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Black Thoughts- Remakes, Reboots and The New Republic
So *claps* remakes.... The bane of creativity and the movie-maker's equivalent of sexing up your own grams and then watching the video on your facebook during auto-erotica, the hollywood machine has of late become a remake-churning machine.
You want more of my input on that hot mess of sick, I'll probably make a journal or something...
*waves dismissively* All this being said, *shouts*"A Tale of Two Movies"! *smiles* The original "The Blob" was a horror movie from the fifties. Maybe it was scary then, maaaaybe. I can't say. But to me, here, now... Sorry, Steve, but it's a comedy. From the groovy beach-party opening theme on, "scary" just isn't on the menu. Between the dated behaviour and lingo of the main cast and the almost silly effects used, watching "The Blob" is still fun almost sixty years later,very entertaining. However... "horrifying"? *sputters* No. Just... no.
Now, fast forward to 1988 and we saw the release of a re-make/update what-have-you that.... *whispers behind her palm* this is the part where you can hear a loud guitar riff signifying something bad-ass is happening... *ahem* Ho-ho-hooooly shit. Wow! This movie was the real deal! I've watched this movie at least a dozen times over the years and the phone booth scene still sets my teeth on edge(just trust me). This blob was scary as hell and it's effects on it's victims were produced in some gory and truly horrifying practical effect detail. "DOOD- That was his face!" *shudders and giggles happily* Not just a big bucket of gore, story elements were updated as well. A side plot involving a doomsday preacher actually justifying the titular creature adds a whole other level to the drama of the characters. All in all, an AWESOME little movie.
Re-makes are generally wet garbage. Once in a great while though, a gem gets pooped out of hollywood. If you've never seen either, I'd recommend watching both in order of release. It'll give you a great cinematic experience and if you pay attention it'll show you just how much our world has changed, technologically and socially.
You want more of my input on that hot mess of sick, I'll probably make a journal or something...
*waves dismissively* All this being said, *shouts*"A Tale of Two Movies"! *smiles* The original "The Blob" was a horror movie from the fifties. Maybe it was scary then, maaaaybe. I can't say. But to me, here, now... Sorry, Steve, but it's a comedy. From the groovy beach-party opening theme on, "scary" just isn't on the menu. Between the dated behaviour and lingo of the main cast and the almost silly effects used, watching "The Blob" is still fun almost sixty years later,very entertaining. However... "horrifying"? *sputters* No. Just... no.
Now, fast forward to 1988 and we saw the release of a re-make/update what-have-you that.... *whispers behind her palm* this is the part where you can hear a loud guitar riff signifying something bad-ass is happening... *ahem* Ho-ho-hooooly shit. Wow! This movie was the real deal! I've watched this movie at least a dozen times over the years and the phone booth scene still sets my teeth on edge(just trust me). This blob was scary as hell and it's effects on it's victims were produced in some gory and truly horrifying practical effect detail. "DOOD- That was his face!" *shudders and giggles happily* Not just a big bucket of gore, story elements were updated as well. A side plot involving a doomsday preacher actually justifying the titular creature adds a whole other level to the drama of the characters. All in all, an AWESOME little movie.
Re-makes are generally wet garbage. Once in a great while though, a gem gets pooped out of hollywood. If you've never seen either, I'd recommend watching both in order of release. It'll give you a great cinematic experience and if you pay attention it'll show you just how much our world has changed, technologically and socially.
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Yeah... the remake was definitely scarier as it showed the stuff dissolving/digesting stuff.
Personally I prefer the original because it has pretty much every bit of cheese 1950s horror has become known for (teenage protagonists, strange thing found in the hills by farmer/hillbilly, mystified constabulary, etc) - and that theme song - oh gosh! Classic!
That having been said, the original never game me nightmares like the remake.
Personally I prefer the original because it has pretty much every bit of cheese 1950s horror has become known for (teenage protagonists, strange thing found in the hills by farmer/hillbilly, mystified constabulary, etc) - and that theme song - oh gosh! Classic!
That having been said, the original never game me nightmares like the remake.
If you like 80's horror, it's not a bad choice. It's been a few years since I last saw it, so my memory's a little hazy and I can't remember much beyond a few really traumatic scenes. Some of the special effects we top notch for the time - though the plot felt weak in places. But again: fuzzy memory.
One of my favorite stories from the remake of the Blob was the casting of one of the extras.
They got a guy with one arm and no legs to play one of the hazmat suited soldiers.
The one where the satchel is pulled through his arm and when he rolls over his legs just streeeeeetch due to a previous blob contact....
And for remakes better than the original...
...there's this little movie called Scarface......
original: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427
remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250
They got a guy with one arm and no legs to play one of the hazmat suited soldiers.
The one where the satchel is pulled through his arm and when he rolls over his legs just streeeeeetch due to a previous blob contact....
And for remakes better than the original...
...there's this little movie called Scarface......
original: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427
remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250
Oh indeed, m'dear. Damned good point! *applauds*
I feel I'd be a bit remiss to not add to that point of remakes which I feel aren't steaming piles of twice-digested dog leavings a few others. Another GREAT example being the Cronenbergian 1986 re-make of "The Fly" starring Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis... oh holy fuck, that movie was potent as a priest at a scout retreat...
