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Really? DROP DEAD FRED being remade?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Guess it's either a sign of my age or the desperation of studio execs reaching an all time high that they're starting to remake movies I saw in their first run.
But DROP DEAD FRED? Really? Listen, I have a lot of nostalgia for the movie... but it failed miserably, both commercially and critically. The reputation it has now isn't one of those BLADE RUNNER deals where people didn't understand the genius of the film upon initial release, it's of people like me who can view it through nostalgic glasses... and who have an unhealthy attraction to Phoebe Cates.
I guess it makes a little bit of sense... I mean, people have been saying if you're going to remake something, remake something that you can improve, a concept that wasn't fully explored. And the idea of an imaginary friend returning to you in your adulthood, as your world crumbles around you, trying to help and only causing more trouble is a good idea.
They're swapping out Rik Mayall for Russell Brand. No word on who will be playing Phoebe Cates' character... but there aren't many people that have what Cates had. Maybe a Natalie Portman.
Anyway, Universal has LAND OF THE LOST's Dennis McNicholas writing the adaptation. They claim to be going for a BEETLEJUICE vibe with the world of imaginary friends, so that leads me to believe they're going to go crazy with idea.
If they decide to remake LITTLE MONSTERS and have these two out at the same time my eyes will probably roll so hard they'll fall out of my head. What do you folks think?
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sigh
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it could be good
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Might as well take a bad movie and make it better.
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This movie can't do anything but suck.
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It may not suck as hard as me trying to get first.
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I definitely think a remake could work. "Remake something that you can improve" should definitely be the general idea behind remakes, not just "hey, that movie is old, let's make it prettier."
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Rik Mayall guides a young woman to her destiny and then claims that "It" told him to
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The actual idea for the film is ridiculous and Brand is a Moron. Albiet a Moron who I now respect after the British media hounded him like a modern day Hitler for a prank phone call.
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And the trouble with Phoebe Cates is she's the spitting image of my cousin. Ain't that a bitch when some otherwise hot and nubile young actress, by some horrible twist of fate, ends up resembling a family member? I'm just glad I don't have an aunt who looks like Monica Bellucci or a sister who looks like Scarlett Johansson.<p> I could easily see Russell Brand being incredibly annoying in this role, though. Even more so than Mayall was in the original.
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Mayall's anarchist buttons. Oh, and Portman, while easy on the eyes -- her acting is so wooden it makes Cates look like Meryl Streep.
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Was that it had the guy from "The Young Ones". That was a great show. They should do a movie of that!
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enough with the remakes already.
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...it can't possibly suck as bad as the original.
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The guy is tedious and about as funny as a puppy with AIDS.
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Too obvious?
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Although reaching back a WHOLE 18 years to revive a flop is the studios saying, "We are out of ideas". Next Summer: Weekend at Bernie's III: Festering Corpse in Paradise!
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Weekend at Bernies?
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It's the classics they need to leave alone.
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I can see this being a Feburary release and making at least $50 mil. Why? Because people are fucking idiots.
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Off topic. I always thought Rik Mayall did the voice of Stewie from Family Guy. I was sad when I found out Seth McFarlane did it :( and THE YOUNG ONES ROCKED. anyway. CREATIVITY IN HOLLYWOOD=DEAD
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Jesus really?
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The sad state of film has officially reached the point of idiocy.
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Guesthouse Paradiso? Erik The Viking? Burn Hollywood Burn? Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot? Junior? Any other failed comedies from the past decade and a half?
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Wasn't this in Revelations? Shitty remakes of shitty remakes, unending, signaling the End of Days?
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Drop Dead Fred is fucking awesome. And this remake sounds terrible.
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Yeah, you know you want it.
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Right Said Fred. This will be the film to finally knock Titanic off the top spot.
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Seth MacFarlane, creator and head writer of Family Guy, does the voice of Stewie, Peter, Brian the dog, Quagmire, and about a dozen others on that show.
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Bring him back as Go To Hell Mel.
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Where are you Elizabeth Gray? A lonely nation turns its eyes to you.
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Or how about any Hulk Hogan movie for that matter. I'd pay good money to see that. And by good money I mean my dog's feces.
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This has gone too fucking far. What next? Remake of Young Einstein?!! Fuck you. FUCK YOU ALL.
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that not every British "actor" is worth giving work to? it's because of you lot that the talentless prick Jude Law keeps getting work, and now you are giving that total monkey arse fuck Russel Brand work. can't you rather get one of your gangs "in da hood" to shoot him instead?
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April 28, 2009, 2:29 a.m. CST
Mr. Poo... You Die, Too! The Mega-Bitch! Panties! Cobwebs! No Pa
by scallenger
I really hope whatever they do with this version that they retain some of the funnier bits that did work. Like some of the lines I wrote above and the priceless scene where Pheobe Cates starts hitting the violin player with her purse repeatedly.
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Nothing else was any good in that movie but thoese two were class i have this on DVD Yes thats right I love this movie for thoese two alone thats the only reason. Carrie fisher is in it too.... no relavence to anything but i thought you should know.
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That cesspool of depravity called Hollywood should be cleaned up. I shudder to think what they are gonna remake next. Buy some creativity with all the fucking money you have.<br><br> I could write a gazillion movie scripts to show Hollywood what creativity is.
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...in the prime of BOTTOM, was the single most brilliant physical comedian in the world.
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I find Russell to be a semi-tolerable import for all of 1 and a half minutes a month. By Andy Warhol standards he should be sent back across the pond in about a month. Yer not getting Hugh Laurie back though....
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Drop Dead Fred when I was a kid, but I think I re-watched it when I was a teenager and thought it was shit.
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I don't see why Russell Brand is doing remakes. He's so much funnier on his own. I am a fan and I think he's funniest when he goes off on a tangent so the idea of redoing something seems opposite of what he should be doing. I'm sure he wants to make money but he can just write books and tour for that. This seems unnecessary.</p> <p>For the record, I don't understand why people automatically rail on guys like him and Dane Cook. I didn't even pay attention to Cook for the longest time because I heard how awful he was supposed to be but come to find out he's really funny. I mean it has to be jealousy right? Everyone has their own opinions and specific tastes but there are certain people who seem to get a lot of shit from talkbackers and it's almost always younger successful guys who can get any woman they want. If that's what it is, that's pretty sad. Just go get an appropriate girlfriend, quit hatin', and learn to actually like movies and the people who make them.</p>
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Little Monsters and Look Whos Talking would be totally awesome remakes and i for one am excited. Hopefully Christian Bale is in it. Hes a Professional
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..that talented British comedians like Rick Mayall get shit like DDF as their big break vehicles. RM's turns as Flashheart in Blackadder ruled. What is Phoebe Cates doing nowadays anyway? I remember seeing her in Gremlins as a kid. Made a right little tent-pole in my jim-jams she did.
