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Another AMITYVILLE Remake?? Really??
Merrick here...
Despite the fact that this concept was recently adapted/"remade" by Platinum Dunes back in 2005...
...Bloody Disgusting has learned that The Weinsteins are looking to remake THE AMITYVILLE HORROR concept yet again.
I just discovered that the Weinstein Company and Dimension Films are planning on remaking The Amityville Horror...again.
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Our sources also tell us that there just might be a director already in talks to develop the project.
...says BD HERE.
The first AMITYVILLE film was released in 1979...
...spawning two sequels (AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION, AMITYVILLE 3-D). Both the '79 and '05 projects were built around THIS BOOK
by Jay Anson.
While I agree with Bloody Disgusting that this project will probably not happen, the notion that The Powers That Be would even consider reducing the amount of time between remakes is most distressing. I mean...five years? Technically less if they've already been working on this long enough to have a director attached to it. Pretty lazy and uninventive no matter how you cut it.
- Merrick on Twitter!
[EDIT]
Our sources also tell us that there just might be a director already in talks to develop the project.
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This is shite
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as the remake but plat. dunes beat them out the gate?
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in space
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can't anyone think of an original idea??
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Nobody gets killed, injured, scraped, or yelled at. They just run to the boat and leave.
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The original is really nothing spectacular. I'm fine with them trying until they get it right.
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Directed Peanut Butter
Finally retired (he may be to old for this shit) detective Glover "Gibson" McClain decides to buy the well from the Movie 'The Ring' and build a backwood country cottage.
Little does he know, Ryan Reynolds dies there after shooting "The Ring 17: Generic Bugalooo" in a mocap accident.
Somehow Reynolds died while mocapping, so his ghost is in 3D! Detective Glover "Gibson" McCain (they call him gibs at the station) then has to find the laptop that mocapped Reynolds to death and use an A.V.A.T.A.R. to enter the laptops chipset and solve the mystery of the missing squirell.
Little does he know, the ghost of Christmas past/present/and future respectively have engaged in an epci fucking battle vs the evil corporatins trying to "toooook ur juuubs".
At the end of the movie we see Obama training to be a Zulu warrior with a mop stick in an obvious homage to the movie THE WATERMELON MAN. -
The loonies see it first but no one believes them. Then people start disappearing. This thing is vicious and damn near unstoppable. The only one who seems to have any chance of stopping it is one of the worst loons who may or may not be full of shit. There ya go, free idea just send me a DVD of the finished movie.
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Is that "The Amityville Horror" is an utterly generic haunted house story. Even the original. Just make another utterly generic haunted house movie and don't call it The Amityville Horror. Boom, problem solved.
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Is that "The Amityville Horror" is an utterly generic haunted house story. Even the original. Just make another utterly generic haunted house movie and don't call it The Amityville Horror. Boom, problem solved.
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Maybe they can cast Elizabeth Mitchell as the wife this time. Mwroar.
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I'm available to write a first draft but that's for pay. Still, I'd be relatively cheap...
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the whole amityville horror franchise is based around a book that was written by a couple of bullshitters. so its bad enough we as film lovers are bombarded with more and more remakes. but now remakes of stories that no one even believes happened.
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Guess the beard kept can't blame it on his beard, because I watched blade 3 (never will I combine the holy word of trinity with that piece of $*&^). And the fact that I haven't heard too many rave reviews about it didn't help either.
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I can't remember clearly but I think me and my friends couldn't stop laughing about something that happened during the breakfest scene in the movie...anyway it was laughably bad like the whole movie. Horror remakes suck. Seriously. The wicker man remake is the king of all bad remakes.
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Not just two. Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes, The Amityville Curse, Amityville 1992: It's About Time, Amityville: A New Generation, and Amityville Dollhouse. Every one a classic.
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Thank you Paranormal Activity.
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Nice one :)
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i remember that one was a tv movie but yeah, i think its a lamp that was in the amytiville house's attic originaly or something. i think it would even glow everytime something evil happened.
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I would watch that movie, without question
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on a lark go to spend the night in the house. The kids are never heard from again. However, their (damaged) hand-held video cameras are found and the reconstructed video is the film. Basically Paranormal Activity crossed with Blair Witch Project, with the Amityville Horror name-recognition.
