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[lightskintwin]

The most important thing:

GET. ACTORS. WHO. CAN. BALL.

Like, the Coens made sure to get an actor who could play guitar and sing for Llewyn Davis. You gotta get people who can put up a jumpshot that doesn't make me instinctively cringe like 85% of all basketball scenes in cinema history.

edit: Now I'm wondering if they're gonna flip the dynamic so that it's George Clooney as a grizzled old Larry Bird type doing the hustling.

Yeah, it's part of the reason White Men Can't Jump holds up today.

 

[chromatic9]

The first Point Break made $84M worldwide in 1991.

They spent $105M on the remake.

Didn't know Point Break was remade

I'm just going to guess Tango & Cash, The Witches of Eastwick have been remade or in the works with incredibly plain actors

 

[Stallion Dan]

I don't understand remaking movies that still hold up well today. I guess it's a money thing.

Is a creatively dead thing.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I doubt Witches of Eastwick ever gets a remake. Most people don't remember either the film or the book it was based on.

(George Miller directed that!)

Is a creatively dead thing.

More like a "has always happened, will always happen, can sometimes be a good" thing. People knee-jerk moaning over the announcement of a remake is probably more tired than actual remakes at this point.

People were up in here last week getting upset over CHiPS getting turned into a movie.

CHiPS.

 

[johancruijff]

uai

 

[gutter_trash]

nah man, the original oozed with neon colors, early 90s and early 90s black pride culture emerging among whites

a 2017 movie wouldn't be the same

 

[Jeffolation]

Remake fucking Money Train.

 

[Shmuppers]

endless trash

 

[lightskintwin]

nah man, the original oozed with neon colors, early 90s and early 90s black pride culture emerging among whites

a 2017 movie wouldn't be the same

Yeah, as Bobby Roberts noted too, it's use of the Dozens was also fresh and I remember it being amongst the first showcases of it in a mainstream Hollywood film. Since then it's been milked to death by mainstream America culminating into MTV shows like "Yo Momma". Same thing with battle rap.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Yeah, I think it got mentioned in a thread here way back, but so far as I can tell, Kadeem Hardison's little showcase at the top of White Men Can't Jump basically kicked off that whole phenomenon in larger pop-culture. I remember "Snaps!" books selling like crazy at the B. Dalton in the mall, heh.

 

[lightskintwin]

Yeah, I think it got mentioned in a thread here way back, but so far as I can tell, Kadeem Hardison's little showcase at the top of White Men Can't Jump basically kicked off that whole phenomenon in larger pop-culture. I remember "Snaps!" books selling like crazy at the B. Dalton in the mall, heh.

Yeah, it was crazy. Growing up in a predominately Black neighborhood and school in the 80's and 90's, it was normal and it was called "joning". I remember at the lunch table you had to be on point, otherwise, everything from your sneakers to your haircut was about to be deconstructed and destroyed at a table full of your peers. LOL

 

[Timedog]

White people that wouldn't be caught dead at a theatre watching a movie about basketball are gonna be OFFENDED.

 

[tbm24]

I've likely been out of the loop but the best news I see in the OP is a Rocketeer remake!

 

[Htown]

Because remember it? Remember it? Do you remember it?

yep

 

[Bobby Roberts]

White people that wouldn't be caught dead at a theatre watching a movie about basketball are gonna be OFFENDED.

<endlesstrash.gif>

 

[djplaeskool]

Gif of the year 2017 contender.

 

[Samuraicop]

Can't wait for Scarlett Johansson to play Wesley Snipes character

 

[Dali]

Originality and creativity is dead in Hollyweed

Nah you guys just shun it. A breath of fresh air like monster trucks dies an instant death but this will bank.

 

[TheGameshark]

ahaha best gif

 

[chromatic9]

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[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H18RUB1cxfI[/url]

It's January forever folks and has been for a while now.

 

[Angelus Errare]

The first Point Break made $84M worldwide in 1991.

They spent $105M on the remake.

Today I learned there was a Point Blank remake. I feel I should rewatch the original then watch the remake.

Nah you guys just shun it. A breath of fresh air like monster trucks dies an instant death but this will bank.

I honestly can't tell anymore...

 

[kswiston]

Today I learned there was a Point Blank remake. I feel I should rewatch the original then watch the remake.

Instead of surfers, they are extreme sports athletes.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

An incomplete list of non-franchise/non-remake films since November, 2016

Hacksaw Ridge
Arrival
Loving
The Edge of Seventeen
Manchester by the Sea
Nocturnal Animals
Moana
Lion
Jackie
Nerdland
La La Land
Office Christmas Party
Fences
The Founder
Solace
Passengers
Patriots Day
20th Century Women
Hidden Figures


But yeah. Originality is dead, endless trash endless trash

 

[Angelus Errare]

Instead of surfers, they are extreme sports athletes.

Sooo... xXx?

