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A Review Of The Script Written For The POLTERGEIST Remake (But May Not Be The Script They Actually Use) Is Now Online!!
Merrick here...
High on the list of movies NOT in need of remake is POLTERGEIST. Accordingly, MGM is forging ahead with their reworking of the film.
Towards this end, scripters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White (BOOGEYMAN) submitted a draft which MGM claims will not be the "version" used to make the movie.
Whether or not this ends up being close to what we see on screen, it's an interesting glimpse into the project's state of development (at one point in time, at least).
Latino Review has a review of the Snowden/White adaptation of POLTERGEIST. It originates HERE, or can be viewed via the embed below!
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Where's the Carradine Obit? (I know, I know, give someone time to write it)
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Is dead. Post something
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Dammit - If only I didn't have to create an account - curse those 8 seconds!
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It has held up remarkably well since it's premiere. You're not going to find anyone that'd make me forget how awesome Craig T. Nelson or seeing JoBeth Williams being dragged up a wall. Holy shit is she hot in that movie. I've had plenty of sweet dreams about that shot of her panties.
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plop
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I read much quicker than they can talk. So if anybody bothers with watching this, please tell me what they say,
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As long as they don't try to mimic the original, I don't see an issue with making another poltergeist. There's a definitive "mythology" in place, they could easily use it in a different context.
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I just doubt that any remake is going to come within five miles of the coolness of the original film. Hell, I even dig those outdated ILM effects.
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Same stupid mentality about being a first poster. You expect an article about David Carradine in two seconds. Look at cnn.com if you want an article now. I assume what will be posted here will be more than the expanded bio that most sites will post. Give Harry or whoever a chance to reflect and compose something.
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So long, David C. Hopefully they have Yellow Book in heaven.
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being dragged up the wall.
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Agreed
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Hey, I've been reading this site for years - had an old login but forgot the password, so I'm not a first poster. The reason I don't post is because there are people like you just waiting to call someone an idiot. I love this site, and just wanted to make awares of the fact that Carradine is dead. Sorry if I want news... in a cooler format than CNN... oh wait, that is why I come here.
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What was gross about watching an attractive woman writhing around on a flat surface?
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Bale vs. Pazuzu, y'all.
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Also, in I guess a morbid way, I am eager to hear the site's send up to David Carradine - that was the spirit behind my 'post something' comment. I come here because I enjoy the way the contributors to this site write, and I know that when someone truly awesome passes, they do obits right. And because I remember watching original Kung Fu and the Legend Continues, I am even more eager for them to post something
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"What's your favorite movie?"
"Don't worry, we'll remake it in OUR image!"
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Either you copy all the elements of the original, in which case why bother, or you make a mockery of the original, in which case your film becomes an insult. Remakes should only be made under very strict circumstances. One, if the original was good but the FX didn't exist to do the story proper justice (like King Kong). Two, if the original was good but all but forgotten (Like the 1925 Ben Hur). Three, if the original was bad but had some good ideas worth reinterpreting (like Battlestar Galactica). Four, you're readapting a novel (like Lord of the Rings), or five, and this is only barely acceptable, if the original was in another language and you want it to reach a wider audience. As remake material then, Poltergiest fails the test on all counts.
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R.I.P.
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Poltergeist is probably still my favourite horror/thriller, scared the bejeesus out of me when it came out, and still manages to give me some shivers. If they do remake Poltergeist, they are really going to have a hard time convincing me that it is necessary.
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Jun 04, 2009 10:23:40 AM CDT
You know how MTV online stuff isn't viewable outside the US?
by mr gorilla
I wish they could do that with all these fucking terrible remakes.
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The FX in the old King Kong were a trillion times better than the effects in the Peter Jackson fiasco. Otherwise, I agree - BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is a great example of a good remake.
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When more than a handful of filmmakers gave a shit about crafting a coherent, thoughtful genre picture. Poltergeist had just the right amount of special effects (which were in SERVICE of the story), character development, thrills and pathos. It actually managed to make me sympathize with both the family and the poltergeist. Even in death the american indians were still getting fucked over by the white man. These new fangled remakes concern themselves more with lighting and CGI than clever casting and proper screenwriting. That's why everyone here gets a bug up their ass over these re(tard)makes.
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Besides the obvious lamness of it all is the casting is (for the most part)not nearly at all as memorable as the originals.
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Jun 04, 2009 10:34:52 AM CDT
A complete waste of time remaking POLTERGEIST
by the gospel according to bastardface
Much like the abysmal remakes of HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, THE OMEN. I'll pass.
