Course we need them for oil. But if only we'd known, if only we'd listened.
Nah! BLEERGH - it was tragic!
The original used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, ok I was a kid, but for the time it was good.
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
Course we need them for oil. But if only we'd known, if only we'd listened.
Nah! BLEERGH - it was tragic!
The original used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, ok I was a kid, but for the time it was good.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Blood - just give it!
All going well, I have seasons 1 and 2 on their way... released on DVD in March of 2009 I believe...Originally Posted by Kickaha
At the 2007 Westpac Ride:
Donor: So ya glad you're a Biker?
Minnie: F**k yeah!
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Well my granddaughter just came home for the last 5 minutes - she was clinging to my leg saying ''What's that?,what's it doing?'' I think Day of the Triffids still has the power to scare little kids.
HellSpawn
The original film was made about 1950 something (black and white)
Then the BBC mini
the art of diplomacy is saying nice doggie,
until you find a big rock
HellSpawn
Original film 1963 is a classic
the art of diplomacy is saying nice doggie,
until you find a big rock
Hardcore Biker
Dare to share Donor... plus I watched 20 min... and fell asleep (not) I was still bored... and looked at my wine glass intensely thinking wtf... am I watching yawn...
Classic Bikes are like classic movies.... only reproduce if ya can do it right!!!!!
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I agree there are some rubbish remakes of films out there (like last week's Andromeda Strain), but WTF? I assume you're talking about the Garth Jennings 2005 version? It was as faithful as you can expect a film of a book like that be, and was very well cast. Alan Rickman was superb as the voice of Marvin, Stephen Fry was spot on as the narrator, in fact I thought everyone was a brilliant cast choice. Please don't tell me you honestly preferred that low budget BBC version? OMG, you're just bagging it for baggings sake, surely?
One hell of a ride.
I'm not sure whose it was - in the cut I saw, the film ended before the final bag of scrabble scene. Like, only 2/3rds of the way through the book.
It was the crappest ending Since No Country for Old Men. Haruuumph.
And yes the low budget BBC was infinitely better. Wordy hoke is best delivered Hokey and with Ham, not glam.
Was saying to Jnr, I don't 'begrudge' remakes. I don't recall one that I preferred to the original, they are for generation next, I think it's good they know get smart, but if you lived it as a kid, there's only one Max, Pugsley or Ginger or Zaphod.
One hell of a ride.
Cheese = good.
Blood - just give it!
No worries - have just crawled out of the scratcher, and lo! there are 6 old school episodes of Day Of The Triffids in my little directory.
Upon inspection, it's old school, and I love it!
At the 2007 Westpac Ride:
Donor: So ya glad you're a Biker?
Minnie: F**k yeah!
Moped rider
I've already got got the oraginal The Day Of The Triffids on dvd when it was first released also got the BBC whole mini series on dvd too
got it from a place called DVD Planet on the net
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
Well my wife stayed up & watched it ("I haven't seen the original so I have nothing to compare it with" sez she). By the time I'm in bed it's like
"well that was dumb I can't be arsed watching tomorrow".
& this morning adds, " so everyone was blinded by the solar flare. . . . even on the other side of the world. . . . yet all it took to not be blinded was having a damp towel on your face for the hero & being asleep on a plane with a baseball cap for the beardy guy". Sure.
Yeah I loved the original HitchhikersGTG & didn't think much of the movie (although I agree with the Stephen Fry & Marvin voices). Like music, everyso often someone comes along with an improvement remake. but it seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Mind you age & past experience does cloud one's opinions. I tried to read HGTTG a year back & it was no longer new fresh & quirky like when I was 19.
Doesn't explain "The Italian Job" being remade. What was wrong with the original?
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Kiwi Sweets
Last nights "Day of the Triffids" was made last year and is a UK production. Eddie Izzard is an english comedienne (sp?) and actor.
For a BBC programme it's actually quite good, some of the BBC stuff is crap!
Distributor of Uncle Garrys cushions for Uncle Flips Kickers (or should that be knickers?!?)
Cleverly disguised as an adult!D.N.B.W
and newly est Grease Monkey
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haha, heaven forbid someone releases a story without a nicely-tied-up-opiate-for-the-masses Hollywood ending. (don't watch the Sopranos!)
Also, you do realise Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay for the 2005 version, a lot of the deviations from the book were by his own hand.
Oh well, each to their own, but I'll take each version on it's own merits. Sometimes classic trumps remake, sometimes remake trumps classic.
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Like Jeremy Clarkson said, it should have just been called "The". It could certainly have been titled differently and sold as a film on it's own merits, it had little to do with the Peter Collinson (1969) version. I'm sure to a lot of people, "The Italian Job" is synonymous with Italy, the Mini, gold bullion and Michael Caine, so we see it as an affront that these elements are either missing, or merely mentioned in passing to create a weak link. Had the film been given an original title and the weak links removed, the film would certainly be passable on it's own merits. Jason Statham and Seth Green were good, dunno about the rest of them though.
People don't make remakes because they think someonething is wrong with the original, they make them because they can make money on the success of the name of the original. Whether it's better or worse, or "wrong" or "right" is totally subjective.
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