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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on October 31, 2005, 06:11:37 am
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http://www.moviehole.net/news/whats_this_theyre_remaking_pre.html
The first Predator was very good, despite some of the Predator effects being so out of date. I don't really see why they would remake it, other than they couldn't come up with anything decent for a Predator 3 storyline.
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...hell no.
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Cool!
Hey! I have a better idea. Terminator 2 - The Remake! :doubt:
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"WWE superstar"
Says it all, really, about how utterly ****e this would be.
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It could be worse... I mean... they could get Paul W. Anderson to direct...
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He isn't that bad of a director.....
He just can't write worth a damn.
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Just... no.
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Predator with no Schwarzenegger... how about no...
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behold the sound of my admiration for predator being flushed down the toilet.
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:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
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Suddenly AvP is going to look good.
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I have this terrible fear that one day soon, some imbecile is going to get it into his head that it'd be really cool to do a remake of The Birds...
And then we'll be truly ****ed.
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Just hope it isn't George Lucas.
I've never seen the Birds, so just pretend I made a "shoots first" style joke.
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:D
You should. It's a Hitchcock classic (possibly his finest film), and pant-wettingly scary, in the kind of sinister-ominous-tension-building way that modern horror completely fails to be. :yes: Just beautifully done.
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Why the hell would you remake predator? A jungle in 1987 looks the same as a jungle in 2005. A guy in a cool alien costume in 1987 looks the same as a guy in a cool alien costume in 2005. Plus the original Predator is a great little film and does about as much as you can with that particular concept. What a monumental waste or time and effort.
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And has a complete lack of Arnie. Granted, he ain't exactly the best actor in the world, but that's what makes his good films so good - we know we're going to get the cheesy one-liners, bad-guy-slaughtering, mud-crawling and general badassed-ness etc. delivered by Arnie. Whereas this will star some charisma-less meathead in a posing pouch from WWL or whatever the hell they call themselves these days. Nobody older than 14 will know who he is, nobody will care what happens to him, and Teh Speshul Effex!!1™, extensive though they will be, will not make up for it. Plus they'll add in a "crazy" hip-hop and/or nu-metal soundtrack a la Fast And The Furious or Triple-X, and be directed like a music video....
*breathes*
Gah....
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*breathes*
Gah....
*Raises eyebrow* 'Guh....', indeed
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I am just waiting for Predator 2 remake with Will Smith and some other sassy black cop throwing heee-larious oneliners whilst chasing the predator and shooting Swat Guns and black latex and hot chicks and whatever
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Swat Guns
Do they shoot those plastic spatula things that kill flies?
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Swat Guns
Do they shoot those plastic spatula things that kill flies?
yes with explosive spatulas (and flies)
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This is old like last weeks dirty laundry. Seriously, I saw news of this like...half a year ago.
I'm under the assumption it's pure balls. Nonsense. Noone could be so stupid as to try to REMAKE a good movie.
Oh...wait...
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I'm under the assumption it's pure balls. Nonsense. Noone could be so stupid as to try to REMAKE a good movie.
Oh...wait...
:lol:
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why dont we all just wise up and boycott remakes?
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Because once in a great while remakes are just as good as their originals? (like War of the Worlds. Spielbergs version so much more interesting than the original, even though the end was a total letdown)
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With War of the Worlds both are film versions of the book. Neither one can really claim to be the original.
I don't think there was a predator book that came out before the film though.
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why dont we all just wise up and boycott remakes?
You get my new BSG and my new Ocean's 11 off my cold dead hands or however the saying goes.
Sometimes the remakes can be better than originals (gasp!)
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remakes are only good if they ****ed up the first time, as in both of those cases they did, bsg in that they tried to be the next starwars and failed miserably, and in oceans 11 in that the first version didnt have george clooney :D
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why dont we all just wise up and boycott remakes?
You get my new BSG and my new Ocean's 11 off my cold dead hands or however the saying goes.
Sometimes the remakes can be better than originals (gasp!)
it's "you can have my %s when you pry it/them out of my cold dead hands!"