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I will watch Circle of Iron in his honor.
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The "Americans Indians" in Poltergeist?
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Fuck them fuck them fuck them!
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Seriously, hands off fuckin POLTERGEIST! There simply won't be and hasn't been a better haunted house tale ever filmed. MGM is trying milk whatever it can, and this is really tasteless. Drexel? Sophie? Greg? Give me a fucking break! This material belongs to it's era and would not translate today. Not to mention that all of the baby boomers and people who grew up in the 80's like me, know the stories of the Poltergeist curse that took down cast member after cast member. The only way this could be done, is if it was done with the UTMOST care and respect for the original by a devoted fan of the film. And I don't see that happening. Oh and for the record once again. STEVEN SPIELBERG DIRECTED POLTERGEIST! James Karen, Gunnar Hansen, Zelda Rubinstein, and Oliver Robbins all told me at separate Fangoria conventions. Suck it Hooper!
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zzzipp...fffsssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...fshh...fshhh...[shake]...zzzipp...AHHH, that felt good.
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You're gonna bust my balls over a typo? Did my simple mistake offend you so much that you had to talkback? Come on!
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They were just indians, although I don't recall Poltergeist distinguishing the indians buried under the suburb as the peace-pipe smoking indians or the alcoholic, casino-owning indians.
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is a an old idea. So why the fuck don't they just make a movie with a poltergeist. I mean, holy shit, there can be no more space fantasy movies unless it's a remake or reboot of Star Wars? (I know Hollywood is hoping to cash in on the name and all, but fuck!)
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You keep begging for them to reuse scenes liek the Tree and the clown and your praise them for keeping the lights in and the black vortext. You guys are utter cunts. If you remake somthing you don't scene replay... We neede to term scene replays into it's own vanacular. Call it "Cribbin" (as in Crib Notes). and I hate it when remakes Homage and Crib. Stop praising Cribs/Replays scenes. Goddamn it takes no fucking talent to rewrite the same scene over again. Taking the spirit of the original and telling a totally new story with all original scenes does! You fucking cunts praised the Nightmare remake too.. Where do you live???? I wont let you keep this cribpraise crap in rotation.. No.. Noooooo... No!
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Want to read not view a guy talking while pics slide back in forth in some chronic masturbatory use of moron-able computer video editing software. LR used to be great for script reviews...now? SUCK.Oh...remakes,with very few exceptions, suck dirt encrusted ass if they're made after 1989. It's the law.
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a remake, reboot, needless prequel or sequel, I'm gonna smash their fucking face!
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I know you're excited but calm down. Read what you've written before you post, dude
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Enough with these unnecessary remakes, for fuck's sake!!! There are certain films that should NEVER be revisited because - shock!! - they got 'em right the first time. Aliens, Predator, Robocop, and Poltergeist are just a few. Christ, everyone and there mother has a script in their back pocket down in Hollywood. Weed through all of them and make original films. Stop fucking around with re,akes and "reboots".
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I wasn't trying to make fun of you or be a turd about your post. I was interested in what you wrote. It just wasn't easy to follow with all the typos. That's all I meant.
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I just remembered that remake happened. And I wonder how many people put in THAT version over the original when they need a fix. Seriously! Didn't we learn from directors tampering with the original of their OWN movies. Lol! Wow.
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i thought it was Kane and his followers shown in Part 2, not to mention all the bodies still buried under their house because of the cemetary faux pas.
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did latino review see the same movie as i did? because that girl was just fucking cute and adorable. the situations may have been creepy but she sure as hell wasnt. she was just a sweet little kid.
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I've only seen the first and the real estate agent said an ancient indian burial ground was beneath their house.
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I'm more pissed about this remake more than any other. Poltergeist is a near freaking perfect film.
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Fuck. This. Immature. Inappropriate. Shit. You're fucking braindead, producers.
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Really? That's an intended joke, right?
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But now they can put walkie-talkies in the hands of all the pool zombies. And maybe we can have the family go into the light and go back in time so we can see Craig T Nelson in a pointless cameo which would be "for the fans." Fuck it, people isn't it worth it! Come on! Yay! (silence) You know, it's hard work getting up here and cheering for this school how about some spirit! Alright? ALRIIIGHT!!! lol - sorry.
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What the hell? The detective. Working the case. Brings in a PSYHIC. Because he's wary of the ghost hunters. Yeah makes perfect sense.
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Seriously. Nothing. It's only going to end in failure. Like trying to remake JAWS.
