For the three boobs out there who wanted to see that three-boobed lady of the evening in the new film: here you go. Actually, I like Colin Farrell’s reaction and the way the scene is played in the trailer, so hopefully it’ll be as brief in the final cut. The one thing I’m concerned about is I can pretty clearly see who the bad guys are in this remake because the trailer gives them away or hell, the casting is just too obvious. Then again, I’ll prepare to be surprised if I’m wrong. Maybe.
Hmmm… Let’s see now… Swarzenegger Negation Remake Project tally: Conan, Total Recall, (some would say) Predators. At this point, all we need are reboots of The Running Man, The Terminator and maybe one or two of his better action films. Commando and Raw Deal are high comedies with gunplay to me, it’s too early to remake True Lies (which is too much fun to remake anyway) and no, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Eraser or Collateral Damage reboots I’d not even want to see no matter who made them. Of course, I’m kidding (but then again, maybe Hollywood isn’t)…
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I think the overall idea here is that he made a lot of those guilty pleasure action movies. Hollywood isn’t as dumb as they seem. They look at these movies and realize that they have a bunch of fantastic ideas that can be re-fleshed out to be the blockbuster that it could be without the chuckles of “well it was a stupid movie, but it was still cool”. Update effects, more realistic fights, better acting and tie in modern pop culture concepts and you can rebirth classic action flicks as huge, lasting successes.
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I agree, but I saw the original a few times (OK, at least six) during its 1990 release and it was a HUGE blockbuster back then. Some younger viewers who are relatively new to the film see it as far cheesier than it is (for the time it was pretty incredible save for a few awful prosthetic effects), but you can say that about pretty much anything Verhoeven has directed. I recall (ha ha) it debuted at #1 and I think was there for a few weeks in some markets, was nominated for three Oscars (all technical, of course), winning one for special effects.
I don’t think Hollywood is dumb when it comes to picking what to remake (well, sometimes – there were a bunch of 60’s TV show comedies that got turned into terrible films). The issue is we’re seeing so many remakes coming so fast (and even faster to video on demand and later Blu-Ray/DVD) that it almost makes more sense to wait a few months for films to slide onto pay-per-view or pay a bit more for a physical copy in six months (or less these days) if the flick is a keeper. I’m not big on Imax, 3D or anything gimmicky, as the best films don’t need all that extra technical wizardry to be good.
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