Unspeakably Awful 'Foundation' Movie To Be Made

External Since: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 108

Kurt Busiek wrote:
> On 2008-08-08 09:21:21 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
> <mscottschilling.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> said:
>
>> Kurt Busiek wrote:
>>> On 2008-08-08 08:52:58 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
>>> <mscottschilling.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> said:
>>>
>>>> Kurt Busiek wrote:
>>>>> On 2008-08-07 23:42:22 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
>>>>> <mscottschilling.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sean O'Hara wrote:
>>>>>>> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful erilar
>>>>>>> declared:
>>>>>>>> In article <3hhh94pf6teak3tcscde6tbarbpuh6d1n8.RemoveThis@4ax.com>,
>>>>>>>> Jack Bohn <jackbohn.RemoveThis@bright.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What, they remade it? And worse?!?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Isn't that usually the case with remakes?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No. Remakes of bad movies, and adaptations of classic books
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> have been filmed before often turn out as good or better than
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> original -- The Maltese Falcon, Wizard of Oz, Robin Hood,
>>>>>>> Three
>>>>>>> Musketeers, Prisoner of Zenda, Dracula, Lord of the Rings ....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hoever, remakes of classic films and film versions of TV
>>>>>> sitcoms
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> are AFAIK uniformly awful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. "The Fugitive" OTOH, was quite fun.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the remakes of FREAKY FRIDAY was considerably better than
>>>>> the
>>>>> original, as was the remake of THE PARENT TRAP.
>>>>
>>>> I think we're stretching the meaning of "classic".
>>>
>>> In the former case, perhaps. In the latter, I don't think so.
>>> It's
>>> just a different demographic that considered it so...
>>>
>>>>> The remake of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR was an improvement, too.
>>>>
>>>> And I enjoyed that recent "Italian Job" more than I did the
>>>> Michael
>>>> Caine version. Still, see my first comment.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, it's a good thing no one will ever have the chutzpah to
>>>> remake "The Manchurian Candidate". Or "Sleuth".
>>>
>>> Oh, I don't know. Maybe they could Michael Caine to play the
>>> other
>>> role!
>>
>> That's an idea. Though Olivier is kind of old and dead to play
>> Milo.
>
> We'll get some other Brit with a long face and good cheekbones.
>
> It'll be like having a young Olivier!

But you know they'd ruin it. There ought to be a law.

External Since: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 22

On 2008-08-08 09:38:37 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschilling DeleteThis @hotmail.com> said:

> Kurt Busiek wrote:
>> On 2008-08-08 09:21:21 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
>> <mscottschilling DeleteThis @hotmail.com> said:
>>
>>> Kurt Busiek wrote:
>>>> On 2008-08-08 08:52:58 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
>>>> <mscottschilling DeleteThis @hotmail.com> said:
>>>>
>>>>> Kurt Busiek wrote:
>>>>>> On 2008-08-07 23:42:22 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
>>>>>> <mscottschilling DeleteThis @hotmail.com> said:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sean O'Hara wrote:
>>>>>>>> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful erilar
>>>>>>>> declared:
>>>>>>>>> In article <3hhh94pf6teak3tcscde6tbarbpuh6d1n8 DeleteThis @4ax.com>,
>>>>>>>>> Jack Bohn <jackbohn DeleteThis @bright.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What, they remade it? And worse?!?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Isn't that usually the case with remakes?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No. Remakes of bad movies, and adaptations of classic books
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> have been filmed before often turn out as good or better than
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> original -- The Maltese Falcon, Wizard of Oz, Robin Hood,
>>>>>>>> Three
>>>>>>>> Musketeers, Prisoner of Zenda, Dracula, Lord of the Rings ....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hoever, remakes of classic films and film versions of TV
>>>>>>> sitcoms
>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>> are AFAIK uniformly awful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. "The Fugitive" OTOH, was quite fun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of the remakes of FREAKY FRIDAY was considerably better than
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> original, as was the remake of THE PARENT TRAP.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we're stretching the meaning of "classic".
>>>>
>>>> In the former case, perhaps. In the latter, I don't think so.
>>>> It's
>>>> just a different demographic that considered it so...
>>>>
>>>>>> The remake of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR was an improvement, too.
>>>>>
>>>>> And I enjoyed that recent "Italian Job" more than I did the
>>>>> Michael
>>>>> Caine version. Still, see my first comment.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, it's a good thing no one will ever have the chutzpah to
>>>>> remake "The Manchurian Candidate". Or "Sleuth".
>>>>
>>>> Oh, I don't know. Maybe they could Michael Caine to play the
>>>> other
>>>> role!
>>>
>>> That's an idea. Though Olivier is kind of old and dead to play
>>> Milo.
>>
>> We'll get some other Brit with a long face and good cheekbones.
>>
>> It'll be like having a young Olivier!
>
> But you know they'd ruin it. There ought to be a law.

"Don't make it bad"?

"It's a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder"?

What would we call that law, I wonder?

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