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The original was a MASTERPIECE AND A PERFECT FILM!
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And not only will this remake include sound, it also boasts a kickass soundtrack featuring artists as unique as Ja Rule & Ludacris
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If the purpose of a remake is that there are young people out there who haven't seen or heard of the original, then why is the title so important. Just call this bullshit Spectre or Boo and leave the original to us real movie lovers.
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we can go back and see the origins of the ghosts and why they would want to take her in the first place... you know, find out what was motivating them. We'll get a nice shot of the virgin landscape, way before the white man got there and built a sub-development.JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ON A POGO STICK, STOP WITH THE FUCKING REMAKES, SEQUELS, PREQUELS, REIMAGININGS AND OTHER AFTERBIRTHS!!! You know, even when they announced the alien prequel and a few other recent ones, I thought... ehhh, it's a bit alarmist, there's still enough original material being produce. But this tipped the scales. I now officially feel as if I'm living in some kind of farce. You guys are right, Hollywood is bereft of original ideas. Well, I should say that they refuse to make the PILES of original scripts littered all over town and instead intend to save them for burning during the next ice age, which will be the soonest anything original sees the light of day again. Why don't the agents, executives, and lawyers all just go on television, buy about 5 minutes to explain to everyone that is writing ORIGINAL screenplays - HEY... WE'RE NOT PRODUCING ANYTHING ORIGINAL ANYMORE, SO STOP SENDING US STUFF. FORGET ABOUT SCREENWRITING AS A CAREER. WE'VE ALREADY NOTIFIED USC, UCLA, AND NYU THAT THEY CAN REMOVE THEIR SCREENWRITING PROGRAMS AND ALL BOOKS ON WRITING ANYTHING ORIGINAL WILL BE REMOVED FROM BOOK STORES. DO NOT SUBMIT ORIGINAL SPECS, INSTEAD, JUST SUBMIT SCREENPLAYS FOR MOVIES YOU LOVE AND HAVEN'T SEEN REMADE YET. CHANCES ARE, WE'LL WANT TO REMAKE IT. I don't know... movies are nearing their death, aren't they? And even the indies have become a TOTAL clusterfuck, as Sundance and Tribeca are nothing more than places where fading stars or up-and-comers get to show their wares... i.e. - horrible pieces of trash with even less originality than Transformers or Terminator Salvation and that NOBODY wants to see. There hasn't been a Primer or a Brick or a Following to come out of a major festival in about five years, when there used to be at least one major talent emerging every year. Now those films are probably languishing on shelves somewhere, as there's no longer any channel to get through. The message seems to be clear - nobody else is allowed in, we're quite full, we don't care about original ideas or original talents, we only care about repackaging yesteryear's classics for the ADHD addled twitter/The Hills/Twilight crowd. Is that 'meta-text' enough for you Mori? By the way everyone, not that you care, but when that whole Wolverine leaked print thing happened, I was on a purposeful sabbatical from this site and I just went back and read those talkbacks where Mori got trashed by CreepyThinMan, DGDB, and the usual suspects... fucking stellar! I always thought that pompous, self-serving dooche nozzle needed to get an AVALANCHE of that shit to see the light or disappear, and damn if that didn't come as close as what I always wanted to see happen. That was truly professional.
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Why do they insist on changing the family's names?
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You know, workin' with my mans Steven Seagal was once da highlite of my life, youknowwhati'msayin'? But ta git ta remake a muthafuckin' classic like Baleship Potato is a real honor. Before I got in da game I used to imagine I was Yakoff Smirnoff on the Red Ocktober, so to be able to not only act beside the funny nigga, i gets to do the soundtrack too. Life is good. IT'S MURDA!!
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I don't have remakes as much as the rest of the AICN community, but this is the single worst remake idea I have ever heard.First off, the original stands up well, despite the fact that many 80's movies don't. My wife just watched it for the first time this year. Secondly, don't assume you can improve upon Spielberg. That is just stupid. Thirdly, I'm not sure a single studio or director working today understands horror, nor how well Spielberg blended horror with a family tale.Lastly, while I'm not superstitious, many due believe in a Poltergeist curse. Some might feel that the message of the film is to respect the spirits of the dead. This remake seems to ignore that very message.Whichever director foolishly does this film will be boycotted by me for life, and that is not hyperbole.
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Everyone should mount a campaign to NOT see this movie when it hits the theaters. The only way we can stop this mindless, spiritless, practice of remaking classic movies into worthless shit is to NOT pay to see them. Send Hollywood a message. What's next a "God Father" reboot? I swear I'll burn down Hollywood if they try.
