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Leatherhead posted:My pitch for a blob remake would be to take advantage of how non-horror people don't really know the 84 version. Cast a bunch of likable comedians, like Bill Hader, Charlie Day etc., make it seem like you're doing a goofy send-up of the original 50s movie, then kill them all as graphically and horribly as possible.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Instead people should only remake obscure movies. I don’t know. I really like whatever dartboard or d20 table that Eggers is using to pick settings. As much as I like the idea of him remaking A Company of Wolves with Maggie Smith (or whatever), I also don’t want to miss him doing something in a haunted Cistercian monastery (or whatever) either.
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Basebf555 posted:There are some fun options for casting where they could pull the same trick as the 80s version did with the Paul character. Cast someone like [...] Ryan Reynolds and let the audience assume they're the main protagonist. E: man no I'm wrong Life is Alien, not The Thing, but it still relies on a Ryan Reynolds semi-fakeout Phy fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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ruddiger posted:For being a series that reinforces stereotypes, Mondo Cane is an all timer movie title. DOG WORLD
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I've never seen Mondo Cane (and don't have a lot of interest in watching anything in the Mondo genre, although I'd gladly read a good book about it) but I used to have the soundtrack on vinyl and it was great. I think it even won an Oscar (lol). Riz Ortolani, goated composer.
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Started watching "30 Coins" half reluctantly in bed out of boredom and under fever because of the influenza. After two episodes I liked the actors and the money is really well spent on this show in CGI, locations etc. but it was just little too telenovella for my taste. Fast forward after episode three and I can already see that this is the pinnacle of not too artsy or "Emmy haunting" tv shows. Miraculously the soapy telenovella, religious horror and conspiracy plot just works better than it would have any right to. It shows that there is some real talent and love behind this show.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I like both versions of The Blob but the 80s remake is kind of a perfect goopy horror movie. As a kid I was disappointed that sequel hook at the end never came to fruition, I think something like "Cult of the Blob" could kick a lot of rear end. Could even work in the original Blob since it was dropped off in Antarctica. But then, I would totally love to see a showdown between original Blob and 80s Blob.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I don't think you can do The Thing again. The Carpenter version has incredible creature effects AND gets the tension perfect, too. So even an amazingly written remake is going to pale in comparison. Plus there's nowhere else you need to take the story, the ending's already perfect. There was a concept I saw about acceptance of a story into popular knowledge ruining the point of the story. The examples the guy gave were Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Treasure Island's reveal of Long John Silver being a pirate was a huge deal back then because it was before people generally accepted peg legs, parrots, and pirate talk to be a pirate. It was a surprise because pirates were typically just people with normal British/French/Spanish names and peg legs weren't really a thing. With Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the original story was a gothic mystery about drug addiction. You're supposed to read the book and be surprised that they're the same person, but because the story is so well known the original intent of mystery is completely gone. With The Thing everyone knows the concept of the story now and all tension is gone. There's no surprise with the dog, no surprise that the thing can infect people, and no tension figuring out who it is. You can't replicate the story again. With the 2011 remake they resorted to making it an action film. There wasn't a mystery because it's a prequel and the agency of the characters change because of it. They're no longer hunted, they're the hunters. There's also something to be said that the characters matter more than the story in the Thing. MacReady drove the plot and the charisma to cheer for the main character. Childs, the doctors, Nauls, Palmer, they all filled little archetypes and were performed by pretty great actors. There's no Keith David or Kurt Russell carrying the remake. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a fine actress and Joel Edgerton is okay but neither of them are the quality from the first film. It turns the characters from people that you care about to just generic people that are getting picked off.
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Doltos posted:There's also something to be said that the characters matter more than the story in the Thing. MacReady drove the plot and the charisma to cheer for the main character. Childs, the doctors, Nauls, Palmer, they all filled little archetypes and were performed by pretty great actors. There's no Keith David or Kurt Russell carrying the remake. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a fine actress and Joel Edgerton is okay but neither of them are the quality from the first film. It turns the characters from people that you care about to just generic people that are getting picked off. i agree with this, but will always go to bat for the "Norweigan" actors in The Thing 2011, especially Kristofer Hivju. the dude's face was made for horror, it contains multitudes
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lunael1982 posted:Started watching "30 Coins" half reluctantly in bed out of boredom and under fever because of the influenza. After two episodes I liked the actors and the money is really well spent on this show in CGI, locations etc. but it was just little too telenovella for my taste. Fast forward after episode three and I can already see that this is the pinnacle of not too artsy or "Emmy haunting" tv shows. Miraculously the soapy telenovella, religious horror and conspiracy plot just works better than it would have any right to. It shows that there is some real talent and love behind this show. I highly recommend sticking with it. Season 2 is insane, they broke the knob turning it up to 11
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It's a closer timeline but supposedly it's going to be 28 Months Later. If it was Boyle I might think about but fuuuck do I hate Garland.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's a closer timeline but supposedly it's going to be 28 Months Later.
