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duh 
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 Posted - 05/05/2007 : 17:47:53
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Airbolt's topic 'Zeitgeist movies - remake or leave' made me think of this. Probably been done before, but anyhoo...
I'd like to see a really beautiful, more factually faithful remake of The Miracle of the White Stallions, which was based on the real life event of how the US Army assisted in the rescue of the Spanish Riding School's Lippizanner broodmares during WW2.
In the original film, they follow the myth rather than the facts and include Patton as a pivotal player. I think the true story was dramatic enough to stand on its own.
The film also sticks in a few pointless scenes of Podhajsky's wife, when she is invisible in the books he has written except for a single line mention or two. |
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Joe Blevins 
"Don't I look handsome?"
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Posted - 05/06/2007 : 20:53:29
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I think I've mentioned this in other threads, but there are some remakes I wouldn't mind seeing:
The Big Sleep: I'd like a remake which sticks closely to Raymond Chandler's original novel, ditching the romantic subplot that was tacked onto the Howard Hawks version and including some of the seedy plot elements that couldn't be shown in a 1940s film.
Dark Star: As long as they're remaking all of John Carpenter's old movies, they might as well do Dark Star again. The plot (which focuses on a group of homesick, stir-crazy astronauts who are sent out on a misison to destroy distant planets but who have no chance of ever returning to Earth) might be newly relevant. My dream cast includes Jeff Bridges as Doolittle, John Goodman as Boiler, Steve Buscemi as Pinback, and John Tuturro as Trilby, with Peter Stormare as the voice of the Bomb and Julianne Moore as the voice of the ship. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 06:03:49
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Remember all those disaster movies from the 70s? I'm thinking that although Poseidon wasn't all that great, we still have the technology to do far better effects today than we did back then. They should remake the bad ones like Earthquake, or go for other types of disaster movies.
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 14:51:27
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
Remember all those disaster movies from the 70s? I'm thinking that although Poseidon wasn't all that great, we still have the technology to do far better effects today than we did back then. They should remake the bad ones like Earthquake, or go for other types of disaster movies.
How about remaking the bad ones as comedies?
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oh duh...(hence my username)...that's what 'Airplane' was. |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 23:15:49
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| Remake FREDDY GOT FINGERED. Please: anything but the original! |
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BiggerBoat 
"Pass me the harpoon"
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 23:57:03
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 00:00:46
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
Spiderman 3...
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 00:40:32
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
Spiderman 3...
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MM0rkeleb 
"Better than HBO."
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 02:50:06
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Here are some remakes I'd like to make someday:
Fellini's Roma: I found a lot of things to like in it, but it needed a stonger narrative backbone to work (I'm a big story guy). Let's focus on a man who goes to Rome to film a documentary but finds it no longer fits his old memories of it. Some would say I'm literalizing what Fellini already had, but there it is.
Manos: the Hands of Fate: Because it couldn't possibly be worse than the original, right?  But seriously, I think there's potential for a nice little psycho-thriller here, if you ditch the ersatz-satanic master and focus on Torgo (with normal-sized knees) mumbling about how he serves the master who may not even exist.
The Gauntlet: I'd make it more of a low-key action-comedy (the original had hints of that, I'd like to expand them). Put the cop on tranq's, have him mix unfailing politeness with a penchant for non sequitors, and keep the chip on his shoulder.
The Reaping: A little soon to be talking about a remake, but this one should benefit from taking its premise more seriously. Instead of having it be about a nonbeliever's ludicrous return to faith via murder, why not have the main character be an investigator from the Catholic church (they do have such things I believe). You'd be able to work in a little Protestant-Catholic friction there to go with your Old Testament-New Testament stuff. And evaucate most of the town right away - go for a more contemplative, inward piece, maybe a little like Bergman or Tarkovsky.
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Joe Blevins
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Posted - 05/12/2007 : 01:58:39
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Originally posted by M0rkeleb
Here are some remakes I'd like to make someday:
Manos: the Hands of Fate: Because it couldn't possibly be worse than the original, right? But seriously, I think there's potential for a nice little psycho-thriller here, if you ditch the ersatz-satanic master and focus on Torgo (with normal-sized knees) mumbling about how he serves the master who may not even exist.
This is a popular topic among MST3K fans: which of these movies could actually be salvaged by a remake? Manos comes up fairly often here, as people point out that the set-up -- a vacationing family gets lost and winds up at a sinister lodge where they meet the goat-like manservent Torgo -- is intriguing and geniunely creepy. John Reynolds' performance as Torgo is easily the highlight of the picture. It's everything else that's rotten, and by "everything else," I mean every other performance (especially the clueless dad and the long-winded, highly annoying Master), the entire script, the cinematography, the editing, and the pace (those seemingly endless driving scenes). As you point out, the mysterious cult that Torgo constantly mentions is a lot more menacing before we actually MEET The Master or his brides. They turn out to be some jerk in a bathrobe and some squabbling women in white nightgowns. |
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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 05/17/2007 : 18:54:21
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Originally posted by duh
Airbolt's topic 'Zeitgeist movies - remake or leave' made me think of this. Probably been done before, but anyhoo...
I'd like to see a really beautiful, more factually faithful remake of The Miracle of the White Stallions, which was based on the real life event of how the US Army assisted in the rescue of the Spanish Riding School's Lippizanner broodmares during WW2.
In the original film, they follow the myth rather than the facts and include Patton as a pivotal player. I think the true story was dramatic enough to stand on its own.
The film also sticks in a few pointless scenes of Podhajsky's wife, when she is invisible in the books he has written except for a single line mention or two.
Sounds very similar to that true-life searing Vietnam war drama "Operation Dumbo Drop"  |
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