Really? Really?

[Zombie_Babies]

This sounds like a terrible idea. Thing is, the Oldboy remake has sickened me far more.

 

[Kramodlog]

I saw the original. I need to see the remake.

 

[Mallus]

Forbidden Planet remains one of my favorite classic Sci-Fi movies.

Forbidden Planet remains one of my favorite movies. And my 2nd favorite Shakespeare adaptation behind Ian McKellan's wonderful Richard III from the 90s.

Is it too pat to link Hollywood's risk-aversion to the ever increasing cost of Hollywood movie making? My wife and I are big fans of old-Hollywood B-movies, the kind they "just don't make anymore". There's a treasure-trove of cost-effective creativity in many of those films, during the (many) decades in which they were made. Heck, my favorite film of all time is Casablanca --yeah, I know, how cliche...-- which barely dodges B-movie status.

Cinema's lost something without them. Despite the indie boom of the past 20 or so years.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Is it too pat to link Hollywood's risk-aversion to the ever increasing cost of Hollywood movie making?

Given the nature of Hollywood accounting, the willingness to cast roles based on star power rather than acting prowess (coupled with salary bloat), elevating SFX over story, the contractual shafts to movie houses, writers and outsider investors, and a tendency to make such extensive changes to underlying IP so that movie/TV adaptations rarely resemble the works from which they derive their names?

I can't give Hollywood any slack. Too many of their problems are of their own making.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I can't give Hollywood any slack. Too many of their problems are of their own making.

So, true and think it has been getting worse over the last 10+ years, great lack of talent in Hollywood these days.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

I saw the original. I need to see the remake.

I don't want to. I just can't understand why they did it. Er, aside from having no original ideas and wanting cash.

 

[MarkB]

Two things stood out for me in that article.

the three films cumed $275 million.

This is a verb usage I haven't seen before. Is it new, or am I behind on Hollywood vernacular?

Lennon and Garant recently wrote “Baywatch” for Paramount and “Rent a Ghost” for Fox

Hollywood bought up Rent-a-Ghost? Seriously? Is the pantomime horse still in it?

 

[Kramodlog]

I don't want to. I just can't understand why they did it. Er, aside from having no original ideas and wanting cash.

Sounds like a lot of teens these days.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Hollywood accounting: The writer of Forest Gump was approached about writing a sequel, and turned it down because he could not in good conscience support a project he knew was doomed to be a failure. According to Hollywood accounting, the movie was a failure. He had proof: he never received any royalty payment because according to Hollywood accounting, it hasn't made any profit yet.
In short, they way they worded the contract and set up the production company and distribution company, he got totally hosed.

 

[Dog Moon]

I don't want to. I just can't understand why they did it. Er, aside from having no original ideas and wanting cash.

I don't want to see the remake either. The first one was awesome...

The only reason I would want to see the remake is to see how they ruined a great movie.