought process is......"i'm crispin glover, and by ME being in this movie alone.... it will make a lot of money. since i'm the talent, i should make the money." i'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that theory, its the same one used by professional athletes who also make exuberant amounts of cash... you have to pay the talent, bottom line. but i'm sure there's a lot of egos that's involved. "hey, you paid tom wilson $20 million for his last movie, so pony up, or i'm heading to New Line to work on their film." exaggeration? sure. but don't think there's not egos involved.

on one hand, i think its great that these companies are starting to realize this a bit and maybe someday it does help drive the costs down and then it won't cost a family of five $75 to go to a movie. probably not, but at least its a start.

Yeah, I see what you mean. But I still can't help get a little irritated when I hear of these talents getting a little excited about losing a couple mil.

It's not a good idea to complain about fame when all the peopel that watch you only see it as a privilege. :?

dcfaithful

musicismylife78 wrote:

i dont think i will check it out. as a kid those freddy kreugar films were legendary to me , I only saw portions of them as a kid, but they scared the hell out of me. what a brilliant premise too, freddy only gets you when you sleep, and we all need to sleep... brilliant story idea.

anyways, modern horror films are garbage and rubbish. huge body counts and lots of blood really doesnt equal scary. the modern horror films that have made an impact on me, blair witch, open water, house of the devil, house of 1000 corpses, devils rejects, wolf creek, hostel, paranormal activity.

I agree with your point here. A lot of modern horror movies are just the same old crap. But, every once in a while a damn good horror movie will pop up. Like "Wolf Creek", good modern horror film. perhaps I'm too snobby, but I think a horror film is really dependent on it's premise...I mentioned The Terminator earlier, which some people may argue is not a horror film, I like to think that it is. The premise in that movie to me is pretty terrifying...

Claireack

Jukee wrote:

restlesssoul wrote:

also, cant they just leave Goonies alone? i will see the second one, but man.....it'll probably suck.

What?! there's going to be a second Goonies??

Please tell me this isn't true!

Evil Merlin Part Deux

That's what happens when you let a guy like Michael Bay get the rights to produce these movies. Why would anyone let a guy that looks like this:

touch anybody's work?

Just remember boys and girls, he also brought back the Jason franchise, and the worst is yet to come...he also has his name attached the The motherfucking Birds remake. :roll:

Evil Merlin Part Deux

Claireack wrote:

Jukee wrote:

restlesssoul wrote:

also, cant they just leave Goonies alone? i will see the second one, but man.....it'll probably suck.

What?! there's going to be a second Goonies??

Please tell me this isn't true!

As of right now, no that's not true. Richard Donner had a sequel, but not everyone was signed on to do it...that was about 5 years ago, and he believes now that it'll never happen. As far as a remake...as long as Steven Spielberg is alive, it looks as that won't happen either.

But as with everything in Hollywood, nothing is sacred and anything can be taken over and made any day now...

HeyWayne

I just watched the trailer - and I'm less convinced it's a good idea.

They have even replicated the iconic scenes from the original (Nancy in the bath and his glove comes up from between her legs - the scene where she's on the bed and Freddy 'stretches' the wall above her - the scene where the blonde is tossed into the air whilst her boyfriend watches).

I guess they're using the term 'remake' quite literally.

Oh, and Freddy's voice is just wrong.

HeyWayne

Well, I'm off to see this tonight. I'm not hopeful, but it gets me out of the house.

There seems to be a massive 80's 'thing' at the moment in the UK (don't know if it's reflected anywhere else in 10C land...).

They've made an A-Team film, remade TRON (WTF!?), there's a film out called Hot Tub Time Machine where the characters (including 80's ledge and hero John Cusack) travel back to the 80's. We've got a series of programmes due to be aired on the BBC about the 80's...

What next!?

HeyWayne

My advice? Go into the cinema with low expectations - you'll not be disappointed.

Could have been a lot worse, but could have been so much better.

prytocorduroy

why must hollywood abuse the classics? but i suppose it's all subjective and i still have the original so whatever.

catefrances

pinwheel wrote:

why must hollywood abuse the classics? but i suppose it's all subjective and i still have the original so whatever.

my thoughts exactly. has hollywood no thoughts at all......... this is a modern classic and still they feel the need to fuck with it.

Backstop-440

I don't think it's the writers or actors trying to do these remakes, it's the publicity and accounting types. In business school they are taught that leveraging an established mindshare is preferable to launching a new franchise.

No matter how awful or great the new Elm St movie might be, there's a certain percentage of the valuable target market that will at least take a look at it for nostalgia reasons. As an example, Will Smith in I, Robot - that movie only superficially had anything to do with the Asimov Robots stories. But that title is going to catch some eyeballs - more than the original title, Hard Wired.

Sure, someone could easily come up with a new story about a creep who kills kids through their dreams, or a team of ex-military who right wrongs under the radar, or finds an alien leotard that grants him superpowers, but how will they get funded? If you want to make a big expensive movie you have to ask someone to front some cash. And once the businessman gets his hand in the process who will tell him (and his money) to get bent while they pursue their vision?

Anyway, there are plenty of movies out there to see other than the rehashed blockbusters.

HeyWayne

They've done Predator again too - only this time it's different. It's called Predators.

Backstop-440

Actually this is pretty much how I think it works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59p9kOZkLI

mawfordinks

All remakes are just pisspoor awful.

If they remake total recall i will cry.

HeyWayne

mawfordinks wrote:

All remakes are just pisspoor awful.

Willy Wonka was cool.