Last Man Standing (1996)

[The Conqueroo]

It Was Okay.I Felt That Tom Hank's "Road to Perdition"Was A Better and More Beleivable Movie!!

[The Conqueroo]

My Paternal Grandfather Was A Moonshiner In The 20's.The Feds Caught Him In ElPaso and He Served A Little Stretch In The Jug At The LaTuna Federal Prison Near ElPaso.I Wish I Couldv'e Met Him.Unfortunately,He Died Of Cancer Twenty Years Before I Was Born.But Every so Often,I Do Watch "Thunder Road"In His Memory!!

[Fearless Freep]

Wasn't this based on "Omega Doom"?  The Albert Pyun/Rutger Hauer sci-fi picture?

[The Conqueroo]

"I Tried To Rob A Bank One Time In Texas.They Sent A Whole Army After Me.From Now on I Don't Rob Banks In Texas Anymore."-Calvera(Eli Wallach):"The Magnificient Seven".

[Neville]

Nope, "Omega Doom" was another rehash / remake of "Yojimbo", and the same goes for Van Damme's "Deset Heat"

[dean]

Neville Wrote:
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> Nope, "Omega Doom" was another rehash / remake of
> "Yojimbo", and the same goes for Van Damme's
> "Deset Heat"
>


That got me thinking:  Are there any 'good' movies out there based on really crappy ones [and I don't mean remakes]

Because if a crappy movie can adapt the basic story of a classic tale like Yojimbo, then obviously it's possible [but infinitely less likely] for that to go in the opposite direction.

Just wondering if anyone would know about that at all?

[Neville]

dean Wrote:
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> That got me thinking:  Are there any 'good' movies
> out there based on really crappy ones
>
> Because if a crappy movie can adapt the basic
> story of a classic tale like Yojimbo, then
> obviously it's possible  for that to go in the
> opposite direction.
>
> Just wondering if anyone would know about that at
> all?

Well, you can consider the new wave of oriental sword films like "Hidden tiger, crouching dragon", "Hero", "House of Flying daggers" or "Zatoichi" as superior remakes of the earlier films of the genre, and some of them sure they were crappy.

You may also include Ricardo Fredda's / Tavernier's "Le Fille du Dartagnan" in the same trend.

[Ash]

"Hidden tiger, crouching dragon"??

[Neville]

My mistake, "Dragon hidden, tiger crounching" (and Neville yawning, I might add)

[odinn7]

Neville Wrote:
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> My mistake, "Dragon hidden, tiger crounching" (and
> Neville yawning, I might add)
>


I'll tell ya Neville...you sure look like a numpty with the title of that movie...everyone knows it's "Crunching, Hidden Tiger-Dragon"

And if you mean "yawning" by the fact that it bored you...I would need to agree there.

[Neville]

It did bore me, yeah. Zang Yimou's later movies are much better if you ask me.

[BoyScoutKevin]

I can't think of any "good" movies made from "crappy" movies, but, and this is all relative, I can think of a number of television shows, that were better than the films upon which they were based.
For example:

"Alien Nation"
"Buffy, the Vampire Slayer"
"Friday the 13th"
etc.

[odinn7]

I'd have to disagree with you on Alien Nation. I thought it was a solid movie for it's time yet the show was too weak as a soap opera.

[trekgeezer]

I agree with Odinn, Alien Nation was a pretty good movie (but I liked the show too). The Friday the 13th show had absolutely nothing to do with the movies.

[odinn7]

trek_geezer Wrote:
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> I agree with Odinn, Alien Nation was a pretty good
> movie (but I liked the show too). The Friday the
> 13th show had absolutely nothing to do with the
> movies.
>
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>
>


Oh yeah...that was the show with the curio shop and all the posessed items they had to recover. Whatever happened to that hot redhead anyway?