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"Three Men and a Baby"? By Judd Apatow? Featuring Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd and the ageless Tom Selleck? Hmmm?
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Really? I think I would like to leave Planet Earth now.
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I just imagined Bale as the voice of the baby in 'Look Who's Talking'. Oh man, thanks for that. LOL
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Is why at the end are they all sad to be leaving the underworld? Fred Savage and Maurice or whatever his name was were crying like no ones business. Just wait until night time then go back in, problem solved. <p> The movie was pretty dope back in the day. Kinda stupid now and yet watchable.
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April 28, 2009, 2:58 a.m. CST
I can see this being remake - KEEP BEN STILLER AWAY
by Professor_Monster
Steve Carrell - YES Jack Black - NO Will Ferrell - YES Dane Cook - NO Kirstin Wigg - YES Amy Poler - YES Artie Lang - YES!
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April 28, 2009, 3:01 a.m. CST
THERE IS A DICKBLOOD IMPOSTER WITH 2 UNDERSCORES.
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
FUCK THIS CRETIN!! <P>I HAVE ONE FUCKING UNDERSCORE AND AN 0, not a fucking ZERO in my name.
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don't. Create something instead. Lazy bastards
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His work with Ade Edmondson - The Dangerous Brothers, The Young Ones, Filthy Rich and Catflap (Their pinnacle), Mt Jolly lives next door (with a great turn by Peter Cook!) and Bottom (Which ran out of legs eventually) - is comedy gold that places them as one of the greatest comedy double acts of all time. Drop Dead Fred was a reasonably enjoyable attempt to break Rik into Hollywood when you compare it to other UK television comedy actors such as Rowan Atkinson and the awful Bean movies. Russell Brand was the funnyist thing about Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which isn't saying much, but he'll NEVER be on a par with Rik Mayall.
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That is all.
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Never bothered seeing it though. Quint, Phoebe Cates had two nice things over Natalie Portman, I'll leave you to guess what they are!
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Looking at his posts he seems to be trying to sound like you as well ie. lots of caps, general dismay at the state of AICN at the moment etc. How sad is that?<P>Whats it like to have your own creepy stalker?
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Brand is a twat.
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i prefer the fake one. Less CAPLOX show more respect to the readers. Also its more professional.
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That guy is so talented. I grew watching 'Bottom' and 'The Young Ones.'
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i dont know how much longer i can go without a billy zane movie.
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I thought the original had a 'BEETLEJUICE vibe'. Hell, why not remake BEETLEJUICE?
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seriously
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I guess you could call me the remake of DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD haha!
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I liked the original Drop Dead Fred... Sure it wasn't a monster hit and it had its flaws but it was enjoyable. Plus it had Rik Mayall in it a comedy legend. I cant believe they his role is going to be played by that unfunny twat-face Russell Brand. He is an annoying cunt.
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News Flash: Dane Cook is not funny. I'd wish him a billion more dollars if he'd just go away; so it ain't jealousy. Same with Justin Timberlake. They infect our culture.
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That fucker needs to be hung, drawn and quartered for crimes against comedy. Anyone who finds narcissistic repetitious level-of-a-two-year-old linguistic gymnastic comedy funny should be destroyed with him, so this shite never again blights the earth. Brand is so unfunny, he actually negates funny. He's anti-funny. He's tired, childish (and not in a good way, as Rik Mayall WAS) and completely laboured. In short, only a moron could possibly find that twat funny. Which is why this might be the only remake I hate more than Rupert Wainwright's epic THE FOG misfire.<P> FUCK THIS FILM, HARD AND WITHOUT REMORSE.
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What do you expect, Shakespeare? Apart from wishing they'd expanded on the other imaginary friends (love the scene where she's going for therapy!) as well, I loved DROP DEAD FRED. Did exactly what it said on the tin.<P> Yeah, she's no Phoebe Cates, but MR MAGORIUM-Portman would be great for this.
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Highlander. Badass the first time, but could be so much better these days. And get Muse to cover Princes of the Universe.
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"Hollywood to The Movie Going Public, we have now finally breached the bottom of the barrel and are making our way at speed towards the spinning, molten iron Core. Which incidentally is probably due for a remake around 2011."
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or someone along those lines.<p> Zac Efron's 17 Again is making enough money to make anyone who posts here groan.<br> And it's basically a remake of remakes of the last 30 years or so.<p> So I can see them dancing out the disney kids in rip offs of old movies for the cheaply made cash cows.<p> Just pray it isn't that miley creature or any of you with kids will be drug to see it.
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They are going to remake every 80's movie ever mad. Next will be Howard the Duck and Mac and Me. I do think Drop Dead Fred is an underrated movie. And I agree that it could've been a lot better. Rik Mayall should've become a bigger star in America. I mean he was hysterical in The Young Ones and The Black Adder. It'll be interesting to see what they do with this movie. They'll obviously go for a more PG movie, which is a huge mistake cause the adult humor made the movie funny. If you just have Fred running around and not being inappropriate, it won't be a good movie. As for casting I think Jennifer Garner would be good.
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Young Einstein is the greatest movie that I've ever seen.
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heh, i guess you didn't read my post. but thanks!
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Better than trying to remake a classic (does anyone remember the Sabrina remake from the mid 90s? Blech!) <P> But really, this was a crappy concept to begin with. Unlike say Ocean's Eleven which had a so-so original but was a fun concept and lead to a pretty good remake. <P> It seems to me that you need something good to start with or you will just end up with another pile of shit IMO.
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This move was great. Can't wait for the remake.
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in his grave
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The remake would have to be better. Did you guys watch this when you were 8-11 years old, perhaps?
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I WAS HOLDING OUT FOR A SEQUEL, BUT GODDAMMIT THIS WILL FUCKING DO!!!
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I'm strapped down on my gurney while images, news, and vehicles for sullen British comedians are forcibly beamed into my bleeding eyes. I can actually smell all of our bowels working to process the information that they begrudgingly force feed us. We should gut pigs and wear the bloody carcasses to press events in order to inspire some serious confusion into the apathetic hearts of paparazzi. My intelligence spills out of my head and bachelor degree's worth of hard earned knowledge spreads across the linoleum, pooling in the seams, my eyes swiftly turn this vision into carnivalistic animation worthy of Studio Ghibli. Sirens squawk and fat EMT's bellow numbers, as my poor wife sobs and lurches against the cool numbing cold of the refrigerator. They lose me, and pack me up into a vinyl bag, where, after it's finally zipped up, I no longer have to find myself in the position of a helpless victim to any more vapid entertainment news.
