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'Revenge of the Nerds' Remake in the Works
grouchomarxist writes "According to CNN the movie 'Revenge of the Nerds' is being remade. Here is the IMDB entry for the remake." I just don't see how this could be good. Unless they let me play Goose ;)
0Things are looking bleak.. can we just avoid the remakes ? Seems that the industry is in the same pit that the musc industry was in, during the late eighties. Rehashing all the old crap from the 60's. Untill Cobaine came along and shook things up a bit. Maybe the Worchowski(sp? for the nazis) wil be our Nirvana of film? Id rather watch a remake of DeepThroat then this. We all know how it ends anyway.
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Rehashing an old idea is not necessarily bad. Reusing as story isn't necessarily bad. We did it for centuries before the advent of motion pictures, and it's led to some pretty brilliant movies since then when Shakespeare is the source of the rehashed ideas.
The best version of "Richard III" that I've ever seen was a 1995 movie that placed it in a 1930s fascist England. "West Side Story" is a street gang musical based on Romeo and Juliet that is widely held in great esteem (unlike the movie "Romeo + Juliet"). One of my absolute favorite plays is "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," an absurdist take on "Hamlet" from the POV of two bit characters who are slowly becoming aware of their unimportance and impending death by plot. Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood" and "Ran" are two of my favorite samurai movies but are based on "Macbeth" and "King Lear," respectively.
The problem is that Hollywood is generally too lazy and too focused on churning out easy money to get it right. If Hollywood rehashed old ideas with style, it wouldn't be so much of a problem. Unfortunately, "Revenge of the Nerds" isn't exactly Shakespeare, and Hollywood's not doing this for any sort of "artistic merit."
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They haven't humped the 70's dry yet. We got our "Poseidon Adventure" remake, but what about a new "Towering Inferno?" Imagine the box office draw if OJ were to reprise his role.
And no 70's dry-humping would be complete without a remake of "Jaws."
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Don't forget "The Magnificent Seven", which was a thinly disguised remake of "The Seven Samurai". Both films were brilliant.
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MPAA can't figure out why people aren't going to movies......high prices and ORIGINALITY have to figure in to it. All they do anymore is eiher remake a tv show, old movie (upcoming Posidon movie comes to mind), or part 2, part 3 etc.......movies these days are CRAP!
Airplane! is a spoof of several plane based disaster movies. It used Zero Hour as base material, kinda like Kentucky Fried Movie used Enter the Dragon as base material for A Fistful of Yen and blaxploitation movies like Cleopatra Jones as base material for the Cleopatra Schwartz segment. Both segments spoof other movies of the genre (and other genres), as well, but have one particular movie as the basis. I imagine the producers of Airplane! bought the rights to Zero Hour to use character names and some dialogs. I vaguely recall seeing Zero Hour a long time ago (I think on TV), but don't remember it being intentionally funny. I also vaguely recall the Airport movies (75, 77, the concorde one [80?] - haven't seen them since they were on TV).