Movies Today

[ImWithStupid]

Do they all suck? It seems that more and more movies are are either cheap copies of old movies or complete rip offs of classics. Tell me where I'm wrong?

[ImWithStupid]

With remakes of Prom Night, movies that only redue established tv shows and what I feel is a rampant lack of originality and desire from Hollywood, are we now destined to accept mediocrity and redundancy in movies or should we demand originality and foresight?

[emkay64]

The remake of Halloween was decidedly more grim. I love horror movies. I thought this one was moderately better than the original. I loved the eighties slasher flicks. You are right though most pale in comparison....probably because we aren't shockable anymore. I still remember watching Children of the Corn while babysitting. Movies haven't got the scare factor like they used to.

[RoyalOrleans]

The remake of Halloween was decidedly more grim. I love horror movies. I thought this one was moderately better than the original. I loved the eighties slasher flicks. You are right though most pale in comparison....probably because we aren't shockable anymore. I still remember watching Children of the Corn while babysitting. Movies haven't got the scare factor like they used to.

 

I watched the Rob Zombie remake of Halloween, too. I thought it was very well done and an homage to the original, but of course, I love all of Zombie's work in the movies.

[RoyalOrleans]

With remakes of Prom Night, movies that only redue established tv shows and what I feel is a rampant lack of originality and desire from Hollywood, are we now destined to accept mediocrity and redundancy in movies or should we demand originality and foresight?

 

Unfortunately, everything has been done tenfold. The best thing upcoming and even established directors, screenwriters, can do is do their own spin on an old formula.

 

Easier said than done.

[emkay64]

Zombie was rumored to do the remake of Friday the 13th. That would have been good, but sadly I think that has changed. My Dad used to run a logging camp, and on weekends he'd take me and my brother up there...in the middle of nowhere to a camp by the lake. They had satellite TV and that's where we watched them all. It was fun to be scared like that. I wish it still happened that way.

[eddo]

Do they all suck? It seems that more and more movies are are either cheap copies of old movies or complete rip offs of classics. Tell me where I'm wrong?

 

I wish I could tell you that you are wrong, but original ideas must not sell much, or are just flat out non-existent in the entertainment industry nowadays.

 

However, some of the remakes are pretty sweet.

 

Some of my recent favs that would be considered unoriginal story ideas:

Both Narnia movies

Lord of the Rings trilogy (I hear The Hobbit is soon to be in the works)

Transformers (good action, poor story).

X-Men trilogy

 

ya know, back in college I actually did a paper on this very idea in a writing class. It was based on how the movie Days of Thunder was basically a Top Gun remake.

 

 

I got an A+.

[Old Salt]

I think The Hobbit was made quite a few years ago. Poor computer graphics, if I remember right. A remake of that would be great (IMO).

 

Just double-checked. It was a made-for-TV movie in 1977:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_%28film%29

[RoyalOrleans]

I wish I could tell you that you are wrong, but original ideas must not sell much, or are just flat out non-existent in the entertainment industry nowadays.

 

However, some of the remakes are pretty sweet.

 

Some of my recent favs that would be considered unoriginal story ideas:

Both Narnia movies

Lord of the Rings trilogy (I hear The Hobbit is soon to be in the works)

Transformers (good action, poor story).

X-Men trilogy

 

ya know, back in college I actually did a paper on this very idea in a writing class. It was based on how the movie Days of Thunder was basically a Top Gun remake.

 

 

I got an A+.

 

The Lord of the Rings novel was not considered a trilogy until Peter Jackson came in and made the movies. In essence, the Lord of the Rings novel is in fact a remake, a retelling if you will, because:

 

1) Tolkien considered himself a "translator" of the Redbook of Westmarch, which is the fantastical book written by Bilbo and then Frodo and then to Samwise and on down. From the came "There and Back Again (the Hobbit)" and the Lord of the Rings.

2) Tolkien was heavily influenced by Celtic and Germanic mythology and languages. Some of the same elements, he drew upon to write his fictious stories about Middle Earth.

 

I greatly enjoyed the movies for what they were, the greatest made in that genre and the sheer magnitude of the production, but was left with a yearning to see more. I was so dissappointed that Jackson did not include the "Scouring of the Shire", which tells of the final fate of Saruman, Grima, and how the Hobbits react in a pinch. Oh well...

 

I'm looking forward to a remake of the Hobbit and hope it sticks a little closer to Tolkien's original story.

[RoyalOrleans]

I think The Hobbit was made quite a few years ago. Poor computer graphics, if I remember right. A remake of that would be great (IMO).

 

Just double-checked. It was a made-for-TV movie in 1977:

The Hobbit (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

What do you expect? It was 1977!

[snafu]

I read the Hobbit and the trilogy a long time ago. When you read a story of a fantasy world you create the image's in your head. The movies desecrated my ideas.

[atlantic]

There have been some good new stuff since the old Jason days: Mothman prophecies, Exorcism of Emily Rose was creepy; and that new movie the strangers looks scarey.

[RoyalOrleans]

I read the Hobbit and the trilogy a long time ago. When you read a story of a fantasy world you create the image's in your head. The movies desecrated my ideas.

 

I know exactly what you mean.

 

On one hand, it's kind of cool to see some of the characters come to life. On the other, it's one persons idea of what the character should look like. Not necessarily your own unique idea.

 

I think everyone can agree that Peter Jackson's rendering of Gandalf was very close to what can be imagined by the reader.

 

What about Aragorn?

 

What about Grima Wormtongue?

 

What about Lord Denethor?

[snafu]

I know exactly what you mean.

 

On one hand, it's kind of cool to see some of the characters come to life. On the other, it's one persons idea of what the character should look like. Not necessarily your own unique idea.

 

I think everyone can agree that Peter Jackson's rendering of Gandalf was very close to what can be imagined by the reader.

 

What about Aragorn?

 

What about Grima Wormtongue?

 

What about Lord Denethor?

 

 

It's been a long time but yes I don't think you can mess up a wizard. He was a given. Aragorn was a human too right? He should've been tall like that so he fit too.

I can't remember the other two.

They didn't do to bad with Gollum. He had those big bug eyes and frog like appearance.