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« Reply #90 on: June 01, 2022, 07:50:21 AM »

Did anyone mention PSYCHO (1998)?

Ya know...with the cow?

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« Reply #91 on: June 01, 2022, 09:04:24 AM »

Did anyone mention PSYCHO (1998)?

at least 2 or 3 times
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« Reply #92 on: June 01, 2022, 09:08:16 AM »

The 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives.

They certainly had an interesting cast.  Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, John Lovitz.  However this is a cast suited for a comedy and not a horror film.  Not that there was a lot of horror in the movie.  The ending certainly felt like something that should have been in a comedy.  Plus the thing showed some obvious signs of script rewriting.  Are the women robots or are they just women with chips implated in their heads?  The movie never seems wot want to decide.  In one scene they're able to use one of the women like an ATM, and in another sparks fly from a woman's head, but the script seems to insist at the end that they're just women with a microchip stuck in their brain.
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« Reply #93 on: June 01, 2022, 09:23:08 AM »

The 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives.

They certainly had an interesting cast.  Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, John Lovitz.  However this is a cast suited for a comedy and not a horror film.  Not that there was a lot of horror in the movie.  The ending certainly felt like something that should have been in a comedy.  Plus the thing showed some obvious signs of script rewriting.  Are the women robots or are they just women with chips implated in their heads?  The movie never seems wot want to decide.  In one scene they're able to use one of the women like an ATM, and in another sparks fly from a woman's head, but the script seems to insist at the end that they're just women with a microchip stuck in their brain.
I thought it was a comedy remake...
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« Reply #94 on: June 01, 2022, 11:21:00 AM »

Since the 90's Psycho has been stated too much. I would go with The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). The original had a timeless message where the 2008 tried turned it to modern themes instead that dated it in less then a decade.
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« Reply #95 on: June 01, 2022, 12:28:20 PM »

haha that cringe feeling I get from unexpectedly seeing my posts/ threads from years ago randomly surface...    TeddyR

in the intervening 9 years since making this thread I think ROBOCOP  now gets my vote for most pointless remake.

it's like they did everything they could to suck the fun, wit, excitement and energy out of the original... I know some people liked it though
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« Reply #96 on: June 01, 2022, 12:34:12 PM »

haha that cringe feeling I get from unexpectedly seeing my posts/ threads from years ago randomly surface...    TeddyR

in the intervening 9 years since making this thread I think ROBOCOP  now gets my vote for most pointless remake.

it's like they did everything they could to suck the fun, wit, excitement and energy out of the original... I know some people liked it though

I remember my young niece who had just turned 18 telling me she was going to see that one and being really excited about it. I like to bring that subject up every now and again.   BounceGiggle
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« Reply #97 on: June 01, 2022, 02:42:00 PM »

Probably the most recent CABIN FEVER.  I mean, the original movie was only about 10 years ago!
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« Reply #98 on: June 01, 2022, 03:15:13 PM »

The s**tty Netflix mini-series of the HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018).
No real connection to the book, or the 1963 masterpiece. Garbage.
Glossy, soap opera tripe.
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« Reply #99 on: June 01, 2022, 03:41:13 PM »

The s**tty Netflix mini-series of the HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018).
No real connection to the book, or the 1963 masterpiece. Garbage.
Glossy, soap opera tripe.

I tried watching it, but I don't think I made it past the first episode.
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« Reply #100 on: June 01, 2022, 05:38:07 PM »

Remaking episode IV and calling it episode VII.

If this were a thread about TV I'd say it was the unpalatable Are You Being Served rehash.
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« Reply #101 on: June 02, 2022, 02:56:56 PM »


I remember my young niece who had just turned 18 telling me she was going to see that one and being really excited about it. I like to bring that subject up every now and again.   BounceGiggle

oof... I admire her optimism though


Probably the most recent CABIN FEVER.  I mean, the original movie was only about 10 years ago!


yeah when they remake a movie and your first thought is "that one?...already?", then you know yer gettin old  TeddyR
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« Reply #102 on: June 07, 2022, 06:32:42 PM »

They remade the 1st Pokemon movie using 3D CG. Seemed pointless to me, because I always thought of animation as timeless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon:_Mewtwo_Strikes_Back—Evolution

But I suppose a lot of folks prefer 3D animation today, do the remake makes some sense. Dramatic conventions change, so a story can be told again & again for each generation, to meet that generation’s expectations. As such, very few remakes are completely pointless. That doesn’t
mean I like endless remakes.  Bluesad
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« Reply #103 on: June 11, 2022, 11:32:39 PM »

Honestly, it's a tossup between Cabin Fever (2016), The Last House on the Left (2009), and the extremely overrated Dawn of the Dead (2004)
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« Reply #104 on: June 12, 2022, 12:05:02 AM »

I think the LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT was riding the coat tails of the ' torture porn' trend.

DAWN OF THE DEAD was made because of the zombie craze at the time.
I agree both were throw away junk.

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