Remakes: Totally Missing the Point or Transcending Them Sources?

[Captain Russ]

In this corner is a gigantic FUCK YOU and EAT ALL THE DICKS REMIX for the fine fucktards at Fox.

NO NO NO.

WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Heart: Remember, Joel Silver, when I promised I would kill you last?

Silvershits: That's right! You did!

Heart: I lied.

[Anderson]

It's Fox.

I just want to say to all the little fucktards that paid cash to see Avatar multiple times...cough...THIS IS JUST THE START.


They've got bigger and dumber things down the pipeline. Such things as a Phantom of the Paradise remake and a newer darker FANTASTIC FOUR.

[Abraham Smashington]

Shit, fuck a darker F4. Make a GOOD F4.

[Anderson]

Shit, fuck a darker F4. Make a GOOD F4.

Well, "dark" is their code word on all the projects they like. They're like a 13 year old kid buying comics in 1992. That's all they want to see is either 3-D or dark or remake.

If you want to make an original property at FOX, you better take that shit through Searchlight. They main studio doesn't want to put up the cash for it unless your name is Cameron or you have another studio underwriting it.

[Abraham Smashington]

The problem is that they cast the WRONG people in all of the roles in F4 minus Torch and to an extent The Thing. Shit, they could make that movie PG and it could rock. See The Incredibles. Fuckin' Fox. I blame Ari and Bryan.

[Anderson]

The problem is that they cast the WRONG people in all of the roles in F4 minus Torch and to an extent The Thing. Shit, they could make that movie PG and it could rock. See The Incredibles. Fuckin' Fox. I blame Ari and Bryan.

Blame Tom Rothman. That guy makes Michael Eisner seem level-headed.

[Abraham Smashington]

If Avatar would have tanked, would Rothman have been let go?

[Abraham Smashington]

own real-world spin on this original premise: a retired elite special forces operative sees his daughter kidnapped and is told she’ll die unless he gets on a plane and kills the rival of a nasty exiled dictator. In the original, Schwarzenegger jumped off the plane before takeoff, and killed everyone involved in the kidnap plot, in a real beefcake turn that followed Terminator. Ayer’s protagonist will be less brawny, but more skilled in covert tactics and weaponry. Hopefully the new version will hang onto some of the fun spirit of the original, the first of several film collaborations between Schwarzenegger and producer Joel Silver where they blew up everything in sight.

GODDAMMIT.

[Captain Russ]

There's no one alive currently who carries the same screen presence as Arnold.

Not the Rock, not that mongoloid playing Conan, and certainly not any of the pretty XY chromosomal qweefs that line casting office walls.

It's dumb. But like you said, it's Fox. I shouldn't be surprised that they continue to dig that mass grave, but somehow they continue to incite my nerdrage.

[nerdious dorkus]

If anything, blame Scott. Scott's the one fellating Fox between the three.

[Abraham Smashington]

I don't think anyone can recreate the action films from the 80's. It's a different time and our current crop of actors just don't fit the bill. HOWEVER, The Rock has more charisma than Ahnold, (IMO) and if used PROPERLY could be amazing. Just not in roles that AHNOLD already covered.

[Anderson]

If Avatar would have tanked, would Rothman have been let go?

When it looked like it was going to tank, Rothman was preparing his exit strategy (going to Sony).


FOX will kill his contract anytime he loses a major. Avatar would've done it by itself. Now, it would take 4-5 biggies in a row. Avatar earned him another few years/500 million cushion.

[Timothy225]

So, who's playing Matrix? Bennet? Jenny? Sully? Nobody, NOBODY, can replace David Patrick Kelly as Sully, Fox!

[Captain Russ]

I don't think anyone can recreate the action films from the 80's. It's a different time and our current crop of actors just don't fit the bill. HOWEVER, The Rock has more charisma than Ahnold, (IMO) and if used PROPERLY could be amazing. Just not in roles that AHNOLD already covered.

I think he'd be great in a Running Man remake.

Because there is a justifiable reason to remake that property, where Dynamo gets the Maria Conchita Alonso ass.

[Abraham Smashington]

I think he'd be great in a Running Man remake.

Because there is a justifiable reason to remake that property, where Dynamo gets the Maria Conchita Alonso ass.

Gamer is a Running Man remake essentially (and I still love it).