'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 ;)

Comments

Finally

[Mr.Surly]

A modern twist on a timeless classic.

Can you spell creative bankruptcy?

[Vyvyan Basterd]

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

Nerrrrrrrdddds

[TubeSteak]

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

Re:Nerrrrrrrdddds

[wiggles]

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.

70's humped dry, on to the 80's

[Sebastopol]

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.

Re:70's humped dry, on to the 80's

[mfterman]

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.

Re:70's humped dry, on to the 80's

[Creepy]

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).

Post your favorite Booger line

[Savatte]

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

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

Re:Post your favorite Booger line

[datafr0g]

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

Hmm.

[itomato]

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

Re:if they remake that song...

[Tackhead]

> 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

On Remakes

[HunterZ]

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."

Re:More things to avoid

[Geekboy(Wizard)]

finally able to suppress that gag-reflex now?

Be looking for the remake of

[n6kuy]

this Slashdot article in a few days.

More Kurosawa

[sconeu]

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

What does this have to do with Slashdot???

[SpecialAgentXXX]

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