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Movies that you wish could be remade (but won't) with better production quality
Posted on 6/21/21 at 8:57 am
Posted on 6/21/21 at 8:57 am
Watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes this weekend finally. It was on Prime for the longest but just left. You can watch it on Epix (subscription) or Paramount+, I think. I held off because it has a reputation for being seriously disturbing, so I assumed gory. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it wasn't gory and certainly isn't the "torture porn" that I thought it was.
So for a brief review, it's about a series of tapes that a serial killer made during his rampage. The presentation is in the typical murder porn/crime TV style, with "interviews" with FBI agents, family of victims, etc. Throughout, they show some parts of the tapes. It was really good for what it was and not particularly gory at all. They describe gory things with words, but not much is on screen. Very uncomfortable and unsettling imagery, but not particularly gross. Definitely worth a watch and will likely make you feel something along the way.
To show the creepiness, it's the movie where this famous gif comes from:
So while I do recommend watching it if you want a chilling/scary movie (especially if you want that without gore), there is a lot lacking in the movie. The acting is absolutely atrocious, even for a found footage movie. The fact that they try to turn the FF from more of a retelling to a mockumentary (there are interviews with the FBI and others involved in the investigation), it opens up the door for lots of bad acting that can't be masked like most bad acting in FF is.
That's why, although I'm typically against remakes, I would support a remake of this movie with an actual budget. You could do a little more with the "found footage" part, but primarily you could avoid community theater-level acting that takes away from the experience of being a part of the story (which is really important for a creepy movie like this). It made me start to think about what other movies could deserve a bigger budget remake. I feel a lot of movies in this discussion will be horror movies or possibly comedies, because both lend themselves to low budgets.
So for a brief review, it's about a series of tapes that a serial killer made during his rampage. The presentation is in the typical murder porn/crime TV style, with "interviews" with FBI agents, family of victims, etc. Throughout, they show some parts of the tapes. It was really good for what it was and not particularly gory at all. They describe gory things with words, but not much is on screen. Very uncomfortable and unsettling imagery, but not particularly gross. Definitely worth a watch and will likely make you feel something along the way.
To show the creepiness, it's the movie where this famous gif comes from:
So while I do recommend watching it if you want a chilling/scary movie (especially if you want that without gore), there is a lot lacking in the movie. The acting is absolutely atrocious, even for a found footage movie. The fact that they try to turn the FF from more of a retelling to a mockumentary (there are interviews with the FBI and others involved in the investigation), it opens up the door for lots of bad acting that can't be masked like most bad acting in FF is.
That's why, although I'm typically against remakes, I would support a remake of this movie with an actual budget. You could do a little more with the "found footage" part, but primarily you could avoid community theater-level acting that takes away from the experience of being a part of the story (which is really important for a creepy movie like this). It made me start to think about what other movies could deserve a bigger budget remake. I feel a lot of movies in this discussion will be horror movies or possibly comedies, because both lend themselves to low budgets.
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Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:29 am to SlowFlowPro
That was a seriously creepy movie lol didnt the girl like wanna go back to her captor in the end too she was so fricked up?
Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:43 am to SlowFlowPro
Conan the Barbarian. Cast was amazing, actually a really cool high fantasy storyline, just rough production. Conan the Destroyer took a step in that direction but regressed a bit on the plot.
Don't get me wrong it's an all time classic, but just had so much potential unexplored.
Don't get me wrong it's an all time classic, but just had so much potential unexplored.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:47 am to SlowFlowPro
Eragon. It's a great YA series of books and deserves a good series of movies.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:49 am to Thundercles
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Conan the Barbarian
you shut your mouth
Conan, as is, is a masterpiece
Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:51 am to TigerFanatic99
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Eragon. It's a great YA series of books and deserves a good series of movies.
+1
Posted on 6/21/21 at 10:17 am to Ash Williams
your name made me chuckle in the context of this thread b/c ED2 is basically what this thread is talking about
Posted on 6/21/21 at 10:27 am to SlowFlowPro
Raise the Titanic (and actually follow the book)
Posted on 6/21/21 at 11:54 am to Wally Sparks
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Raise the Titanic (and actually follow the book)
and find a better actor for Dirk Pitt.
