Oh, and I should quote myself here from an entry I did a few weeks ago called Hollywood is Developmentally Challenged.
Seriously, there should be a position on every Hollywood executives staff for someone who sole job is to smack them upside the head when they suggest something like "Let's remake Commando!" And not a light slap either.... that person should have to put some weight behind it. I am sure there are a lot of unemployed former college athletes who would jump at the chance to pop someone in the back of the head every time they suggested a meritless remake.
Why did I go back to that entry? Well, they are indeed remaking Commando.
You know, when I say that someone shouldn't remake something, I am not using reverse psychology. I really mean that someone should get hit very hard in the back of the head when they make suggestions like that.
I mean, if it was The Running Man, I could see that one getting a remake because that one aged really badly and it is different from the source material, but come on, Commando still holds up remarkably well.
BAH!
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wholehearted agreement from this side of the globe.
Commando and Running Man: I think they haven't age well. They're still good movies.
I think they've been remaking Running Man every year. Most recent remake is "Gamer". I think a remake of running man would get lost in the shuffle because of all the shitty "Gamer" type games.
Then again, we have a whole generation of young people that have never seen both movies and probably will never see them. So, Hollywood will try to remake them.
You know, when I say that someone shouldn't remake something, I am not using reverse psychology. I really mean that someone should get hit very hard in the back of the head when they make suggestions like that.
Nonetheless, the coincidence is uncanny. You mention, however facetiously, a remake of Commando -- and they plan a remake of Commando.
Someone in Hollywood read your post and said "Hey, let's make a remake of Commando."
Honor demands that commit seppuku with a suspicious-looking sausage.
Arjan: Thank you.
Semaj: I still think Commando aged better because there is nothing really anachronistic about it. The music and costumes in the Running Man are now really cringe-worthy though.
John: This kind of stuff happens to me way too often to be coincidental.
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