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Topic: Movies you would like to see remade
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-03-2009 06:51 PM
Currently, Kingda Ka, located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey (about an hour's drive south of New York City), is the tallest roller coaster in the world. At 456' it just gets over the 420' peak of Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point.
The downside is Six Flags Great Adventure doesn't have as many roller coasters as Cedar Point.
Kingda Ka was formerly the world's fastest roller coaster, boating a top speed of 128mph. Top Thrill Dragster is ranked at #3 with a 120mph top speed. Current world's fastest: King Racer in Nürburgring, Germany. It's a new steel air-thrust roller coaster opening this summer boasting a top speed of 135mph. Damn, I'd love to ride that!
That ride makes the "Mr. Freeze" ride at Six Flags Over Texas sound pretty weak by comparison. I still had a good time riding that one. First time I rode it, these high school girls were ahead of me in line. They rode and the "train" came back in the station. Those girls were bawling their eyes out crying. They were really upset. All I thought was, "Yes! This is gonna be kick ass!" Faster and scarier, please!
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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 07-03-2009 09:02 PM
quote: Anslem Rayburn
I think remakes can be pointless, but in the right hands they can be a great thing. If the writers and director care about the project and aren't in it just for a paycheck, good things can happen. Take "Batman Begins" as an example.
It wasn't a remake. The story of his becoming Batman was fresh material and Scarecrow was a new enemy, at least on the big screen. If anything, Dark Knight would have been the remake. That's why the franchise is working so well. They had to give the hero a fresh start so they could reuse the same enemy later without it being too much of the same. As it was, that still would have happened, if not for Ledger's now infamous performance. I think Nolan was very conscious of this, which is why he didn't want to use Joker in Batman Begins. That would have made it seem like a remake.
I can't think of one great movie that has been remade to the same level of greatness. Maybe Bad News Bears came close, but still wasn't quite as good. The only thing you can do is take a crappy or average movie and remake it better.
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 07-04-2009 03:48 AM
Claude, I have the same box set. It's never been re-done on DVD, though there has been talk of it being done within the next few years. There was a PAL VHS of the 1951 version, but I don't think either of the other versions has been released on video over here. The 1936 version has occasionally been shown on 35mm at the NFT, I think the last time was as part of a Paul Robeson season that must be getting on for ten years ago now. I've never seen the 1929 version anywhere other than on the Laserdisc, though I did once hear a few minutes of the music from it somewhere, on the radio I think.
The 1951 version was a bit of an oddity technically. Some of the original elements were on triacetate, and some on nitrate; it must have been one of the last American films to use any nitrate stock. Some of the original sound recordings were magnetic, while others were traditional optical recordings. It wasn't quite the end of three-strip Technicolor, which carried on for another couple of years or so. Of course, unlike most of the big films of the '50s which were made in various widescreen processes, Show Boat was just too early, and was in traditional Academy ratio. It was a strange mixture of the old and the new.
It's a pity that three of the sound disks from the 1929 version are still, to the best of my knowledge, lost, so we are missing the music from about half an hour of that version.
It's also strange that three, very different, versions of the film should have been made within just 22 years.
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