A list of non-franchise/non-remake films since November, 2016

Hacksaw Ridge
Arrival
Loving
The Edge of Seventeen
Manchester by the Sea
Nocturnal Animals
Moana
Lion
Jackie
Nerdland
La La Land
Office Christmas Party
Fences
The Founder
Solace
Passengers
Patriots Day
20th Century Women
Hidden Figures


But yeah. Originality is dead, endless trash endless trash

*ctrl+F Moonlight*

Bobby fix this!!

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Moonlight dropped in October!

(you scared the shit out of me for a second though)

 

[Kinyou]

Was this movie popular enough to warrant a remake? The movie pretty much lived and dies on their chemistry.

And the 90s fashion.

 

[Glass Rebel]

I was led to believe that Nerdland and La La Land are part of the Land Cinematic Universe alongside Copland and Zombieland.

 

[NaturalHigh]

Because remember it? Remember it? Do you remember it?

Ooo I member!

 

[Gnome Scat]

how dare they make an exploitative film about a baseless stereotype

disgusting

 

[FriedConsole]

They are listening to what people want but they can't hear what they are saying.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I was led to believe that Nerdland and La La Land are part of the Land Cinematic Universe alongside Copland and Zombieland.

They are listening to what people want but they can't hear what they are saying.

These are good.

 

[Dali]

So this thread made me once again think of the inevitable Last Dragon remake. The only way it'd be acceptable is if an Asian guy played the lead and he idolized the Kung fu star Bruce leeroy. Full circle meta checkmate.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Did we watch different movies?

Also, this is just fucking stupid. It's a great movie. It doesn't need a remake. Stop remaking stuff that's good. If you need to do a remake then make it something that had the potential to be great but didn't get there. I Am Legend, Dune, etc. Hollywood sucks

it wasn't even that uplifting by the end

he still took a huge L

The reboot will make it uplifting. Men are going through things according to the GOP

 

[lightskintwin]

So this thread made me once again think of the inevitable Last Dragon remake. The only way it'd be acceptable is if an Asian guy played the lead and he idolized the Kung fu star Bruce leeroy. Full circle meta checkmate.

They missed their opportunity in casting Busta Rhymes as Sho'nuff in the late 90's, early 2000's.

Just liked they missed their opportunity in remaking Scarface with DMX, when he was still a movie star, as the lead and set it during the 80's crack/cocaine era in New York

 

[this_guy]

So this thread made me once again think of the inevitable Last Dragon remake. The only way it'd be acceptable is if an Asian guy played the lead and he idolized the Kung fu star Bruce leeroy. Full circle meta checkmate.

But who would play Ernie Reyes Jr's role? There will never be another Ernie Reyes Jr.

 

[Dali]

But who would play Ernie Reyes Jr's role? There will never be another Ernie Reyes Jr.

Jaden Smith. Next question.

They missed their opportunity in casting Busta Rhymes as Sho'nuff in the late 90's, early 2000's.

Just liked they missed their opportunity in remaking Scarface with DMX, when he was still a movie star, as the lead and set it during the 80's crack/cocaine era in New York

That was too soon. At the time Hollywood waited a fairly long amount of time before remaking movie.

 

[Sylverstone14]

Too many sequels.

 

[DarkArterialGore]

Idris Elba to play the white man who can't jump.

 

[lightskintwin]

Jaden Smith. Next question.

That was too soon. At the time Hollywood waited a fairly long amount of time before remaking movie.

But keep it real, Busta and DMX would've been perfect for those roles. LOL

 

[LionPride]

So this thread made me once again think of the inevitable Last Dragon remake. The only way it'd be acceptable is if an Asian guy played the lead and he idolized the Kung fu star Bruce leeroy. Full circle meta checkmate.

Please, give it to me

 

[Dead Man]

Because white men need a uplifting story

Also those other remakes like Rocketeers, wasn't the original bad?

I don't remember the original being uplifting.

 

[Dali]

But keep it real, Busta and DMX would've been perfect for those roles. LOL

Well DMX had Belly already, but yeah before Busta looked like he was the alien ant from men in black wearing a fat Busta skin suit he would have been perfect.

 

[blakep267]

I mean, can they get anybody to really emphasize the "Beely" like Rosie could

 

[The Kree]

But keep it real, Busta and DMX would've been perfect for those roles. LOL

The material isn't strong enough to support them. Scarface only survives as a movie because it has a really strong cast to elevate it. It'd be a shitty B-movie otherwise.

 

[airjoca]

"What, you still throwing up bricks? What is this, a Masons convention? Wha... clank, clank! I need, like, a welding torch to play in this league here! I got an idea... let's just stop right now and gather up all these bricks and let's build a shelter for the homeless so maybe your mother will have a place to live! I want your mother and your sister out of my house immediately!"



One of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

I don't remember the original being uplifting.

Once again I'm saying the reboot will be changed to be uplifting

 

[OG Shaka Zulu]

Can't wait for pundits to invoke reverse racism at the movie title.