What would you want to see remade?
On a related note, do you think Hugh Jackman looks a little like Clint Eastwood?
Posted on 06/28/2006 4:41:44 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
"I like remakes "
I keep hoping we'll get a Clint Eastwood remake but they'd probably only screw it up.
Which stories are made up?
They all are.
Yeah, but at the same time he also gave us Keyzer Soze and Verbal Kint.
What would you want to see remade?
On a related note, do you think Hugh Jackman looks a little like Clint Eastwood?
"What would you want to see remade?"
I dunno, there are several good ones but probably a western. There was a show that reviewed each of his movies and tried to assign a liberal agenda to each one. Almost ruined his movies for me.
"On a related note, do you think Hugh Jackman looks a little like Clint Eastwood?"
I guess, never thought about it.
Thats a line that Superman says in the Movie. I think it is the most important thing said much more important than what Perry says about truth justice and all that stuff
I think the problem is that we have some conservatives on this board that are as kneejerk prone and closeminded as the idiots on the left.
Bruce Lee will always be Kato.
That is FANTASTIC!!!
Your own creation?
I LOVE this one.
Hehehe yes. Thanks.
Umm I've been reading and colecting comics since I learned to read in 1964. This is (at the end of the day) escapist .
There is no particular wrongdoing in revising fiction. It isn't real. You can't infringe on another's copywrite without permission, but that is different. In the 1920s through the 1940s when Street and Smith produced The Shadow they made the character a brilliant detective for their magazine version, and a paranormal adventurer for their radio version at the same time. No harm was done.
This is make believe.
They did not tie in the continuity of tv, radio, cartoons, comics, or strips. That's fine. Separate continuities.
They are saying that films are all a series. This is like saying the second and third planet of the apes movies didn't count and neither did empire strikes back.
They are saying it IS the same franchise.
It jumped the shark and they are trying to recover.
I already posted that they are all made up. They ask me to suspend belief. Then they tell me "ignore those movies we made". I won't be returning.
The Bond series moved on. No need to pretend that View To A Kill wasn't made.
"Batman Returns" rewrote Dick Grayson's history.
Same community (movies). In fact I Love Lucy posits 2 different anniversary dates and I Dream Of Jeannie has 2 different birthdates.
I think we got spoiled by Star Trek which had full time "historians" who ensured everything was consistent.
Fagneto? Perhaps you accidentally stumbled onto some porno version called the Sex Men on an accidentally unscrambled channel. The X-Men mutants are meant to parallel blacks and the civil rights movement, not gays.
Maybe it would kill them overseas. Movies often gross more overseas than in the US. The Superman of the 1970's with him flying triumphantly with an American flag wouldn't play today not because its too un-PC but because they want foreign audiences to relate.
You can't have Superman going and catching Bin Laden. If he were real, he could go in and just find Bin Laden with his x-ray vision and tie all the terorists up with some pipe. It just wouldnt be interesting and an insult to the real heroes fighting terror.
I don't typically relate to movies made in East Timor (or elsewhere) about people from East Timor or their super heroes- so I don't see many of those types of movies. It would stand to reason then that someone in another country watches a movie set in the United States about an American comic book super hero known for his mantra of fighting for truth, justice, and the American way because they in some way relate to that type of movie. Foriegn audiences go to see Superman because they dig Superman. On the inital release date, audiences generally have no idea that the phrase "American way" is excluded from the character's lexicon. That is the icing on the cake that keeps audiences and the people they tell coming back for more. Loosely translated from East Timorese- "Hey have you seen the new Superman? Go see it, he's no longer for the American way... he's for 'all that stuff' now!"
Regarding your comment noted above, such a scene would not fly today because it IS too un-PC AND because the film makers want the foreign audiences to relate to the notion that Superman is not just an American, he's for all that stuff. The film makers do not want to alienate their foriegn audiences and risk losing foriegn money, so they go the PC route (because apparently American values are not something the world can relate to) and pander to these audiences by filtering or watering down the American values instilled in the main character.
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