Godzilla 2014

[Reguiy]

Originally Posted by Grubbz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ummm am i the only person who remembers how they butchered the last godzilla? NO THANKS

More like Hollywood has butchered every single remake in the last 10 years, minus True Grit and maybe a couple others. The standard for a "good" movie these days is pathetic. Hollywood just does remakes and franchise movies because they know mindless mobs will will flock to the theaters and make them millions. I might even see the new Star Wars movies, though I will regret giving Disney my 30 bucks for their shit remake.

[DeruIsLove]

Originally Posted by Reguiy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

More like Hollywood has butchered every single remake in the last 10 years, minus True Grit and maybe a couple others. The standard for a "good" movie these days is pathetic. Hollywood just does remakes and franchise movies because they know mindless mobs will will flock to the theaters and make them millions. I might even see the new Star Wars movies, though I will regret giving Disney my 30 bucks for their shit remake.

Dredd, Total Recall, and though technically not a remake, Oz come immediately to mind. Though I do agree that the trash remakes are certainly over the 50% mark, it's not hopeless.

[Nihilist_santa]

Originally Posted by DeruIsLove [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dredd, Total Recall, and though technically not a remake, Oz come immediately to mind. Though I do agree that the trash remakes are certainly over the 50% mark, it's not hopeless.

Dredd was such a blatant rip off of The Raid. Total Recall was garbage, prefer the showtime series Total Recall 2070 or the original as it is more PKD inspired. Oz was fucking cringe worthy Id rather watch the Wiz.

Robocop was decent but they totally missed the gritty feel of the original not to mention the entire movie showed no real motivation (where was the crime and splatter punks etc?) for actually needing cyborg police or robots.

New IPs are a big investment/gamble so they just keep rehashing the same crap over and over.

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dredd was such a blatant rip off of The Raid. Total Recall was garbage, prefer the showtime series Total Recall 2070 or the original as it is more PKD inspired. Oz was fucking cringe worthy Id rather watch the Wiz.

Robocop was decent but they totally missed the gritty feel of the original not to mention the entire movie showed no real motivation (where was the crime and splatter punks etc?) for actually needing cyborg police or robots.

New IPs are a big investment/gamble so they just keep rehashing the same crap over and over.

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the new shit has to manipulate people's emotions with scenery and music cause "muh immerzun" and people don't know how to write dialogue well anymore. there are some good originals that come out every year, but they usually don't have a good release.

seen beasts of the southern wild?

[Nihilist_santa]

I haven't seen it yet. Hasn't been on my radar. You nailed it about dialog though and coupling that with the talentless hacks that pass for actors now just makes everything stiff (see Jayden Smith or Jennifer Lawrence for example).

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I haven't seen it yet. Hasn't been on my radar. You nailed it about dialog though and coupling that with the talentless hacks that pass for actors now just makes everything stiff (see Jayden Smith or Jennifer Lawrence for example).

it's worth a watch and it's very primal.

i know what you mean about bad actors. lots of them won't take chances anymore, and just stay in safe roles. then when they do they usually suck (see: shia labeouf, james franco, ryan gosling{he can't do more than 500 words in a movie}, and the current crop)

[Hastley]

Originally Posted by DeruIsLove [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dredd, Total Recall, and though technically not a remake, Oz come immediately to mind. Though I do agree that the trash remakes are certainly over the 50% mark, it's not hopeless.

Am i reading this right? Someone thought the Judge Dredd Remake was good / not complete shit? let me guess you probably think fast and the furious 7 will be a stellar work of art too, dont you?

[Hastley]

Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I haven't seen it yet. Hasn't been on my radar. You nailed it about dialog though and coupling that with the talentless hacks that pass for actors now just makes everything stiff (see Jayden Smith or Jennifer Lawrence for example).

Drive was good (gosling) . drive 2 looks awful though

[Raavak]

Originally Posted by Grubbz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ummm am i the only person who remembers how they butchered the last godzilla? NO THANKS

It had its moments, mostly thanks to Jean Reno.

Dr. Niko Tatopoulus: What's with the chewing gum?
Philippe Roaché: It makes us look more American.

[DeruIsLove]

Dialog dialog dialog.

Do you have any idea why the old greats are all dialog? Special effects didn't exist back then. Couple that with the fact that the price of a movie ticket inflation adjusted, was a fraction of what it is today, you need your movies to hit a wider audience if you want to make your money back. Film is a visual medium, since the technology exists to do virtually anything we want with film we should be judging films by how well the directors use their resources to immerse us into the story.

There are exceptions of course. LOTR and other movies based on books should be more dialog driven to stay true to their medium of origin, but that's besides the point in this thread as we're talking about a film who's origins are mid budget 50s foreign sci fi turned kaiju beatemups.

If you want dialog so badly read a book or at least do yourself a favor and stop watching blockbusters as you clearly don't get the point.