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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 4, 2024 17:11:06 GMT
I don't know of what particular remake he's talking but they announced a lot lately so it could be anyone or just a generic comment.
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Post by queenzod on Apr 4, 2024 18:23:02 GMT
I love him. He’s wicked smart and knows his stuff, even if it’s not all my cup of tea.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 4, 2024 18:25:48 GMT
The funniest thing is when people on social media act like if the original will be completely erased from the earth and no one will watch it again! All because those evil Hollywood actors!
The other day I was talking with someone about The Wages of Fear and how it’s one of the genuinely tense thrillers ever made. I googled it to show her the trailer and I found that there was a new Netflix movie! What I did? I certainly didn’t went to Twitter to cry! lol I don’t have interest to watch it because it wasn’t well reviewed but also good for them for making their own version. The original still out there! I can see they had interest to do it because it’s a great premise.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 4, 2024 22:58:19 GMT
This comment!
Why he thinks The Thing isn’t a “corporate” movie!? lol Just because he likes it!
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 5, 2024 2:22:04 GMT
By the way, I think he is talking about The Nigh of the Hunter remake because, if I remember well, he is very close to Robert Cargill. And he and Derrickson were attacked not just by randoms on Twitter but also by professional critics. Probably in part because yes, it is a very difficult film to remake but also because Derrickson has genuinely make some enemies on Twitter, including professional critics, which it’s a very bad idea! Even if you are right!
Anyway, he is right!
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2024 16:53:09 GMT
This made me laugh!
How old were these people? Of course, adults and kids with enough brain maduration (I don’t want to be rude! Maybe she was 5!) knew it wasn’t real! I remember the publicity but you really needed to be not very smart (or extremely young) to believe it was real! Lol
By the way this movie didn’t began the “footage found” genre!
I also saw someone asking why someone they would want to remake a bad movie?! So you can remake good movies because they are good but also not bad movies because they are bad! lol Maybe this time they will make it good!
EDITED Even if really existed people so naive to believe the publicity and think that the “footage” was real. Why would not exist people like that today? C’mon! Kids are clearly much more “literal” nowadays!
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Post by queenzod on Apr 11, 2024 18:02:23 GMT
I remember when The Abyss came out and I was obsessed with that movie. I knew it was a movie but it was so well done it LOOKED real. All those underwater scenes, the fluid in the helmets/lungs when they had to dive deep, the drowning scene? It seriously freaked me out. It was 35 years ago so I was 31 (and an idiot), but parts of me wondered if it were real. Not the aliens, of course, I knew they weren’t, but just the presentation of the underwater stuff.
So, yes, “kids” are stupid and naive, lol.
Btw, I thought Blair Witch Project was dumb as hell. I hate it when folks are lost and THROW AWAY THE MAP!
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 11, 2024 18:59:01 GMT
I watched it at the theater at the time and yeah, it was just a cheap dumb movie which was kinda brilliantly promoted but I never imagined someone actually thought it was real! It was in the 1990s so it was mostly an ironic much less gory homage to Holocaust Cannibal! (probably the first “footage film” which allegedly provoked an actual trial for murder to its filmmakers because supposedly people thought the actors were dead) but I doubt a lot of people really thought the Blair Witch was real! I think the actress hid for a bit but I also remember her being out there promoting it!
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Post by mllemass on Apr 11, 2024 23:47:07 GMT
I saw it at the theatre when it came out, and I thought it was a lot of fun! I remember that it was out around the same time as The Sixth Sense, so a lot of fuss was made about both movies.
My sister, though, missed a lot of Blair Witch because the shaky camera made her feel sick and she couldn’t look at the screen for a lot of it. I remember reading later that quite a few people had that reaction.
I don’t remember wondering whether it was real or not when I saw it. After Fargo a few years earlier, I didn’t trust the whole “this is based on a true story” claim of movies!
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 12, 2024 2:17:30 GMT
I don’t even remember that it was really/sincerely talked that it was something real! Yes, there was some publicity kinda saying that but at the same time, I think there were normal interviews with the people behind it and certainly the critics and press never claimed it was real. That’s why I think it was all very tongue in cheek!
But nowadays, people are very literal so if someone do publicity ironically saying their clearly fake film is all truth then a) there will be people angry saying they are frauds and very dangerous people; b) some will really believe it! And TBF it seems a few really believe it in the 1990s! Lol
EDITED Also, there are multiple sequels so it’s not like people stopped watching them when they realized it wasn’t real footage! At least, they really believed all of them were real! Anyway, that would mean that the gimmick worked more than once! lol
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