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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThey're remaking "Big Trouble in Little China"
one of my favorite cult classics. But, they're putting The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, in the Kurt Russell role.
http://www.thewrap.com/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake-exclusive/
MuseRider
(34,063 posts)I can't stand him or his movies. Even if everything else is good he just makes me cringe and want to run screaming from the theater. YUCK!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)they remove the camp in favor of making it "serious." I watched the remake of Robocop the other night. It was flat with no character. I can't even remember the name of the throwaway villain. Whereas Clarence Boddicker was one of the best villains you love to hate
Plus, you hated half of the corporate types, even Bob Morton:
Bob Morton: What? I thought we agreed on total body prosthesis. Now, lose the arm, okay?
Tyler: Jesus, Morton!
(snaps his finger at RoboCop)
Bob Morton: Can he understand what I'm saying?
Roosevelt: Doesn't matter. We're gonna blank his memory anyway.
Bob Morton: Well, I think we should lose the arm. Wha-what do you think, Johnson?
Johnson: Well, he signed a release form when he joined the force. He's legally dead. We can do pretty much what we want to him.
Bob Morton: Lose the arm.
Tyler: Shut him down. Prep him for surgery.
They'll make this one serious, too. Maybe it will drive people back to the original and it'll have a revival
Wounded Bear
(58,443 posts)I think this is one of them. Kurt Russel nailed Jack Burton. Hard to see how anybody could come close.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Big Trouble in Little China is a cult classic. It didn't do worth shit in the theater, but became very popular as the years went by. The same with They Live (which I actually got to see in the theater). Both are fucking awesome movies.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)from Roddy Piper - "I came here chew bubblegum and kick some ass - and I'm all out of bubblegum!"
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)It is a truly bizarre movie, but that's what makes it so good. The movie made $13 million in the box office ($26 million adjusted), just a bit more than Big Trouble in Little China.
Baitball Blogger
(46,577 posts)The first Total Recall was risky, turning the blonde into the villain and the exotic, dark skinned woman into the heroine, for example. The remake looked like someone went in to "purify" the cast and it really didn't work.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Very rarely are remakes better than the original. Probably one of the few examples I can give is The Karate Kid remake in 2010 (and I was a fan of the original so that says something).
I am also a huge fan of Big Trouble in Little China, which the article says only did $11 million at the box office ($23.75 million adjusted for inflation), but I can't see how the remake will do well even with Dwayne Johnson.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Why?
Paladin
(28,204 posts)And I don't regard the original as any sort of cinematic classic.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)New blood please.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)with Henry Fonda in the starring role. What a great movie. Lately I've been on a film noir kick and in the past weeks I've watched such classics as The Narrow Margin, Scarlett Street, Sunset Blvd., Act Of Violence, Brute Force, City That Never Sleeps. The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Touch Of Evil, Tomorrow Is Another Day, Criss Cross, D.O.A., Detour, Double Indemnity, Sorry Wrong Number, Sweet Smell Of Success, The Asphalt Jungle, The Killers, The Killing, The Prowler, They Live By Night, Thieves Highway, Gun Crazy, Out Of The Past, In A Lonely Place. Next up from my collection of 40s and 50s film noirs are The Seventh Victim and Murder By Contract. These were the days when films had storylines and roles for real actors. Nowadays it's either an extravaganza of explosions or gonzo destruction of entire cities, comic book remakes of remakes of sequels, or films where the cgi is the real actor. There's such a contrast between the massive number of great movies made in the past and the rarity of great and inventive filmmaking of today. By the way, I really liked the original Big Trouble In Little China but I don't expect too much from the remake. Why couldn't they spend the money for this remake to do something original?
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)they just make a lot more movies now, and the good movies usually get lost in the shuffle and all the hype surrounding the big summer or big holiday blockbusters.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)but that's okay. I respect that. Actually, though, I think Hollywood made a lot more movies in the old "B" movie era.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)I believe 6 or 7 times more movies are made each year in 2000s than there were in the 50s and 60s (300-400/year then vs 2,400/year now.) There were actually more movies made in the slient movie era (500/year), but once "talkies" started, the numbers dropped sharply, then started rising again in the 70s and 80s. Not to mention now you have more movies from countries like China, Japan, India and Europe than you had before, as well as anybody with a webcam or GoPro camera can shoot a movie and upload to youtube now as well.