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  • #76
    Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

    Originally posted by SonofSouthie View Post
    Tom Cruise "The Mummy" remake, re-imagining or whatever you want to call it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItqDnCk-zEE
    Not sure I'd consider it a remake. Reboot maybe I guess.

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    • #77
      Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

      Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
      Not sure I'd consider it a remake. Reboot maybe I guess.
      Is there a difference? I don't mean that snarkily -- it seems to me that a reboot is just what Hollywood called a remake 30 years ago. I suppose a reboot suggests an emphasis on establishing a new franchise with sequels, but take the Mummy as a classic example -- everybody who made and remade it back in the old days was doing so in order to churn out sequels.

      I've yet to see a truly satisfying mummy, in the way that say the original Dracula and Nosferatu are a satisfying vampire. The original http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22...932_shortfilms is the closest but that's because of the cinematography and Zita Johann, not the mummy himself (sorry Boris).
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      • #78
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        This is great. If you know Airplane! verbatim (raises hand shame facedly)...
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        • #79
          Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          Is there a difference? I don't mean that snarkily -- it seems to me that a reboot is just what Hollywood called a remake 30 years ago. I suppose a reboot suggests an emphasis on establishing a new franchise with sequels, but take the Mummy as a classic example -- everybody who made and remade it back in the old days was doing so in order to churn out sequels.

          I've yet to see a truly satisfying mummy, in the way that say the original Dracula and Nosferatu are a satisfying vampire. The original http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22...932_shortfilms is the closest but that's because of the cinematography and Zita Johann, not the mummy himself (sorry Boris).
          For me a remake suggests it's mostly the same film/story with different actors/writers/directors. The last franchise with big forehead guy didn't conjure up the Boris Karloff days for me and I doubt Tom Cruise would sign on to tag along.

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          • #80
            Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

            Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
            Not sure I'd consider it a remake. Reboot maybe I guess.
            I'd call this a reboot since Universal Studios is hoping to use this movie to start their "Monster Universe". They want to link the Mummy to other classic movie monsters like Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, and others.

            I'm skeptical of this working out, but hey, Disney/Marvel are printing their own money so let's try out best to copy them!
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            • #81
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              How did that work out for the Van Helsing movie? Actually, that might have been a much better movie if they'd had a better script, better effects, a better director, and a supporting cast that wasn't dead set on giving performances and accents due for a b-movie production.
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              • #82
                Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                How did that work out for the Van Helsing movie? Actually, that might have been a much better movie if they'd had a better script, better effects, a better director, and a supporting cast that wasn't dead set on giving performances and accents due for a b-movie production.
                That was a spectacularly bad movie. So bad it seemed like they were trying. Departed bad.

                Brendan whatshisface was OK in The Mummy, and that movie gave us Beni.
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                • #83
                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  This is great. If you know Airplane! verbatim (raises hand shame facedly)...
                  Now I need to watch Zero Hour.

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                  • #84
                    Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    This is great. If you know Airplane! verbatim (raises hand shame facedly)...
                    Wow. And there's no shame in knowing Airplane! start-to-finish.

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                    • #85
                      Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                      I want to see Zero Hour! But it's not on Netflix at all.

                      I knew of the similarities beforehand thanks to youtube/etc.
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                      • #86
                        Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        This is great. If you know Airplane! verbatim (raises hand shame facedly)...
                        Never seen it.
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                        • #87
                          Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          Never seen it.
                          This is why you fail. Airplane! is great. Total classic.
                          Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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                          • #88
                            Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            Never seen it.
                            While this is a bit shocking given that we are (I think) about the same age, I'm not going to excoriate you for it. Go buy it (renting is a waste of time) - the DVD is probably $15-20 online, but it's worth it. You will want it in your library.

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                            • #89
                              Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                              Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                              While this is a bit shocking given that we are (I think) about the same age, I'm not going to excoriate you for it. Go buy it (renting is a waste of time) - the DVD is probably $15-20 online, but it's worth it. You will want it in your library.
                              $5.
                              https://www.amazon.com/Airplane-Vari...words=airplane
                              Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                              Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                              • #90
                                Re: MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

                                Well, there you go. Thanks, bruh.

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