TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I can imagine a decent remake/reboot of Robocop. I'm just sad that the only recent original(-ish) blockbuster that springs to mind is Avatar.

Gravity.

[Sheilbh]

I can imagine a decent remake/reboot of Robocop. I'm just sad that the only recent original(-ish) blockbuster that springs to mind is Avatar.

Gravity.

Good one

[CountDeMoney]

Wouldn't hurt to computer enhance the female sidekick's bad 80s hair.

Nobody...and I mean nobody...goofs on Nancy Allen's feathered and blow-dried bonnet of sumptuous '80s sensuality, full of body and bounce, and gets away with it.   

[Admiral Yi]

Nobody...and I mean nobody...goofs on Nancy Allen's feathered and blow-dried bonnet of sumptuous '80s sensuality, full of body and bounce, and gets away with it.   

You really want me to sweep the legs, Captain Arthritis?

Much better 80s hair in Terminator I.

[CountDeMoney]

Nobody...and I mean nobody...goofs on Nancy Allen's feathered and blow-dried bonnet of sumptuous '80s sensuality, full of body and bounce, and gets away with it.   

You really want me to sweep the legs, Captain Arthritis?

Much better 80s hair in Terminator I.

Bleech, Linda Hamilton...the '80s Hilary Swank.  Icky pooh.

I'm talking Nancy Allen in toto;  from The Last Detail to  1941 to Robocop to The Philadelphia Experiment, Nancy Allen's hair was one big hard-on factory.

[Ideologue]

I can imagine a decent remake/reboot of Robocop. I'm just sad that the only recent original(-ish) blockbuster that springs to mind is Avatar.

Gravity.

Good one

I couldn't think of another though.

Pacific Rim didn't succeed; Oblivion was only a bit successful.

I assume you mean non-sequel, non-adaptation.  That narrows things down considerably...

[Eddie Teach]

Pacific Rim didn't succeed;

Maybe because it was crap.

[Ideologue]

I wasn't making a value judgment.  I don't like that movie either.

[Sheilbh]

I assume you mean non-sequel, non-adaptation.  That narrows things down considerably...

Yep. Then look at films in the year Robocop was released, they're not all classics but it looks a bit more original/diverse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_in_film

Edit: Incidentally I haven't seen Pacific Rim but I think it did really well internationally.

[Ideologue]

Perhaps.  I don't see it as necessarily a terrible thing though.  Nothing wrong with mining the IPs we have until they've been exhausted, unless they're done poorly (Total Recall, Carrie, Prometheus, and so on) or if the IPs suck (Twilight, The Hunger Games).  Some of the best films of the 21st century have been unoriginal, either remakes, sequels, or adaptations from a different medium.  (Hell, so were some of the best of the 20th.  Apocalypse Now, Lawrence of Arabia, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Carrie, The Thing, Soylent Green, The Wizard of Oz, Tape, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Goldfinger, Phantom of the Opera '25, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The General was based on historical events... the list is quite extensive).

And, yes, katmai, I know Oblivion is technically an "adaptation," of Joe Kosinski's own, afaik unpublished comic book.

[Tonitrus]

Nobody...and I mean nobody...goofs on Nancy Allen's feathered and blow-dried bonnet of sumptuous '80s sensuality, full of body and bounce, and gets away with it.   

You really want me to sweep the legs, Captain Arthritis?

Much better 80s hair in Terminator I.

Bleech, Linda Hamilton...the '80s Hilary Swank.  Icky pooh.

I'm talking Nancy Allen in toto;  from The Last Detail to  1941 to Robocop to The Philadelphia Experiment, Nancy Allen's hair was one big hard-on factory.

Gotta agree with the Seedster...Nancy Allen's short hair accentuated her spunky sexiness in Robocop.

[Eddie Teach]

 

I love how you tried to hide Tape in that list of AFI classics.

[Ideologue]

I assume you mean non-sequel, non-adaptation.  That narrows things down considerably...

Edit: Incidentally I haven't seen Pacific Rim but I think it did really well internationally.

It certainly did a lot better.  Worldwide receipts may actually justify the budget and get Del Toro a sequel.

But then it won't be original.

[Ideologue]

I love how you tried to hide Tape in that list of AFI classics.

It's based on a play.

Rope is also.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm talking Nancy Allen in toto;  from The Last Detail to  1941 to Robocop to The Philadelphia Experiment, Nancy Allen's hair was one big hard-on factory.

Gotta agree with the Seedster...Nancy Allen's short hair accentuated her spunky sexiness in Robocop.

Totally forgot Dressed To Kill.  Yowza.