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They'll make this new remake - for $15,000! Then profits will roll in! Let's do Citizen Kane - for $15,000. Profits will just roll in! Let's make Star Wars - for $15,000! Profits... will... keep... rolling in!
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...remaking films only a few years after the last remake.
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Why not just reboot the "Jaws" franchise at the same time? Thirty years ago the Amity shark was blown to kingdom come, but now it's back from Hell and no longer limited to the water! One of Chief Brody's kids has married one of the Lutz's kids and they now have kids of their own. They move back to an old house in Amity (which as you may know means "friendship") becuase it's a deal they can't pass up. The windows on the front of the house are triangular and jaged (like shark's teeth!). The young daughter keeps seeing shark's fins in the front yard and some of the kids playing in the sandbox have disappeared. Only an old fisherman who lived through both the original haunting and the shark attacks believes her, and he's the only one who can help stop this ghost fish from Hell from swallowing the family whole!
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There must be a bathtub scene where the shark emerges from the bathtub and pulls the person down through the bathtub floor where they are submerged into supernatural ocean waters, where they flee from Jaws in the dark abyss, only to be eventually torn to shreds....and there must be a scene in the attic where they are hiding up there, but then the fin emerges and starts tearing through the floorboards. And a scene in the basement where the basement door locks, and it starts filling up with water, and eventually there's a fin.
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Great this is giving me flashbacks of Margo Kidder doing ballet splits & james brolins "macho man" beard ...two things that were scarier than the amityville monster itself
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Nov 27, 2009 1:27:51 PM CST
Like so many of these things, the devil's in the details.
by royston lodge
In theory, this could be a decent idea if they based a remake on one of the later books about the "true story", rather than the original sensational book. I'm thinking of books like this one:http://tinyurl.com/yfevfgx
Or this one:
http://tinyurl.com/yerhkwd
Of course, "in theory" really means "don't hold your breath". -
but so far none of the movies have been any good. Time to let this concept go for at least 30 years. I think there should be a generational moratorium on Amityville, Hellraiser, Terminator, and any other property that made 3 bad movies in a row (in Terminator's case I'm counting the TV show).
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But he was Anson Williams. I think.
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Nov 27, 2009 1:42:23 PM CST
About as lazy as posting a fucking story without researching and
by jacklucas
that there were SEVEN sequels made after the original. Eight if you count the shit remake. Merrick, do you bother to think at all about the shit that you post or do you just hope you get it right, realizing that after all... it is AICN. Quint and Beaks really should start their own site. Really.
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Floating. Demonic. Pig.
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terrorized Patty Duke in part 4: The Evil Escapes.
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brilliant!
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I'm torn between the hilarious scene with Williams dressed up as royalty playing tea with his daughter, all while being a human puppet... or the part where he straps on a jet pack and flies to his kid's b-day party (reminded me of James Bond, but with Mork).
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Was how crazy jacked Ryan Reynolds was in the movie, yet he didn't have a home gym or they never even showed him exercise. And since it was supposedly set in the 70's, the whole gym thing was a luxury and not as widespread as now. Aside from that, the remake certainly wasn't bad. It was just OK. Best part is seeing Rachel Nichols be a bitch and then get locked in a closet with a ghost.
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No more new ideas. Sorry folks. It's all over.
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Every movie that Michael Bay ever made, be as director or producer, should be corrected and made into movies that actually work and look like real movies. Every single one of his shit movies should be corrected by filmmmakers that actually know what they are doing, and with real talent, and to show to the masses and many geeks how those movies should had looked in the first place.
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More cheap ass horror movies in the pike. Audiences love them.
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she's wasn't a bitch, she was a hot bitch. i bet had that crap not happened, she woulda slept with the boy or least given him a babysit to remember. she just looked that naughty.
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Nov 27, 2009 3:19:49 PM CST
In COOLER news Stephen King is writing sequel to THE SHINING
by zombieheathledger
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Was that Ryan Reynolds can wear a beard as well as Jimmy Brolin. Not a small task mind you.
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And it was better. Than the original, which was great in its day, but fucking lame in an era where people mutilate each other for fun. I saw a picture of the woman whose face was ripped off by that angry chimp the other day... how is ANYTHING in an AMITYVILLE remake going to be more frightening than THAT?
Well, unless Jody is a pig with really sharp claws, and then he attacks the babysitter... -
Honestly...what in blazes?!
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The chick had nice tits, tho.
