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| Feb 21, 2008 @ 12:02 AM |
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whiteghost672
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I keep noticing how the American film industry can't seem to make their own horror movies anymore, they have no original thoughts. They have to remake Asian horror films. I totally love the original Asian horror movies. When watching the American remakes there is something lacking, at least for me. They just can't get the same feel for it. Besides remaking Asian horror films they have to remake older American horror movies. I love horror movies, but I wish American film makers would start doing their own things.
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| Feb 21, 2008 @ 12:06 AM |
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LipGlossQueen9
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Yeah. They have to remake 80s horror films that were groundbreaking and beautiful when they came out and will be crappy and old news when they're redone.
And they're not even getting Doug Bradley to play Pinhead. What the hell is that about?  There is no other Pinhead than Doug Bradley.
I shall go to the theatre and boo this travesty when it comes out. Then demand my money back.
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| Feb 23, 2008 @ 1:12 AM |
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Yojimbo44
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There seems no reason for most of these remakes. The most unwarranted would seem to be the frame-by-frame reshoot of Psycho but, I gotta admit, I never watched it.
I was looking into a thread like this because last Saturday, while in the city, I dropped into the late run theatre and caught I Am Legend. It's a remake of The Omega Man, which is a remake of Vincent Price's The Last Man on Earth (have it on DVD, just never got around to watching it). I'd say it's more a reworking of the story than a remake. I did like the show, mentioned it at work, and both those I talked to liked it up to the point of the religious spin, that God spoke to me woman and the aspect of sacrifice. I can kinda see it but I didn't feel as much it 'ruined it for me'. Also, he pointed out, why did Will Smith have to/be seen to sacrifice himself? Couldn't he have used the grenade from behind the wall shelter with the same effect? I considered Pitch Black to be a very good movie with overtones of redemption and sacrifice where the hero walks away.
Also that day, in the city, I stopped in a couple of Blockbusters, check the used movies and games, and ran across the 1981 movie Nosferatu, a remake of the 1929 Nosferatu. I saw the remake in an early century theatre turned movie theatre back in '81. I was so stoked to find the DVD after having looked for it to no luck. And I saw the original on Cinemax when I had a big dish. And I had to play the BOC song of that name when I got home.
One last thing about good remakes, if you've never seen the two, try renting Clint Eastwood's A Fistfull of Dollars and the earlier made Kurosawa film Yojimbo within the same week. So similar yet so different.
One last last thang, last Sunday evening: the new Knight Rider - sad, lame, weak.
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| Feb 28, 2008 @ 2:36 PM |
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graywolf
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totally agree about the "new" Knight Rider, it is really bad. 
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| Mar 18, 2008 @ 10:45 PM |
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akane855
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Let's be real,you prefer the whole "asian" thing.Yeah, we get it,your fiancee,and how your blogs,seem to take on an "asian" tone...you actually,put thought into this! Good luck to HIM,he's gonna need it!!!
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| Mar 25, 2008 @ 5:49 AM |
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exvagabond
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I totally love the original Asian horror movies. When watching the American remakes there is something lacking
By "original," I guess Whiteghost means Japanese horror films of the '50s. Their monsters were mutant freaks caused by atomic radiation. People in Japan were sensitive about radiation, having been nuked barely a decade before. So on a movie set, everyone had a real fear of that. I doubt you'd have that kind of "bonding" in a modern American shoot.
I wish American film makers would start doing their own things.
Some of the Dracula remakes are better than the original, I think.Somehow, I know Bela Lugosi is a monster almost from the start. But if you read Bram Stoker's novel, it only gradually transpires that something is wrong with the Count. That element of suspense makes a difference.
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| Dec 2, 2008 @ 8:47 PM |
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whiteghost672
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No I don't mean the movies of the '50s. I mean the Asian horror movies made since about the 90's to now.
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| Dec 4, 2008 @ 9:58 PM |
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Say_Yes
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It isn't just horror, it isn't just Asain & it isn't anything new. Did you ever watch the western, the Magnificient Seven? It is a remake of the Seven Samuri. How many times has a movie been made about the Titanic? What about Batman, Hamlet, Gunfight at the OK Corral, King Kong, Oceans 11, Psycho, Scarface, or even Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? There are hundreds, if not thousands of others, from every genre of film making.
Hollywood will remake anything that they think will make a buck. Sometimes (rarely) the remake ends up being better than the original (like Tombstone), though that is rare. Sometimes it brings a good story to an audience that otherwise, never would have have seen it (The Magnificient Seven). There is no big deal about film remakes. If you don't like them, then don't go to see them.
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| Dec 5, 2008 @ 8:01 AM |
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warrior674
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Yeah I'm tired of asian remakes. It's like us Americans ran out of ideas. WTF?!
The special effects kinda suck in horror films nowadays anyway.
Oh and why do the horror films now have that bluish green color to the film?  
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| Dec 11, 2008 @ 12:42 PM |
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Stevesco
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I'm trying to think when the American movie industry has actually made a better remake of the original Asian movie......  ...nope, I can't think of one..Give me the original, even with the subtitles everytime 
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