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drop dead fred was one of my fav movies when i was a kid, I really don't understand the need to remake it. <P> whats next , fucking Beetlejuice?
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your cake, lopsided and reeking of hemlock, has arrived. Call your grade school chums, call your orthopedist, call a feral wolverine an run your fingers through its mane, because your FUCKING CAKE has cocksuckingly arrived.
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Russell Brand is a fucking genius.
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next they'll be remaking Mary Reilly, Destiny Turns On the Radio, Cat In The Hat and Date Movie! I agree with the argument remake something you can improve upon if you have to, but Drop Dead Fred is woeful and having Russell Brand instead of Mayall is a clear indicator that it is going after the irritation angle of the original which was astonishingly unfunny. I love Phoebe Cates but i stopped watching her after DDF. Now you could take the concept of DDF - imaginary childhood friend returning when you're an adult - and spin that into a more interesting idea but just remaking this as the film it was is insane. It was terrible the first time it'll be terrible again.
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Look, I like DGDB, but even if I didn't it is just wrong to impersonate someone else. It undermines this entire site if you can't be sure who said what. If you have a problem with another TBer, don't be a coward and impersonate him but instead argue and debate with him, like it is supposed to be done. Look at John_T_Chance and most excellent ninja: they hate DGDG but at least they have the balls and decency to tell it to his face. <P> I am not a fan of the banhammer, but sometimes it is warranted, and this time it is warranted. What is the point of the TBs and handles if we cannot be certain who said what and then be able to debate them. If that is the case we should ony be allowed to supply anonymous quotes because users track records and past quotes would be pointless. <p> I expect Harry and the moderators to do something about this. You might not like DGDG, but it has nothing to do with him. It has to do with how this site operates and that we can be certain that no one is misrepresenting us or slandering our user names.
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The High School Musical ones, the current crop of Disney shows.<p> I hereby dub them...<p> The Scatt Pack<p> Everytime I hear they're doing a project or I see a commercial with them, or in a waiting room and reading some People and they're mentioned.<br> I go "SHIT! CRAP!"
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why is Brand popular? He's a cunt
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it was Rik Mayall that was GENIUS..<P> Dog poo dog poo lovey dovey dog poo dog poo on the Chaaaair... more up the side... more down there.. lovey dovey smelly dog poo. <P>That's high brow stuff. Beat THAT Kaufmann you HACK!
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fuck the world
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We're gonna stop the presses now-
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In a world full of shits you are my kind of misanthrope. Articulate and imaginative.<P>It is a sad fact the most of us in this world are goverened by thieves and liars and are treated little better than cattle and considered no more than meatbags with a vote. And for as long as we have that vote we are kept sated by a corrupt conglomerate of multinational companies and news corporations that hope to keep us locked in our houses too scared to go outside for fear of being blown up by fanatics. We seem to have forgotten that those in power are their by our grace and work for us.<P> The sooner we realise that and grow some collective cajones it won't change. <P> Fuck it, I'm off to youtube some Bill Hicks...
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After seeing that the Beyonce Knowles... Ali Larter travesty came in #1 at the box office... I'm sure this pos would make some money.
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but probably won't happen; or if it does, michael bay will get a hold of it and turn it into over-commercialized and inept, pompous, pointless poo... he doesn't realize that he can't fuck anything up if he plays something that was already good to begin with, straight. goddamn... anyway, both 'looker' and 'wolfen'--albert finney flicks that might be cool and appropriate for the consciousness of our times; and possibly improved upon update. 'network' updated to resemble the fox news coverage of the last eight years. 'they live' to reflect our current economic crisis (already topical; but you can't fuck it up if you stay true to its spirit. just amp it up a little bit). and 'scarecrow'. great movie; stick to it's tricks, but spiff it out a bit with more current technology. that's all.
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Holy cow, no more. I knew Hollywood was out of ideas, but I didn't know it had gotten to this. Usually Hollywood remakes good films and they end up crap. But what happens when they remake something that was crap to start with? For fuck's sake, just remake Date with an Angel while you're at it. Or Mannequin. Or better yet, skip that and remake the sequel, Mannequin Two: On the Move. This shit is exactly what made me trade in my man card for small artsy films. Anyone see Doubt? That shit rocked.
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Drop Dead Fred? Drop fucking Dead fucking Fred? I have a direct message for the guy who gave the go-ahead for this: Go get a gun and blow your fucking brains out. You are fucking useless.
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I agree the best remakes (Thomas Crown Affair, the first Zorro, Ocean's Eleven) tend to build on what was good before. Russell Brand is more though than "wacky" in the way Rik Mayall is. If you've read his book you'll know he's an intellegent man (albeit one that makes some bad, self inflicted decisions). I agree with whoever said he is better than remakes of Arthur, this etc. I think this is a join-the-dots rumour. If he's resisting the big payday for Pirates 4 I doubt he'd do guff like this.
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Just realised Bedtimes Stories is on a similar "imagination come to life" idea. Ah well, I'm a hypocrite. None the less I still suggest reading his book/watching Ponderland and/or his standup pre-judging him (or making death threats)
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April 28, 2009, 5:54 a.m. CST
Which studio is going to be the 1st to remake a 90s flick?
by Gungan Slayer
Now that's the million dollar question right there folks.
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fucking great idea
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April 28, 2009, 6:04 a.m. CST
Richie Rich + Alan B'Stard + Lord Flashheart + Kevin Turvey =
by workshed
A COMEDY GENIUS/GOD. There's no quibbling over that one... That's not mentioning Sir Richard Dangerous/Rik/Mad Gerald/'Alan' (from 'Bad News') + about 20 other 'Comic Strip' characters. I once had the pleasure of seeing him record an episode of 'The New Statesman' at it's height. Afterwards we met him in the bar and he was just as hilarious but a real gentleman too. I was gutted about his accident because I think a part of him (his brain) has gone for good. He (and Ade Edmondson) will always be a slapstick legend, second only to The Three Stooges in my book. Russell Brand, on the other hand... presented Big Brother's Big Mouth and THAT is the only thing he has done apart from appear on endless chat shows with nothing to say.
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I promise this is not an Onion article!<p> http://tinyurl.com/cghn8t<p> "As one producer put it, 'The '90s are totally fair game.'"<p> "If you're trying to get a movie made now, you can push the rock up a mountain or you can push it on flat ground," said one studio-based producer, explaining the rationale for remake mania. "And most of us would rather push it on flat ground."<p> This industry we worship is bursting at the seams with very sick people.
