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Leave it alone, do your own films and if they stink pass it on to someone better, Bezos
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I wonder if they look at all those legacy films and say, with some modern takes we could just remake some of the series. Fix some wrongs and right some rights. LOL!
This would never be something that EON would consider but Amazon isn't emotionally attached to those films.
Also be able to do away with some of the problematic scenes...Bond turning Japanese, stereotypes of southern law enforcement, homosexual hitmen, striking women when they fail to give you the right answer, etc.
I can see them bringing back older characters though, like a modern day Goldfinger, or a modern Hugo Drax (basically Elon Musk).
Disney remaking their shit is believable.
'Woking' previous Bond will just lead to Laurence Fox (aided by Robert Davi) style discourse to supplant the film's progress.
Whatever point was being made, no matter how correct, will be lost on those who need to heed it the most.
Do something original.
And to think I was already scared of Amy Pascal...
The ghostbusters 'femake' was alright. Better than GB2, but not as good as the curiously vaunted original. Better than the Paul Rudd and stranger things child thing, too.
I believe they will bring some old characters back.
As Barbara Broccoli said to Amazon themselves, Bond has already fought Elon Musk: in TND. She said that she was sad that her movie somewhat predicted the future.
Scaramanga did deserve better than the movie he got.
True. Lee really nailed the part. Lee would have been a great Bond himself. If Moore wasn't a good actor, Lee would have dominated him entirely.
I don't need to see new versions of Dr. No, Goldfinger, Tracy, etc. It will just start to seem like fan fiction. Blofeld was always kind of a miss (love Savalas though) and I can see why they keep trying to get him right. Who loves ya, Telly?
Different than remaking any existing film. Eet. Eez. Een Evitable.
Same here.
New creations by Amazon are considered alongside possibilities using Fleming novels and film content for the last 63 or so years ago.
Bond history will play out.
e.g. DAF or MR
I wouldn't mind if they reused the titles of some of the ones where the movie version didn't remotely resemble the plot of the Fleming novel, and tried to make the remake closer to the general outline or spirit of the novel.
e.g. YOLT, DAF, TMWTGG, MR
DAF with a more serious tone and Spang brothers instead of Blofeld in drag, or TMWTGG without the distraction of the Solex, the recycling of the comedy sheriff etc, or an MR that focuses on a missile system, rather than recycling TSWLM with a space station. YOLT could only be remade properly after setting up the arch enemy in at least one previous movie, so would have to wait a while.
I don't see much point in reusing any of the non-Fleming titles, much better to concoct a new one.
It didn't exactly succeed at the BO or critically.
Funnily ANSWER THE CALL actually did about the same box office business as AFTERLIFE and FROZEN EMPIRE managed to pull.
That's true, but a lot of its criticism was loaded.
Maybe, but not all of them were done by trolls. In the end, the film failed to relaunch the franchise.
I'd agree that the very first movie was lightning in a bottle. I'd say that the cartoon was quite fun and clever at times, maybe they should have left it at that. Or they should have worked better on GB2, which truly started their downfall.
That'd be to a variety of factors, but don't dismiss the role of troll. It has been a determining factor in commercial criticism long before these awful culture wars.
As for the 'franchise', it's a franchise. So carefully marketed has gb been since its inception, it can survive ten poor films on the trot.
It's like Crocodile Dundee too. You will never be able to replicate the success.
Frozen Empire was a bizarre experience: I loved Ghostbusters as a kid, had the Real GB toys etc. So FE should have been a nice nostalgic experience, watching that car going into the firestation etc. and yet I felt absolutely nothing at all, it's quite bizarre. It sort of works functionally as a movie but it's a really empty experience and feels like a mess of stuff all chucked together with barely any coherence. In terms of legacy sequels around that time, the Indiana Jones one has its faults but feels much more like an actual proper film with a script that knows what it wants to say.
Unlike something like Terminator (which is one single story: they stretched it to a second film brilliantly, but there's nothing left in it after that), Ghostbusters was clearly designed to be a franchise as you have these four guys in a status quo situation at the end which leads to more stories. But it's never actually had a good sequel - like you, I have a soft spot for GB II out of nostalgia and because it's close enough in time to the original, but objectively it's not a great sequel at all.
Off topic, but yeah, every time I rewatch GB I find it surprisingly dated. It's great fun to watch, it has some genuinely scary moments and great comedy too, but it often feels dated. Not sure exactly what it is. It's a classic of its time rather than a timeless classic.
Back on topic: Bond is more adaptable to its time and place. One of the reasons why I'm generally against remakes of classics, Bond or no Bond: you either make a lesser copy of a great film or you change it beyond recognition. Although they could adapt again a Bond novel that has been made in name only, or almost. But even the content of these novels have been plundered.
Similarly the night barracuda swim or gold coin stash of LALD...okay but that's like maybe five minutes on screen.