The Thing

lol

I am nothing if not consistent

Love this movie and enjoyed the game a lot too tbh.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:19 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I just find interesting how all these awful remakes (no wait, they're calling them reimaginings), for all their excess and ultra graphic violence, look like highly sanitized, disinfected versions of the original movies.

― Marco Damiani, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

^ this

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a great example of this

it's 100% gorier than the original but it still can't replicate the low-budget sleaziness

The wikipedia entry for this sounds vaguely encouraging, though. They WILL use animatronics for a lot of it. And they're going with a deliberately slow pace, to match the 1982 version. I dunno, this could be pretty rad as long as somebody gets to pour bourbon into a computer

Why is it being pushed as a prequel? "Three days before the astonishing events of the original film... exactly the same thing happened!"

IGNORE ME

I dunno, this could be pretty rad as long as somebody gets to pour bourbon into a computer

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:11 AM (4 minutes ago)

J&B scotch iirc

Ha I should have remembered that, I love J&B

They WILL use animatronics for a lot of it. And they're going with a deliberately slow pace, to match the 1982 version

this is all PR bullshit

Oh yeah? Dish, dish!

Xp You're all PR bullshit

j/k

the makers of these remakes/"reboots"/reimaginings ALWAYS say this kind of thing. "We love the original movie because it's so perfect - we are going to be very faithful to the tone and spirit of the original" yadda yadda. It's part of the schtick.

Yeah, all these remakes all go filter-happy in an effort to recreate the original scuzzy visuals, with the result being this surreal disconnect between reality and some TV commercial version of reality.

hey shakey you know who else says that kind of thing? your mom. she reimagined my schtick last weekend, though, was pretty awesome

*cries*

*does the knucks with imaginary friends*

Wellllll here's the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uHzlAjpDSEM

Yeah, all these remakes all go filter-happy in an effort to recreate the original scuzzy visuals, with the result being this surreal disconnect between reality and some TV commercial version of reality.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:43 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^ this this this, more than anything, this. fucking hate the tendency in contemporary horror to make everything look like a fucking audi commercial with added "grit".

where do i know that "hey lo lo ley" scandewegian yodelling song in the background from?

Sound of Music

LOL Uncle Owen from the Star Wars prequels is in this.

trailer predictably reveals several bad decisions right off the bat

oh my gosh that looks shit

ie, mixed-gender cast, CGI face-morphing, car crashes, various shots cribbed from the original

that's the funniest tagline ever.

in a place with nothing...they found....BWOMMMMM.....SOMETHING

lol it stars "Kim Bubbs"

Sound of Music

rly? have never seen sound of music, guess it's achieved full background media ubiquity tho.

ie, mixed-gender cast, CGI face-morphing, car crashes, various shots cribbed from the original

don't see why any of these are bad or uninevitable.

trailer looks okay-ish, if unremarkable. points for fairly naturalistic cinematography for a contemporary film and a suitably grizzled cast. lead seems terribly unconvincing, but i'll reserve judgement on that. the fact that she's a fish out of water seems to be the point, so i won't fault her casting on that score. a few details (such as the black & white dog chewing his enclosure) suggest that it's going to be a straight-up remake, but who knows. maybe it's just the dog that escapes at the end to complete the chain...

like the idea that it'll have a longer, slower build-up than the original, which pretty much hit the ground running.

was kidding about the Sound of Music, didn't really notice the music

I dunno if I wanna get into why all of those things are particularly bad. The mixed gender thing should be fairly obvious, I would think.

The Dawn of the Dead remake is a lot better than any of the recent horror remakes I can think of.

Yeah, DOD remake is pretty fun and it's quite unlike Snyder's subsequent films. Best opening credits sequence of modern times too.

yeah, the opening scene of the DOD remake is brilliant. don't think the rest of the movie really lives up to what the opening promises, though. failure to follow-through on zombie-baby chestbuster kind of broke my heart.

belly burster, w/e...

re the yodelling: eurovision, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3_USxKQ34

1:20 in

i really want to like this but.. there's a shaggy funkiness to carpenter's movie that goes beyond kurt russell and which seems.. well, not in evidence here. everybody has great hair, for god's sake! in an antarctic research station!!! in the 1982 movie there was this kind of crass bonhomie, pot smoking, everybody a little nutty, as you would be. it's funny how sequel peeps will architect everything down to the nth degree as far as plot and set continuities go but then just throw hairstyles out the window, and the look of the movie, too. why not match the cinematography as well as the plot? why's it all got to be this ultra-contrasty shiny wetness?

like, the research station looks positively tasteful. it would not be. it would be dirty and drafty and cold and the lighting would suck.

Man, no good will come of this. Why don't they ever remake bad movies and make them better? Why must they remake classic movies? I can name a million on-paper solid horror films that could be better.

I just find interesting how all these awful remakes (no wait, they're calling them reimaginings), for all their excess and ultra graphic violence, look like highly sanitized, disinfected versions of the original movies.

okay, so tracer OTM. especially about the "shaggy funkiness" and dirty, careless, human lived-in-ness of carpenter's research station. also the lack of oddball personality, both in the cast and the cinematic style.

lack of (apparent) personality in this new version, i mean.

yep. this movie is POINTLESS

you might even say it's lacking a certain.... SOMETHING

y'all should go and see the troll hunter instead, if you want quirky gritty original norwegian horror. well more comic fantasy than horror but anyway, it's good.

the original is playing in LA tomorrow on a double-bill w/ cronenberg's 'the fly'

trollhunter is fun

this trailer is like what happened to elaine's hair over the course of the seinfeld run.

seeing trollhunter on sunday. excited!