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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. Finally by Mr.Surly · · Score: 5, Funny

    A modern twist on a timeless classic.

    1. Re:Finally by sgt_doom · · Score: 2, Funny

      Man oh man! I'm still waiting for the remake of Battlefield Earth!

    2. Re:Finally by cashman73 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Man oh man! I'm still waiting for the remake of Battlefield Earth!

      If it involves Tom Cruise eating a placenta, it might actually be good! ;-)

  2. Can you spell creative bankruptcy? by Vyvyan+Basterd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, they could at least remake films that had some redeeming qualities in the first place.

  3. Nerrrrrrrdddds by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

    It won't be the same without this guy:
    http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/misc/pictures/ne rds.jpg

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    1. Re:Nerrrrrrrdddds by wiggles · · Score: 4, Funny

      The funniest thing is what he's doing now. Apparently, he fell in with some tavern owner in Chicago and is now adding his likeness to a microbrew called "Todd's Beer" -- creative, eh? Here's the website

      I went shopping for some beer one day at a local liquor store, and there was this bus parked in front. I thought nothing of it, so I went inside. When I went inside, I was instantly accosted by his handlers and shuffled over to a table where he was sitting down signing six packs. I got a meaty "HOWYA DOIN BROTHER?!?!" handshake from him, and a signed six.

      He called me a nerd. I laughed. I still have the six pack holder tacked to my wall.

  4. Great a remake! by npietraniec · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're always great. I suppose it's easier than writing something new. There's bound to be some sort of hollywood remake backlash coming soon... I hope.

  5. 70's humped dry, on to the 80's by Sebastopol · · Score: 5, Funny

    To paraphrase The Filthy Critic -- http://www.bigempire.com/filthy -- apparently the grassfuckers in Hollywood have humped the 70's dry and there's nothing left to remake, so now they want to ass rape the pop classics of the 80's as well.

    I still can't belive they are remaking Superman.

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    1. Re:70's humped dry, on to the 80's by kindbud · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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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    2. Re:70's humped dry, on to the 80's by mfterman · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, Airplane! was a remake of a movie called Zero Hour. Some of the scenes, some of the dialog even were lifted straight from the original movie. In fact the people who made Airplane! bought the rights to Zero Hour. So technically Airplane! is a remake.

    3. Re:70's humped dry, on to the 80's by fm6 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Literally, yes Airplane! is a remake of Zero Hour. (I find it particularly amusing that the famous line, "... somebody who can not only fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner!" was lifted unchanged out of Zero Hour.) But legally, no. Despite what it says in IMDB, Zero Hour does not appear in the credits for Airplane! — the studio lawyers vetoed it for some reason. So officially, Airplane! is an original movie, despite its origins.

      In any case. that's one more reason not to remake Airplane!. If a remake of Zero Hour is Airplane!, than a remake of Airplane! could only be another Zero Hour.

    4. 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).

  6. Post your favorite Booger line by Savatte · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been out combing the high schools all day!

    On a serious note, Curtis "Booger" Armstrong does fine voiceover work on Stroker & Hoop.

    1. Re:Post your favorite Booger line by datafr0g · · Score: 3, Funny

      Gibert: She's not that kind of girl, Booger.
      Booger: Why? Does she have a penis?

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  7. More things to avoid by MrShaggy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:More things to avoid by Lord+Aurora · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'd rather participate in a remake of Deep Throat, but hey, that's just me.

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    2. Re:More things to avoid by Geekboy(Wizard) · · Score: 5, Funny

      finally able to suppress that gag-reflex now?

    3. Re:More things to avoid by Lord+Aurora · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only took me four years intensive training.

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  8. I just hope... by NewmanBlur · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...they can get the original guy who played Lamar. He carried part II.

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  9. Hmm. by itomato · · Score: 4, Informative

    Then you might like Clerks II, a Harvey Weinstein Production..

  10. Well, it's that or the remake of Poseidon... by Penguinisto · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ...or the remake of (insert recycled theme here that execs think the majority of the public isn't aware of...)

    Yuck. If it isn't the stranglehold of perpetual copyright law killing creativity ("ooooh, can't write about that theme, it sounds too close to something that someone can sue us over!"), outright fear of losing investment money ("Hey, this was a hit in 19xx - let's do it again!"), or flat-out retread of existing 'IP' rights that were purchased ages ago but are now worthless ("man - we paid HOW MUCH for that movie!? Quick! Get Tom Cruise on the phone - we gotta recoup our investment in that thing!")...?

