New Video Games/ Movies

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

There's a good chance this will be an incoherent mess. The miniseries adaptation of The Stand was based on the original, shorter version of the novel, ran for six hours, and still cut out a lot of stuff. Now they're proposing to cut that in half?

http://www.slashfilm.com/stand-info/

No, no, no, no, and NO!!!

The Stand is one of my favorite books and I won't stand for it being butchered on the big screen.

[Swordfish941]

Wow, I was right. Blended is a fucking hunk of shit yet it's doing well at the box office.

http://www.mlive.com/movies/index.ss...andlers_l.html

[funkychinaman]

I'm not sure how they plan on bringing characters back to life here.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/fox-...vatar-sequels/

[CGB92Fan]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

I can't seem to recall any other time when a reboot/reimagining of a franchise was done by the original creators. What's the point then if you're not bringing in someone fresh?

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/mg...ot-1201196082/

Night Of The Living Dead (1990) had the updated screenplay written by Romero I believe & was directed by Tom Savini...does that count? Either I love that version it kicks ass, still bummed the Dawn Of The Dead remake wasn't its sequel.

Recently bought Lone Survivor & Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

I'm not sure how they plan on bringing characters back to life here.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/fox-...vatar-sequels/

Why do I feel like I'm the only person in the entire world who actually likes that movie?

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

Why do I feel like I'm the only person in the entire world who actually likes that movie?

Apparently you weren't alone if they're filming back to back sequels.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by CGB92Fan

Night Of The Living Dead (1990) had the updated screenplay written by Romero I believe & was directed by Tom Savini...does that count? Either I love that version it kicks ass, still bummed the Dawn Of The Dead remake wasn't its sequel.

Recently bought Lone Survivor & Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Well, budget reasons don't really count. There are plenty of examples of filmmakers remaking short films or extremely low budget films they made in the past. Michael Mann redid LA Takedown as Heat, and PT Anderson expanded his short The Dirk Diggler Story into Boogie Nights.

[funkychinaman]

This should be interesting. Good cast, good directing, good production values.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahFWvk1NgfY

[The Wierd It]

Originally Posted by Swordfish941

Why do I feel like I'm the only person in the entire world who actually likes that movie?

You mean aside from all the people who tried to top themselves because reality isn't as "perfect" as Pandora?

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

This should be interesting. Good cast, good directing, good production values.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahFWvk1NgfY

This actually looks pretty kickass. I was going to complain about Shia LaBeouf being in it, but looks like he's not going to be playing an unbearable, annoying pansy.