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just compare Drop Dead Fred with Bladrunner? <P> This site gets dumber every fucking day :\
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When do you think the mods are gonna be done sucking off producers to get around to dealing with your doppelganger? Shit sucks man.
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You know the ramake rape trend is almost finished it's major rape cycle in the horror world, so of course it will move onto serious films and comedys now. Jesus so many film to rape. I mean remake... Fuck coming up with original stuff. Have you read the Nightmare Remake. Total crap lots of rescenes and the biggest plot point is replayed. Girl dies boyfreind is blamed, Nancy gets involved. Does anyone here say speak up. Nope.... *sigh*
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I guess Ridley Scott's still tinkering with getting his definitive cut out there and then they'll go for the remake.
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:::Picks Nose/Wipes Booger on your face:::
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Haven't you learned yet, man? Remakes make Harry and Co. squeal like the fat little consumer pigs they are. They don't give a shit if something sucks, they just want SOMETHING. Hence all the WOLVERINE support. So no, they won't speak up because then they'd have to buy their DVDs like the rest of us.. like they used to when this site had some standards... and even low standards like they used to have are still better than the heartless greedy shell AICN has become.
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Seriously, she's about as sexy as a folding chair. She's physically pretty, yes, but she's flat and boring and sexless. She has nothing that Phoebe Cates had. Not that Phoebe Cates could act, but she was charismatic and sexy, unlike Portman. I've literally hated everything Portman has ever done.
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I literally walked out of a FREE preview of this movie. Why would anyone even consider remaking this unmitigated shitbomb...?!? --- And did you seriously put this in a category with Blade Runner? It was not a "misunderstood masterpiece" or "ahead of it's time".... it was just a complete pile of shit with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Fuck man, for grouping this with Blade Runner on any basis you should be locked immediately for your own protection... that's one of the dumbest comments I've ever heard any writer on this site make in any context. Wow.
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Fuck off out of here. Harry, ban this cunt immediately. Have some fucking respect.
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It's just a fucking concept. Had they pitched the same plot without the title no-one would bat a fucking eyelid, but tell us it's a remake and supposedly that's cash in the bank right there. Built-in audience of maybe 8 people right there, motherfucker.<br><br>I'm going to go force a coat hanger down my throat until I expell some of this bile. 'scuse me.
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April 28, 2009, 7:09 a.m. CST
It was really bad first time round. dont touch this!!!
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Fart jokes are not funny unless your Larry the Cable Guy and his fans!
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April 28, 2009, 7:10 a.m. CST
What's next? A remake of The Pest with Carlos Mencia?
by TylerDurden3395
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http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/431436
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This was a movie I saw in an army theater. I think it was like a buck, and I walked out of it half way through. One of only two movies I was unable to sit through. The other was Fresh Horses. Let's see them remake that.
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They ARE doing HIGHLANDER. This year! And whoever said THEY LIVE should be remade, that's also going to happen soon. As for the question what studio will be first in remaking a 90's movie: That'll be either Stephen Norrington's THE CROW or Fox rebooting FANTASTIC FOUR - whoever is faster.
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http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/431550 <P>I know I've posted this before but I will keep doing it whenever you pop up off topic<P> I voted no (again) by the way
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Kevin Kline. <br><br> I thought everyone knew this.
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Well with Hulk and Incredible Hulk, a 2000s movie has already been remade/rebooted...
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...as a remake of Burton's Batman... or was that 1989... damn the 90s...
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For fucks sake keep your mouth shut! Don't say things like that out loud "they" might be listening!
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Don't look now but they are already in the 90s. Total Recall (1990) remake is in development, Bad Lieutenant (1992) is being remade. Of course if you count all the US remakes of foreign films then we're already up to 2008 as US set Let The Right One In remake is being sold at Cannes!
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...hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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... now there's an obscurity for ya. Had some weird production design and some weirder cameos. <P> I think I was one of around three people to see it at the movies during its one week run. Actually enjoyed it a lot. There's some stuff in there with a "Hell Cop" and a cool car race with heaps of vintage vehicles across the sands... also Ben Stiller, Gilbert Gottfreid as Hitler (!) and frankly, I sometimes thought I dreamed it all up, but found a copy of the VHS and, yeah, it's real. <P> Ate De Jong never did much else though. Odd.
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April 28, 2009, 7:42 a.m. CST
'Paradise' is the Phoebe Cates film that really needs a remake
by jimmay
Copious nudity and a genuine masturbating monkey make that forgotten gem a must-see!
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That is all
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What the fuck? A remake of Drop Dead Fred? The Genuis of the "Young Ones", and the silly fun of the 90's are long fucking dead. Whoever greenlighted this should have the dead greasy bones of the 1990's shoved up their ass.
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I watched this movie dozens of times when I was little. It was one of my favorites.
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Thank you. I did not know that. According to IMDB she now spends her time supporting her husbands film and stage career. <P>I wonder what she does for the other 23hrs and 45mins of the day - b'dum-tsh<P>I'm here all week - try the veal.
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You're a fucking unmitigated GENIUS. The moment I read that line, I could almost hear a Muse cover of POTU - and it's the dog's bollocks.<P> You, sir, are a GENIUS. Fuck off to Hollywood IMMEDIATELY and get making movies. That kind of thinking is rarer than gold dust - and if your idea of a reboot can have that kind of greatness, I'm dying to hear your original ideas!<P> God, a remake of HIGHLANDER with all the Queen stuff deone by MUSE... That would FUCKING ROCK!<P> And bring back Clancy Brown. I don't care how, just make it happen!
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And then Morons From Outer Space.
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There was one very interesting scene. Where Phoebe was being treated for having imaginary friends, in a room with other kids with the same issue. All the friends knew and played madly with each other, but each child could only see their own friend. Wonderful scene - sounds like they may be blowing this up into the whole movie
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Hey, I have to stand up for Bernie. The original is at the top of my "guilty pleasure" list. Terry Kizer's performance as dead Bernie is pure comic genius of the first order; today it would have earned him at least a Golden Globe nomination. Yes, the rest of the cast sucks, but give Bernie props!
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Worst movie of all time. First movie I ever walked out on. Anyone who likes it can only be described as mentally challenged.
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All you need right here (NSFW)<P>http://tinyurl.com/dluvcg <P>Those running XP can use the Alt-Arrow Key function to see why HB_Dad rates her over Natalie Portman. I had to stand on my head. Damm Matrox cards.
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Let's remake Monkeybone too!
