DISQUS

RobertFure · 11 months ago

I love The Thing, agreed. I also liked Runaway with Tom Selleck, hell yeah. I agree with all the remakes too, especially A Boy and His Dog (I love the original, but would love to see another version) and Final Countdown.

Good choices all around.

Wes Rand · 11 months ago

Maybe appreciation of 2001 is a generational thing because I really like the pacing in that movie -- I find it the opposite of boring. What would 2001 look like if Michael Bay made it?

Christopher M · 11 months ago

Logun's Run is being remade...it's in development hell though

Alericc · 11 months ago

Close Encouters is the most overrated Speilberg movie out there. As a kid I fell asleep in the theaters it took so long to get to the space craft and aliens.

I have to disagree as well on Logans Run. It was a good movie with decent special effect of its time and was a precursor to Star Wars. But the main reason being that it was written for adults and contained nudity, violence and adult language.

Rob_Hunter · 10 months ago

I'd argue that Close Encounters really isn't a kid's movie in the first place...

And I love Logan's Run, but I think it could be improved with a remake that keeps the story and adult themes, but improves the effects, scope, and look of the film.

Dave S. · 11 months ago

I can hate to think what a remake of 2001 would be like. The space ship Discovery rumbling by like a Mac Truck, and loud explosions in the vacuum of space. Kurbirk captured the slow, majestic silence of Space. And he understood that space ships don't fly like airplanes. Don't forget, 2001 was considered boring even when it was first released.

Sean · 11 months ago

Just because you don't get 2001 doesn't mean that you have to remake it so a 13 year old boy likes it. No Stanley Kubrick film should ever be remade. Plus you could make the third chapter in that series or redu 2010

toorandom · 11 months ago

But they are already remaking Logan's Run. And 1984. And they are making Farenheit 451.

Patrick Shepherd · 11 months ago

I'm in two minds about a remake of 2001. There are certain portions of it that could use a new look: the opening ape scene is too long and the ape suits could definitely use a makeover, the final kaleidoscope trip is again too long and really needs at least some hooks to provide a window into understanding what is happening, and there's too much emphasis on the 'cool' details of space flight, such as the stewardess scene during the trip to the moon.

At the same time, there is nothing that could ever better the space shuttle docking with space station scene. Not only do I have The Blue Danube permanently linked in my mind with this scene, the scientific accuracy is absolutely awesome as a thing of sheer beauty. If you watch this closely, you can even come up with some pretty good numbers for the size of the station, its rotation rate, and the imposed gravity that such would entail, all perfectly balanced. On top of this, the segue into this scene, from the spiraling bone to the Also Sprach Zarathustra theme is a dramatic moment that would be very hard to top. Any remake, to be at all good, would practically have to lift this whole section entire, without changes. Which, of course, would never happen.

But I'm in complete agreement that A Boy and His Dog not only needs but deserves a remake. The story itself has an extreme emotional impact, and the original movie just didn't capture this.

ScreenRant.com · 11 months ago

Funny seeing the "remake 2001 cuz it's not as good as everyone thinks it is" comment after Neil's response to Alex at FirstShowing who said the same thing about The Day the Earth Stood Still. 8-)

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RobertFure · 11 months ago

Boring is as boring does. What makes some of us not like 2001 is not a cultural disconnect or a difference in time periods, but rather we're not engaged by the story at all.

Rob_Hunter · 10 months ago

To be clear, I wasn't saying 2001 needs to be remade for that reason or any other. I only stated that unlike the ten films listed above it, 2001 could actually benefit from a modern remake.

And who the fuck is Alex at FirstShowing?

AllyndDudnikov · 11 months ago

I watch 2001 atleast once a month.

Jay · 11 months ago

Whoa whoa whoa, hold the train there pal. You think that Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’." is less cool then The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love”? Have you ever even been to a Journey concert? or better yet a Cure concert? I think you should stick to reviewing movies and stop slandering the Journey!

BrianCGibson · 11 months ago

Which editor spoke the blasphemy about 2001? Seriously...I don't care if you find it boring. It is a masterpiece. What about the pacing of There Will Be Blood? Most of the point of 2001 was the technical advancements that Kubrick pushed. Not only that, the attention to detail is impeccable. Kubricks films are amazing and trendsetters. They typically inspire so many copycats that to remake the film would come off as a sham.

