Time Bandits remake

[Demesnedenoir]

'74! Damn, you got a seriously early screening.

Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, NE was just the place to see Star Wars when I was a kid.

We've got a funny connection with Star Wars. A New Hope was my first movie. I'd qualify with 'in theaters,' but I don't know if you could see a movie anywhere else in 1974. The Empire Strikes Back was my sister's first. She was scared of Darth Vader and ended up not seeing too much. And The Return of the Jedi was my brother's.

And of course, when they were rereleased we did it all again, only with the next generation sitting next to us. Heady stuff, that.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

'74! Damn, you got a seriously early screening.

Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, NE was just the place to see Star Wars when I was a kid.

Yeah, shut up. I was born in '74. I r writer. I srs with the maths stuffs.

 

[pmmg]

Star Wars is dead to me. Nothing can bring me back.

I saw Furiosa, and I thought it was pretty good. But it wont save Hollywood or movies. One good movie among so much dreck can't bring the viewers back.

One aspect of the movie that I liked was that, when it was over, there was stuff to think and talk about with my group friends. Its still in the ilk of Hollywood's fixation of gender and race swapping everything, but everything has good and bad. This was more on the good side in a sea of crap.


To bring it back to time bandits, I will confess, Time Bandits was not the hit for me that it was for others. And maybe whoever gets it will make it stunning, but my faith in current production companies is so low, I'll just bank on not. Since the original is not something I feel I want more of, I am unlikely to get excited about it. I was more excited about the Dark Crystal, but...never got around to watching it. Maybe I should.

 

[pmmg]

If I can drift a little more, I also recently saw the new Planet of the Apes one--Kingdom, I think. It also was good, and did not make me go BS (given that they are talking apes). The movie was a little slow for me, and if it was a book, I'd say wasting my time with stuff that does not matter, but I was sold on the very end. It got the right message in. Man and Ape cant trust each other.

But...its a tough movie to really connect to, as...no matter what they do, I am rooting for the humans. The Apes are harder to relate to and root for.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

I have a soft spot for the Apes movies... maybe because as a kid I heard "Guerrillas with machine guns in Africa" on the news as a kid and yes! You can guess what I imagined. That was probably about the time Conquest of or Battle for the Planet of the Apes was in theaters.

It took a couple of years before I got that one straight, heh heh.

I've yawned my way through the last couple, but they're always kind of fun. I consider it a good at home flick unless my daughter wants to see it in the theater.

If I can drift a little more, I also recently saw the new Planet of the Apes one--Kingdom, I think. It also was good, and did not make me go BS (given that they are talking apes). The movie was a little slow for me, and if it was a book, I'd say wasting my time with stuff that does not matter, but I was sold on the very end. It got the right message in. Man and Ape cant trust each other.

But...its a tough movie to really connect to, as...no matter what they do, I am rooting for the humans. The Apes are harder to relate to and root for.

 

[pmmg]

In the originals, we are supposed to be following and rooting for Taylor, the human. In the new ones, the MC is Caesar, the monkey. I think that alone will keep it from really hitting. I am still rooting for Taylor He's just not in the current batch of movies. His arrival is still the future.

In the originals series, they did get a little far afield with the nuclear cult, and the going back in time story lines.

 

[Demesnedenoir]

Yeah, I'm still a Charlton Heston & Roddy McDowell first movie kind of guy. That's probably the only one I will ever watch again.

Those issues seem to crop up in all long-running series, in particular those with "messages." I have to watch them with a pre-established suspension of disbelief, heh heh.

In the originals, we are supposed to be following and rooting for Taylor, the human. In the new ones, the MC is Caesar, the monkey. I think that alone will keep it from really hitting. I am still rooting for Taylor He's just not in the current batch of movies. His arrival is still the future.

In the originals series, they did get a little far afield with the nuclear cult, and the going back in time story lines.

 

[Prince of Spires]

I see two main issues with most remakes (or at least the bad ones).

The first is that they fail to understand what made the original work. Why has the thing they're remaking become a timeless classic? They just copy without understanding what they are actually copying.

And the second is that they're counting more on nostalgia and fans wanting to see it to sell their story than on actually telling a good story. This goes for many adaptations as well. I would much prefer to see a great story that sort of shares a premisse or setting with the thing they're remaking than to watch a rehash of the same scenes just worse.

 

[Rexenm]

I want a remake of Gremlins, so I can close my eyes. It needn't be the same time-line.

There is a great charm to Gizmo, that little song she sings..

The Mogwai could turn into Gremlins, wondering if their original form was, more dangerous.

Calling it a timeless classic is just…Really?

 

[Emrick Norr]

For me, Mad Max is Gibson. I'm not a big fan of the Tom Hardy portrayal. But I loved Anya Taylor-Joyce in the Queen's Gambit, so may be I'll like the new one. My favorite Mad Max is by far the second one.

In Blood Father (2016), with Mel, there is a small homage to a scene in Mad Max II.