Hollywood please stop the madness!!!

[Jizzy]

With the upcoming remakes of Old Boy and The Whicker Man I was waiting for this one to come along. Actually surprised its took them this long to remake it...cunts. What irks me that that moron responsible for "Stealth" (one of the worst films I can remember) and "XXX" is involved.

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Battle Royale to US

Source: http://www.Variety.com & Joblo.com

New Line has snatched up the rights to remake BATTLE ROYALE - not a movie about the infamous Royal Rumbles from the 80s/early-90s WWF but the 2000 Japanese thriller our own Arrow described as "unsettling." The film takes place in futuristic Japan where the government has decided (in an effort to keep overpopulation down) to annually send a random group of 9th graders to a remote island stocked with numerous weapons and the directive that only the last boy/girl standing can return.

Pretty brutal, huh? An American remake could only neuter the insanity of the original but producers have insisted the remake will push the limits of the R-rating. Neal Moritz (who's dropped some major stinkers like STEALTH, XXX2 and TORQUE on us lately) and Roy Lee (THE RING) will produce for New Line.

With the rash of terrible Japan-to-American remakes, should we tamper with BATTLE ROYALE? Or as The Beatles once said, let it be? And why haven't we seen a filmed version of the 1988 Royal Rumble yet?

[blastmaster]

As long as Amanda Bynes is starring, Im down.

The trailers for the Wicker Man remake look kinda ok too.

[HopeLess]

dont understand why they are remaking old boy. so gay.

[drizzle]

i actually made a contious decision not to post it, as the idea is fucking awful and by drawing attention to it we are just making it stronger

i'm hoping it will get lost in the shuffle somewhere

btw, also planned for a remake : bangkok dangerous - this was over rated and mediocre so i could give a fuck, except that it's with Cage who deserves better

[drizzle]

dont understand why people like old boy. so gay.

bring it

[Piff Tannen]

damn, that sucks man. cant we just like, think of movies anymore? hollywood on a whole as fallen to puffy-ism.

[Masked Terror #1]

I only watch remakes.

It's great quality control.

Any dumb-ass movie can get made once.

For some shit to be worth making twice? Straight classic status, doggie.

[jamrage]

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Battle Royale to US

Source: http://www.Variety.com & Joblo.com

New Line has snatched up the rights to remake BATTLE ROYALE - not a movie about the infamous Royal Rumbles from the 80s/early-90s WWF but the 2000 Japanese thriller our own Arrow described as "unsettling." The film takes place in futuristic Japan where the government has decided (in an effort to keep overpopulation down) to annually send a random group of 9th graders to a remote island stocked with numerous weapons and the directive that only the last boy/girl standing can return.

Terrible news indeed.

The movie was nice, but it just couldn't touch the graphic novel which was gully as fuck.

[locke cole]

I would assume that the BR remake would be just as uninteresting as the original and have the same shitty ending. People should just read the book instead

[drizzle]

I would assume that the BR remake would be just as uninteresting as the original and have the same shitty ending. People should just read the book instead

i'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you didn't like br

[HopeLess]

dont understand why people like old boy. so gay.

bring it

i actually didn't love oldboy...i liked alot of it, but didn't really dig it overall.

the throwdown in the hallway is great tho.

[Menace To Sobriety]

An American remake of The Wickerman should never have been done

[drizzle]

dont understand why people like old boy. so gay.

bring it

i actually didn't love oldboy...i liked alot of it, but didn't really dig it overall.

the throwdown in the hallway is great tho.

yeah it had great moments, but the shit fell apart in the 3rd act

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Roy Lee (THE RING) will produce for New Line.

Damn I knew Roy Lee had a music shop, and he made beats on his Korg Triton, but I didn't know he was a movie producer.

[Jizzy]

dont understand why people like old boy. so gay.

bring it

i actually didn't love oldboy...i liked alot of it, but didn't really dig it overall.

the throwdown in the hallway is great tho.

yeah it had great moments, but the shit fell apart in the 3rd act

I disagree. I thought the 3rd act was Maybe I'm a dumbass but I didnt see that twist coming?

[drizzle]

dont understand why people like old boy. so gay.

bring it

i actually didn't love oldboy...i liked alot of it, but didn't really dig it overall.

the throwdown in the hallway is great tho.

yeah it had great moments, but the shit fell apart in the 3rd act

I disagree. I thought the 3rd act was Maybe I'm a dumbass but I didnt see that twist coming?

the twist is one thing, i caught on to it about half way through but i was also expecting something crazy like that

the thing that bothers me about the 3rd act, is that relying on hypnosis for resolution seemed like a real cop out. It's just bad unimaginative writing to me, like they couldn't think of anything better so they just said fuck it and brainwashed the characters to desired result

but in all fairness i have to say i've been real critical of this whole trilogy, i loved Mr Vengeance but wasn't crazy about Oldboy and lady vengeance was just empty pretty pictures (with a few exceptional moments)