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'Revenge of the Nerds' Remake in the Works

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the score-with-the-omega-mus dept.

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 ;)

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  1. More Kurosawa by sconeu · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't forget "The Magnificent Seven", which was a thinly disguised remake of "The Seven Samurai". Both films were brilliant.

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    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
  2. Re:70's humped dry, on to the 80's by Creepy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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).