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I think for me remakes have potential where the original (or the most recent previous version) has dated technically. King Kong being an example where the effects in the 1930s version looked really feeble. Mind you, so did the recent CGI effects version. It was the 1970s one in between which worked best for me, though I know it's generally derided.
I understand that Jackson is doing a remake of The Dambusters next, which also makes sense to me, assuming he gets it right this time. A great story and a good old B&W film, but some really badly dated special effects. Well, they were probably pretty bad in the first place in fact.
Actually, one wonders whether there might be a compromise available in the case of some of those great classics, where someone could go in and fix the special effects but leave the original actors and general classic atmosphere. Kind of a remaster, but actually replacing the terrible plasticine bits.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: I understand that Jackson is doing a remake of The Dambusters next, which also makes sense to me, assuming he gets it right this time.
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It would be good if they did though. Release The Dambusters with the same footage apart from the actual dambusting, which is in glorious eye melting CGI, with andy serkis playing the part of the bomb.
quote:...and here you can see that I've curled into a sort of drum shape, to mimic the cylindrical nature of the bomb. To get it right I actually spent time living inside a replica of one of the original bombs [The Dambusters] used. It's funny, but after a few weeks I felt like I wasn't pretending to be a bomb, but I actually was a bomb. Peter used to joke with me on set that it would certainly explain my 'explosive personality', ha ha.
That's not true, by the way, I'm really very nice.
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There is the option of getting Fiddy Cent to play Guy Gibson. End of problem.
Yeah, I remember the Star Wars CGI travesty. But I think machines and explosions and that tend to work quite well in CGI, and probably even better in slightly crackly black & white, in the dark, while it's raining.
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i love spooks even more than i love myself. otherwise everything's a bit meh really. curb your enthusiasm is excellent. and the shield, i love that but it aint on at the moment.
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also, they're doing another season of the o.c. which will be total shit for sure. i mean, third season was crap, but it was still seth and summer and ryan and marissa and so was great. but they've killed off marissa now so it hardly seems worth watching, though i probably will anyway no matter how bad it gets
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well, I've had a pretty bad day, and am looking forward to getting home and watching Street Trash, that I finally got last night. I'll probably write something predictable and shallow on the subject of a film that nobody cares about tomorrow morning. So, one to look out for.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Stuff he said...
I can't really argue with you, thorn. I'm just disappointed that infernal affairs isn't really getting its due.
Benway- Tower Records is going out of business and their Asian cinema selection is pretty good(at least the one near us does)...if you have a Tower Records on your side of the pond, it might be worth checking out. Movies are currently 10% off, but will get cheaper as their closing date gets closer.
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BR - I really liked Children of Men, it felt kind of like nothing was really happening in bits of it, but there are a couple of amazing segments in it. Let me know what you thought.
Departed today for me, plus I have Brotherhood taped (the Korean film, not the oirish gangsta tv thing where everyone wanders around shouting 'bot he's moi brudda')
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quote:Originally posted by Amy: I'm just disappointed that infernal affairs isn't really getting its due.
Well, I dunno how it is the States but every review, interview and article I've read about The Departed explicitly states the film's heritage, to the point where journalists appear to think that the title of the film is actually "The Departed, a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong drama Infernal Affairs". So it's not like the creative debt isn't being acknowledged.
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quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Departed today for me, plus I have Brotherhood taped (the Korean film, not the oirish gangsta tv thing where everyone wanders around shouting 'bot he's moi brudda')
Good choice, watched that the other night and it was very good indeed, if disturbingly graphic at times.
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nice work, ringers. Last night I checked out Street Trash, which wasn't as good as I was hoping. Didn't really have a proper story, just a bunch of stuff happening. Some people melted.
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Tonight it's either "Graveyard of Honour" (yakuza) or "The Bedroom" (porn). Both have been gathering dust for a while now.
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quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: Tonight it's either "Graveyard of Honour" (yakuza)
Is that the Miike version? I've got the original of that in a box-set of Fukasaku's work, not bad from what I recall. The box set has that one, Cops vs Thugs and one other, all 3 have aged quite well really. I'd be interested to hear what the Miike remake is like.
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Lol@'the lady'. Am I the only person in the world to find the way that people refer to their paramours on here as intensely irritating? I mean, not just here, and not just you, BR - everybody on every board ever. It seems as though the only non-annoying way to do this is just to use their RL name. I hate it when people are like 'Mr London' or whatever. Sorry. It just seems to pointless. Or why not 'my girlfriend' or 'my boyfriend' or 'my wife'? Where did this irritating custom come from?
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quote:Originally posted by London: It just seems to pointless. Or why not 'my girlfriend' or 'my boyfriend' or 'my wife'? Where did this irritating custom come from?
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I remember at a meet once Carter couldn't understand why 'Rose Davis' was called 'Rose Davis' if her real name wasn't 'Rose'. It took him ages to get it.
Also, I can't remember the last time someone referred to their partner as Mr [username], now I think about it. Most people now just use the real name, except for when they're actually with someone on the board in which case they use the username.
quote:Originally posted by London: It seems as though the only non-annoying way to do this is just to use their RL name.
As opposed to what? 'The Rapey Nerd' or 'The Abuser', or the dozens of other non-real life names you've given various partners on here over the last few years?
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I remember bitchslapping someone on here for calling their partner T'OtherAff. Can't remember who it was, now. You're right, London. Everytime I see TheLady or whatever it makes me want to physically shake the person responsible by the throat.
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quote:Originally posted by London: Lol@'the lady'. Am I the only person in the world to find the way that people refer to their paramours on here as intensely irritating? I mean, not just here, and not just you, BR - everybody on every board ever. It seems as though the only non-annoying way to do this is just to use their RL name. I hate it when people are like 'Mr London' or whatever. Sorry. It just seems to pointless. Or why not 'my girlfriend' or 'my boyfriend' or 'my wife'? Where did this irritating custom come from?
laugh out loud.
To clarify laughage:
Which terminology haven't you used London
Whether it be: Bumlove, My Wife, The Abuser or my most frequent most hated thing of all time: abbreviating someones name to just one letter, giving them some kind of fucking MI5 status or something.
Just at home today with M, doing a spot of DIY. It's not going well as I stopped for a cup of tea and M had rigged the teapot to self destruct. My face and hair is burnt - PMSL
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I usually refer to Mrs Mask and the Masketeers, as my partner and my kids have got fuck all to do with TMO, no one on here has ever met them or is ever likely to and calling them by name would benefit who? And how? Maybe, if the Mrs prefix grates, you could help me think up some faux-teeny-ditz-speak name for my woman? Or, perhaps, I could totally reinvent her in some self-consciously camp mould? That would be new and daring, wouldn't it?
not...
You reached over with your hand and knocked my Jap over
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I don't mind the single letter one, or Mr/Mrs username, or rapey nerd or whatever, but I found "T'OtherAff" really annoying. Like a little joke you smile at at first but then it's repeated again and again and it just gets old really quick.
As for BR's "The Lady" and "Her Ladyship" - sounds a bit patronising, I imagine him putting on a posh voice and pulling a snobby face when he writes it. Again, it's one of those things that gets old quick, sorry BR.
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I don't want to use Mr Herbs's real name as there's no reason to drag him into my weird internet freak world. So he's just R. Friends on here know his name.
"Mr Herbs" is twee, "Him Indoors" is self-consciously shit, "Vlad the Impaler" would be just weird.
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