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Spielberg remaking Sugarland Express?
A TV spin-off of "The Terminator" in the works...
Schrieber on Batman Begins 2
Robocop back on duty
Lundgren returning for Universal Soldier 3?
Kirk Jones is the new Blade
Hoffman confirms Saw 3
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And that's from just that one page. It's as bad as the computer games industry these days, people would rather jump on an intellectual bandwagon than take a risk, it's as depressing as hell to be honest.
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You forgot Rocky VI. :sigh:
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Spielberg remaking Sugarland Express?
A TV spin-off of "The Terminator" in the works...
Schrieber on Batman Begins 2
Robocop back on duty
Lundgren returning for Universal Soldier 3?
Kirk Jones is the new Blade
Hoffman confirms Saw 3
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And that's from just that one page. It's as bad as the computer games industry these days, people would rather jump on an intellectual bandwagon than take a risk, it's as depressing as hell to be honest.
You do not diss Batman Begins 2 (which is a stupid name btw) without good reasons, son.
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hehe, I'm not dissing the content of them, I've never seen them so I can't really comment, I'm more annoyed that producers who are established and succesfull would rather rely on regurgutating their old stuff than trying to find new talent and writers and promoting/expanding the film industry.
It's these peoples reponsibility to the Movie industry not to simply jump on the 'quick buck' train and allow the industry to stagnate. Even Speilberg has made one 'remake' and is talking about another, what happens when a man who was hailed in the 70's as the most original and thought-provoking film-producer Hollywood has known, starts producing remakes?
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You do not diss Batman Begins 2 (which is a stupid name btw) without good reasons, son.
yes, the title should be "Batman Continues"
the third instance would be "Batman Ends"
the fourth "Batman Goes on for Just a Bit Longer"
the fifth "Batman and the Phoenix Order"
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Guess will have to wait and see what crap falls our way.
Hell if they do re-make predator it might not end up bad.
you cna have commandos and several predators fighting like crazy.. Mayhaps we can finally see a more realistic approach to surviving devastation.
In the original they sprayed the forest with the painless, granade launchers and several machineguns - they leveled a entire area and the Predator gets hit by ONE bullet!?!?
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I think it got hit by more than one bullet, but only one actually made it bleed.
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Guess will have to wait and see what crap falls our way.
Hell if they do re-make predator it might not end up bad.
you cna have commandos and several predators fighting like crazy.. Mayhaps we can finally see a more realistic approach to surviving devastation.
Umm, then that wouldn't be a remake, would it? It'd be a different film.
In the original they sprayed the forest with the painless, granade launchers and several machineguns - they leveled a entire area and the Predator gets hit by ONE bullet!?!?
No - when it kills (damn, I forget his name) the big guy with the silly hat and minigun, his mate piles in and shoots it up with his machine gun thingy. It gets hit in the leg, and the blood splashes onto the leaves. By the time the guy picks up the minigun and hoses the jungle, the predator has already jumped away into the trees (a reasonable theory, given that that's how it moves around), hence it doesn't get hit.
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Umm, then that wouldn't be a remake, would it? It'd be a different film.
When's the last time you've seen a re-make that's completely like the original?
Regardless, I wanna see a minigun dealing death.. a lot of it
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The only way a Predator movie would be anything remotely resembling decent would be if they drafted James Cameron to write/direct it.
Or me.
Anyone else will just pack it with carnage and special effects and Predator ships and ****.
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they can't remake Predator. only films that look and feel outdated can be re-made. Predator is too recent and has sequels that have come out even more recently. maybe in 20 years they can do it, but it's too soon.
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Umm, then that wouldn't be a remake, would it? It'd be a different film.
When's the last time you've seen a re-make that's completely like the original?