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I watched it in the same week I saw THE FOG remake. I nearly tore my own fucking eyes out that very weekend.
I digress. The AMITYVILLE remake is only a success in that it has two great performances, from Melissa George (who is ALWAYS brilliant) and Ryan Reynolds (just entering his awesome performance period, discounting the twat he played in BLADE TRINITY). There's all this added bullshit about someone called Reverend Ketchup or some shit, at which point the whole fucking movie goes tits up and never comes back. I mean, we all know now the original story was bulshit (apart from the Ronald DeFeo murders, which really happened) and that they blew some bullshit out of all proportion in order to scare up the book and movie sales. Which backfired, if I remember rightly, and only Jay Anson got any bank out of it. And Jody was their youngest kid's name for her imaginary friend.
Scared the shit out of me as a kid - and so did the sequel - but there's no fear there except the childhood fears (and that FANTASTICALLY eerie theme music) now. And even the name isn't the box office draw it once was. Make something new, you fucking Hollywood mutants, and stop fucking up the box office with this warmed-over slop of shit. -
Her rack was the best part of the film. Coincidentally it was also the best part of GI Joe.
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Nov 27, 2009 4:00:36 PM CST
I still think about movie about the conspiracy theories...
by royston lodge
...could be cool. Explore some of the claims that all the supernatural stuff was invented to cover-up the true nature of the original murders, which according to some might even involve the mafia.
Seriously, even if you didn't bother spending the money to license the "Amityville Horror" branding, and even if it isn't remotely true, a movie where the plot revolves around the mafia inventing a supernatural haunting hoax to cover up their own murder and mayhem could be really cool.
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And by the way m'am, you're the worst actress ever.
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Seriously, the "original" remake was one of the very few movies I had to fastforward to the end.
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Fuck you! Just 'cos I wouldn't let you touch me on the set of DARK CITY, when you played third pervert on the right with the other extras... ;P
Just watch her in TRIANGLE. Then tell me she can't act. -
Jagged banana tits, gonna poke somebody's eye out.
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...was just as bad as The Fog remake, which makes them two of the worst horror movies of all time.
If you've read the Amityville book and/or seen the original film, then the remake died on arrival about two minutes in when Ronny deFeo says "I love you, Jody" to his SISTER. Way to completely fuck up the coolest and creepiest part of the original story.
Also, showing apparitions in mirrors and behind doors and shit which ONLY THE VIEWERS OF THE FILM can see:
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http://www.imdb.com/company/co0019626/
That's what they got. Would anyone care to see a remake of any of those films. What the Weinsteins should do is go through the last 20 years of the new york times best seller titles, Find out which ones have not been made into films or optioned, and move on from there. Enough with the remakes. I dont play video games anymore because there are more sequels out there, then there are original titles. Movie, well shit... I'm done with this remake trend. I really am. I wont see the new nightmare remake in theaters or DVD. I'll wait for it to come on Cable, so I can laugh at it and gripe about how fucking dumb it was to remake it. -
Bet your ass.
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been released yet?
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I think it's already happened.
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ironman
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people don't want remakes they want shakey cam and visually disorienting editing. get it through your heads!
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The trouble with your argument is that studios force this low budget remake shit onto us because they need some smaller films to break even for their budgets.
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An Alan Smithee film.
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Nov 27, 2009 6:55:46 PM CST
set report: a movie is being remade simultaneously as it shoots
by billboefett
Time is catching up!
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Ryan Renolds manhandling the kid and snarling, "We're having FUN, aren't we?!" and Rachel Nichols as the HOTTEST BABYSITTER EVER? That was sweet.
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Nov 27, 2009 7:22:20 PM CST
The Weinsteins are the dumbest jews in Hollywood
by allpowerfulwizardofoz
and deserve to go bankrupt.
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ow many years between that and Ang Lee's? Was that a record?
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FLOP AFTER FLOP! Yet, they keep coming back.
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I saw parts of the remake, like the babysitter in the closet scene, and the new one was so over the top and in your face with the gore that it was just hilarious. The original was much creepier, it got into your head without showing the gore or the ghost.
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you know it'll be a remake of the 3-D flick.
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I'm cool. Give it to Paul Greengrass or Pierre Morel.
