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Title: 13 GHOSTS: Please Hollywood, NO MORE REMAKES! Post by: Chris K. on October 27, 2001, 09:07:13 AM The new 13 GHOSTS was just terrible last night. It did not scare me and after the film was over I felt like going up the projection room to take a p**s on the film print to show my disappointment (a little to extreme, but it just describes how I REALLY HATED IT). Now I am no big fan of William Castle, but to remake his original 1960 classic is just like the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO (and I might add almost ruined Gus Van Saint's carrer as well due to his "immortalizing" version of PSYCHO). That and the fact that the original 13 GHOSTS and the remake are both from Columbia Pictures! But Hollywood has not learned it's lesson and in fact an upcoming new version of George Pal's classic THE TIME MACHINE is on it's way too! Let's hope that that one is the real stinker.
The only advice I have to offer to these mainstream film corporations in Hollywood is if you want to remake a classic, why not just re-issue the original film. That way, you'll make more money than it did when it played 20 or 30 years ago. Questions or comments anyone? Title: Re: 13 GHOSTS: Please Hollywood, NO MORE REMAKES! Post by: Chadzilla on October 27, 2001, 10:43:03 AM When I saw the preview the only thing I could think was someone pitching the movie like this..."It's just like the remake of House on Haunted Hill, only DIFFERENT!"
A remake of Macabre is next, then Terry Castle (William's daughter and producer of this and the remake of House on Haunted Hill as well as head of Dark Castle Productions) is moving on the 'original' projects. Or so she says. Frankly Castle's production of Bug is movie I'd like to see remade, one of those instances where improvements could be made in the tale. Title: Re: 13 GHOSTS: Please Hollywood, NO MORE REMAKES! Post by: Brian Ringler on October 27, 2001, 11:15:17 AM I will say one good thing, at least the remake is probably the reason why the original got such nice dvd treatment
Title: Re: Time Machine? Post by: The Bard on October 28, 2001, 10:43:04 PM Was that the movie where there was a Barbie Doll as the gauge for what point in time the guy was in? And were in the far future the bomb shelters were fulled with Canniballisic Ape looking guys?
Title: Re: Time Machine? Post by: Nathan on October 29, 2001, 11:37:56 AM That's the one. I should point out, though, that the upcoming remake is not specifically of the George Pal movie, but of the original H.G. Wells novel. Though "adaptation" probably doesn't cover it -- it's more like an "exhume the author's coffin just to take a crap on his body" version.
Wanna know how bad it is? Try this on for size: They have to revise the planned ending of the movie due to the Sept. 11 attacks, because the plan was having fragments of the exploding moon destroy New York City. To which my only reply can be, Why in the HELL are their fragments of an exploding moon in The Time Machine? Did any of these braindead snotsuckers even bother to read one of the best SF novels of all time? Nathan Title: Re: Time Machine? Post by: flangepart on October 29, 2001, 04:01:12 PM What? Read!? Are you mad? And lose valuable time snorting coke, doing starlets/studs and hideing profits with "Creative Book keeping"? Shirley, you jest......
Title: Re: Time Machine? Post by: Nathan on October 30, 2001, 12:01:07 PM Don't call me Shirley!!
Nathan Title: Re: Time Machine? Post by: Lee on November 26, 2001, 07:08:49 PM The Time Machine is a CLASSIC!!! I love that movie! I just hope the remake isn't s**t-pour like that remake of Planet Of The Apes. Tim what the Hell were you thinkin?
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