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Nightmare on Elm Street 35: Wheelchair of Doom...sounds good.
Well, it's actually a remake of the original but 
I like my idea better.
May work for a new generation, but the original is so good already I don't know if I can be bothered to put-out for this.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 7 2009, 12:19 AM BSTMay work for a new generation, but the original is so good already I don't know if I can be bothered to put-out for this.
Agreed, the first one was by far the best of the series. Plus it has Johnny Depp getting sliced 'n' diced.
Not that I'm against Depp.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 7 2009, 12:19 AM BSTMay work for a new generation, but the original is so good already I don't know if I can be bothered to put-out for this.
I wish I had a bad date to take to see it...seems perfect.
Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2009, 8:01 PM BSTThey're remaking Red Dawn. Looks like it's been updated to add Chinese troops to the mix.
Wolverines!!!
I hate that movie. My friends all love it though, they even have Red Dawn drinking games.
Quote: DaButt @ October 6 2009, 11:04 PM BSTStar Wars fans might like to get in on this project:
Wicked! I'll start practicing right away. *ahem* "IT'S A TRAP!"
Quote: Nil Putters @ October 7 2009, 12:14 AM BST
I think it looks really good. Jackie Earle Haley is an awesome actor. He's the guy who played Rorschach in "The Watchmen" movie.
Quote: Curt @ October 7 2009, 3:37 AM BSTI hate that movie. My friends all love it though, they even have Red Dawn drinking games.
Jackie Earle Haley is an awesome actor.
Red Dawn seemed exciting and realistic when I saw it as a teenager. Now I can barely stand to watch it. Hopefully the remake will be less cringe-worthy.
I think Jackie Earle Haley lives here in San Antonio. I only know him from the Bad News Bears films in the seventies.
Red Dawn sounds like my kind of film.
Edit: Red Dawn sounds like a film I will never watch. 
I saw The Invention of Lying and was naively hoping for but it was more 
I'm still a big Ricky Gervais fan and have much higher hopes for Cemetary Junction but re TIOL how did it get so many rave reviews?
I overhead a group of teenagers after saying it was rubbish and that's pretty much the view I've heard from others who have seen it.
I did enjoy it, it's just not great and seemed a wasted opportunity.
I'm an atheist and even I found it a bit grating to keep going on about it!
Plus it's the usual unispired premise - less attractive guy falls in love with woman based on the fact she's beautiful then spends the rest of the time trying to convince her looks don't matter even though he judged her and other women on looks all through the film!
>_<
Quote: Jane P @ October 7 2009, 7:48 AM BSTPlus it's the usual unispired premise - less attractive guy falls in love with woman based on the fact she's beautiful then spends the rest of the time trying to convince her looks don't matter even though he judged her and other women on looks all through the film!
Really? Oh dear oh dear... 
I haven't seen it yet, but from the clips I've seen and the reviews, surely there is something flawed with the fundamental premise? Because it seems that the characters in the film can't just not lie, they are compelled to tell the truth - which is a different thing altogether.
They don't get too technical about it. The way it's put across is that no-one realises it's possible to lie - they have no word for it. "How can you say something that isn't?"
I agree conceptually it may not work but I'm willing to accept that for a film.
But. It could have then gone in so many other directions...
One other problem with the premise seems to be that it's suggesting that a society could form pretty much identical to our own despite the fact the ability to lie hasn't evolved. The "amusing" advertising in the film, telling it like it is. Why would advertising even have developed when, without lying at some level, it is pointless?
It's fine to say "it's only a film", but when you've gone high concept you've really got to see your premise through relentlessly. Dr Kermode's complaint was that, if you've got flaws in your high-concept premise comedy, then there's got to be enough laughs to make people forget about them. His problem was that there just wasn't enough comedy to sustain the momentum of the concept, thus papering over the cracks.
I haven't seen the film, but generally I think "Dr Kermode" is a wanker.
Next!
On an unrelated subject, I see The Boat That Rocked has been renamed Pirate Radio for the US market. I'm sure Americans know that a boat is, and they invent rock if I'm not mistaken, so I'm lost as to why they changed it.