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Nov 27, 2009 10:10:06 PM CST
What was REALLY fucked-up about the '05 Amityville...
by nasty in the pasty
...was that Mellisa George was, what, 29 in that? And she had a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD SON. See also Julia Stiles in the Omen remake and Kate Bosworth in Superman returns, Do the math, and all of these women would have gotten pregnant around age 17 or so. Whatever happened to actresses only playing mom roles when they hit their early 30's? Now you have actresses who still look 19 playing mommy to kids they must have conceived in a high school locker room.
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which was based on the same "true" story.
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...HELLO!?...when are we getting this remake.
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Actually I thought she was the only thing right in the remake. But I see your point.
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Nov 27, 2009 11:11:00 PM CST
Umm... how reliable is anything from Bloody Disgusting?
by peterparkerrg
Really.
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What was in, 70 minutes long? And I was still bored. It felt like nothing happened.
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I think there were eight Amityville movies or something to that effect. The first one was an excellent spooky flick. The second was shit. I saw the fourth, which was passable, but still pretty dumb. The remake was unnecessary schlock and not as good as the original. Fuck 'em.
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Nov 28, 2009 12:34:19 AM CST
Watched Poltergeist on Blu last night
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Fucking beautiful.
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Please!
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Nov 28, 2009 12:39:22 AM CST
Amityville 3D fucked my eight year old eye balls
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
then it spun them around and raped my eyeballs in the ass, made them suck off some fella in a glory hole and then made them watch 2girls1cup in 3D!!!!!!!!
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..in Part 3 gave me a boner..
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..it was in Amityville 2:The Possesion..Diane Franklin played said boner-inducing hot sister
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some things are best kept to yourself, even with anonimity.
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you got me...
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on paranormal activity business. This sounds like Bob's idea. Ok it might make a little over the production cost, but seriously? a new remake? already? idiots.
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Nov 28, 2009 1:14:56 AM CST
horror not cary for the same reason scifi is no longer interesti
by murdermostfowl
Someone else already said this here better... Directors think they can do anything they want now. They don't have to work to get the shot. They don't have to tell a deeper story. Subtlety and engaging the audience's imagination is dead.
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Get the story right. I personally like seeing different creative minds approach the same story, even in rapid succession. I'd love to see an original, creative vision of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. Book scared the sheeyaiiiiit out of me as a kid.
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Seriously, when the Weinstein's said they want to remake Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, starring Zhang Ziyi, they lost all credibility. This is the icing on the No Credibility cake. It's their grand plan -- a factory that churns out remakes of remakes ad nauseum, like a Chinese sweatshop for Nike shoes.
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All these remakes they blabber on about never happen...
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All these remakes they blabber on about never happen...
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AMAZING movie man. The scene where he goes on the rampage with the shotgun. Awesome stuff!
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Just adapt Sarah Palin's book.
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That's been out what a month or two? Remake it! This news is pathetic. They are out loud telling audiences "You are stupid" they are remaking remakes only a couple years old. Fuck these people.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/orangekittystudios
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... the importance in details in a movie, and how they are efective in making a movie better, and yet you deliberatly forget and dismiss the inumeralble flaws found innsuch crap as STINO so you can still find "enjoyment" in it? Duide, if you think that god is in the details,adn details makes or breaks a movie, you have to use that FOR EVERY MOVIE. Even if that risks changing your mind about a movie that you happen to like, for the wrong reasons. Details matters. And movies are indeed made or broke by them. That is the point i have been making for a long time now. If you praise or damned a movie for the details, do it for EVERYONE.
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It was inevitable. The future of Hollywood has arrived.
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You goat molesting douchebag. It isn't relevant every time, you know.
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That was very poor indeed. It's about time you were just ignored.
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How it was totally fabricated, and exploited the demon possession trend in 70's entertainment.
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The "Back To The Future" remake is shooting in Spring 2010, with Zac Efron as Marty McFly.
The remake of "Back To The Future II" is being shot first, in January 2010, with Max Records as Zac Efron.
The remake of "Back To The Future III" is currently being shot on location in pioneer land in Kentucky 1785 with a young unknown actor Ezekiel J. Fox (great, great, great, great, great grandfather of actor Michael J. Fox) as Marty McFly.
The plot of the new trilogy revolves around a time capsule left behind in the eighteenth century containing the entire script for the 1985 version of 'Back To The Future', which is unearthed by a farmer called Emmett Zemeckis and handed down to his great great grandson Robert.