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me shoving my boot up its ass as many time as they want. Fucking midnight show! Fucking Taco Bell Cups! (Maybe some nice glasses from B.K.) Think of all the spin-offs!
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Hollywood needs to understand that "remakes" can work for books like Dracula, or Lord of the Rings (someday in the very, very distant future please!) but scripts are a very fragile entity. If you're going to take ideas from the script and then add your own, just start from scratch. Books you can do that. damn it! Surely we here in the TBs aren't this much smarter than those producing the entertainment!
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I was just so pissed. I went nuts on the keys and clicked enter. I'm very tired of this remake trend. It's pointless. I love the original. I see no apparent need to remake this. They are doing it because it's a well known successful title. Nostalgia sells. EZ $ I hope the remake comes with the same curse the original film had. Some things are better left alone. This would be one of them.
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I think it's time to start a social network web site against remakes. A serious no holds bar community that will do any and every legal thing possible to disturb these films when they are being filmed. We could organize basecamp and location invasion protest. With the web, we can get the whole world in on it. Anytime this crap happens, we should through the power of net have enough willing members in whatever area the new remake is being filmed. To send out a posses to protest and disturb the film progress. We will force the studios to film these pieces of crap on their own lots. Lessening the real world look of these films and increasing the budgets needed to make them. You have the right to publicly protest anything you want, and if they film these things in suburbias near public roads and sidewalks and buildings. You have every god given right to stand there and yell and picket and slow or ruin the damn thing. It needs to be done.
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is that even without remakes, Hollywood has knack of rolling out shit. Like using a thimble to empty out Jabba's septic tank. (Or you can remake my analogy!) analogy.
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There were no Indian ghosts in Poltergeist (the first)... it was a regular USA modern+historical cemetery that was moved. The boss guy jokes about it not being an Indian burial ground... "It's just people." At least that's how I remember it. It was The Shining that alludes to the Indian burial ground.
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yes they're no longer tied to any writing of the real script but from what I gather they're not really focusing on this script, they're finding some new writers and doing a complete re-write.
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I got you. Probably just remember it that way thanks to the Simpsons.
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so unnecessary. Nice review though.
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I consider them derivative, like movies being made from novels or stage plays, or stage plays being based on poems, or . . .
But I really don't see the point to this. The script review makes me see the point even less. Just make an original ghost-in-the-machine movie and call it something else. No Carol Ann? No fabulous, pitch-perfect midget psychic? No "This house is clean"? No tree, no scary clown? This isn't a remake anyway . . . not that any of that stuff, already perfect, needs to be remade. This did make me want to go rent Poltergeist, though. -
There was so much potential in that movie. And who isn't intrigued by the idea of ghost rape? Yet The Entity was a mess. That could use a re-make.
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... I mean, Poltergeist was so flawed first time round, it really needed a person who knew how to write a script and who really knew film. I hope they get someone top notch to direct it too, like McG or someone, the original director just didn't cut it. Now McG,he's made some seminal classics tha will influence the horror genre for generations...
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Try something different than a straight-up note for note remake of something. Take a movie like THE GATE, which had good elements sprinkled in with a lot of the bad, and turn it into an animated picture in the vein of Vampire Hunter D. Turn DIE HARD into a live-action puppet movie. May sound silly but that's so weird I'd definitely check it out.
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The studios would have my ten bucks for the back alley fight alone.
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Speaking of D, isn't it about time for another movie? I only bring this up only because of your post, but I literally walked out of Ep 2 and said "Maybe Lucas could just sit on a stool and do Episode 3 with balloon animals." But hey, Ep 3 was much better! I was just so disappointed that night after the midnight show. It was knee-jerk reaction!
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It's the only way they will stop.
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But imagine the bublegum said like Piper. Bbbbl-gum. No vowel in the "bubble". For fuck's sake just put on the glasses! Had he just asked him to put them on without the incredible story it would have saved him a lot of trouble! Lol!
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that is, until they introduced Preacher Kane and the buried Christians. He was creepy, sure, but it was scarier when it was just nameless, faceless, ordinary people that were at rest until the home was built over them.
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Jun 04, 2009 5:54:08 PM CDT
A Non-Sequitir: Why no early review of Land of the Lost yet?
by alfie boy
Does it suck so bad?