Neither Richard Jordan nor Matthew McConaughey came even close to portraying Dirk Pitt.
I actually had an opportunity to work on a project and chat with Clive Cussler. He was not happy with Raise the Titanic movie. He didn't like Richard Jordan as Pitt and said that he couldn't think of an actor that would adequately play Dirk.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 1:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
Children of the Corn.
I think premise is solid, it hits a lot of popular tropes (psycho kids, semi-apocalyptic, supernatural), but the reveal of He-Who-Walks-Behind-The-Rows looked like static from an old VHF television.
I think premise is solid, it hits a lot of popular tropes (psycho kids, semi-apocalyptic, supernatural), but the reveal of He-Who-Walks-Behind-The-Rows looked like static from an old VHF television.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 1:39 pm to Abraham H Parnassis
that's a good choice
i bet you could do one badass miniseries based on that, too. really get into the locality/cult/characters
lots of cosmic horror and visceral horror available with the material
i bet you could do one badass miniseries based on that, too. really get into the locality/cult/characters
lots of cosmic horror and visceral horror available with the material
Posted on 6/21/21 at 1:48 pm to Wally Sparks
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Raise the Titanic (and actually follow the book)
That goes for Sahara too.
Why adapt a book if you're going to tear out the heart of the plot?
Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:15 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Movies that you wish could be remade (but won't) with better production quality
I'll be that guy with the unpopular opinion and say the original Star Wars trilogy.
Just plug in the exact same script and select actors who look as closely as possible to the original cast and use 2021 CGI and VFX.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 9:44 pm to Sentrius
Aren't we to the point that you could just digitally add anything you wanted to the old SW movies? Just pop the actors out, build the sets in a computer, and presto chango modern original trilogy.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 10:01 pm to Dr RC
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Aren't we to the point that you could just digitally add anything you wanted to the old SW movies? Just pop the actors out, build the sets in a computer, and presto chango modern original trilogy.
Or they could animate the OG trilogy using the same animation style they used for clone wars season 7 and are using for the bad batch now.
It would look amazing in that animation style that's so crisp, sharp and fresh.
This post was edited on 6/21/21 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 6/21/21 at 10:14 pm to Thundercles
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Conan the Barbarian
God no. They'd CGI that into oblivion if they redid it today. Besides, the rough look of the original (snakes aside) added to the grittiness of the environment.
Posted on 6/21/21 at 11:22 pm to SlowFlowPro
The human centipede
Posted on 6/22/21 at 9:53 am to SlowFlowPro
All the Pretty Horses is my usual answer
Unfortunately despite nearly endless source material all the spy/SF/etc. genre movies of late have been trash
American Assassin
Multiple Clancy efforts (Shadow Recruit, Without Remorse, Jack Ryan season 2)
Red Sparrow trilogy
Jack Reacher wasn't terrible but could have been considerably better
The source material on this stuff is so easy to get right yet Hollywood botches it almost every time. If the Jack Carr series sucks with Pratt then there really is no hope for it.
Unfortunately despite nearly endless source material all the spy/SF/etc. genre movies of late have been trash
American Assassin
Multiple Clancy efforts (Shadow Recruit, Without Remorse, Jack Ryan season 2)
Red Sparrow trilogy
Jack Reacher wasn't terrible but could have been considerably better
The source material on this stuff is so easy to get right yet Hollywood botches it almost every time. If the Jack Carr series sucks with Pratt then there really is no hope for it.
Posted on 6/22/21 at 10:50 am to SlowFlowPro
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Definitely worth a watch and will likely make you feel something along the way.
It was pretty well done from what I remember. The tapes themselves were really well done and very creepy. The documentary style parts were not as good, agreed, but I still enjoyed them. And it was cool seeing the killer taunt people and be right under their noses without them even knowing it.
It's definitely disturbing, and will make you "feel" something, like you said. But all in all, it's entertaining if you like the "fricked up movie" genre. It's in the same vein as Megan is Missing. While I found it to be better than MiM, both nail the "frick up shite" part pretty well.
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