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JOSSSHHHHH SWAAANEEEYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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April 28, 2009, 8:30 a.m. CST
Might as well remake past scriptgirl episodes while they're at i
by gruemanlives
It'd be nice if they added some talent.
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is fucking distTRACTing!
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They can remake this as long as they don't touch my Young Ones! I'm surprised they'd do this before Beetlejuice (?!)
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he's the definition of an amateur
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Right?
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It was filmed here in Minneapolis. If they don't make it here, it's by no means a remake!
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The bitch can't act. Why does she keep getting parts? Seriously, the only movie that she was in that I saw and didn't cringe was The Professional. Beyond awful in V for Vendetta, and I can not even begin to talk about the prequels... I hear she is good at math though.
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Thank you very much!!! It is perfect as it is, why tarnish a great movie with a money grab piece of shit remake?
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I still strangely like it to a degree. But Russel Brand is a fucking douche-twat and I refuse to watch anything with him in it.
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Really funny fucking guy. There's a picture of him as Jesus on his autobiogrpahy.
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Natalie Portman is a fucking godess. Fuck you cock gargling assclowns.
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now that would be cool. Or at least just release a better DVD version of the series. To my knowledge, the only thing worthwhile to ever see Rik Mayal in. Phoebe Cates was pretty hot back then BTW.
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...Drop Dead Fred was Johnny Rotten. I was a dork.
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originally, then you know the imagination is totally gone.
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April 28, 2009, 9:09 a.m. CST
Let's remake Young Einstein while we're at it.
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Any other crappy movies we can remake Hollywood?
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us. I didn't even read the comments up top I was so bothered by this. I can see we're on the same wavelength.
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April 28, 2009, 9:30 a.m. CST
At this rate, the remake of Angels & Demons should already be in
by gruemanlives
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...before opening the article. Wow Hollywood, what an obvious choice! and what a horrible idea. no wonder it was greenlit. Is America still hung up on the whole "Foreigners inherently talk funny and act funny = funny" concept?
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See? Geeks can learn things. Gone (hopefully) are those endless talkbacks chittering on about how "fuckable" the little boy that dressed up like a kabuki doll in those Star Wars re-hash films was. Natalie Portman can't act her way out of a paper bag; and is about as sexy as Shia LeBouf with a crewcut.
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This goes beyond using "brand recognition" to get butts in the seats and is just full on CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY. <p> Who works in Hollywood now? Is everyone there brain dead?
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This time with Fred Savage in Reinhold's position and a slumdogger as the kid. IT'S A WIN!!
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What about the other half of the "Goth Detectives": Noah Feilding? Seeing as The Mighty Boosh is a modern version of The Young Ones, and Rik Mayall was in the original Drop Dead Fred, it makes sense to use Noah. Or, if you really wanted to go for insane casting: Rich Fulcher. Crazy Bob Fossil as an imaginary friend would blow your fucking mind. I'll be all over you like a nun sandwich!
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seriously, man. there should be a talkback devoted solely to the sheer awesomeness of watching snake-eyes take a katana through the palm as a last resort/attempt to disarm stormshadow. badassnedness, indeed.
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Anyone who is nostalgic for the movie is not going to see this. And anyone who is going to see this is too young to remember the original. So, why not just take the idea and make an entirely different film and call it something else? As others have mentioned the film was a box office failure so there is no brand recognition to be gained from. That said I don't hold much love for the original although I do love Rick Mayall and The Young Ones. It's certainly not as offensive as the Pink Panther remakes which are an abomination of desolation!
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So leave it alone. You don't remake or sequel a POS box office bomb. It was pure schlock.
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I support the idea of this remake. This is the type of shit that should be remade: Stuff they didn't get right the first time. To the guy above who was miserable as a kid because his cousin looked like Phoebe Cates: How about having an older sister who looks just like Sharon Stone?
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I think it would be a neat idea to have another "Vice Versa" where Fred Savage is now the dad, and maybe Judge Reinhold is the grand-dad... Judge Reinhold has got to be damn near sixty now right?
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April 28, 2009, 10:29 a.m. CST
holy balls thats some childhood memories right there
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
gurantee if i watch that movie now its fuckin terrible
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...Russel Brand is much better when all you can do is hear him.
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RANSACKER is an application that rips movie archives for any material that can be re-imagined, re-visioned, re-made. It replaces the SCAVENGER application and provides a robustly dumbed-down platform for talent-challenged pseudo-producers.
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I posted this sentiment before, but this is so entirely fucked up that, as a lover of all cinema, I feel an obligation to suggest action: Download this movie, but don't watch it. Share it, seed it, whatever you can to get it out there. Download any movie that is blatantly an attempt to simply make money and which questions its audience's intelligence from its conception to its completion. DO NOT PAY A CENT. I will not give another company a dime out of my pocket from this point on. Piracy will be a form of organized protest against a patronizing and condescending industry, not just another venue to get something for free. Fuck Wolverine, fuck Drop Dead Fred, fuck them all.
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Drop Dead Fred Little Monsters The Wizard
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about an attraction to Phoebe Cates.
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Just no.
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April 28, 2009, 11:32 a.m. CST
Impersonating an idiot like Dickblood is pathetic
by most excellent ninja
that's just lame, dumb cunt wasn't even around for the Transformers talkbacks or aquafag.
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I think that shit I just took was a 7 page treatment on the remake of "Tootsie". I am thinking of signing for 4.5 mil and 3%, wish me luck!
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...so what does drop dead fred and videodrome have in common?
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Probably.
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In the last year I've also heard his name attached to remakes of Arthur and Rocky Horror. I like RB, but I sure hope he knows his 15 minutes are ticking...choose wisely young Brand....
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Phoebe Cates imo is the quintessential hot 80s chick.
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Nicely put!
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Until his footage was dropped. Still haven't forgiven the movies for that. Bastards.
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Unless "Dude, Where's My Car?" counts.
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really happened between 1910 and 1940. There were four versions of "The Wizard of Oz" (some more faithful than others) in that period, with the 1939 musical capping that era of film. "The Maltese Falcon" was made three times, once loosely as "Satan Met a Lady," between 1931 and 1941. Yep, the last attempt is the classic. See? Remakes can be better than originals. So knock it off! *kidding*
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This time it's a buddy film will beetle juice... but they think they are getting too old for this shit.
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mrbong is correct
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Guilty.
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This imposter shit has got to stop! Thanks for all the support and whining everyone. The imposter should come out and face me face to face like someone said! Oh wait none of us are face to face and we all talk mad shit to each other cause we'll never see each other and would be too pussy to in person.
