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by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:58:39 +0000

Well, and that’ll make it the perfect companion piece to Shyamalan’s latest, _The Happening_. (And since he apparently ripped off the plot of _The Village_ from a novel, here’s hoping they copy him scene for scene.)

Better yet: just have everyone watch _Idiocracy_ again, then read some Aristotle or something.

by: Marc

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:34:32 +0000

D’oh! It’s an Al Gore movie:

“Because of people’s inability to quench their thirst for oil and consumption of resources, we basically ruin the planet, and the planet fights back.”

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Wanted-Screenwriters-Make-Animals-Attack-9329.html

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:40:32 +0000

One more remakes note: I take it that movie referred to in the following news item is _not_ a remake of that TV series about veterinarians, unless they’ve really, really altered the plot:

“All Creatures Great and Small” for Sony Pictures and Original Film: The story is set in a world where the animals control the planet and humans are the minority — the survivors live in forts defending themselves from stronger animals…

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:23:33 +0000

And if all those connections seem surprising, you might also enjoy knowing that _Quantum Leap_ was derived from a discarded time travel element to the original pitch for the terrible sequel series _Galactica 1980_. It’s all connected, man.

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:19:44 +0000

The best way to make RoboCop more capitalist, I think, would be to get Frank Miller to once more write the sequels — but this time drawing upon his late-90s Rand influences and his post-9/11 turn toward patriotism instead of the Marxist-anarchism of his naive youth, compared to which even the Euro-postmodernism of Verhoeven’s original film was vastly preferable (and not so unlike Miller’s own _Dark Knight Returns_ — for some of us, these things characterized the 80s more than _Pretty in Pink_).

But Miller is completing a _Spirit_ movie and reportedly planning a _300_ sequel (the _Sin City_ sequel, by contrast, reportedly being on hold due to the shocking underperformance of his co-director Robert Rodriguez’s movie done with Tarantino, _Grindhouse_).

by: Marc

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Oooh… RoboCop!

But would Murphy still be a cyborg? It seems like we are too close to real, autonomous robots to mess around with cyborgs.

Is there any way to do a libertarian RoboCop? The original was an anti-capitalist wet dream.

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:38:44 +0000

Speaking of remakes that make me nervous: _The Prisoner_:

http://www.newsarama.com/tv/080630-prisoner-amc.html

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:31:31 +0000

Ah, and Justin Pogue informs me that Tarantino _is_ traveling back in time to create the movie, or rather, is currently rumored to be planning a remake, coincidentally. Right man for the job, but the job doesn’t clearly need doing. Sort of makes me want to leave the culture and find a fresher one, like hearing talk of a _RoboCop_ remake. (And next year brings a brand new Kirk, Spock, and McCoy to theatres, of course, but that almost seems proper and inevitable.)

by: Todd Seavey

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:02:56 +0000

I see that Roger Ebert says John Waters has said that Faster Pussycat is without question the best film ever made and perhaps better than any film that will be made in the future. That may be the highest praise I have ever heard of anything.