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Escape from New York....remake?! - Kenji - 03-22-2007
Oh, man....*sigh*.....Worst thing happened. Who the hell is gonna make to Remake version of Escape From New York? Somebody STOP them!!! :mad:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=407380
Gerard Butler is Snake? Gimme a break!!! Snake Prisken is Kurt Russell!
I'm sorry to ranting...but, I can't stand a lot of crap remake movies.
What do you think about this?
Escape from New York....remake?! - Scott Miller - 03-22-2007
Kenji Wrote:I'm sorry to ranting...but, I can't stand a lot of crap remake movies.
What do you think about this?
Blame the morons who purchase the tickets; Hollywood would stop making them if people refused to see them...until then expect more of the same.
Escape from New York....remake?! - webby - 03-22-2007
Kenji Wrote:Oh, man....*sigh*.....Worst thing happened. Who the hell is gonna make to Remake version of Escape From New York? Somebody STOP them!!! :mad:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=407380
Gerard Butler is Snake? Gimme a break!!! Snake Prisken is Kurt Russell!
I'm sorry to ranting...but, I can't stand a lot of crap remake movies.
What do you think about this?
A true remake would be a stupid idea... but a prequel might be interesting. The original linked page contained this link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=409040. It suggests that maybe this new movie is more prequel than remake.
Escape from New York....remake?! - GeraldRice - 03-22-2007
I'd prefer a continuation of the story rather than a flat-out remake. Hello, if they did another sequel Kurt Russell should still play Snake. There's something about how he's aging that lends itself to his ruggedness.
If it's a prequel it's probably going to center around the Cleveland job. I think that was a bank robbery or something that went really bad.
Escape from New York....remake?! - NewYorkjoe - 03-22-2007
GeraldRice Wrote:I'd prefer a continuation of the story rather than a flat-out remake. Hello, if they did another sequel Kurt Russell should still play Snake. There's something about how he's aging that lends itself to his ruggedness.
If it's a prequel it's probably going to center around the Cleveland job. I think that was a bank robbery or something that went really bad.
Would be about the airborne attack on Moscow that I remember being alluded to?
I think Kurt is getting to be like John Wayne, with the eyepatch. He wore one for Captain Ron, also.
Escape from New York....remake?! - Mike Hanson - 03-22-2007
Anybody else think that Roger Zelazny's hugo-winning story
"Damnation Alley," which was published before the creation
of "Escape From New York," was a major influence on the
latter's Director, John Carpenter?
In Damnation Alley, you have a criminal in prison, an ex
Hell's Angel, aka Hell Tanner, who is given the choice of
a life-time behind bars or an impossible mission across
an incredible apocalyptic landscape...sound familiar?
Or how about the one recurring element of Damnation
Alley, where whenever Hell Tanner would meet someone
new, and then identify himself, they would invariably
reply "I thought you were dead" or "I heard you were killed."
Sound familiar?
I'm just wondering if Carpenter ever went on record to state
that Alley was at least a major inspiration for his cult flick,
if not its outright genesis.
Escape from New York....remake?! - bones weep tedium - 03-22-2007
Scott Miller Wrote:Blame the morons who purchase the tickets; Hollywood would stop making them if people refused to see them...until then expect more of the same.
Only problem with that is; what are the rest of us going to watch at the cinema while the morons are watching the remakes?
If you want a night out with your partner and the only thing on at the pictures is a remake, whether you buy a ticket begrudgingly or not you still have to cough up your money!
The last thing I saw at the pictures was Hot Fuzz, and a couple of weeks before that I saw Casino Royale. The rest of the time we just end up watching DVDs becasue everything at the pictures has looked so awful!
Escape from New York....remake?! - Scott Miller - 03-22-2007
bones weep tedium Wrote:Only problem with that is; what are the rest of us going to watch at the cinema while the morons are watching the remakes?
Well if no one was going to the remakes or rehashes, the studios would be forced to consider and make other types of movies. Perhaps a film like Brick wouldn't be relegated to the art house theaters and instead get a wider release and receive the recognition it is due.
It doesn't sound like you're to satisfied with the state of films at the moment, wouldn't you rather have options for a Friday night out with your partner other than the generic fare that is so widespread today? I know I would.
Escape from New York....remake?! - Kenji - 03-22-2007
GeraldRice Wrote:I'd prefer a continuation of the story rather than a flat-out remake. Hello, if they did another sequel Kurt Russell should still play Snake. There's something about how he's aging that lends itself to his ruggedness.
If it's a prequel it's probably going to center around the Cleveland job. I think that was a bank robbery or something that went really bad.
What is Cleveland job? :confused:
Escape from New York....remake?! - bones weep tedium - 03-23-2007
I don't know what the Cleveland job is, but I do remember watching an interview of John Carpenter where he explained his decision to keep Plisken's past deliberately obscure.
All the criminals are in awe of him, so you know he's a bad man, but there was a scene where Lee Van Cleef listed some of the things Plisken was guilty of: most notable of all was raping and killing an entire family before burning their house down with them still inside.
Apparently Carpenter thought audiences would struggle to sympthaise with Plisken if they knew that (a safe bet, I'd say!) Even for an antihero that is pretty deranged!!