tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post2503542166065254258..comments2024-01-04T02:15:58.834-05:00Comments on Matt's Musings: It only encourages themMatt Kellandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04544385872579718596noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-51083939495630069212008-10-05T09:25:00.000-04:002008-10-05T09:25:00.000-04:00I asked Rutger Hauer in Milan couple days ago abou...I asked Rutger Hauer in Milan couple days ago about Blade Runner sequel and he said that it is out of the question for him and Ridley both. And without them...Tom Jantolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129962463329015558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-72086309007333224692008-10-02T18:29:00.000-04:002008-10-02T18:29:00.000-04:00I think the reason most people go to see remakes i...I think the reason most people go to see remakes is that they hope to regain some of what the original film had to offer. Of course this is a pretty big ask of any piece of art or entertainment: to live up to expectations coloured with nostalgia and strong emotions. It hardly ever works. The same happens for things that cross platforms - books into films hardly ever work, films into books hardly ever work, plays into films, games into films, films into games, tv series into films, etc.<BR/><BR/>There are exceptions though: there are people who liked the Addams Family movies (I didn't) which in fact were movies made from a tv show made from the Charles Addams illustrations; Pirates of the Caribbean was a film based on a <EM>ride</EM> which sounded like a disastrous idea to me, and yet it worked (unlike its sequels, bizarrely enough) Those exceptions keep the whole sequel/remake thing chugging along. <BR/><BR/>Film, after all, is a business. The studio execs want to know that there is some reason that people might fork out for a ticket, whether it is a big star, special effects or a some kind of hook such as serialization. If they have many of those elements, the budget is likely to be bigger, the credentials better and therefore the expectations higher.<BR/><BR/>But you're right - if you go to see one of these things after you've been warned off, then you're a schmuck. A sequel to Blade Runner is likely to be disastrous for multiple reasons: Blade Runner was film of its time. It was essentially a Philip Dickian commentary on the 1960s projected into the 1980s. Those kinds of dystopian future films fell quickly out of vogue in the 90s and in my opinion we've pretty much racked through the gamut of them. What else is going to happen? We're going to go Off-World? There'll be some kind of organized Replicant revolt? Some new Blade Runner is going to have to sort it all out? Yada yada yada. It's so dreadfully predictable.<BR/><BR/>And that predictability is <EM>exactly</EM> the kind of thing the studios are counting on. <BR/><BR/>I'm involved with the creation of an entirely original movie at the moment - a huge Hollywood affair - and it's <EM>hard going</EM>. All attempts at originality are battered and beaten from the outset, and <EM>everything</EM> gets referred to in terms of something else. Originality SCARES these people, because they don't understand it. I don't know how successful we'll be at making something good in this case (you'll have to be the judge of that) but at least it will be original. As much as we can be...anaglyphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451469127150838252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-54543843400946246602008-10-02T11:06:00.000-04:002008-10-02T11:06:00.000-04:00For the record, I probably won't see Blade Run...For the record, I probably won't see Blade Runner 2, because I was never a big fan of the original, unlike most of you. I actually quite liked Star Wars Ep3, and saw them all cos I took the kids, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Everyone told me to avoid Matrix 2&3, so I haven't seen those. I saw Resident Evil because several of my friends told me it wasn't too bad (it was OK, but nothing more), and I watched Doom out of curiosity, and I'm glad I saw the FPS bit, because it was interesting from a cinematic style point of view.Matt Kellandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04544385872579718596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-3235580025730927682008-10-02T10:09:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:09:00.000-04:00Here is why Spiderman 3 was shit. Just in case any...<A HREF="http://www.howitshouldhaveended.com/Divx%20links/Spiderman3.html" REL="nofollow">Here is why Spiderman 3 was shit.</A> Just in case anyone was unclear.Johnnie Ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820171759059188254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-14728044831909887452008-10-02T10:03:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:03:00.000-04:00I will go see Blade Runner 2 if - and only if - th...I will go see Blade Runner 2 if - and only if - the vast majority of my extremely knowledgeable and geeky friends tell me that's it's unmissable, and if Jonathan Ross says so too, and if a whole load of reviews say the same thing.<BR/><BR/><I>"Hands up all those who went to see Star Wars Eps 2 & 3 even though they hated them. Matrix 2 & 3? Spiderman 2? Resident Evil? Doom? Yeah, you know who you are.</I><BR/><BR/>Episode 2: yes. Even though Episode 1 was so painfully bad that I still cry myself to sleep, I went to see it. Why? Because I still believed (or maybe wanted to believe) that it <B>wasn't</B> just a cash-in. I wanted to believe that Lucas still cared about telling the story he started with the original Holy Trinity.<BR/><BR/>Episode 3? There's not enough money or torture equipment in the world that would make me see that movie. I learned my lesson.<BR/><BR/>Matrix 2 and 3: Nope. Hated the first one, knew the 2nd and 3rd would be shit. Eventually torrented the 2nd like a naughty thief. Hated it. Wasn't surprised.<BR/><BR/>Spiderman 2: Yep, went to see that when it came out. Loved the first film, but loved this one even more. I know you don't agree with me, but I thought Spidey2 was fantastic. In fact, it was so good that I bought the DVD of Spidey3 (missed it at the cinema). Now, Spiderman 3, I will agree, sucks like a military-grade industrial vacuum cleaner. Made by the Spice Girls.<BR/><BR/>Resident Evil: Nope. Still never seen it.<BR/><BR/>Doom: See above. Even the much-hyped "bit where it all goes first-person and it's like being in the game except it's a movie and did we mention the big guns" didn't sell it for me. In fact, I think I'm right in saying that a mate of mine actually <B>gave</B> me a copy of this movie on DVD, and I've still never seen it.<BR/><BR/>I don't often buy into the "sequel just because it's a sequel" philosophy. The thing that gets me so often, though - and I think this is true of a lot of people - is that sometimes you just <B>have</B> to go see a sequel/remake because the original was so good it actually changed your life, and if this new thing can capture even a tenth of that, it'll be worth seeing. If Bruce Robinson ever gets around to making the sequel to Withnail & I, I'll be queueing all night.Johnnie Ingramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820171759059188254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398250293312747643.post-80019956978654651392008-10-02T09:26:00.000-04:002008-10-02T09:26:00.000-04:00But if they don't make Blade Runner 2, how will th...But if they don't make Blade Runner 2, how will they ever finish the trilogy?<BR/><BR/>;P<BR/><BR/>It's so true, we are collective enablers to the bad behavior we despise in Hollywood's choices.Overmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10387097407119598439noreply@blogger.com