Fafhrd on 19/3/2007 at 21:31
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Hell, here's a few of the remakes they're coming out with in the next few years if you don't believe how hopeless the situation is...
The Wild Bunch
The Seven Samurai
The Lavender Hill Mob
Don't Look Now
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The 39 Steps
I would like links to some sort of proof that these remakes are in fact on the horizon, because I've heard nothing of them. Especially the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari remake, because that seems like a crazy idea on so many levels.
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Call me what you will, it's not going to change the fact that 300 is a huge success while half of the moviegoing population haven't even fucking heard of Pan's Labyrinth.
What part of "highest grossing spanish language film of all time" makes you think no-one's heard of Pan's Labyrinth?
OnionBob on 19/3/2007 at 22:17
Quote Posted by 21st Century Schizoid Man
Hardly anything that comes out blows me away anymore and it seems that to see a good movie that actually gets the old neurons firing you have to look, look, look and then make the trek to a seedy little theater in the middle of Bumfuck. Granted, movies have been taking a steady nosedive since the '60s, but I remember back in the mid '90s when classics were still coming out at a pretty decent rate. If we had a bad year, at least most of the stuff coming out wasn't a remake of a classic like Get Carter or the Italian Job.
hahahaahhgha you're a fucking moron
KingAl on 20/3/2007 at 09:20
Incidentally on its release Get Carter was seen as violent crap by many reviewers:
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"soulless and nastily erotic...virtuoso viciousness", "sado-masochistic fantasy", and "one would rather wash one's mouth out with soap than recommend it"
A similar reaction was made to A Clockwork Orange. Now, I'm not about to suggest that 300 is comparable, but it just highlights the way in which a popular and critical perception that no 'classics' are being made doesn't necessarily mean it will be regarded as true in future. Hollywood has always created piffle, but history has forgotten the more gratuitous examples, hence your assumption that they're doing it more.
