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Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:18 pm

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50332

I just absolutely, can not imagine this being watchable.

Nuke · Post by **Nuke** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:23 pm

Acid King wrote:http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50332

I just absolutely, can not imagine this being watchable.

Next up, Michael Bay's Ichi The Killer starring Nicolas Cage.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:39 pm

It will be hard making this as good as the original Old Boy.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:54 pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:It will be hard making this as good as the original Old Boy.

Uhhh- maybe if it was David Fincher or something. This is Spielberg. That goes beyond hard into up the down escalator in cement shoes.

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:08 pm

Or Spielberg is the fucking devil.

What a horrid idea.

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:07 pm

Leave other movies alone (especially good ones). This is terrible news.

Scary thought... Lady Vengeance with Queen Latifah.

May be scarier to me since it's my favorite movie of the lot (by a stretch).

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:56 pm

I agree with the subject of this thread.

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 4:00 pm

That, too.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:18 pm

This is one for Ceph's DVD collection.

(Only kidding mate, don't beast me now!

)

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 8:08 pm

I'm suprised nobody mentioned the Akira remake (produced by Leonardo DeCaprio)...

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:13 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:I'm suprised nobody mentioned the Akira remake (produced by Leonardo DeCaprio)...

Or the forthcoming Castlevania film directed by AVP's Paul Anderson (rumour.)

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:18 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:I'm suprised nobody mentioned the Akira remake (produced by Leonardo DeCaprio)...

what?

live action?

and ya....no god.....suck it

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:34 pm

"KANEDA!!!!"
"TRAVIS!!!!!!!!!"

American names FTW.

But what about...

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:20 am

WTF is that?

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:41 am

Mortificator wrote:"KANEDA!!!!"
"TRAVIS!!!!!!!!!"

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:45 am

It might be worth watching just to see Will Smith cut out his own tongue

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:30 pm

Acid King wrote:http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=50332

I just absolutely, can not imagine this being watchable.

Lol, my mate phoned me up and told me about this a few days back, and I actually didn't believe him

I wonder if it'll be better than the Indian remake?

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:02 pm

Mortificator wrote:"KANEDA!!!!"
"TRAVIS!!!!!!!!!"

American names FTW.

But what about...

US live action Dragon Ball.

Lol..I want these things to be good- but they usually suck sooooo sooo much. See Battle Royale get US-i fied. I know there's more- but its late.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:42 pm

my friend sent me a link saying that the remake isn't based on the movie, but the manga that it spawned from. he also said that the manga isn't as over the top and is actually quite a bit different in terms of plot and pacing. this will still probably suck, but who knows.

oh, and apparently leonardo dicaprio wants to do a ninja scroll live action remake as well. but he doesn't want to star in that at least. in akira he is going to play either kaneda or tetsuo, i forget which.

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:47 pm

brokenhalo wrote:my friend sent me a link saying that the remake isn't based on the movie.....

No doubt in this version he sets out to track down his captore using the advanced performance and comfort of Nike trainers and the refreshing taste of CocaCola.

Post by **system11** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:06 pm

Subject should be 'There is no reason for this'.

God bless Hollywood, remaking films by those crazy little Koreans, for the good of the world. It's like they're saying "well, good idea, but we'll make a proper one for you!" in a patronising manner.

A thoroughly modern film, well acted, well shot, there's absolutely no reason to remake it whatsoever.

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:12 pm

Hollywood scriptwriters have been running out of ideas for quite some time. It is only natural they turn their attentions to mangling the best foreign media available, in the name of art and money.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:40 pm

It's also funny how they've started to remake lots of foreign TV shows (like The Office, Life on Mars, In Treatment, Eleventh Hour etc.).

As far as movies are concerned, there should be a law against remakes.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:44 pm

bloodflowers wrote:Subject should be 'There is no reason for this'.

God bless Hollywood, remaking films by those crazy little Koreans, for the good of the world.

it's actually surprising to me, as korea has very strict rules for their movie industry. korean government on the whole is quite anti-holywood

(the subject title is slightly over dramatic

)

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:29 pm

Icarus wrote:Hollywood scriptwriters have been running out of ideas for quite some time. It is only natural they turn their attentions to mangling the best foreign media available, in the name of art and money.

I've seen fanfics that crap all over Hollywood's recent output. What't the excuse of those who get *paid* to write?

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:36 pm

jpj wrote:
bloodflowers wrote:Subject should be 'There is no reason for this'.

God bless Hollywood, remaking films by those crazy little Koreans, for the good of the world.
it's actually surprising to me, as korea has very strict rules for their movie industry. korean government on the whole is quite anti-holywood

(the subject title is slightly over dramatic )

Interestingly, ever since the release of Shiri a decade or so back, the South Korean Government has been backing the domestic film industry as a method of increasing cultural capital across the world. It seems before the huge government cash injections that spawned films such as The Host and Lady Vengence, the South Korean film industry was regarded as little more than a joke. Now, after roughly ten years and a shit load of money, it's one of the most respected cinemas in the world. It's facinating stuff. I was talking to a Korean guy a while back, and he said that when Shiri came out, everyone was surprised and proud that South Korea could come up with something that could compete directly against Hollywood

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:46 pm

brokenhalo wrote:my friend sent me a link saying that the remake isn't based on the movie, but the manga that it spawned from. he also said that the manga isn't as over the top and is actually quite a bit different in terms of plot and pacing. this will still probably suck, but who knows.

I read that too but the problem is that it's guaranteed that they didn't read the comic first. I doubt Stephen Speilberg was sitting at home, reading manga thinking "This would make a great movie". They probably watched the movie, thought "This would be a good candidate for a remake" and are now going back to the source material to inform their version of the story. I think they went out of their way to say it's based on the manga, not the movie as a way of differentiating their remake from all of the other shitty remakes of good foreign movies. Thinking about it now, I think I've only seen one competent American remake of a foreign film, that being Traffic.

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