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Post by bladestarr on Mar 10, 2004 8:56:11 GMT -5
Naw, not really, I just made this thread because I felt left out that I wasn't in on all the Hobbit goodness. As of this post, the next 7 threads under mine have Hobbit in the title! (and I'm working on becoming a Ghostbuster) ;D
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Post by bladestarr on Mar 10, 2004 8:58:52 GMT -5
Also, to make another first for me, I'd like to derail this thread before anyone has the chance to respond (MAN I'm evil ;D). Check out this link below for details on a remake... oh I'm sorry, a re- envisioning of Dawn of the Dead. I'm not sure if you guys knew about this and covered it earlier.  www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net/ |
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Post by Al on Mar 10, 2004 16:15:58 GMT -5
I'm always in favor of more Zombie movies gracing my prescence, but Dawn of the Dead is the grand daddy as far as I'm concerned, and the filmmakers are tromping on some pretty holy ground. Generally speaking, remakes are pretty hit and miss: When they're good (Ocean's Eleven, A Fistful of Dollars), the movie can remain true to both the orginal director's vision of the film and create it's own feel and flavor that will justify it's creation; when they're bad (Psycho '98, The Truth About Charlie), they either fall apart under the shadow of the original or run so far away from the idea of the material that use of the same name should be punishable by law. There's also the third catagory, the Ugly (natch), like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Rollerball whose existence I will refuse to acknowledge in more than twenty-seven words.
While I probably didn't need to explain all this to folks as intelligent as yourselves, I feel that the good-bad-ugly is far too skewed to risk remaking such a classic. But, on the upside, it did force them release a Dawn of the Dead special edition this week, and, hey, maybe the new one will be good. I mean it's got... uh... Sarah Polly... no... uh, Mekhi... no... AHA! Ving Rhames is in it. And he's good in everything! Right? Right. OK. whew.
Al
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Post by bladestarr on Mar 10, 2004 18:31:37 GMT -5
Nothin better than someone choppin up zombies right outside your local Sears. ;D I just hope that they keep the tone relatively light and don't go for a Day of the Dead kind of thing. I'm thinking this could be the next Army of Darkness if they do it right. But then again, I was always an optimist. |
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