Unfortunately, the local bad guy, Biff Weinstein, is determined to steal the script and travel back in time on a souped-up time-travelling horse and cart, to the year 1685, in order to make the remake of the trilogy first. -
Nov 28, 2009 8:23:16 AM CST
The "business" part of show business is killing the "show"
by chakraborty
Wakka wakka wakka.
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Nov 28, 2009 8:52:12 AM CST
Is it in Ryan Reynold's contract that he be shirtless...
by zombieheathledger
in every single fucking movie he's in? What a douche.
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Remake films with different actors immediately after making the original. Or even while you are shooting the original. That way you get better value for money out of the sets. Fuck it. Why not?
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Re-release the old films but add CGI characters in the background or to change up the plot. Or replace some of the original characters with animated characters to make a Roger Rabbit version of the original. Die Hard starring Porky Pig. Lethal Weapon starring Mickey and Goofy.
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that were fired by disney. and with good reason. Weinsteins wanted to set up weinstein books. in direct competition to the house of mouse. when that happened they were shown the door.
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Why bother at all now that we know the story was a hoax? There are so many original scripts out there...
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Seriously, there hasn't been one that really followed the book, nor was a scary as the book...yet.
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I don't know if it's in his contract, but thank fucking god he does it. Ryan Reynolds is serious hot man pieces.
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NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 3: THE DREAM WARRIORS.
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If I had abs like that, I'd never wear a shirt again. EVER...
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well that doesn't stop people from making movies based on the bible so why should they?
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Well, I assume there aren't REALLY any secret giant robots beating the shit out of each other all over the world's landmarks, and that Megan Fox isn't REALLY desperate enough to want to fuck Shia LeBouef, but Michael Bay just can't be fucking stopped, so those fucking TFINO movies keep rolling out.
I think it's the movies that AREN'T real that end up being the most entertaining. Weird, huh?? -
Burn in hell, you heathen scum!!
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let your freak flags fly, gents!
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McConughey.
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I was thinking kind of the same thing. I'd like to see 2 different directors take on the same script but use different actors, crew, effects houses etc.
For example, have Michael Bay and Ridley Scott take on a horror script and see what they can do with the material. Release them on the same weekend and let the good times roll.
As for this, the last remake was terrible and I've no doubt this one will be just as bad. Just do the story of the Defoe murders, put in a little wacky shit as he goes crazy, but have the focus be on the real horror of what he did. -
He produced the new Friday the 13th. And Ridley Scott did Alien.
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There are already 9 fucking Amityville movies. It was even a fucking dollhouse in the 8th movie. Couldn't they just put it into space or the hood already?
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than an obsessed STAR TREK lover is an obsessed STAR TREK hater...
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These remakes must be given the green light by people with Autism.
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Needs about 10 more remakes. Then, we can call it a day.
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before I eff'in die
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And let Uwe Broll direct.
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i wanna see major boobage and nightys, not some dopey family haunted by old man cruthers
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The story is not very good nor is it scary and several years ago the authors of the book admitted that the whole story was a hoax. Put the damn thing to rest already.
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... the Necronomicon is a hoax too. In fact Lovecraft wrote it with the intent of winning a bet that if he could write a whole book about unspeakable evil that it would start an ongoing hoax about the same. He won the bet.
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the Necronomicon is an example of a meme and as such it is an unspeakable evil
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Nov 29, 2009 6:14:13 AM CST
NippleEffect.....BACK! SPAWN OF SATAN!
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I want to kill everyone, Satan is good, Satan is my pal......
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I came so hard when I saw his naked chest, sweat dripping down to his abs, that I was spent for the next 7 hours.
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and wished I were Sandra Bullock in the bathroom scene.
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You know you want it.
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they wouldn't seriously do this....would they? the whole Amityville thing is a hoax anyway, just let this franchise DIE already
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is fucking SCARY! GET THE FUCK OVER IT! so you didn't like Star Trek, boo fucking hoo, life goes on, why do you think the world will end if you don't convert everyone to your hatred of Star Trek?
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Was pretty damn frightening, back then at least. The 2005 version was a snoozer. Why can't somebody just come up with a haunted house idea and let people decide if it's "like Amityville" or not? Are the powers that be really so oblivious as to not understand that 9/10 of their audience is tired of this shit? I was done with the remake, reboot, prequel crap years ago. By the time I heard about the Karate Kid remake it had just become insulting. It's the NUMBER ONE REASON that I rarely pay to see a movie anymore.
