They're remaking ALIEN.

I have to admit, I am a big fan of Robert Rodriguez. He's remaking Predator. Carla Gugino anyone?

Alien was a great movie, they might not eff it up. Aliens, however, is my favorite, they better not touch that one. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, who played Vasquez? You got to have them.
 
Predator is one of my all time favorite movies with Alien and Aliens defo in my top 10 as well.
Im not exactly over the moon about the remakes and will do my best to just totally ignore them in protest.
 
It'll be all CGI and all crap. Admittedly, the computers in "Alien" are a bit...uh...dated, but who cares? It's about the atmosphere of the film, and they're just not going to replicate (and certainly not surpass) the original.

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I'm hoping Bladerunner, Bridge on the River Kwai, Gone with the Wind, and (of course) Casablanca and perhaps even The African Queen are next......and I can see Sean Penn taking Oscars for Best Actor in all of these.

Is there not a single ORIGINAL thought left in the collective wasteland of a mind in Hollywood?????

And the Oscar for the most Uninspired Overindulgent Screenplay goes to............ :mad: :barf: :thumbdn:


This is the most disgusting news I've heard all week......I'm gonna go ride my Paragon in the desert where "No one can hear you scream". (No memorable lines?????:confused:)




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Still some confusion. News for Alien at imdb.com says it's a prequel.

'Alien' Prequel Confirmed by Tony Scott

WTF is a Carl Rinsch??? He's written a couple of short films and produced another - none of which are available through normal sources. Sounds like a prequel is premature.....will we see this from the dead alien in the U-shaped craft's perspective??? Break out the subtitles. I don't even speak any Klingon.

Rumor is The Thing is getting the prequel treatment also.




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I'm with the majority here. I hate seeing remakes. I refused to see "Flight of the Phoenix". The original is a classic and one of my favorites.

Waiting for Shia Labuff (whatever) in the remake of "Spartacus" and Johnny Knoxville as "Dirty Harry". :(:jerkit:
 
java said:

Is there not a single ORIGINAL thought left in the collective wasteland of a mind in Hollywood?????


This is the most disgusting news I've heard all week......I'm gonna go ride my Paragon in the desert where "No one can hear you scream". (No memorable lines?????:confused:)




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you are exactly right. transformers, go bots, gi joe, sandy mangina, comic books as of late it seems that over the last decade there has been no creativity within Hollywood( Preacher....:thumbup:). I myself am waiting for a live action movie of The Tick starring Micheal Clarke Duncan (sp) as the lead role and Michael J. Fox as his sidekick. EPIC.



On a serious note (as if that would happen) a remake of the first 15min. of Full Metal Jacket w/ Vincent D'noferiota(sp) starring as Pyle's dimwitted cousin who wanted to follow in his late cousins footsteps:thumbup:
 
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Rumor is The Thing is getting the prequel treatment also.
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hur hur hur...

and which version of THE THING will the cerebral black holes in unholywood be prequeling, the original or John Carpenter's? cuz i see Carpenter's THE THING as a sequel to the original more than a remake.
 
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hur hur hur...

and which version of THE THING will the cerebral black holes in unholywood be prequeling, the original or John Carpenter's? cuz i see Carpenter's THE THING as a sequel to the original more than a remake.
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Interesting comment.....few remember James Arness' stirring performance as the original Thing. Tough to say. But you're correct, Carpenter's remake was more true to the Campbell short story, Who Goes There?, on which both were based, than the 1951 version with its post-Hiroshima mutated plant scare. Day of the Trifids had better plant villains. As did the next 4 or 5 Invasion of the Body Snatcher movies.




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What amazes me is the short time now between the release of the original film and the remake. Soon they will be able to remake the film with the original actors.....:foot::D
 
Some remakes are good. Star Trek and 3:10 to Yuma are both excellent movies.
Some, if not the majority, are mediocre. The Italian Job, The Thomas-Crown Affair, etc.
What I'm waiting for are the Hobbit and Halo movies... whenever they're coming out. Should both be epic.
 
Sometimes a remake is good.

The new Battlestar Galactica made the original from the late 70's seem like a parody.

The new Batman movies are IMO perfect.

But some movies they need to leave alone.

Like the remake of Psycho. Nobody but nobody can beat the original. Or Alien and Aliens; they're classics.

Predator? That movie was so doggoned good that two cast members went on to become governors!
 
I haven't seen the original Thing, but the John Carpenter VERSION is one of my favorite movies. The Seven Samurai was the Magnificent Seven, For a Few Dollars More(or was that Fistful of Dollars) was Yojimbo, Departed was Infernal Affairs. I too would like to see some original ideas, but this isn't the first time Hollywood messed with beloved classics.

Transformers was great eye candy, and a great interpretation of a pretty lame cartoon when you go back and look at it. GI Joe doesn't look like it will be watchable at all, except for the woman who plays the Baroness. Terminator, while not a remake of the original movies, was a nice visit back to the franchise.
 
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