Movie remakes

[The Black Spot]

Just heard that 2008 will see remakes of "When Worlds Collide" and "The Day The Earth Stood Still".

I can see that WWC could be souped up with CGI showing the destruction of Earth, but TDTESS? It's too slow a story for a modern "blockbuster". What's going to happen - Gort lays waste to half the city before the heroine gets the wounded Klaatu back through the exploding wreckage and into the flying saucer?

Ugh.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

For the studios it is 1000 times better to re-package an oldie (that they believe will bring the bucks of the nostalgic) than to use a creative script. To make it worse, those really good movies are rarely a commercial success.

Even the Wachovsky bros, are re-making Speed Racer 

[Swatopluk]

When Worlds Collide could actually be improved, not just on the spectacular side. The acting was a bit wooden then.

Totally agree about The Day the Earth stood still.

The War of the Worlds remake had its strong sides (unlike certain films about rampaging Japanese reptiles).

But there are a lot of classics that could not be really improved in any way (especially those in b/w).

[anthrobabe]

It should be a capital offense (drawing and quartering at least) to mess with Speed Racer!

Has anyone seen Transformers yet? I am totally afraid to see it-

now let's all have a sing along--
Micael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still .....


When Worlds Collide said George Powell to his bride.....

At the late night double feature picture show

[Griffin NoName]

If the earth stood still while some people were watcing the earth stood still, what would happen?

[Swatopluk]

The Day the Earth Caught Fire could use an update. But it's probably too intelligent* and would turn an uncomfortable spotlight on the current media environment.

*like the simple showing of the two prepared versions of the "final" edition of the newspaper proclaiming "Earth Doomed" and "Earth Saved" respectively (or similar headlines, I didn't check).

[Sibling Chatty]

If the earth stood still while some people were watcing the earth stood still, what would happen?

Michael Rennie would be ill again...

[anthrobabe]

The Day the Earth Caught Fire could use an update. But it's probably too intelligent* and would turn an uncomfortable spotlight on the current media environment.

*like the simple showing of the two prepared versions of the "final" edition of the newspaper proclaiming "Earth Doomed" and "Earth Saved" respectively (or similar headlines, I didn't check).

I had never seen this until about 3 years ago and we found it on a dollar DVD and said, "Why not."
Very tense movie- waiting for the phone to ring-wating to know if we all live or die-it starts tense,and ends on almost the same note- yes relief but leaving me thinking- well what about tomorrow and the next "smeg up"
I liked it particularly because it was not set in the USA (or Japan like many other Nuclear "scare" movies)
I agree- it might be too "relevent" to todays global warming/WMD's topics to be viewed comfortably-
We are a bit past the big nuclear fears- but they linger in many of us (of an age), so might work as a re-release. But not remade with a bunch of CG and stuff- just remade or updated.

Did you ever see, "Warning from Space" aka "chujin Tokyo ni arawaru" ? not nuclear but still a good effort from the 1950's (disregarding the baggy starfish costumes- the transmutation scene is particularly nice for the era)