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YOUR MOTHERS SUCK COCK IN HELL, YOU FUCKING CUMGUZZLERS! STEP AWAY FROM THE WHITE VADER AND GREENLIGHT AN ORIGINAL FUCKING SCRIPT FOR A CHANGE, Y O U F U C K I N G C U N T S ! ! ! !
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and them both loving it whilst you cry in the corner. "Jesus, I don't need help peeing." Then McG turns up, looking for an ass-rape, but seeing as he's already done that to all of us the idea loses it's novelty and he soon settles for a quick 69 with the Christ. That's how bad this Poltergeist remake will be. Personally, I would rather the Birds remake was made.
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Yeah I said it.
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but this is a travesty. Same with Red Dawn and Robocop. These movies DON'T NEED TO BE REMADE. I'll list some other titles before any idiot producers get ideas: E.T., Jaws, Top Gun, Back to the Future and Blade Runner.
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Remakes started in the silent era, and have continued ever since. AND, they were much more prominent in the 30s/40s/50s.
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However I agree MisterManReturns.
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...will be replaced by Steve Jablonsky.
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MisterManReturns: while remakes have been happening since the begining of film I don't ever recall an era where so many movies, especially well known movies from one or even two decades have been remade. Go look at the LONG list of upcoming remakes (over 50 are scheduled to be remade from the 70s-80s) and then look at a list of movies just remade from 2000-09. Omen, Poltergiest, Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn Of The Dead, Friday The 13th...these are the biggest names of the horror genre and it seems that horror has been targeted the movie by Hollywood this decade.
It's funny because years ago most were getting fed up with all of these damn sequels. I seriously would rather have hundreds of more sequels than hundreds of more remakes no matter how awful the sequels were because at least with a sequel you are getting an original script and someone is making an effort to come up with their own ideas and not make a name off of someone's eleses masterpiece by remaking or as the Hollywood idiots now are calling them...reboots. -
"Everybody wants to sell what's already been sold, everyone wants to tell what's already been told"
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Will be just another glossy-shit-CGI-fest full of lousy jump scares, ADD editing, shit music, and full of OC-style teens who can't act worth shit but are, like, RILLY RILLY KEEEEWL AND PRETTY!
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If I wanted to watch video reviews, I'd go to fucking YouTube. Harry, spank these bitches and get them to WRITE SHIT DOWN! I'm tired of these fucking bedroom auteurs and their terrible fucking film-making aspirations. This is a long-winded (and frankly depserate) lame attempt for them to get noticed at the same time as the news we're trying to get. Less lame videos - MORE WRITTEN ONES!
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second up- Boogeyman was dreadful 3rd up this post should be copied and pasted in every remake TB- kudos Judderman, this is the best description of when a remake is acceptable ever, and I'm not sure number 5 counts either: Either you copy all the elements of the original, in which case why bother, or you make a mockery of the original, in which case your film becomes an insult. Remakes should only be made under very strict circumstances. One, if the original was good but the FX didn't exist to do the story proper justice (like King Kong). Two, if the original was good but all but forgotten (Like the 1925 Ben Hur). Three, if the original was bad but had some good ideas worth reinterpreting (like Battlestar Galactica). Four, you're readapting a novel (like Lord of the Rings), or five, and this is only barely acceptable, if the original was in another language and you want it to reach a wider audience.
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GIANT PIG!!!
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i know juliet's father... i know her work... i'll pass on this one... no reason to remake this.
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Yeah I said it. Eat a cock bitch. You don't know film from your father's fist in your ass. POLTERGEIST is a lodestone in the mountain of golden era films!
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With Kristen Bell or some other popular young star as an adult Carol Anne, investigating haunted houses on her own. She takes a nasty new poltergeist cause in another suburban subdivision, and you've got a movie, with cameos from the rest of the family, JoBeth Williams, right-wing nut Craig T. Nelson. Bada bing, bada bang.
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Craig T. Nelson ruins the original for me. Every time I see it I can't help for think, "Coach is in a horror movie?"
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Sure it was a landmark, Ben Hur was a landmark too, but it also sucked. Alright let me rephrase it then, Poltergeist was ok, there were a lot bigger successes during that period. Just because I didn't like Poltergeist that much doesn't mean I support its placement in horror.
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Just because I didn't like Poltergeist that much doesn't mean I DONT* support its placement in horror.
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Nobody cares what you think.
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A Speilberg -- Speilberg! -- classic downgraded and rewritten by the same couple whose big claim to fame is giving the world the utter stinking turd that was BOOGEYMAN.Do you really need to know more about truly shitacular this will be?
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