    Screw it. I'll be hunting for indie/small-budget/out-of-the-way films from here on out (Equilibrium being a perfect example)... at least until the big motion picture houses decide to stop sucking so hard.

    /P

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  11. Re:if they remake that song... by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > I will smash a bunch of glass vases against the outside of the theater, then I'll go in and watch until the song comes on, when I'll bore a hole in the top inside of the theater and jump out of it onto the glass, thereby saving myself from the pain of ever hearing that song again!

    Well, since you reminded me of that song, and since I can't get it out of my head anymore either... might as well share the misery.

    Clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands.
    We run Linux, FreeBSD, and - Omega/GNU.
    We come here on Slashdot today, to post bad filk for you!
    We got the earbug rhythm, you insensitive clod, that'll make 'em click a mouse to to downward mod.
    We got CmdrTaco on the violin, and Hemos and Zonk will be joining in.
    We got Goatse guy, with the bunghole red, grits for Natalie Portman, Stephen King is dead,
    and there's All Your Base to which we belong, in Soviet Russia when the joke goes wrong,
    And just when, for one, you've seen it all, welcome header X-Bender, overlord of all.
    So jump on the glass through the hole you've bored, and post a video .torrent onto the board!

    /cue synthesizer bleeps, frickin' lasers, and shattering glass sound effects

  12. Re:Can't be any worse than parts 3 and 4... by Bieeanda · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Hotel Coral Essex was in part two. I know this, because I was blissfully unaware of the existence of parts 3 and 4.

  13. Nerd/geek revenge methods by ettlz · · Score: 2, Funny

    My favourite: the Phantom Goatse Wallpaper Install. It gets the message "I really, really hate you" across like nothing else on this Earth.

  14. On Remakes by HunterZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I went with my roommates to see Revenge of the Sith in the theater, they showed a trailer for the Spielberg remake of "War of the Worlds". I launched into my typical rant, asking one of my roommates a rhetorical question: "why does the movie industry have to keep making remakes of everything? Why can't they make movies based off of original ideas?"

    The following trailer was for the movie "Stealth". We laughed and shook our heads at the absurdity of it, and when it finished my roommate said (in reply to my previous questions): "that's why."

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  15. Devil's Advocate by Valdrax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  16. I Knew That Sounded Familiar by jgclark123 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hotel
    Coral
    Essex

    That's the name of the Futuristic Sex Robotz' album. http://futuristicsexrobotz.com/
    They release all of their music under the Creative Commons License.

    (Not spam, just a fan.)

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  17. Re:Better by tktk · · Score: 2, Insightful
    More nudity.

    More FEMALE nudity.

  18. Snakes on a Plane by damian+cosmas · · Score: 2, Funny

    there's nothing new since Odysseus, the Old Testament, the Satyricon, and Shakespeare's body of work.

    You clearly are unaware of a movie about "Snakes, on a motherfuckin' plane!"

    Only problem is that for every "Snakes on a Plane" there are 10 remakes of crap from the '70s that wasn't even that good the first time.

  19. Be looking for the remake of by n6kuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    this Slashdot article in a few days.

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  20. Reruns Should Be Treated As Old Clothes by cyberscan · · Score: 2, Informative

    A jar of about a 1000 moths released at the beginning will show what old clothes and old story lines will attract.

  21. 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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  22. Revenge of the Nerds?? by Alaskan+Snake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very close to release, the title will be changed to "Return Of The Nerds", then instead of joining the Tri-Lams they'll join an ewok fraternity and defeat the atoms with boulders and logs.

  23. What does this have to do with Slashdot??? by SpecialAgentXXX · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, come on. I visit Slashdot for Stuff that Matters. You know, News for... um... oh nevermind.

  24. The sad part is... by nutsy · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...that might not be as far off as you think (or hope or wish), since the Travolta movie is based on only the first half of the novel. And then, of course, there's Hubbard's ten-volume series Mission Earth. Thank you for listening...

  25. It should be a followup by houghi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then they could call it "Return of the revenge of the nerds."

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  26. any NEW movies by p51d007 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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!

  27. Hollywood is dead by seven+of+five · · Score: 2

    .. we've been hearing the death rattle of remakes for years.