OLD BOY REMAKE!? WILL ANYONE SEE THE NEW STAR TREK?

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Permalink Reply by Jovenza on December 9, 2008 at 1:49am

I don't want an Oldboy remake that would be bad.


Yes i will watch Star Trek 2009

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Permalink Reply by Ella on February 12, 2009 at 8:03am

me 2

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Permalink Reply by Its all part of the plan on December 9, 2008 at 2:46am

i really dont want to see a remake of oldboy because the original is fucking awesome.

yes i will definitely go see the new star treck movie

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Permalink Reply by FE4R on December 9, 2008 at 9:36am

1) I think remaking Old Boy would be blasphemy ;-)

2) No, I won't. I'm not really into Star Trek

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Permalink Reply by Death2theMovies on December 9, 2008 at 4:08pm

I think everyone agrees that a remake of Old Boy is just not a good idea, in fact, it's an absolute horrible idea.

As far as Star Trek goes, who wants to see it that wouldn't actually consider themselves a fan of Star Trek?

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Permalink Reply by Rabid Scotsman on December 9, 2008 at 6:44pm

There is no point to an Oldboy remake and there won't be one. If it happens with Will Smith, it will be shit. Remember the amazing script for I Am Legend and what happened to it once he signed on. I love the guy but movies get messed up for his stardom.

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Permalink Reply by Confused Matthew on December 9, 2008 at 6:56pm

I have absolutely no idea why re-making the classics has become a trend in our day and age. I could understand if people were re-making bad movies. Maybe the idea or premise was good, but the film didn’t turn out well, so they try again, but why the classics? The whole reason they became classics is because they were great.

Has this ever turned out well?

Planet of the Apes – Disaster.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Disaster.

King Kong – Disaster.

In order to avoid the shame of the remake, we now have the re-boot. This has turned out well in a few cases (most notably Batman Begins / The Dark Knight), but there are just some things that shouldn’t be re-made or re-booted. Star Trek is one of them.

As I’ve said before, we don’t need another Star Trek film, we don’t need another Star Trek show, we don’t need another Star Trek anything. We’ve got ten (gong on eleven) films, four television series (I do not consider the ‘technically’ fifth series to be a show at all), and every one of these elements of the franchise available on DVD and Blue Ray.

Isn’t that enough!?

If not, then when will it be enough? Should this go on forever, or should we just enjoy what we have for once? I say stop trying to revitalize the franchise, stop trying to re-invent the franchise, stop making movies, stop making shows, just stop!

Star Trek is fine the way it is, as we have it now, just leave it alone.

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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on December 9, 2008 at 7:13pm

"Has this ever turned out well?"

Alien
The Thing
The Magnificent Seven
A Fistful Of Dollars
The Birdcage
Scarface
Twelve Monkeys
Sommersby
The Departed
Dawn Of The Dead
Funny Games
True Lies
The Italian Job
Friday The Thirteenth
The Fly
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Metropolis
Cape Fear
Evil Dead 2
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Man On Fire
Payback
Solaris
3:10 To Yuma
Downfall
Little Shop Of Horrors
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Assault On Precinct 13
Reservoir Dogs
The Last House On The Left
Star Wars

No... never....

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Permalink Reply by Death2theMovies on December 9, 2008 at 9:01pm

some of those are definitely arguable, but there are some good one's in there as well. The films that Confused Matthew specifically pointed out were all undoubtedly horrendous.

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Permalink Reply by Confused Matthew on December 10, 2008 at 4:24am

...Dude, I said re-makes of classic films, not remakes of obscure films, cult classics, novel-to-films or stage-to-films (Payback, Dawn of the Dead, Man on Fire, Little Shop of Horrors, etc) . Some of the films on your list weren’t even remakes, they were direct sequels. I’m actually not sure what your list was suppose to conclude.

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Permalink Reply by Captain Funk on December 10, 2008 at 11:44am

How is Oldboy a classic? It's a great film, but it's only a few years old. Plus it's not THAT well known by mainstream audiences.
Also, the original Dawn of the Dead has a bigger audience than Oldboy.

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Permalink Reply by Confused Matthew on December 10, 2008 at 6:01pm

I know. I wasn't talking about Oldboy.

Never seen it by the way, is it any good?

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