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Dredd is excellent but it's such a fluke against his other stuff that I have to imagine there was something else going on.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Dredd is excellent but it's such a fluke against his other stuff that I have to imagine there was something else going on. Karl Urban:Judge Dredd::Ryan Reynolds:Deadpool. Urban is a huge Dreddhead and gets the character the way Reynolds "gets" Deadpool. One of the first studio notes was "Hey, since we're paying Hollywood Hunk Karl Urban to be in this, do you think you could take your helmet off for the ladies?" to which Urban replied "gently caress you, Dredd doesn't take his helmet off"
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's a closer timeline but supposedly it's going to be 28 Months Later. gently caress me it should be 28 hours later and just be the insane collapse of London.
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loving Moron posted:gently caress me it should be 28 hours later and just be the insane collapse of London. Change it to Paris from the end of 28 Weeks, an entire movie of the actual "society is destroyed by the ravening hordes" part of the outbreak, just 2 hours of the first 10 minutes of Dawn of the Dead and it ends with the characters trapped on a roof or something watching the nukes coming down. I liked 28 Weeks Later a lot... and then we got that little flash out the tunnel at the end and well I've been waiting for the movie above ever since then.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's a closer timeline but supposedly it's going to be 28 Months Later. I'm not sure if I'm following this. You'd be interested in a sequel to 28 Days Later but only if the writer of 28 Days Later isn't going to be involved?
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JonathonSpectre posted:Change it to Paris from the end of 28 Weeks, an entire movie of the actual "society is destroyed by the ravening hordes" part of the outbreak, just 2 hours of the first 10 minutes of Dawn of the Dead and it ends with the characters trapped on a roof or something watching the nukes coming down.  I've seriously been waiting 17 years for the news that a sequel is going forward.
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Crescent Wrench posted:I'm not sure if I'm following this. You'd be interested in a sequel to 28 Days Later but only if the writer of 28 Days Later isn't going to be involved? I actually didn't realize Garland wrote that movie. Not sure how to think about that. Honestly I don't think we need another 28 ___ later movie at all, but to answer your question Garland being involved in a movie at this point will make me not want to watch it.
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How do you feel about Sunshine because Garland wrote that one as well.
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what's the beef with Garland? he's not the best writer by any stretch but i've never thought he's outrageously bad
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I get weird misogynist vibes from him. I dunno, maybe it's just me but he skeeves me out. His collaborations with Boyle* have been pretty good and he may or may not have actually directed Dredd (supposedly he didn't actually shoot anything but was 100% responsible for director level decisions during editing) which is great but Ex Machina grossed me out and nothing else I've seen that he's directed has changed my mind about that. *except The Beach
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Sunshine and all other space horrors are 10/10s even if they're Jason X
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Dang what the heck why didn’t anyone tell me Chase from 24 is in the Empty Man
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ruddiger posted:Dang what the heck why didn’t anyone tell me Chase from 24 is in the Empty Man james badge dale gives such good neurotic nervy guy energy, he radiates some sort of anxiety
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We'll see how this pans out. Russ McKamey is under investigation. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/11/02/tennessee-mckamey-manor-investigation-hulu-documentary/71420749007/
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Reckless Ben hosed this dude up and it’s so satisfying. Starts here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mjwoLYGr0
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I can't believe that no one mentioned the next piece of news in that 28 Years Later article; that it's a trilogy of sequel films they are shopping around.
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PriorMarcus posted:I can't believe that no one mentioned the next piece of news in that 28 Years Later article; that it's a trilogy of sequel films they are shopping around. Is there enough material in the concept to do more than one more film?
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M_Sinistrari posted:Is there enough material in the concept to do more than one more film? We already had two and there wasn't.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Is there enough material in the concept to do more than one more film? No, of course not. Even the first film gives up on being about the infected halfway through.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Is there enough material in the concept to do more than one more film? It's like asking me if there's enough material in the concept of The Strangers to justify a) the two films we already got before this year, and/or b) the three films we're getting this year (yes we're getting 3 The Strangers films this year, first one is in May): I don't think there is, but with how good the films we've gotten so far and how good the creatives involved are (everything Garland's done has ruled, I love Men), I completely trust it until/unless I'm in the middle of watching it suck, which hasn't happened yet
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M_Sinistrari posted:Is there enough material in the concept to do more than one more film? 28 Millenniumialls Later. It's just Dune, with zombies. Or Vampire Hunter D. With zombies.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Is there enough material in the concept to do more than one more film? Is there enough stupid people left in that world to make stupid decisions so the rage virus gets spread again.
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