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The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread
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my 6 year old is a fan, though he insists on pronouncing it "Puh-Pie". Amazon has all the classic cartoons.
Well, there you go, lol. I'm feeling every bit of my age and mid-life crisis so I've been feeling rather bitter of late so maybe I'm too cynical. I do feel like some of these properties are too long in the tooth to be returning, I mean Body Heat, really?
In the year that the original Body Heat came out (1981) there was also a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, another noir with a femme fatale, originally made in 1946. I don’t know that age matters with this kind of thriller, if the themes click with the audience. We’re due a renaissance of that sort of film.
Things tend to go in cycles of about every 20-25 years.
There were the Universal horror movies of the thirties and forties followed by Hammer starting in the late fifties through early seventies.
King Kong was in the thirties, with Godzilla in the fifties and another King Kong in 1976
We also had Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, both in the fifties, which received remakes in the late 70s, early 80.
Some of this due in part to the kids growing up watching these movies were now adults with access to cameras who want to recapture the movie going experience of their youth.
There were the Universal horror movies of the thirties and forties followed by Hammer starting in the late fifties through early seventies.
King Kong was in the thirties, with Godzilla in the fifties and another King Kong in 1976
We also had Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, both in the fifties, which received remakes in the late 70s, early 80.
Some of this due in part to the kids growing up watching these movies were now adults with access to cameras who want to recapture the movie going experience of their youth.
I was rewatching 1991's CAPE FEAR with my neighbor on Tuesday. That, plus THE DEPARTED, still confirms for me that nobody remakes remakes better than Martin Scorsese. I'd enjoy seeing his take of DAMIEN:OMEN II.
It's the age plus the title, remaking Body Heat in 2024+ feels like a headscratcher. Wasn't Postman a bit of a TV classic? I don't think of Body Heat like that but I haven't seen it since I was too young to be watching it
. Maybe I should watch Body Heat and see if maybe there's something there I don't remember that's worth having another go.
It’s been years since I saw it but Kasdan has always been an interesting filmmaker, Hurt was always very watchable in the 80s, Turner set the screen on fire back then and you had a great early appearance from a young Mickey Rourke. Whether a remake captures all of those ingredients is debatable, of course, but the source material is strong enough, IMHO.It's the age plus the title, remaking Body Heat in 2024+ feels like a headscratcher. Wasn't Postman a bit of a TV classic? I don't think of Body Heat like that but I haven't seen it since I was too young to be watching it
I think part of the problem is that there aren’t really tv classics anymore. When I was a teenager, I’d have seen a lot of classic films, from the 30s - 80s by dint of them being repeated on a tv. But my teenage daughters wouldn’t dream of sitting down to watch eg The Godfather or a classic western, when they have all of the modern stuff on streaming to watch instead.
He has a spinach app?
A spinach-based energy drink. Get Red Bull or Monster Energy or whoever they strike a deal with do a spinach flavor.
I'm 54 this year and to be honest I don't think I was ever a huge Popeye fan when I was a kid. He was around, I watched cartoons and probably read some comics but in terms of my favourite things as a youngling Popeye probably wouldn't have scratched the top 20
Yeah I mean at its core is just a noir thriller, only the sex is really period specific. I think the one thing that concerns me is that a lot of films don't seem to be very sexy these days (maybe I'm watching the wrong films
) At times the viewing public seems downright prudish in fact. That was the one weird thing about Top Gun: Maverick, the chemistry between Cruise and McGillis was off the charts in top Gun. By contrast his relationship with Jennifer Connolley's character felt practically platonic and about as 'safe' as you could imagine it.
There's a pretty big anti-sex film and TV movement right now. Part of the whole "plot is the only thing that matters" perspective on the part of some, particularly younger, millenials and Gen Z, an overswing against sexual exploitation in the industry for some others, and the religious right. If you google a bit you'll find no shortage of discussion around it.
Yeah, that's where I and most everyone I know stand but obviously he has his fans.
I don't know if it that was specifically the problem but I don't remember a more tacked on romantic subplot. It definitely felt perfunctory and no one involved particularly seem to care about it.Yeah I mean at its core is just a noir thriller, only the sex is really period specific. I think the one thing that concerns me is that a lot of films don't seem to be very sexy these days (maybe I'm watching the wrong films
I just watched the remake of Road House on Prime
and now that you mention it the movie was utterly sexless onscreen though the relationship works much better than in Maverick.
Adam Sandler is apparently working on a sequel to Happy Gilmore https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/3/22/happy-gilmore-2-in-the-works
speaking of Remakes being bad or good, I was watching Tony Hack the Movies' review of Dune Chapter 2 and the Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 Remake. HIs reviews were good and funny especially during the last half hour or so of his review of Dune Part 2.
Joe of Moviedumpster just casually noticed Tony had his hand on the Sandworm popcorn bucket and assumed Tony was "fingering" the popcorn bucket and told him to stop doing that which was pretty hilarious. So then both Joe and that Crystal were picking on Tony for that. Really though, Tony wasn't fingering the top of the Sandworm popcorn bucket since he had his hand on the top lid and that was it
Joe of Moviedumpster just casually noticed Tony had his hand on the Sandworm popcorn bucket and assumed Tony was "fingering" the popcorn bucket and told him to stop doing that which was pretty hilarious. So then both Joe and that Crystal were picking on Tony for that. Really though, Tony wasn't fingering the top of the Sandworm popcorn bucket since he had his hand on the top lid and that was it
Paul Dooley, who played Wimpy in Popeye, just turned 96.
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