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Bad Movies / Re: post-2000 remakes of 70s &...
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:57:49 AMHELLRAISER '22 isn't a remake. The stories are completely distinct with different human characters and some different cenobites. (A new performer plays Pinhead.) It's just another HELLRAISER movie branded as a reboot.
THE THING '11 has its moments, but a lot of those moments are based on moments from Carpenter's THING, but then at the end it reveals itself to be a prequel. That doesn't make much sense (and nothing about the film's design says 1981) so I'd call it a (subpar) hybrid remake/prequel.
TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN is, iirc, quite "meta" as AI indicated. It takes place in the 21st century (instead of the 1940s or 1976) and acknowledges that the events in the previous movie really happened (which, if I am not mistaken, they actually did, historically speaking), and I think the '76 movie is also A Movie in the diegetic reality of the '14 movie. So that seems like a reboot or sequel to me and not a remake, but you split those hairs as you please!
THE THING '11 has its moments, but a lot of those moments are based on moments from Carpenter's THING, but then at the end it reveals itself to be a prequel. That doesn't make much sense (and nothing about the film's design says 1981) so I'd call it a (subpar) hybrid remake/prequel.
TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN is, iirc, quite "meta" as AI indicated. It takes place in the 21st century (instead of the 1940s or 1976) and acknowledges that the events in the previous movie really happened (which, if I am not mistaken, they actually did, historically speaking), and I think the '76 movie is also A Movie in the diegetic reality of the '14 movie. So that seems like a reboot or sequel to me and not a remake, but you split those hairs as you please!
#32
Movie Reviews / Re: Mutant Reviewers From Hell
Last post by Sitting Duck - Today at 07:41:00 AMA roundtable on movie marathons.
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2024/08/17/mutant-roundtable-what-was-your-last-movie-marathon/
https://mutantreviewersmovies.com/2024/08/17/mutant-roundtable-what-was-your-last-movie-marathon/
#33
Off Topic Discussion / Re: How's the weather?
Last post by Alex - Today at 06:55:24 AMSnow and high winds yesterday, more flurries of snow today, although I doubt it will ever lie deeply here.
#34
Press Releases and Film News / Re: Well, if AI says this is t...
Last post by Alex - Today at 04:56:25 AMTo be honest I didn't look any further into it than laughing at people believing in AI that much. I can't tell you if any historians agree or disagree with it.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Happy New Year, family
Last post by Trevor - Today at 04:21:30 AM
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Bad Movies / Re: post-2000 remakes of 70s &...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 02:37:52 AMI addressed WILLARD and SILENT NIGHT above... thanks for the rest. 
AND SOON THE DARKNESS might be the single biggest gulf in terms of quality between original and remake. I think someone should've been punished for that 2010 version
didn't include THE THING because of it being described as a prequel, (but I haven't seen it), and thought Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN was enough of its own movie to not be a remake,but that was just my impression on my one lone viewing.
can't believe I forgot the EVIL DEAD remake, doh! didn't like it personally but it seemed to have a strong fanbase
AND SOON THE DARKNESS might be the single biggest gulf in terms of quality between original and remake. I think someone should've been punished for that 2010 version
didn't include THE THING because of it being described as a prequel, (but I haven't seen it), and thought Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN was enough of its own movie to not be a remake,but that was just my impression on my one lone viewing.
can't believe I forgot the EVIL DEAD remake, doh! didn't like it personally but it seemed to have a strong fanbase
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Happy New Year, family
Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 02:19:04 AMAnd a happy 2026 to all of you!
