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A good point, I admit. Hm. I think what I most object to, is people using a title just to cash in on the concept. If you want to make a movie about a water creature that attacks helpless ladies in swimwear, why not call it "The Sea Beast Strikes!" and do your own thing, instead of "stealing" a title from a classic (but changing everything else about it)? To be honest, the Emmerich Godzilla was not such a bad giant monster flick, but it had very little to do with Toho Godzilla. Why not call your giant monster Emmerichosaurus Rex, and do your own thing?
A last example: I love the new Galactica, but I find little connection to the old series. I would have been perfectly happy with it being even a little bit farther removed from Classic BG, and being a totally separate entity.
I hope this clarifies my point of view.
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I also agree with Gorn Captain about the Godzilla movie. I was a fairly good movie but to me, there are certain classic creatures I love and don't want them messed with (CFTBL, Godzilla, POTA). There are also some films that the concept is premier and I don't mind the movies being updated (King Kong, Dracula). If they ever remake Creature I hope they don't screw him up! JOHNLivin' the American Dream!Comment
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>"they" are discussing re-making Carpenter's The Thing, which is ridiculous because that is a note-perfect film, widely regarded as a horror masterpiece.
...and TECHNICLY it's a remake itself. So they're gonna do a remake of a remake.... (Movies really HAVE gone back to their 1950's roots I guess....) Although I thought the Thing was more of a sequel. Or it COULD have been a sequel.
>To be honest, the Emmerich Godzilla was not such a bad giant monster flick, but it had very little to do with Toho Godzilla.
That's what I was saying. "Fraudzilla" was an okay film; but NOBODY would risk that much money on a no-name pic; so they sort of slapped "Godzilla" onto it. Which is a shame; 'cos it means we get more intellectual inbreeding.
>There are also some films that the concept is premier and I don't mind the movies being updated (King Kong, Dracula).
Maybe. Some ideas; like Dracula, are kinda generic/iconic and can be drawn from more than once. Sometimes they really miss the point with the remake, and a lot of times they remake stuff that doesn't need to be remade. Creature is a good example. I don't get bent out of shape when they redo stuff with modern effects but keep the old designs. (As much as possible.) Sorta polishes up the old idea.... But the Creature effects were pretty good; and the first film still holds up. The actual Creature costume worked surprisingly well. I'd be afraid that a remake would have all sorts of extraneuous bits, CGI crud, and multiple toyetic forms....
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Just a brief addendum here: Carpenter's The Thing is not in fact a "remake"; it's a second adaptation of the same source material, the novella Who Goes There? The two films share a title -- and truly not even that, since the 1951 Hawks movie is properly named The Thing From Another World -- and that's it. The characters, events and even the nature of the creature are wholly different from one another.Comment
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I would love to see this done. Just for once, I would love to see a true "REMAKE" of the original. Same Creature,same script, similar location. Most of the classic stuff is so timeless that it would work well today. If as much energy was spent on keeping stuff true to what made it great in the first place as is spent changing something, it would be a hit for sure.LOOK
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I would love to see this done. Just for once, I would love to see a true "REMAKE" of the original. Same Creature,same script, similar location. Most of the classic stuff is so timeless that it would work well today. If as much energy was spent on keeping stuff true to what made it great in the first place as is spent changing something, it would be a hit for sure.
I'm with Ya!! I'd like to see it done that way as well...like Jackson did with KONG...but shorter running time.sigpicComment
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I rather wish Jackson had stuck with the exact script of the original Kong, only added new scenes here and there that were in the same vein. (And obviously including all the new action and FX scenes.) The dialogue in the original has a crackle and a spark to it that Jackson's languid script utterly lacked. But that's a subject for that other thread.Comment
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