fryfanSpyOrama

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« on: 02-21-2008 00:56 »
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After fixing a typo later--I must've done a whole bunch of searches for a thread like this and I couldn't find one exactly what I wanted to bring up and that's the fact that Hollywood is banking on bringing back stuff from our past rather than work on original stuff. Look at the films: Tranformers, TMNT, Rambo, Rocky Balboa, Live Free or Die Hard, King Kong, and more horror movies are remakes of old films. Basically most of these films are remakes, sequels or adaptions of popular 80's cartoons.
They are making the Indy 4 and there's talk in Ghostbusters 3, GI Joe the Movie, Thundercats the movie, Smurfs in CGI and others.
TV has remakes/adaptions of popular franchises. Terminator, Bionic Woman and now Knight Rider,
Why is that? Is it just for money? Or is because that people where work on these films and TV were childs back in the days of watching this classic stuff. I think it's a little bit of both, and that the world is so frightening now that Hollywood is using our past memories to remind us of simplier times.
I personally like trend to a certain degree. There's talk of remaking 1980's films like Friday the 13, Nightmare on Elm Street and Back to the Future. I personally think these films shouldn't be remade, esp BTTF.
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seattlejohn01

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IMO, it's all about the dollars; studios want to make them, but they don't want to spend them. There's only so many new projects that can succeed; many fail. Since today's studios are not run by creative types (like in the past), but are more likely to be run by accountants & bean counters, the suits at the studios would rather spend money on remakes of old series & films (which have built in audiences & will bring in viewers/moviegoers who saw the original) than risk money on a concept that might not make lots of money. Either that, or they'll spend minimal amounts of $ on mind numbing low cost dreck; hence "reality" TV, which is not what you'd call creative, but makes money because it costs next to nothing to produce.
Back in the 20's through the 60's, the studios were a lot more creative than today & took chances. Nowadays, they'd rather produce old stuff rewritten for today's "edgier" audiences, because it will give them a "guaranteed rate of return on their investment".
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Tweek

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I don't see much need for remaking '80s films or TV series unless it is done in a very different way to the original like the new Battlestar Galactica.
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i_c_weiner

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A remake of BTTF would be one of the worst ideas in history. Up there with Star Trek XI and The Dukes of Hazzard.
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Frisco17

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If they touch Back to the Future then I start cracking some heads.
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Frisco17

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Originally posted by any1else: Yeah. What the feck? Back to the Future doesn't need re-making. I'm not saying it does. Quite the opposite in fact. I was threatening to go agro on anybody who tries to screw with it. Hehe. Noticed how I worked agro in there? 50 80s points for me.
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Frisco17

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Sorry I didn't notice the "Yeah". Yesterday was a long day.
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fryfanSpyOrama

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« Reply #20 on: 05-13-2008 17:19 »
« Last Edit on: 05-13-2008 17:19 »
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I just learned of two remakes. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li- The actress who plays Lana Lang on Smallville will be playing Chun Li. Michael Clarke Duncan will be playing Balrog and thank goodness Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down in playing Guile. Child's Play is getting remade in 2009. Once again another classic slasher movie gets an update. http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=1666 One good thing is that Brad Dourif is expected to play the voice of Chucky again. To be honest, I would rather see a remake than another Chucky sequel. Seed of Chucky wasn't that good. It will be interesting to see them try and reboot the franchise.
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« Reply #23 on: 08-04-2008 13:41 »
« Last Edit on: 08-04-2008 13:41 »
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It's a TV Network  But I think it stands for Crappy Washed Up Television No one Cares About...all it has on it is Gossip Girl  And that's only good because of Blake Lively And its a remake fryfanspyo-rama. Everyone whos anyone knows about it
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Xanfor

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The CW Network is a TV network that resulted from a merger of UPN and the WB. It stands for "CBS and Warner Brothers".
It is not to be confused with "continuous wave", which is an unrelated form of radio transmission and another name for Morse code.
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Xanfor

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Nurdbot

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Bump!
I'm trying to figuire out a name of a cartoon I watched on Fox Kids back in the mid to late nineties. It was based on some sort of secret agency at wars with aliens. I can't remember the damn title but I was messing with X-Com and the damn thing came to mind. Anyone here remember the cartoons name?
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Nurdbot

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Possibly David A. I can't find anything about it on YouTube. If it involved Banshees and other paranormal crap I think that was something else. It was a pretty graphic balls to the wall sort of cartoon where people died. Not even Batman had that. Also, Donkey Kong Country hasn't aged a bit  .
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Nurdbot

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Daaayum David A, it IS it. BAD eh? Wonder why such a cheesy assed thing slipped my mind.
*watches*
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