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In September 1979, I was touring with a band called Free Fare and we were playing all over Long Island. We did a rock n' roll show in high schools. One Sunday night when we were sitting in our shit hole motel in Riverhead, I said, "Let's drive to Amityville and see if we can find the house". So we all hopped into the GMC stepvan and drove there. We headed down the main drag until we found a likely road and turned. We had no idea if we were even close. As we made our way, there was an inlet on our right and a row of houses on the left. I was looking across the water and saw a boat house on the water across the way. I looked up at the house behind it and saw those famous windows. We turned around and made our way to the right road on the other side of the little bay. I slowed down quite a bit as we approached the house. The sun was going down, but it was still fairly light outside. As we passed it, there was a shirtless man pushing a lawn mower in the front yard. We continued down the street to the next intersection, where there were two young boys riding bicycles. I stopped the van and slide the door open, saying, "hey guys, is that the house back there?". One of the boys said, "Yeah, that's it." I said, "What do you think about all the stories?", to which the boy replied, in a thick Long Island accent, "ehh.. it's all a buncha bullshit!" We had a good laugh, then looked around Amityville for something to do. We ended up at a movie theater, watching David Cronenberg's "The Brood". It was a good night.
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this time with more sarcasm and less reliability.
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So Chainsaw is being remade again and now Amityville too? Oh come on Hollywood...just go ahead and remake Paranormal Activity with a huge budget and CGI because we know you want to.
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This time with better acting.
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It's lamentable to think that after all these years, they turned Trek into a commercial piece of sloth excrement. Trek survived all these years, without selling out and being commercial.
Fuck you Abrams and your retarded, hand-held, shaky camera bullshit!
And fuck remakes, remakes of remakes and reboots too - they're all pieces of shit! -
And all I can recall is that Ryan Renyolds had a beard. I can't even think of another scene in the movie. If there's anything worse than a bad film it's a completely forgettable one.
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You are an IDIOT. Moron. You are OBSESSED w/ the Abrams Trek, ALMOST as much as you are by the back ends of Sheep, goats and choir boys. Stop the madness. Let it go. Turn off the DVD player. Roll up the Chris Pine Poster. Zip up the burlap bag pants. Jump in the Ebro. Thank you.
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I thought the first Amityville movie was good when i was a young lad. Now that the whole ghost story history of the house was confirmed as a hoax, what's the need? It's not even Scooby-do scary now.
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Consider this, this is a deal similiar with Trasnformers for me. All my fury is withn the first movies. The second ones, i'll not even give much of a fart about. But the first stupid dumbed down piece of shit movies of the shit saga that hacks like Bay and Jar Jar Abrams turned, they hurt.
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Remake them all and turn them into proper watchable movies where one doesn't need to low down their intelligence to the level of amoebas to enjoy them. Remake Michael Bay's movies. ALL OF THEM!! And this time, with proper directors making the movies.
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I want to know why the Defeo murders, the family in the house before the Lutzes bought it, has not been accurately depicted? I've read several of the books and its a damn compelling tale, yet none of it involves ghosts or made up shit.
The elder Defeo was a one mean prick. He forced his kid into addiction by bullying and beatings, was involved in the mob and was up to his eyes in debt with mobster money; which is how he bought the house in Long Island. His two elder children plotted to kill him and his wife, but the oldest girl was already nuts and killed the younger children, (one of them in a wheelchair) to eliminate witnesses, once they shot the parents.
Why can't they adapt that instead?!
The Lutzes have admitted, albeit, vaguely, that they made their stories up with their Lawyer and several bottles of wine.
They took the money and ran. They only reason they never fully disppeared before they died was because they didn't become as rich as they were promised. Call it Karma, but all of those involved died, the lawyer, the author Jay Anson died at a young age, 50-ish, George and Kathy Lutz died in their 50's only two years apart. -
Nov 30, 2009 6:39:15 PM CST
Amityville II is decent, if you just accept it on its own terms.
by zodnotgod
"Amityville II" sort of touched on it, but again, it went the stupid supernatural route, which was bullshit.
However, the movie still has some excellent creep-out moments, especially when the oldest boy is being chased around the house by the ghost, with the camera as said ghost. Some stylish work done there. The little kids, bloody and shown in body bags still creeps me out.
The rest of the sequels were as rotten as the remake and the remake idea.
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