We all know that Hollywood has run out of good ideas and have resorted to remaking old movies that never quite did all that well. Usually these are 1960s movies that nobody nowadays remembers. Movies like Pelham 123 that could also benefit from the advances in modern movie-making.
But now comes word they are redoing "Overboard" the 1980s classic starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.
Two major problems with this:
1) Not enough time has passed, likely ticket buyers have seen the original, they remember it (it's on cable all the time) and they like it
2) there's nothing you can do to make this better that they didn't have at their disposal in 1988
But there is one giant, and I mean giant thing in favor of this remake: the prospects of J.lo in this scene:
Note: please ignore the Russian dubbing, you can't always get what you want on youtube, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need
Mrs. SCZA and I were watching some NatGeo thing on exorcisms that had a segment on the writing (and eventually filming) of the Exorcist.
ReplyDeleteIt got me thinking, with all of the stupid remakes that have been done, including Amityville Horror and Nightmare on Elm Street... how has the Exorcist not been the subject of a shitty remake starring Drew Barrymore and Dakota Fanning?