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Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Bob696 on August 23, 2006, 21:04:23
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Colin 009 on August 23, 2006, 21:11:51
I know I hate remakes, :twisted:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: wing nut on August 23, 2006, 21:19:46
tut tut tut  [-X     unbelievable
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: bullfrog on August 23, 2006, 21:25:10
Saw a poster on bus stop yesterday and wondered myself ! :(
Original was cracking movie !
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Karen696 on August 24, 2006, 00:48:10
In the original the cop, played by a young Edward Woodward (?) was a virgin, it was sort of essential to the plot.  Nicholas Cage playing a virgin   :lol:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: discograham on August 25, 2006, 03:52:13
So who want's to start the list off of American cr*p films copied poorly from great british ones ?

The Italian Job

Lord of the Flys

Titanic ... Cameron's version..( Best british version was "A night to remember" with Kenneth Moore )

Solaris... George Clooney ( Russian original far superior )

Go on... thats just a few to get us started...
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Bulli on August 25, 2006, 14:04:32
why are there 4 d's in Edward Woodward?





























because it would be Ewar woowar...
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: the loon on August 25, 2006, 19:29:19
the one saving grace I can see here is its a Nick Cage movie but after fiasco's like the italian job (set in LA whats that all about  :?: ) Get Carter with sly stalone(Durrrr aaaaadrian there shooting at me  :? ) amongst others I'm not getting my hopes up
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Rich_P on August 25, 2006, 20:43:20
Quote from: "discograham"
So who want's to start the list off of American cr*p films copied poorly from great british ones ?

The Italian Job

Lord of the Flys

Titanic ... Cameron's version..( Best british version was "A night to remember" with Kenneth Moore )

Solaris... George Clooney ( Russian original far superior )

Go on... thats just a few to get us started...

I'm just waiting for the Battle of Britain (1969) to be remade by the Americans to make it look like the Americans were what saved us all on their own in the Battle of Britain.  :roll:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Grumpy on August 25, 2006, 22:20:02
War of the worlds

The time machine

The ladykillers

Gone in sixty seconds

all ruined :cry:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: the loon on August 25, 2006, 22:24:23
Quote from: "Rich_P"
I'm just waiting for the Battle of Britain (1969) to be remade by the Americans to make it look like the Americans were what saved us all on their own in the Battle of Britain.  :roll:


Well they say they won the war single handedly anyway (take U235 for example) so why should we start doubting them now
 :roll:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: TULL on August 25, 2006, 23:19:12
for some reason these people think they can make them better, how deluded can they get
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Range Rover Blues on August 26, 2006, 17:05:15
At least the 'hero' get's burned alive at the end of the wicker man, so that's something to look foreward to (not a fan of nick cage you see).

Oh, add Get Carter to the list, classic original, crap remake.

The (Italian?) job, what a travisty but then the yanks never got into the original.

Thomas Crown affair, good remake, I like the slick slight-of-hand execution of the robbery, but the original was still a 'better' film.

Often I think it's whichever film you see first is the one you prefer, but hollywud is really scraping the barrel a bit at the moment, not that I think the Wicker man was a bad film, far from it, but take away al the subtlety and acting that the ynaks don't seem to get and you have a pretty weak tale to tell.

And how on earth will they get the action-packed car chase into it :roll:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Garin on August 27, 2006, 20:26:08
It's not often that they do a good remake I think they should of left The Whicker Man alone, there can't be that many films left to remake whats next The deliverance
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: adafish on August 27, 2006, 21:24:03
sorry saw the thread and thought it was something to do with me TRADE.....BOB knows
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: LOFTY on August 28, 2006, 18:02:47
Gone in sixty seconds, was american the first time as well, and was made with no special camera trickery, half the time the roads where public.

Saw the making of the first film, they were nuts. 8)
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Rich_P on August 28, 2006, 18:15:03
Quote from: "ada110crew"
sorry saw the thread and thought it was something to do with me TRADE.....BOB knows
I know too.  :wink:  :lol:
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Evilgoat on August 28, 2006, 18:18:17
Quote from: "Grumpy"
War of the worlds

The time machine

The ladykillers

Gone in sixty seconds

all ruined :cry:


There is a remake of War-Of-the-Worlds in progress. Jeff Wayne gave permission for some of the Musical to be in there with the original storyline and then after seeing the first cut, pulled the permission, hence why the Prologue is almost but not quite the Musicals prologue.

Jeff Wayne has another company tied up into a film of the Musical version :)
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Bob696 on August 28, 2006, 19:11:46
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm BBQ ............................


oooppps back on topic

Worst remake EVER has got to be the French film Nikita remade as The Assassin with one of the Fonda women.

The original was very dark, forbiding and scary. The remake was very bland. It would have been OK if you hadnt seen the french version
Title: Is NOTHING safe from the hollywood butchers
Post by: Colin 009 on August 28, 2006, 19:28:00
Quote from: "Bob696"
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm BBQ ............................


oooppps back on topic

Worst remake EVER has got to be the French film Nikita remade as The Assassin with one of the Fonda women.

The original was very dark, forbiding and scary. The remake was very bland. It would have been OK if you hadnt seen the french version


I second that, a crap film the assassin. A lot of european films have been ruined by the yanks. :evil:
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