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The Old School Original Joint.


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fuck it...remake everything

 

I kind of wish in a way they would remake some of those old Sinbad movies, but then I think about how bad the Clash of the Titans remake and the sequel were. :smt009

 

DAMN i COMPLETELY forgotten about Sinbad

original badass mfer

 

Sinbad was a great adventure franchise back in the days of Ray Harryhausen. Sinbad had been in cartoons. An orchestral piece of his journeys was composed and he had a tv show at one time. The question is will an imaginative writer and director take up the challenge.

 

If they remake anything, let the remake Jason And The Argonaughts. That is one of my all-time favorites.

 

Same reasoning as with any Sinbad remakes, only someone with a proper track record rather than an unknown should do it. Like I said up post, don't want the same thing to happen that happened with the Clash of the Titans remake. Great designs and EFX, but crappy story. Wrath of the Titans even worst story. The one thing I can definitely say about a lot of the old school fantasy/sci-fi/horror movies, EFX for many were cheesy for the times they were made, but the stories always seem to allow you to overlook the EFXs. I can watch a lot of the older movies multiple times and enjoy them. Not too many of the newer ones, even with top notch EFX , I can say that about because of the crappy storylines.

 

Well said

 

The old school sci-fi, fantasy and horror films were the best because of the spfx of that time. But they were also successful with, sometimes, a good script and story. Watch the film Night Of The Demon(Curse Of The Demon in the US). This film had it all and stayed on point even if the film did not have a demon creature in it(the demon was thrown in at the last minute by order of the studio). The film Drag Me To Hell was a disguised remake of it. I blame the SyFy channel. Like BET, it should go back to what it was in the beginning. That was what hooked me to the channel in the first place.

 

Both sci-fi/fantasy/horror movies & comics today suffer from the same lack of good story telling. They both rely on gimmicks to sell the end product now. The movies rely solely on the cutting EFX and the comics rely on events that often portray characters doing things they wouldn't/shouldn't do or killing them off under the banner of "evolving".

 

Case in point that shitty movie Skyline

 

Yep. A buddy of mine saw the trailer for it back when it hit before it got to the theaters and he was hyped believing it was going to be good. He went to see it that first night it came out and after seeing it was like don't even waste your time seeing it or even renting it when it's out on DVD. Of course I did watch it on DVD just to see how bad it was. :smt096

 

I saw Skyline. I liked the visuals. The idea that mankind loses the fight was a novel idea. People didn't like it because of that fact. But, if the the film was a little longer, and showing the main character, with his senses still his own fight the aliens and win. But, The Brothers Strause(Predator Vs. Alien: Reqium) used only scenes from the graphic novel from which the film is based.

 

I think it was Marvel Comics that focused more on character development. DC Comics focused on plot to develop the character. The reason being was that readers were more sophisticated. Here is an example: Superman, Bat Man and Wonder Woman came out before WW2. During that time, Captain America came out. While the Trinity(Superman,Bat Man and Wonder Woman) were popular, Captain America sold a good deal of comic books because of the stories.

 

Captain America sold because the stories for all intents and purposes were "Fight The Nazi/Axis Threat" propaganda. It was especially popular with soldiers overseas actually doing just that. After the war however Captain America was not as popular and did not regain any type of popularity until Stan Lee resurrected him in the Avengers. It also didn't hurt that Jack Kirby, the artist responsible for drawing Captain America in many of his WWII era comics, drew it as well as his early solo adventures when they gave him his own title.

 

Do you remember the Captain America tv movies of the late 70's? The actor who played Steve Rogers was Reb Brown. He did another film called Fast Break with Gabe Kaplan(Welcome Back, Kotter). Or the early 90's film in which The Red Skull was not German but, Italian. He was taken from his home in Italy to serve Hitler because he had a brilliant mind. Though it was filmed in the Czech Republic and had an all-star cast(Darren McGavin, Ned Beatty, Bill Mumy) it suffered real bad. It was so bad it went straight to video.

 

Yes. I remember watching the various TV takes on the Marvel characters in the 70's. They did quite a few of the Captain America TV movies as well as a Doctor Strange movie as well. That one only ever received a single TV airing as I don't recall it ever being repeated like both the Captain America or the Spider-Man movies were. It may be on youtube. Might have to check and see if it is. Of course the Incredible Hulk was one of the more popular shows of the time lasting into the mid-80's and returning in 3 TV movies ending with The Incredible Hulk in the late 80s-early 90's as I recall. Thor and Daredevil were introduced in two of those or rather the TV takes on them.

 

I remember the Doctor Strange tv movie. I was in the 7th grade when it aired. The actor in it was Peter Hooten. Clyde Kusatsu was also in it. I remember The Incredible Hulk movies. The one with Thor was funny, but not bad. DareDevil was interesting. On the DC side, NBC had a super hero show. It had among other things, Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin. The Flash, Green Lantern, Solomon Grundy, Sinestro and others were on this show each week to do battle and pull of some gags. It was hosted by Ed McMahon.

 

The Incredible Hulk movies are available on DVD. Along with the complete series on DVD. The good but short-live series The Flash is on DVD and the soundtrack is also available. It was too bad it was cancelled. The writing was getting better.