Posted on 09/25/2023 12:26:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
Barbi? I stopped reading right there.
Waiting for a remake of Tarzan using a black actor to play the part and a trannie to play Jane.
B) Jaws 24 of whatever the sequels got up to.
C) Indiana Jones surviving an atomic blast hurtling him in a fridge.
D) Disney Star Wars bringing back Luke Skywalker without an epic light saber battle.
E) Roots teaching Americans the fiction that African slaves were captured by whites -- when the opposite is true (1 to 1.5 million white slaves were captured by Africans and brought back to Africa as slaves completely trumps 300K to 450K African slaves captured by fellow Africans and sold to English speaking whites to take to the U.S.).
Just go on Amazon Prime movies. There are hundreds of stupid movies that no one ever heard of because they are so awful. I spend an hour sifting through the trash to find that one gem worth watching. Same can be said for Netflix, Hulu, Starz, and Brit Box. I could go on, but you get the “picture.”
Disney has been putting on an absolute seminar on bad decisions in movies for about the past three years...to go with every other bad decision they have made I guess.
Jar jar Binks, definately. I would also add the teddy bears in Return of the Jedi.
” thought John Wayne would make a fine Genghis Khan”
“Yer’ beautiful in yer’ wrath”. It was so bad.
Margot Robbie is getting a $50,000,000 payday from that movie. Worked out quite well for her.
A lot of this is Monday morning quarterbacking from today’s perspective (for instance, the horrible Elvis movies made a l lot of money) but the one I agree with 100% is ‘American Beauty’ winning Best Picture in 1999. It was horrible. I remember being dumbfounded by the decision. That was before I was fully attuned to how Hollywood hands out Oscars but still, it was a horrible, poser movie.
ALMOST, every remake of a hit/great movie has been bad except maybe True Grit. Of course, I loved the first one with John Wayne. The second one was also very well done. I have to admit Matt Damon is a better actor than Glen Campbell. Kim Darby was great in the first movie. Jeff Bridges played a great Rooster Cogburn too, but every time I see him I still think of “the Dude”.
The only remake I can think of that is better than the original is BEN HUR staring Charlton Heston.
And with the forthcoming release of Snow White they’re about to present the graduate-level course in bad decisions
Not casting Zero Mostel for “Fiddler on the Roof”.
Casting Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee in “Gettysburg.
“There are significant exceptions like Oppenheimer and Barbie”
These two movies may have made a lot of money but that doesn’t mean they are worth watching.
First of all, there WERE some ethnic Chinese actors and actresses in THE GOOD EARTH; however, Paul Muni, in the male lead, has played many different ethnic character roles, which have ALWAYS been not just successfully portrayed, but often times more believable than had an actor who was Mexican, French, or Chinese had the role!
The silent movies and the Pre-Code movies were far less "sugar coated" than the often bland 1950s ones.
Yes, the HAYS CODE and the Catholic Church's weekly news letter about which movies were forbidden to see, by age group and also by everyone, began to kick in the late '30, grew more so in the '40s, and by the 1950s-early '60s, made a hash out of many scripts. Still and all, many of the early, somewhat more risque film scenes and plots, of earlier days, were in movies that children did NOT see ( because their parents ruled on what they DID see ); not to mention the fact that quite a few of them would NOT have held any interest, AT ALL, for children or tweens/teens!
Back then,many movies were made for specific audiences...such as what was called "THE WEEPERS", made for women to go see in the afternoons!
Reagan was correct...there WERE stinking COMMIES who belonged to THE ACTORS GUILD! And COMMIES tried to infiltrate and take over Hollywood ( mostly writers, quite a few directors, and behind the scenes workers ) from the mid 1930s, but were mostly stopped by the studio heads.
Re remakes....with extremely few exceptions ( A STAR IS BORN, THE MALTESE FALCON, GASLIGHT ) the original film is ALWAYS the only good/worth watching one!
Or a Swede in The Long Voyage Home.
-PJ
2 bombs that didn’t even earn enough to pay the custodian sweeping the floor:
Gigi, Ben Affleck and
The Honeymooners, with Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden.
I like the latest Tombstone. It was great with Val Kilmer.
The fantastic MALTESE FALCON, with THE best cast ( Greenstreet, Lori, Bogart, Astor, etc. ) is the n ot just a remake, but the SECOND remake!
And you're dead wrong about BEN HUR; the silent version's chariot race scene, in particular, is far better than the one with Heston!
The remake with Boyer and Bergman is far and away superior to the original!
I could go on and on, vis-a-vis remakes ( since there are only a few more such ), but these examples should suffice.
OR John Wayne playing the Roman Centurion in “The Greatest Story Ever Told”
“Truly this man was the Son of GAWD,”
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