Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:

lvc wrote:.

I'd enjoy a remake of the man with no name trilogy (Fistful of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly) that had a more modern pacing and maybe rolled the dice on having the Mexican/Latin characters portrayed by people from Mexico/Latin America. But who could rise to the level of Clint Eastwood in that role?

Absolutely not

I wouldn't? Whew. Thanks for saving me the $10 and 2 hours if it ever happens.

Those movies are iconic exclusively because of the specific people who made them at the time they were made. Removing Eastwood, Leone, Morricone, etc. would remove every reason they are great. What's left without them? The plot? Nothing particularly special about that, and the first one is a blatant rip of Yojimbo anyway, and both have already been remade a few times.

They're a prime example of movies that shouldn't be remade, and no one alive today could improve on them.

Damn. Gotta agree with Burt on this one.

100% with Burt

Burt isn't wrong but I'm not sure how is POV on this doesn't extend to all movies.

epilogue wrote:Burt isn't wrong but I'm not sure how is POV on this doesn't extend to all movies.

I feel like some rare movies have cool premises that were fucked up in execution, so could be remade or explored again. Or some might be broad enough to allow for different takes on them without stepping on the original's toes.

I always dreamed of remaking the Naked Prey but mixing it with some post apocalyptic Kamandi The Last Boy or Thundarr The Barbarian type pulpy craziness.

I feel like I've created some kind of Christmas miracle by getting this board to rally around Burt being right. That alone is worth being dragged.

OK, so, but how about this divisive idea. You don't remake Jaws, but if the tech ever gets there you fix the shark just a little. Not like even any replacement shots. Just a bit more fluidity to the movement and life in the eyes in a handful of scenes so you don't think "boing there's a rubber shark" whenever it shows up.

However, I don't think I can recall a move where the sharks didn't look fake from Jaws up to now so maybe this is a Quixotic idea.

Or ok I actually have a good one. All the Pretty Horses. There's a great movie in that book but it needs a much better script adaptation and not Billy Bob Thornton at the helm. Now we're talking about something I'd put Dennis Villenueve at the helm of. Sicario but in the 40s and, you know, horses.

And while he's at it, he go ahead and make The Crossing which is my absolute favorite McCarthy novel. A long, nearly dialogue-less adaptation of the first act in that book (returning a wolf to the mountains in Mexico) would be beautiful. Why am I not writing this fan letter right now. Does anybody have his address?

lvc wrote:Just a bit more fluidity to the movement and life in the eyes

Real sharks don't have much life in their eyes. There's even a very famous scene in this movie talking about that!

I'm against touching up Jaws in this way except for one thing. I would remove the "real shark" stock footage they intersperse throughout, because that real shark looks nothing like our fake shark, who rules

lvc wrote:I feel like I've created some kind of Christmas miracle by getting this board to rally around Burt being right. That alone is worth being dragged.

OK, so, but how about this divisive idea. You don't remake Jaws, but if the tech ever gets there you fix the shark just a little. Not like even any replacement shots. Just a bit more fluidity to the movement and life in the eyes in a handful of scenes so you don't think "boing there's a rubber shark" whenever it shows up.

However, I don't think I can recall a move where the sharks didn't look fake from Jaws up to now so maybe this is a Quixotic idea.

why would you even speak evil like this into the world

Trag is such a fucking idiot. I love it.

remake jaws?

jesus christ. Whats next, Musk as a president?

VinylGuy wrote:Whats next, Musk as a president?

VG you just remade "Idiocracy" (again).

oh yeah, its coming brother. every day, a new sequel. Longest franchise ever.

I watched Sicario over the weekend and now I 100% want to manifest a Villeneuve All the Pretty Horses into existence. #JusticeForCormac