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April 28, 2009, 1:38 p.m. CST
Josh Swaney has an imaginary friend....
by FormerEnglandPropJasonLeonard
his +1 for wolverine
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Oh wait, that was Right Said Fred. Never mind.
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Bill and Ted is fine as it is, thank you very much. Give us the third movie in the unfinished San Dimas trilogy, yes - but keep the fuck away from a remake!<P> Be excellent to each other. Party on, dudes!
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I've been a fan of Mayall's since Dangerous Brothers (and the Young Ones, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Bottom, Blackadder, Alan B'Stard), but this movie sucked badly. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Poor Rik.
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April 28, 2009, 1:58 p.m. CST
_humanoids from the deep_ remake, and a plague of locusts, next.
by duanejones
...because it's the freaking end times! woo-hoo! i gotta laugh 'cause i know i'm gonna die, and not even in detroit rock city! what WILL we do when the generation of retards raised on warmed-over simulacra bullshit and an inability to let their attention flicker past the five second mark finally takes over? meet me back here in 25 years when you've discovered that REALITY IS LAME! BUMMER! </rant>
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that is all
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why would hate this flick? really doesn't need a remake though. The original is timeless.
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I don't cast your 'un-cool' actors and comedians in American movies. A few of them are funny, didn't get the memo regarding the general consensus that certain comedians suck over there. Oh, also, don't give a flying shit. Take them all back for all I care. No one thinks Brand or even Gervais represent all of British comedy. We don't care. You're not important here. Slide off.
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It's just that stupid Hollywood remake frenzy is probably gonna go that way soon.
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knob
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You get comfortable, I'll go up top and get eaten by a sea monster. Worst movie I've ever seen.
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Originally, when Fred slipped under some ladies skirt, he looked up and said "no panties!" But some new versions have him saying "cobwebs!". I wonder how this memorable scene will be filmed in the remake, he'll probably look up and say "Gaping Mess!"
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Rik Mayall deserved far better than DROP DEAD FRED. And we deserve better than a DROP DEAD FRED remake with Russell Brand.
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This is NOT a REMAKE.... It's a visual idear, that happens to be called: DROP DEAD DROP.... I remember as a kid thinking this movie is annoying.....It's like that Martin Short film where he's a kid.... ANNOYING! For the love of Dog, who is shitting these ideas into existence.... I want to go over to their house and kick them in the peehole.
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Even though it was already re-made as Clifford, which is the one movie that makes be want to stab my dick off.
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Both talkbacks are neck and neck, fighting for top place....<p>Only one talkback can survive!
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This talkback (much earlier) is like the 9th time I've mentioned The Mighty Boosh or actors from it, and every time I do it's the talkback equlivent of showing a dog a card trick. Go back to talking about Russel Brand, since he's the only "wacky" British comedians you stupid motherfuckers have ever heard of. Baa! Baa!
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Make it so!
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Isn't that how cakes insult each other?<p>JAM DOUGHNUT: "Heroes is WAY better than Lost!"<p>SPONGE CAKE: "Are you retarted?"<p>STRAWBERRY TART: "Oi! I heard that, you motherfucker."
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April 28, 2009, 3:21 p.m. CST
Yes, I'm the first person EVER on AICN to msspell a word. Ever.
by OBSD
Babyfucker.
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Any movie involving mutated Salmon men raping women makes me think that maybe the filmmakers had a couple of issues.
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Ironically - with the word 'misspell'!
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were geniuses. in the late eighties and ninties. now not so much. I loved alan Bstard. Ade edmonson has revealed a more serious side since he starred in holby city. Rick mayall career never recovered since his double act with ade edmonson ended in the early noughties. And he did write a book called book called bigger than hitler better christ. after his quadbike accident hewent a bit mad.
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Usually emeraldboy's posts are wildly off topic. I was expecting something like:<p>"Clover TV today reported that Irish folks think Doctor Who would be better with a different accent."
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Don't let a trifling little think like that get to you mate.<P>I'm sure CHRISTIAN_BALE_TRASHED_MY_LIGHTS was only moussing with you - he wasn't really pudding you down
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"pudding you down"<p>Bravo, young pup. Bravo.
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Missed the trifle reference!
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you're funny.
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...get the mousse reference. I didn't want you to think I didn't.
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. . . David Tennat. <p> Seriously, you lot.<P> THINK about it -- high-speed, mile-a-minute-dialogue, whacky facial expressions, crude physical comedy?<p> Seriously, Tennet, bitches.
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Damn lack of a spell-checker.<p> So, to reiterate:<P> . . . David Tennant for Drop Dead Fred.<p> Seriously, you lot.<p> THINK about it -- high-speed, mile-a-minute-dialogue, whacky facial expressions, crude physical comedy?<p> Seriously, Tennet, bitches.
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Good idea! That man needs to get into movies (yeah, I know he's in Harry Potter but it's a relatively small part) now his run on Doc Who is ending.<p>He's a talented motherfucker that one and would be a good fit for this.
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Don't get me wrong, I too enjoy a little of the BOOSH - but let's be fair, Noel fielding is only marginally more talented and less annoying than Brand. Why? His schtick is that he says random things and then grins inanely. Same thing over and over. As much as I hate Simon Amstell (and you have NO IDEA how much I HATE and detest that smug fucker) he was right when he reamed Noel on NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS:<P> Amstell: Is that how it works, is it? You just say two random unrelated words and laugh? Are you going to cut my head off with some scissors made of glitter?<P> As much of an irritating twat as he is, Amstell nailed it. And once you've seen through what Noel Fielding's whole schtick is, you can't then un-see it. And it becomes horribly clear how painfully limited his whole performance is.<P> don't get me wrong, I still find him funny. And about a gazillion times funnier than that pseudo-Victorian-dandy narcissistic fuckstick "Regardez! Moi, Russell Brrrrrrrrrrand!" Brand. But both comedians have a very, very limited modicum of talent compared to some of the greats. Bill Murray wouldn't wipe his arse with either of them.
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although this film should never see the light of day!
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Wasn't that the guy's name?
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...than watch this abortion of a movie.<p>Jesus, Rik Mayall was c*nt enough, but Russell fucking Brand takes the garibaldi...
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Just a matter of time before "Dinosaurs" is back on the air. Shit, why don't they just remake "Hocus Pocus" while they're at it?
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Let's remake movies that NEED to be remade...for instance...Star Wars Ep I,II,III.
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And Episode VI as well. And let's redo Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for good measure.
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and not a classic, like the Videodrome news we had recently....
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Drop Dead, Wall Street.
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It's come to this.
