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lordnacho:
Good point. I never saw the original.
Really bad remakes: Conan and Clash of the Titans.
wp34:
--- Quote from: Bootay on March 29, 2012, 12:18:02 pm ---That Three Stooges remake looks dumb as hell. Plus it has the cast of Jersey Shore in it so it is an instant fail.
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My mom is a huge Three Stooges fan. She grew up on them and still watches them. What is odd is that she cannot wait for the remake to come out. I'll probably end up taking her to see it. Be interesting to see how she feels after watching it.
Bootay:
lordnacho1: yes I was talking about the 1982 version not the 2011 one. The 1982 one is a remake of The Thing From Another World as already mentioned. I like all three. The 2011 one I thought was more watchable than half the remakes out there today. Conan and Clash of the Titans were both very bland remakes. The originals are classic. I wanted to like Conan....but I just couldn't.
wp34: I am also a huge Three Stooges fan, but the remake looks dumb. They are making it a parody of itself by having them in modern times and having everyone make fun of them including the Jersey Shore cast. Plus all of the jokes are recycled from the originals so I say...why not just watch the originals?!
Mikezilla:
Damn Bootay, I had no idea it was that bad, I would like to see some pictures. Thats crazy.
Im not as old as you think Green Giant, I saw Robocop 3 in theatres, and I was only 11 ;D Of course back then I thought it was awesome, now its hard to watch. There are so many things you can spot that are wrong with the movie. :lol
I cant get into the stooges. They are just too old. I like a few of the gags from the old ones, when they show a clip of them or something, but I would never go pay to see a movie, set in modern times about the stooges. ESPECIALLY if Jersey Shore retards were in it. My how far the Farrely Brothers have fallen.
Lordnacho: Yeah man, I wanted to like Conan so bad. That was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and I actually hoped because Marcus Nispel is a decent director. But man, that thing blew. Hard. The best part was the begining when the molten steel fell on Ron Pearlman, everything else sucked.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 28, 2012, 12:34:26 pm ---Get used to it, all the money is in PG-13 and most the money is international. Action movies are really easy to translate and no swearing means no religious sensibilities are being offended. Notice the complete lack of casual nudity in movies lately? C'mon, every 80s cop movie had a pointless strip club scene. It's gotten so bad that actresses are wearing long sleeves in most block busters.
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Swearing poses no problems internationally. It's not like the word ---fudgesicle--- or ass translate literally. They have to be interpreted, and they can easily be interpreted with something as offensive as ---fudgesicle---, damn or darn according to the demands of whatever market the movie is being sold in. As for nudity, how many markets are more puritanical than ours? Latin American media is hypersexual. Western Europe regularly shows nudity on broadcast television.
Moreover, I'm not even sure such a taming of Hollywood is taking place domestically. Look at the direction TV is moving, Sopranos, Deadwood, Dexter, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, True Blood, Weeds, The Wire. There's no shortage of bad language and sex and nudity to go along with the escalating levels of violence and gore on display in most of these shows.
Granted, you don't see nearly as many of the Porky's and National Lampoons and Bachelor Parties, but that strikes me as nothing more than normal changes in taste rather than a shift toward puritanism. You don't see butt rock either, but it's not because we think it's evil. We just like other stuff for the moment. And, unfortunately, butt rock will probably make a comeback before too long. Who knows . . . maybe crappy 80s movies will make a comeback too.
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