RobertFure · 11 months ago

The first time I watched 2001 I wanted to cut my wrists. How can something be a masterpiece (subjective) if someone finds it boring? The kaleidoscope scene towards the end seemed to last foooorreeever.

Mladen · 11 months ago

I'd argue that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is just as horribly paced as 2001.

2001 does need some help, if only for the TRULY AWFUL ape suits at the beginning of the film. I don't care what your opinion is of this movie, there is no way to defend a bunch of over-actors hopping around in Chewbacca suits... Then again, cgi apes could be worse...

Davebaxter1989 · 11 months ago

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THE BLASPHEMY!



Don't Stop Believin' is a classic! :P

Ben · 10 months ago

There's no reason 2001 should be remade. The effects are fine, nothing visual particularly needs improvement. The fact that it's paced slowly isn't justification to remake it. It's got ideas and a message and it presents them well.

Besides, we all know a remake would give HAL some sort of futuristic weapons system.

Jim Rohner · 10 months ago

Funny thing is I have watched 2001 all the way through. I love that film.

ScreenRant.com · 10 months ago

LOL, you're kidding, right? How can you write for FSR and not know who that is? :-P

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Alericc · 10 months ago

Ok I agree that CE is not a kids movie as well, but if I watch it now as an adult and fall asleep does my intial impression stand as valid?? lol

Serious Rob do you think that Hollywood will remake Logans Run with a cast as talented as the Stage Actors they employed on the first film, or keep it an "R" rating which will cut out the "kids" market?? They will Star Wars it. Simplify it down and add in elements that never existed and pare back the adult content leaving a shell of the original.

RobertFure · 10 months ago

I think he may have been referring to this: http://tiny.cc/JVY5f

ScreenRant.com · 10 months ago

LOL, sorry - I'm a little slow on the uptake this morning. :-)

Rob_Hunter · 10 months ago

Yes, I was kidding. The joke was relevant a few months ago though, I swear.

dragonmum · 10 months ago

I'm going to have to rent Time After Time - it's been ages since I've seen it, but I have to agree, it was a great movie, and a great vehicle for David Warner. And I need a copy of The Ice Pirates - just how could you possibly make it any better? It was the cheese factor that made it the classic it is. On the 2001 discussion, personally I could go either way. It's a brilliant movie that has more than a few very slow spots. I'm not happy that Logan's Run is being remade, but I'm trying to reserve judgement until plot changes & casting are announced. If they keep a strong script, a lot can be forgiven.

Sxx · 10 months ago

I am 100% with you re 2001. fuckin boring as!

MartinL · 10 months ago

None of my fellow 2001 fans likes Kubrick's epic because some received wisdom told them so. I first saw it in the theaters when I was 10 years old, and it blew me completely away, not just because of the special effects and the cool spacecraft, but because of the whole message, which I got. You'd like to see the film remade for the same reason people think the Beatles was just another guitar band; you don't get what that film represented, at the time of its release, to the world of science fiction, the larger culture and the world of film in general. 2001 was never intended to be just more fodder for the theater chains, and that's the only thing a remake could be -- just as the sequel 2010 was utterly pointless and cringeworthy. It's like Van Sant remaking Psycho, for Christ's sake. The point of that was WHAT, exactly? If you assert that Clockwork Orange doesn't need a remake (and I agree -- and what was the point of that TV remake of The Shining that King endorsed over Kubrick's version?), nor does Blade Runner -- then you need to extend that same courtesy to 2001. A good film doesn't need to be made "relevant" to modern audiences; that's BSspeak for luring jaded mallrats into your jewelbox theaters and taking their money. Frankly, that's the only point of any remakes, ever; there's never been any artistic justification for it, but of course Hollywood's done it from the very first, purely because a remake will bring in decent initial box office due to the audience's curiosity as to what levels of tinselly perfidy the studios have sunk to NOW.

On the other hand, I'd love to see a decent remake of A Boy and His Dog -- and I'll bet Harlan would, too. To begin with, NOT putting the denizens of the underground city in clown makeup would be a great start.

Rain StormRaider · 10 months ago

I get why people might not like or care for 2001, I detest almost anything related to Arthur C. Clarke outside of The Star, so I understand why it might not be enjoyed by some. I first saw 2001 a few years ago for an English Lit class at university. And it affected me very deeply. I know its boring and its austere but I wouldn't change a thing.

Movies become dated all the time, that doesn't mean that they require an update. In my opinion, it means that Hollywood needs to be more creative and make more original stuff rather than regurgitating the same things over and over again.