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The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

I was thinking of "leading man" in the "matinee idol" sense. He's more of a character actor who sometimes plays the main character. In my mind, and to compare him to 70s actors, he's a successor to quirky guys like Nicholson and DeNiro but Hollywood keeps trying to cast him in "Redford" and "Beatty" roles where he doesn't work so well.
I think there are a number of current actors who fall into that mould; leading man looks but more interesting in character roles. Colin Farrell, Tom Hardy, Jude Law, for example. Heath Ledger may also have become one. The jury is out on Glen Powell.

Of those, though, I’d say that JG is probably the most successful in leading man roles and in films like The Guilty he showed that he can command the screen almost single handedly.

Not even he could save Road House, though…
 
Yeah, to me Jeremy Irons perfectly fits that description. He's a great actor, but works best as a character actor rather than leading man.
Hmm, he’s not really in the mould I was thinking of, as, even leaving aside the age difference, he’s not a heart-throb like most of the guys I named there (though some women find him sexy) and most of his leading men roles are quite dark. I can’t really think offhand of him in a Redford/Beatty role of the sort that @the G-man originally mentioned in connection with Jake Gyllenhaal. YMVWD.

In other remaking news, Miles Teller must’ve gotten a taste for naval uniforms when appearing in Top Gun: Maverick, as he’s to star in a remake of An Officer and a Gentleman. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...-a-gentleman-remake-paramount-1236038173/amp/
 
he’s not a heart-throb like most of the guys I named there


Well, I'm sure he was at some point lol. Point is, he's more of a character-actor rather than a leading-man type of actor, and he does take some dark roles. I just started watching the version of The Borgias that he's in. But even as he's playing the lead role, he to me doesn't exude it.
 
Tough ask! None of the ones I can think of rank as top-tier TOS, at least not for me, but I think "The Tholian Web" is probably the best of the bunch. I like the tension Kirk's situation creates between Spock and McCoy.

Trek being notoriously better at setting up a cliffhanger than at wrapping one up -- how about a really good cliffhanger resolution?

Terry Matalas is remaking Enemy Mine. See, this is what you are supposed to do, you remake bad movies and try to turn them into good movies.

Gene Siskel loved ENEMY MINE.
Roger Ebert hated it.
He was too busy loving SPEED 2.
The remakers of ENEMY are arguably redoing it out of ''respect.''
It doesn't necessarily need a remake.
But what made the original bad for you?
 
It’s been years since I saw Enemy Mine but I do recall enjoying it. I don’t know if it’s a classic but it’s certainly not bad. It’s one that could probably be improved on, though.

Of course, the original itself is more or less a remake of Hell in the Pacific, just transposing its World War II American-Japanese odd couple to outer space.
 
I liked Enemy Mine. Not great but decent enough. Didn't like when Enterprise did a lame version of it for a episode. But what can I say. I got faith of the heart this new movie will be better than that and maybe even good.
 
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