Regardless, I wanna see a minigun dealing death.. a lot of it
Your suggestion isn't even remotely like the original though. Predator = blokes getting bumped off by invisible monster. That's the basic idea (and the whole point of the film, in fact). You want something different. ;)
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Besides, Hollywood can't remake Predator, the soldiers are already American ;)
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well then, we set it in a contemporary setting, someplace that's hot nad has a lot of voilence... yes, I got it Iraq! yeah, the preditor shows up just after the American army secures Basra all by them selves without any healp from any other nation, then goes around killing people for fun, oh, hey that's it, the preditor is behind the insurgency, yeah, and then we kill it and Democracy flows through the land any everyone is happy all because the US saved the day for the world! yay!
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When's the last time you've seen a re-make that's completely like the original?
Never seen Gus Van Sant's version of Psycho then? :D
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well then, we set it in a contemporary setting, someplace that's hot nad has a lot of voilence... yes, I got it Iraq! yeah, the preditor shows up just after the American army secures Basra all by them selves without any healp from any other nation, then goes around killing people for fun, oh, hey that's it, the preditor is behind the insurgency, yeah, and then we kill it and Democracy flows through the land any everyone is happy all because the US saved the day for the world! yay!
Don't even ****ing joke.
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well then, we set it in a contemporary setting, someplace that's hot nad has a lot of voilence... yes, I got it Iraq! yeah, the preditor shows up just after the American army secures Basra all by them selves without any healp from any other nation, then goes around killing people for fun, oh, hey that's it, the preditor is behind the insurgency, yeah, and then we kill it and Democracy flows through the land any everyone is happy all because the US saved the day for the world! yay!
Well, that explains Fallujah I suppose..........
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Umm, then that wouldn't be a remake, would it? It'd be a different film.
When's the last time you've seen a re-make that's completely like the original?
Regardless, I wanna see a minigun dealing death.. a lot of it
Your suggestion isn't even remotely like the original though. Predator = blokes getting bumped off by invisible monster. That's the basic idea (and the whole point of the film, in fact). You want something different. ;)
No, I want lots of blokes and lots of Predators killing eachother off.
We have hight tech and termal/Uv goggles too ya know. Ha ain't that tough.
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The Predators are hunters, not soliders.
They only ever engage in open warfare when attacking a Xeno world to capture a Queen.
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No, I want lots of blokes and lots of Predators killing eachother off.
We have hight tech and termal/Uv goggles too ya know. Ha ain't that tough.
The name 'Predator' kind of indicates something that is good at hunting and killing, and which has some form of prey (i.e. people). It'd be a bit pointless to make said predator cannon fodder. You might as well call it 'meatbag', then.
Not to mention the whole storyline of the 2 movies was about hunting/being hunted.
EDIT; quotey went nutty
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I think that if they do remake Predator, they should try and repair some of the damage AVP did. Stick to the fundamentals of the original Predator, but bring the Alien universe back into the fold in a non-****ty way.
Like setting it between Aliens and Alien 3, with Weyland-Yutani sending some Colonial Marines on a standard 'lambs to the slaughter' mission to 'investigate a disturbance'. Like some ship made a crash landing at a long-abandonned outpost, reported in twice about crew members going missing and finding 'weird eggs', then stopped transmitting. The Company thinks it's because the Xenos got the base and send the Marines in. They get to the base and find a badly decomposed, decapitated Queen hung upside down by her toes in the docking bay, surrounded by Xeno corpses that've been arranged into a hellish shrine.
They spread out and keep finding more and more aliens (Xeno, Predator and otherwise) strung up around the base. The whole place has been turned into a collosal network of trophy rooms by some elite Predator that got sick of hunting inferior game, turned on the other Predators and has spent the last 300 years butchering its way across every technologically advanced world in the known universe..
That'd let them fix the AVP damage and ignore the 'way of the warrior' code of ethics. Figthing your bog-standard Predator would leave the characters lots of get-outs where they coul avoid being killed. But if they made the Predator one that'd abandonned all moral, ethical and clan codes it'd mean they'd have a free reign to give it horrific new ways to butcher the Human prey.
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All they had to do with the AVP movie was make the game "AVP 2" into a movie.
I still think the AVP movie was entertaining at least.