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Offline Fulcrum

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #30 on: September 23, 2013, 12:41:24 PM »
Quote from: wpeters on September 23, 2013, 11:13:26 AM
Movies that would be worth watching or remade

1  They need to make one about the wolverine: why he was captured and what was he doing in Japan. Make for a awesome movie.


These would all make Great movies :x

Ugh. The last one was bad enough....and Jackman is getting a little long in the tooth to pull the role off.
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #31 on: September 23, 2013, 12:52:00 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on September 23, 2013, 09:21:21 AM
It would also be very spooky!

Quote from: Fulcrum on September 23, 2013, 12:38:25 PM
T'would be difficult. He's been dead since 2010.

EDIT:  Ahhh....nevermind...someone else pointed this out as well.  ;)
dammit, i never pay attention to the obits...

what about will ferrell as col. kurtz? not that i like will ferrell but...

wait, what about howie mandel in the role? or damon wayans...  :lol
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #32 on: September 23, 2013, 02:24:00 PM »
I thought there was already a Midway remake in the works? And anyone heard anything more about Peter Jackson's Dambusters remake? Last thing Wikipedia said was that Jackson put it on hold due to the Hobbit.

Anyway, a biopic on Boyington based on Bruce Gamble's Black Sheep One could be pretty cool.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #33 on: September 23, 2013, 03:11:54 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on September 23, 2013, 12:52:00 PM
dammit, i never pay attention to the obits...

what about will ferrell as col. kurtz? not that i like will ferrell but...

wait, what about howie mandel in the role? or damon wayans...  :lol

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #34 on: September 23, 2013, 03:19:50 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on September 23, 2013, 12:52:00 PM
dammit, i never pay attention to the obits...

 :lol No worries. 

I've reached the age where I just automatically Google a celebrity if I haven't seen anything from them in a while.  At the present time I'd say I get death confirmations for 30-40% of the ones I look up.   :frown:
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Offline Arlo

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #35 on: September 23, 2013, 03:23:04 PM »
A good war movie doesn't need a 'remake.' A bad one doesn't deserve one.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #36 on: September 23, 2013, 03:24:14 PM »
Apparently there is a new film that just started shooting in England about end of the war 2nd Armored Division Shermans called "Fury"

Saw this on another forum.  They've pulled together 10 Shermans for the filming.  appears to be a big budget film


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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #37 on: September 23, 2013, 03:26:10 PM »
Brad Pitt? Erm.
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #38 on: September 23, 2013, 03:33:17 PM »
Quote from: Arlo on September 23, 2013, 03:23:04 PM
A good war movie doesn't need a 'remake.' A bad one doesn't deserve one.
odd, i haven't seen one yet that couldn't be much better if it were done right...then again, we're talking hollyweird where reality takes a backseat to money.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #39 on: September 23, 2013, 04:07:50 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on September 23, 2013, 03:33:17 PM
odd, i haven't seen one yet that couldn't be much better if it were done right...then again, we're talking hollyweird where reality takes a backseat to money.

Critical eyes and differences of opinion.  :D


Saving Private Ryan

Stalag 17

Full Metal Jacket

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Great Escape

Paths of Glory

Lawrence of Arabia

Apocalypse Now

The Dirty Dozen

We Were Soldiers

Band of Brothers

Hamburger Hill

Glory

The Longest Day

Twelve O'Clock High

Hell in the Pacific

Sands of Iwo Jima

Patton

The Big Red One

They Were Expendable

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Midway

A Bridge Too Far

The Green Berets

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In no particular order. No, remakes, just the originals, please.  :D
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #40 on: September 23, 2013, 04:20:37 PM »
Quote from: Arlo on September 23, 2013, 04:07:50 PM
Critical eyes and differences of opinion.  :D


Saving Private Ryan

Stalag 17

Full Metal Jacket

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Great Escape

Paths of Glory

Lawrence of Arabia

Apocalypse Now

The Dirty Dozen

We Were Soldiers

Band of Brothers

Hamburger Hill

Glory

The Longest Day

Twelve O'Clock High

Hell in the Pacific

Sands of Iwo Jima

Patton

The Big Red One

They Were Expendable

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Midway

A Bridge Too Far

The Green Berets

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In no particular order. No, remakes, just the originals, please.  :D

All great movies and i don't think they could be improved with a remake. I know I've seen them at least 10 times each.
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #41 on: September 23, 2013, 04:27:04 PM »
The great thing about remakes is that you can still see the original if the remake sux.
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Offline Arlo

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #42 on: September 23, 2013, 04:28:02 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on September 23, 2013, 04:27:04 PM
The great thing about remakes is that you can still see the original if the remake sux.

I can still see the original anyways. I encourage Hollywood to make more original originals. :D
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Offline GScholz

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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #43 on: September 23, 2013, 04:29:05 PM »
Indeed ;)
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Re: War Movies that should be remade
« Reply #44 on: September 23, 2013, 04:59:37 PM »
A remake of A Bridge Too Far?  Zachy, no no no . . .  ;)  We should have watched that together when you visited.

That movie had a cast that is unsurpassed in the history of film and the like of which is unlikely to be assembled again (Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Kane, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Maximilian Schell, Liv Ullman, Elliot Gould, Edward Fox, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Robert Redford).

It also had real parachute jumps, in Holland, of 200 men, using real WWII kit.  It is impossible to get more realistic than that.

The consultants for the film included Colonel John Waddy, Major General John Dutton Frost, General James M. Gavin, Lieutenant General Brian Horrocks, Major General Roy Urquhart, and Brigadier Joe Vandeleur -- guys who played a major part personally in Operation Market Garden.

On all three accounts, such a feat is not possible again in the world.
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