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But I'm not surprised that I wasn't the only one to walk out of this film when it first came out in theatres. Saw a free preview - it may have been free, but it wasn't worth the 80 minutes of my life! Walked out about 1/2 way through. <p> The problem with the original was it didn't know it's audience. Was it for kids or for teens? Why was Carrie Fisher screwing around with different guys - why would a 6 year old want that in their movie? More proof that idiots abound in Hollywood, just like in every other profession.
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...are as good as fucking torrented. Props to Judge Reinhold and Weekend at Bernies (mentioned above) for being awesome, and just for being.
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FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! The original is one of my childhood favourites, alongside The Goonies, Return To Oz, Labyrinthe and others! Russell fucking Brand over Rik Mayall??! Whoever dreamt this up should be fucking shot.
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I remember taking my nieces and nephews to a double feature of Drop Dead Fred and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead....I really don't think we need a repeat of this anytime soon.
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And use Howie again shit he's more famous now then he was then. He's fucking HILARIOUS! Comic genius level on that show Howie Do it. And yes I am a idiot!
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I said it before and I will say it again: How the fuck did QT fuck up a movie about a psycho stunt car driver played by Kurt Russell driving around and killing people in a death proof car?
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He didn't.
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Dog Poo Doggy Doggy Dog Poo!
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April 28, 2009, 6:35 p.m. CST
Wow just the other day I was thinking they should remake this
by walrusholder
of course I'm a fucking idiot with a small penis.
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It's now a Good movie--? how THE FUCK izzat POSSIBLE?????? Jurassic_Shitty IV: Cokey BITES
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Part II: The bad ones. Schindler, realizing that being a nice guy doesn't get you pussy, creates a list of people to turn over to the Nazis. For a comedic turn, Rowan Atkinson is Schindler and some fat Brit or Aussie is the sidekick. Comedy gold, three sequels, and endless commentary on the DVDs, which will suck dirty, yet moistened, dog cock. I hate Hollywood.
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oops wrong Fred!
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is the Indiana Jones doll in the ad? Fuck! He looks like Elmer Fudd's grandfather's sauna partner. Yeellcchhh.
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The name Fred is simply the greatest name in the known Universe. Anything named Fred must be either great or greatly misunderstood! <p> Fred can speak no evil to another Fred. That is the code of the Fred. Non-Freds simply do not understand what it means to be Fred.
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I now understand why people drop off the talkbacks over the years. what happen to the old days, the good ol days
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should be remade. Leave the good movies alone.
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April 28, 2009, 7:39 p.m. CST
yes deathproof was terrible. like, really fucking terrible
by supercowbell4therequestformorecowbell
fuckin killed grindhouse for me. planet terror is much better than that piece of garbage.
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April 28, 2009, 7:50 p.m. CST
Fred woul like to exclaim: F. Murray Abrahams nostrils!
by Freds_Balls_in_a_Mason_Jar
The F stands for Fred - of course. And he was born in Pittsburgh. Home of the only six time Super Bowl champions. <p> Fred loves the Stillerz!
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Teen Wolf! Weekend at Bernie's! Are people so besotted with 80's nostalgia that they think the festering corpses of these so-called "comedies" are fit to be seen again in new forms? Really? I eagerly await the big Jonathon Silverman comeback.
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April 28, 2009, 7:51 p.m. CST
Fred would like to exclaim: F. Murray Abrahams Nostrils!
by Freds_Balls_in_a_Mason_Jar
Fred thinks that should be new catchphrase
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April 28, 2009, 7:53 p.m. CST
New catchphrase! F. Murray Abrahams Nostrils!
by Freds_Balls_in_a_Mason_Jar
The F stands for Fred! <p> This phrase can be used at weddings, bar mitzvahs and toe cleanings! And many more things!
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What a great idea!
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April 28, 2009, 7:56 p.m. CST
Fuck this Shit...Remake "Private School" or "The All Nighter"
by conspiracy
Before you were old enough to rent porn...and before you could see it on the internet...these were as faptastic as it got.
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But Fred forgives you and wished the Cavaliers well
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April 28, 2009, 8:01 p.m. CST
F. MURRAY ABRAHAMS NOSTRILS! What a great idea!
by Freds_Balls_in_a_Mason_Jar
Fred thinks remaking Up the Academy would be great idea
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But it was shut down like two weeks into filming. Huzzah.
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Ah, Phoebe Cates, who in her day was the most physically perfect woman in the entire world. Unhealthy attraction? One word: "The bikini scene in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High." OK, so that's nine words. Sue me. Maybe I can call Phoebe as a character witness. :-)
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remake THE WIZARD, only about a Power Glove that actually works.
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So says Variety. God help us all.
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that backfired at a big studio meeting, like some guy went in thinking "I'm gonna say the stupidest thing I can come up with" then goes "How about a remake of Drop Dead Fred?", and the studio head guy went "GREAT IDEA! Make it happen!" and now the poor sap is stuck working on this crap for the next 20 months. <p> Well, it's a bad idea, but so long as it keeps Hollywood from remaking movies I actually like...
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I'm starting to think this site post any news at all. Is this even true?! I mean it sounds like a joke and the majority of news on the main page is remakes. Useless. Can you guys stop posting this shit?! Van Saint made the ultimate remake with Psycho and turned it into an avant guard masterpiece by basically saying that remakes are ultimately a pointless exercise but Hollywood was so stupid they didn't get that part because Van Saint had just won the Oscar for Good Will Hunting and he knew he could get away with murder. The point is there are a shit loud of extremely creative and talented filmmakers out there(myself included) who would give parts of their own body to make a film on a large scale and each time I hear news of remakes I literally want to travel out to Hollywood and wait for studio executives in the parking lot so I can beat them up and tell them they are raping my way of life and religion which is film. Peace out you lame motherfuckers.
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Pretty please remake Whoopie Goldberg's The Associate. We oh so need a retelling of this fine classic. FU!
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(( I hear she is good at math though. )) You're thinking of Danica McKellar, "Winnie Cooper" from "The Wonder Years."
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Was this a hit on DVD? The only reason I saw it was that I was deeply into YOUNG ONES at the time it theaters and was excited to see Rik Mayall in a maintstream flick. Time to pull out the Young Ones box set again this weekend.
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Just like this post, really.
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I remember when this movie came out and it was right after the smash success of Beetlejuice and in a magazine article the director said Beetlejuice was the "inspiration" for this film. This movie sucked then and it will suck now. And I don't get these british comedians like Mr. Bean and what not, they bend over and shake their "bum" at the camera and it's supposed to be knock you over funny. They make stupid faces and dress goofy with highwater pants and it's supposed to be funny. British humor (save for Benny Hill) does not translate well in America.
