Movie Meltdown - Episode 157
This week we dive head first into “The Grind” when we address the
topic of
Remakes.
Why are there so many these days? Are there different “types”? Are
they necessary? And is there a way to make a good remake? We pose
these questions and more are as we discuss the obvious bad examples
as well as a surprisingly lengthy list of good remakes.
All of which eventually leads to... The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo, Trespass, Fright Night, the ratman, belted-overalls?, True
Grit, kind of like Wilford Brimley... only more-so, Black
Christmas, Hayden Christensen, Leonard Nimoy, Godfather 3, Tim
Burton, Pumpkin, Crispin Glover, Hugo, Prince Humperdinck could
care less about Buttercup, The Ring, BMX Bandits, is this a kissing
book?, King Kong, Halloween, Footloose, The Fly, The Killers,
Rooney Mara, The Eye, Psycho, Reefer Madness, Little Shop of
Horrors, Ukulele Mike... this is bullshit man!, Star Trek, the
six-fingered man, love for the original,
Solaris, nuance in a foreign movie,
Joel Schumacher, 3:10 to Yuma, Planet of the Apes, Peeping Tom,
Shatner’s got pink flamingos in his yard, Willy Wonka, The Addams
Family, The Killers, the clerk at Wild and Woolly Video, The
Grudge, Dawn of the Dead,
Scorsese
in 3D, you know I learned a lot with Transformers, Let the Right
One In,
wearing the edges off the American audiences, Invasion of the Body
Snatchers, The Others, Chris Sarandon, Reagan’s last movie, Ocean’s
Eleven, Pulse, this impossible E minor chord, Jeff Goldblum, Count
Dooku, killer backstory,
Georges Méliès, Cape Fear, film school in the 50’s in Russia,
Battle Royale, Fairy Tale Theater, Star Trek, your kid is evil...
that’s all there is to it,
Flirting, cold wet squishy stuff, not loving the original too much,
Don Siegel, Henry V,
The
Hunger Games,
The Ref, Funny Games, Harry Potter, Lolita, The Blob, Norman
Fell,
Nicole Kidman, Straw Dogs, and
is he clueless... is he genius... or is he just an ass?
“It’s up to me to let it go... if it’s ruining something that I
hold dear. It doesn’t ruin it - it’s me letting it ruin
it.“