A remake done right- It re-told the original tale well, the scientist mucking about with something a bit too quickly, pride before understanding, and paying the price for it- the sad horror of watching his de-humanization, his awareness of losing his faculties while updating it for a more modern audience. Also- the remake added the subtext of a very relatable parallel to aging, watching helplessly as your body fails you and becomes something else- which many at the time understandably mistook for an allegory on AIDS. And the effects.. oh mighty ZEUS the effects... Goldblum looking to the mirror in horror, creeping fear and disgust, as his fingernails slip away, dripping goop. His desperate plea to Davis as he hobbles on braces "Help me... Please help me!" It was heart-wrenching, disquieting, Horrifying.
And it was DAMN good.
I feel I'd be a bit remiss to not add to that point of remakes which I feel aren't steaming piles of twice-digested dog leavings a few others. Another GREAT example being the Cronenbergian 1986 re-make of "The Fly" starring Jeff Goldblum and Gina Davis... oh holy fuck, that movie was potent as a priest at a scout retreat...
A remake done right- It re-told the original tale well, the scientist mucking about with something a bit too quickly, pride before understanding, and paying the price for it- the sad horror of watching his de-humanization, his awareness of losing his faculties while updating it for a more modern audience. Also- the remake added the subtext of a very relatable parallel to aging, watching helplessly as your body fails you and becomes something else- which many at the time understandably mistook for an allegory on AIDS. And the effects.. oh mighty ZEUS the effects... Goldblum looking to the mirror in horror, creeping fear and disgust, as his fingernails slip away, dripping goop. His desperate plea to Davis as he hobbles on braces "Help me... Please help me!" It was heart-wrenching, disquieting, Horrifying.
And it was DAMN good.
I agree. The Fly went the route of so many like The Blob and even The Thing (the first remake, not the second quasiprequel whatever the hell it was supposed to be.)
Up the F/X budget, get the people who read Fangoria happy and bam.
I like both versions of True Grit, for different reasons, and I find I like the 3:10 to Yuma a little more.
The latest Magnificent Seven was pretty decent, and I'm kinda amazed they actually killed off some of the people they did. I love the original one (even some of the spinoff movies) and of course Seven Samurai.
Yojimbo begat us A Fistful of Dollars and Battle Beyond the Stars (shudder) and Last Man Standing (okay, not great.)
Up the F/X budget, get the people who read Fangoria happy and bam.
I like both versions of True Grit, for different reasons, and I find I like the 3:10 to Yuma a little more.
The latest Magnificent Seven was pretty decent, and I'm kinda amazed they actually killed off some of the people they did. I love the original one (even some of the spinoff movies) and of course Seven Samurai.
Yojimbo begat us A Fistful of Dollars and Battle Beyond the Stars (shudder) and Last Man Standing (okay, not great.)
Yeah... in hindsight, I'm planning on coming back and re-visitng quite a few of my comics and touching things up a bit. Between my own worldview changing and... well, my family structure being DRASTICALLY different, I feel like I could really cover these points better.
Also, true true- there are many remakes that are just as good, if not surpass the original, depending upon your perspective and expectations.
Robert Englund in "The Phantom of The Opera" is technicaly a re-make or re-telling and it's EASILY my favorite version of the story. The newer Brendan Frasier American "Bedazzled" was fun, a different kind of humour than it's Britisher source but just as fun and -you know what- I will say it again, people can fight me, I give two sock-fulls of soggy fuck-apples, the new Ghostbusters, YEAH, it was fucking fun, too. Watched it five times now and I still enjoy the thing. Fight me, MRA's.
Also, true true- there are many remakes that are just as good, if not surpass the original, depending upon your perspective and expectations.
Robert Englund in "The Phantom of The Opera" is technicaly a re-make or re-telling and it's EASILY my favorite version of the story. The newer Brendan Frasier American "Bedazzled" was fun, a different kind of humour than it's Britisher source but just as fun and -you know what- I will say it again, people can fight me, I give two sock-fulls of soggy fuck-apples, the new Ghostbusters, YEAH, it was fucking fun, too. Watched it five times now and I still enjoy the thing. Fight me, MRA's.
There's a lot of remakes I've liked, but Ghostbusters wasn't one of them. XD
Not for the reasons the man-babies didn't like it with "omg feminism" or whatever. No, it was more that the ghost effects looked terrible, the entire movie was very inconsistent, and while two of the ladies tried really hard to carry the movie with some funny and imaginative performances, they just couldn't, because a lot fo the other characters and story stuff was just bad. I think I gave it a 5/10, and the five points was entirely the two main leads.
Not for the reasons the man-babies didn't like it with "omg feminism" or whatever. No, it was more that the ghost effects looked terrible, the entire movie was very inconsistent, and while two of the ladies tried really hard to carry the movie with some funny and imaginative performances, they just couldn't, because a lot fo the other characters and story stuff was just bad. I think I gave it a 5/10, and the five points was entirely the two main leads.
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