They have. Dune would be one example.
I will die on this hill I legitimately like Mr. Mayor and Picard better than the new one. It took me like 4 tries to get through the new one it is so slow and full of itself. I’m not sure what the line is for me between good slow and being a slog but the new one is so hard for me to pay attention to. I’d rather scroll through spaceship still shots with some space music in the background
It’s adapting a book where sometimes a chapter is two people meeting in a room and having a short conversation, and you get to know what one person is thinking about the conversation at length, and then the same thing from the other person’s perspective, and then they leave the room.
I couldn’t get through the book either… Like I said I’m not sure what that line is for me because I’ve definitely watched and read slow things but Dune can be so off the charts slow it hurts me. LotR is slow and half the movies are spent watching people running through fields but both the books and movies captured my attention (I know this is an imperfect comparison just first example I thought of). I’m excited you all can enjoy the new movie but I’ll take the old one
It was a solid B movie until the end. How do you decide to cut the fact that Paul becomes the emperor from the movie completely?
Event Horizon but I feel that it would be a lot more in your face horror if they made it today.
I too would like to see Event Horizon made with today’s technology but I’m also 100% sure that it wouldn’t be as good as the original. I’d still pay to watch it in the theater, probably twice, but the original was perfect.
The reason why it works is because they’re using puppets prosthetics and miniatures. It’ll look like garbage if they remade it today (go watch the thing prequel for proof).
Once the miniature workers unionized, the studios started to rely heavily on CG because they could make them work insane hours without OT. CG is really a symptom of a labor issue.
There are some really good movies I wouldn’t mind a modern rendition of.
Forest Gump, I think, would be an absolute winner. Whole premise could be redone every 30 years (yes it’s been 30 years) with great effect.
Would new Forest live through the 90s-20s instead of the 50s-90s?
I’m not sure it’d make a good story. The technology is what changed the world in the past 30 years. The 1960s were a super tumultuous time and make a good sorry.
The events in Forest Gump reflect the book and run from 1951 to 1982.
A modern remake would be more like 82 to 2013 or so. So we can talk about what happened with AIDS, since that was a pretty big point in the first one. We’ve got Challenger, OKC, 9/11, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Iraqi WMDs. Columbine, Station Night Club, GMO food, Clintons Blowjob, …list goes on.
Basicaly comparing Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”, with Fallout Boys.
Forrest Gump is so much a story about the time period, this would be a vastly different movie. I’d say just make a unrelated movie inspired by Forrest Gump, instead of trying to make it a remake and thus give yourselve unecessary restraints.
This movie has a pretty similar premise https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2113681/
I agree with the premise, but your example is, like, spectacularly bad. The Ghost in the Shell movie you’re thinking of, the recent one? THAT WAS A REMAKE THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE, IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The original is good. It didn’t need a remake. You’re literally talking about the opposite of your whole premise. They took a movie that was already good and made a remake of it, to make it suck, except for the fact that it had Scarlett Johansson in a very tight robot suit.
EDIT: nevermind! The title is an example of how it’s currently done wrong. That makes so much sense, now that someone pointed it out.
OP was mentioning GITS as an example of how it’s currently done (wrong). The “instead of remaking great movies” part
So basically remaking every movie starring Nicolas Cage?
I love Nic for making movies I’d love to actually see, except for the fact that he’s in them.
Maybe they could do a crossover where all the Cage movies get remade with Travolta and vice versa