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April 29, 2009, 12:36 a.m. CST
Why remake this? - It was shit first time round!
by scriptgirl_nipples
Also Russell Brand is a twat.
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April 29, 2009, 1:22 a.m. CST
Danica McKellar made me look at math in a different way...
by conspiracy
Chaffed Cock=Danica McKellar+Stuffed Magazine Pics+(24hrs-time to buy lotion/[number of times a day you can fap-times you have to actually do the wife or girlfriend])
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Can we PLEASE have a Beetlejuice sequel? Starting exactly where the first one finished - there he is, sitting in the queue with his shrunken head and FINALLY his number comes up.<p>Come on, Tim, stop pissing about and give us Beetlejuice II.
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but the word needs to spread across your fine nation - stop giving money to anything that lest Russell "the twat" Bland have any sort of career. please send him back across the pond in as many pieces as possible.
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I remember on VH1 or some channel/show they showed a guy in the background of teen wolf showig his wang while he was in the bleachers (they didn't catch it until after the movie was released). If they remake teen wolf they should have a girl go full frontal in the FOREGROUND. Just sayin'!
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It's a damn shame that I remember this movie.
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Tod Browning's FREAKS remains untouched. Curious, isn't it? You'd think Hollywood would have no problem scraping up some weird-looking people. Hell, the plastic surgery addicts in Hollywood are pretty freakish-- Maybe the story could be about a normal person from the midwest being sucked into the Hollywood world of being insanely thin, having your face rearranged, and dressing like a retard dressed by flaming homosexuals. <p> Picture Nikki Cox and Joan Rivers chanting: Gooble Gobble! Gooble Gobble! One of us! One of us!
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Seriously! Make the classic "New Wave Hookers" as a PG-13, big-budget flick designed to get teens in the theater.
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...the hottest woman to ever live.
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THE YOUNG ONES are easily one of the greatest comedy shows eva. DDF is easily one of the worst films ever made. I watched the trailer thinking, is this how they're trying to sell Mayall to America? Ooo, the gross looking Brit is gettin' grosser! What was that movie? And this remake really is the End of Days in Hollyood. I'm certain the producers are reading this post: you are a suck on the face of art and humanity. Save yourself by canceling this and making something original...
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The public demands it!
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Have any sense whatsoever, when they have an idea that is better suited to direct to video, or is going to lose money?
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What the hell. That movie sucked so bad. The only way you could improve it would be to replace "fred" with Jar Jar Binks. <BR><BR> Oh and I agree about a Beetlejuice sequel, with the right story and At least Keaton and Winona ( though at least cameos for everyone else would be cool... lord knows Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis would do it in a second )
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After watching the guy on 30 rock for so long, I watch part of Hunt for Red October the other day and had a really hard time taking him seriously... it's so weird you keep expecting him to say something funny.. and it never comes. :)
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Talk about an actor "settling" into middle age. When does he and Val Kilmer get approached by Nutrisystem?<p>But Baldwin has gotten better with age, because it seems that he's comfortable with his body, and it shows in his acting. AND, if you've never seen Miami Blues, you're in for a treat.
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Yeah, I'm that guy.
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Howard The Duck reboot is coming, starring Meg Ryan and the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. The script is based on a giant shit that I took after a Taco Bell dinner last Tuesday. Tim Kring heard about it and wanted to use it for Volume 5 of Heroes, but NBC was too cheap to make an offer.
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You can't make shit any worse so why not? A Beetlejuice-style treatment might work. So when is Leonard Part6 getting remade? Any word on DOUBLE DRAGON or how about MARIO BROS? Hell, there are 1000's of shitty movies WAITING to be remade! Come Hollywood, get on the bandwagon and start remaking the shitting movies!
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Somewhere out there is a L.A. busboy with something better than this.
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They wonder why revenue is down in hollywood..Why am I ggonna pay 12 dollars to see a shit film ive seen before as a kid?I wonder if these ass hats think about things the way we do..or maybe Im just better than everyone involved
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I don't like the guy. Kinda annoying BUT saw an interview with Hellen Mirren who said Brand was practicing Shakespeare and his improv was 'the best they had ever seen and the work of a genius'. Maybe he has some untapped talent after all (certainly not comedic though). DDF was shit really, but I loved it as a kid. Not gonna bother with the remake though.
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April 29, 2009, 9:35 p.m. CST
There's no such THING as an "unhealthy" attraction to...
by TheGhostWhoLurks
Phoebe Cates. It simply indicates that you're still among the living. And even zombies would be lusting after her, if only for her brains. :)
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And do you know where I can get a 'Ben is a twat' T-shirt?
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... somebody is trying to remake a bad movie instead ruining an already good one. At least there is lots of room for improvement.
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GUEST HOUSE PARADISO > DROP DREAD FRED<P> Yeah, I went there. I actually enjoyed them both, but PARADISO is just pure lunacy on film. It's like everyone involved said "Right, let's fuck up our careers by making the worst movie we possibly can". And then they actually did!<P> It's a laugh to watch, but... DAAAAAAAMN.
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Mrs Spud-Mc-Spud-To-Be watches that shit, and due to being laid up with some kind of intestinal apocalypse I was forced to watch it last night.<P> Fucking hell...<P> I hope every REAL soldier who ever went through Sandhurst stands on his fucking face next time they see him. I hope that in every job Ben ever gets from here to the end of the universe, he gets belittled and laughed and and ignored, that officious, bigheaded, useless cunt. It's been a LONG time since anyone has so instantly and totally infuriated me like that twat.<P> Deborah is a close second. She must have shared in Sheffield steel, because never has one woman put so many knives in so many backs as that bitch.<P> You know what the problem with THE APPRENTICE is? It's a fucking pantomime parody. Thanks to this series, I now think Sir Alan Sugar is just some fame-obssessed lunatic getting off on playing the panto villain on TV, rather than him being an innovative businessman and empire owner. Why does he consistently allow people on this show that you wouldn't trust to run a bath, let alone a company? We're talking about people so profoundly thick, that of two teams, only one of them realised that you can split 10 items between 5 people to be valued and it makes the job EASIER! Strange that the team who did this won...<P> Honestly, if this is the calibre of people Sir Alan Sugar wants in his companies, I'm amazed he's still making money. Fucking morons...<P> And back on topic: I think the milf lover is right. Some young exec decided to say the dumbest thing that came into his head - "Hey! Let's remake DROP DEAD FRED!" - hoping to get a laugh, but instead got lumbered with this dumb fucking idea. Fuckin' Hollywood...
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.. remakes of True Identity and a bunch of other "UK comedians try and make it in Hollywood" films from the early 90's
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