Papillon remake 2018

[JohnnyTheFox]

There are some movies that shouldn't be remade, the trailer however does look interesting.
What say you, yay or nay?

 

[Passepartout]

Yeah but how can you remake a movie that starred Dustin Hoffman and the late great Steve McQueen? Huh?! Hollywood is out of ideas!

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

Yeah but how can you remake a movie that starred Dustin Hoffman and the late great Steve McQueen? Huh?! Hollywood is out of ideas!

I agree.

What's next, The Godfather?

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

I agree.

What's next, The Godfather?

Give it time.

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

Give it time.

I hope I'm dead by then.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

I hope I'm dead by then.

I don't, I want at least one more thing to piss and moan about. Cant wait until they remake the Outsiders or the Warriors where all the characters will be hipsters and fighting over gluten free almond milk and vaping.

 

[BigStar]

I don't, I want at least one more thing to piss and moan about. Cant wait until they remake the Outsiders or the Warriors where all the characters will be hipsters and fighting over gluten free almond milk and vaping.

 

[Melonfeud]

Naw& No Thank you!
How could any 'brain trust' think they could surpass the trend setter of the original? Try to remake 'COOL HAND LUKE' or 'MIDNIGHT EXPRESS'?,,,no way could a revisited version compete with any of those 3 common thread flicks.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

The remake goes shows more of the escape attempts. The remake (from what I've read) bogs down from all the escape attempts which while captures the book more accurately becomes a series of: escape, capture, punishment sequences.

I've read the book and while it is suppose to be non-fiction, many have said that there is fabrication in it.

 

[Khartun]

I don't know, looks pretty good to me.

 

[jsb357]

Naw& No Thank you!

Try to remake 'COOL HAND LUKE' or 'MIDNIGHT EXPRESS'?

I read a rumor about a cool hand luke remake but it died on the vine.

Thankfully.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Good thing about SOME of these remakes...is it might get the younger generation to watch the original after seeing the remake.

For a good amount of them they are some movies that a lot of younger people have not seen.

This tends to work better with lesser known movies.

Good example is The Flight of the Pheonix

 

[paladin]

Good thing about SOME of these remakes...is it might get the younger generation to watch the original after seeing the remake.

I keep saying the same thing about my paint-by-numbers version of the Mona Lisa.
But , No one has stepped up to pay the admission price, yet.

 

[CouchCoach]

Looks a little more on the action and less on the psychological drama of the first one. The original, while very good, made me tired after seeing it in the theater.

I am not usually gonzo over remakes and was severely disappointed in Blade Runner. Some films are career signatures for actors and shouldn't be remade. And some films are so cast intensive, like The Godfather, that a remake would be foolhardy. That is still the best film casting I've ever seen. So I guess I can forgive him for using his daughter in III?

 

[paladin]

So I guess I can forgive him for using his daughter in III?

No
She was horrid.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Looks a little more on the action and less on the psychological drama of the first one. The original, while very good, made me tired after seeing it in the theater.

I am not usually gonzo over remakes and was severely disappointed in Blade Runner. Some films are career signatures for actors and shouldn't be remade. And some films are so cast intensive, like The Godfather, that a remake would be foolhardy. That is still the best film casting I've ever seen. So I guess I can forgive him for using his daughter in III?

I liked the psychological drama of the first film. But I can see how that could wear on someone.

That one thing that I think has been reduced over the years in movies. Now it's much more about the action and less about the psychological drama that drives the action...

If anyone remade "One Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest" the mind battle between McMurphy and everyone else would probably be reduced for more violence, sex and a comedic atmosphere.

 

[cowboyec]

no.
McQueen movies are untouchable.
whats next...Bullitt?
NO.

 

[Melonfeud]

The funny part about the PAPILLON remake is I recall buying & reading a MAD magazine back about age 15, in which they worked their unique brand of parody on that movie ,that I've retained about as much of as from watching the original movie

 

[CouchCoach]

No
She was horrid.

LMAO, we saw this on the opening night and that's the only time I've been in a theater and heard an audience groan collectively and then cheer her dying. I was really shocked that after creating the absolute masterpiece sequel and the one all others are measured by that he would do that. It's not like he doesn't know good acting because he'd done a masterful job in I and II. However, she did inherit his directing gene.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Yeah but how can you remake a movie that starred Dustin Hoffman and the late great Steve McQueen? Huh?! Hollywood is out of ideas!

I for one am tired of remakes and wish they would put their efforts into new stories rather than rehashing old ones.