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Now you get to pay $13 a ticket, $7 for a popcorn and $6 for a drink to see some hack trilogy remake of Terminator.

A new Terminator movie will hit theaters on June 26, 2015, Paramount announced Thursday, June 27.
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Not impressed.

It's not clear what role, if any, Schwarzenegger would have in the reboot. He starred in the first three films and appeared briefly in Salvation, but he has not signed on to the untitled new film.
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Doubtful if Arnie attaching his name to it would help the remake at all considering Bruce Campbell and Sam Rami gave their blessings to the Evil Dead remake, which is among the worst piles of steaming dung I ever had the displeasure of watching.

Count down to Hollywood complaining ticket sales are down in 3...2...1...
 
a friend (online only) of mine who is a HUGE fan of the original films has BAAAD feeling about this

 
well... as i see it if the fans don't take him back into the hollywood fold and make him uber wealthy... the rest of us will get to deal with him when he runs for president... and that will be just icky...
 
robert l. bentham said:
well... as i see it if the fans don't take him back into the hollywood fold and make him uber wealthy... the rest of us will get to deal with him when he runs for president... and that will be just icky...
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Arnie isn't black and not a democrat, so the constitution says he cannot run for president.
 
Give it a couple years and there will be a Gone With The Wind remake with Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Adam Sandler etc and it will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
 
Bill Shakespear's entertainment has been remade hundreds of times a year for about the last 500 years. So unbunch your panties peoples. :p
 
faethor said:
Bill Shakespear's entertainment has been remade hundreds of times a year for about the last 500 years. So unbunch your panties peoples. :p
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But would you reboot the Mona Lisa? Shakespeare's plays are instructions for a performance, movies are records of performance (in many disciplines). I suppose if you tried to rewrite King Lear and then tried to tell people it still was King Lear, you might run into some resistance. On the other hand, if you riffed off of Romeo and Juliette and completely "re-imagined" it but called it "West Side Story" that would be OK.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
But would you reboot the Mona Lisa? Shakespeare's plays are instructions for a performance, movies are records of performance (in many disciplines). I suppose if you tried to rewrite King Lear and then tried to tell people it still was King Lear, you might run into some resistance. On the other hand, if you riffed off of Romeo and Juliette and completely "re-imagined" it but called it "West Side Story" that would be OK.
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I think Shakespeare definately needs a reboot, needs more guns and explosions.
 
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lol yeah ... right... its all been done before... again and again and again and...
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
But would you reboot the Mona Lisa? Shakespeare's plays are instructions for a performance, movies are records of performance (in many disciplines). I suppose if you tried to rewrite King Lear and then tried to tell people it still was King Lear, you might run into some resistance. On the other hand, if you riffed off of Romeo and Juliette and completely "re-imagined" it but called it "West Side Story" that would be OK.
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You said it here movies are records of a performance. We can have more recordings and more performances. Of course, it's never as good as the original Klingon, right?

And remakes can be superior to the original - 1982 Thing vs 1951? 2006 The Hills have Eyes vs the 1977? 1983 The Fly vs 1957? Flash Gordon seems to get better with each iteration. And seriously, who'd pick the 1932 version of Scarface? UGH!

Let the Right One In vs Let Me In? I find these to be different films and each worth viewing in their own way.

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And, I'm one looking forward to the Carrie remake. I love Chloe Grace Moretz's and Julianne Moore's acting. I think this one has potential to being superior to the original.

Oh as for King Lear - A Thousand Acres is an interesting remake. Not great but good.
 
New movies better than their 80s or 90s originals? Was proposed by Red in a thread about songs.

Some remakes don't make sense because the political and societal norms are different today. So certain things won't work. Red Dawn, is one example that just loses out because of the changes to/end of the Cold War.

Better than the original 80s?
* Total Recall, from the standpoint it was closer to the original material.
* Fright Night, it's a more serious movie. Though I can see why some might be sad the cheese of the original is gone.
* 21 Jump Street was a reimaging as a comedy. That makes them harder to compare but the new one is good.
* Karate Kid. Actually did a good job taking a good original and making it slightly better.
* Piranha 3D. Did all the gore and comedy of the originals hand downs better.

I have hopes the new Carrie will best the original. We'll see come Oct.

There are plenty of 80s movies that were flawed enough they could be much better with a remake. Last Starfighter comes to mind. I remembered it was 'better' than it really is. Trancers was good but could be great with a 'A' level treatment. And with the recent bank issues wouldn't 'Trading Places' might be a good option for a remake as well.
 
Speelgoedmannetje said:
I think Shakespeare definately needs a reboot, needs more guns and explosions.
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Reboot? No, all it needs is the boot.

I love English, both as a language and subject, but the way Shakespeare is taught over here was enough to put me off reading for years.

I still treat Shakespeare like it is toxic waste and won't have it in this house.

Reboot of Terminator? Give the reboots a {bleep} rest, or if you insist at least keep it as a generational thing - grab stuff from the 60s and 70s. But choose carefully and hire decent writers, actors and fund it properly..

As an example of a badly done reboot I need look no further than the recent and (thankfully) short lived Bionic Woman reboot. I never thought I'd live to watch a spy series that could top the spectacularly abysmal "La Femme Nikita".

I was wrong.

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I just rewatched the first season of American Horror Story: Murder House. The Tate/Violet subplot was a clearly a spin on the Romeo and Juliet story.
 
Meh, reboots are ok I guess. But not always. This is a money grab. They are "rebooting" something that was hugely popular and hugely successful. In other words, they are really just rebooting their revenue stream more than anything. The terminator movies were both quite novel conceptually but also well made from the production point of view. James Cameron is a top notch director who clearly had a vision and he lived up to it pretty well - so why revisit it? If I were rebooting something like the Terminator I'd place an enormous amount of pressure on myself to make it better than the original and the bar is pretty high. The flip side is that the studio may also want to reproduce exactly what Cameron did (commercially) and be less open minded about any radical changes. Being opposed to risk is less likely to produce something truly mind blowing and more likely to produce more of the same old.

And also, I think many modern movies are worse - and not just the remakes or reboots. The current tendency to over CGI everything kills movies. It's the main reason Transformers sucks even though Megan Fox was in not one but two of them. Honestly, I had no idea who was who and what the heck was going on most of the time in Transformers, but I know Megan Fox and I can't get tired of her on the big screen! Anyway, it's pretty much a guarantee that a Terminator movie will just be a CGI orgy because, well, how else can you beat the casting and directing of the original movie?

I think Reboots are best for movies with a good premise but flawed for a number of technical reasons. That or forgotten movies. If I were to reboot a movie I'd look for something that was not a huge commercial success.
 
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