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seems like hollywood is just running out of ideas like the adult industry with stupid reboots and le parodys...
linkIf ever there was a time for a well-placed “Noooooo!” it’s now, upon the news that Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. are planning to remake Kathryn Bigelow’s seminal 1991 surfing themed cop thriller Point Break. What have the producers got planned and what has it got to do with Salt and gun-fu?
To answer the latter question, the Point Break remake will be scripted by Kurt Wimmer, director of such slick, silly actioners as Equilibrium and Ultraviolet and the scribe behind recent films like Salt, Law Abiding Citizen, and the Total Recall remake.
Consider the updated plot, which will be set “in the world of international extreme sports and also involve an FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.” Here, Wimmer had better tread carefully: “extreme sports” have evolved in vast and often douchier ways since the days of infiltrating bromantic surfer dudes in Southern California. Can you picture Johnny Utah taking up, say, street luge in the name of catching notorious athlete-robbers?
Of course, any number of extreme sports could pop up in the sequel: Whitewater kayaking! Aggressive inline skating! Whatever it is that James Franco is doing in the desert in 127 Hours! But maybe it won’t matter which extreme sport the Point Break remake hinges on, since what made Point Break great had nothing to do with surfing, per se. It was all in that elemental, tortured man-love between Johnny and his Bodhi, highlighted vividly and poignantly against the muscular backdrop of ’90s action sensibilities. Relive a highlight from the O.G. Point Break below (and here) and cross your fingers that the remake does it some justice.
seems like hollywood is just running out of ideas like the adult industry with stupid reboots and le parodys...
Vaya con Dios.
Seriously War Child…BACK OFF….
teenage ninja turtles soon =D
Top 6 grossing films of 2011 have been sequels, #7 and 8 were comic book movies, and #10 was a reboot (#9 at the moment is Bridesmaids, which some criticized as Hangover 2.5 for women).
http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2011&p=.htm
On top of that, this was a record setting summer overall at the box office. The ideas have never been staler and Hollywood's going to keep doing it as long as its profitable.
There's millions of great books out there. Just pick one and make a crappy movie out of it, geez!! Better yet, call me and make a movie out of my life, that will be sure to win a Oscar.
Seriously War Child…BACK OFF….
A little out of order, but...classic.
You guys crack me up......I just don't understand this stuff. If the notion of remakes is so offensive, just don't go. The original sacred version is probably in the $5 bin at Walmart anyway, knock yourselves out!
You guys crack me up......I just don't understand this stuff. If the notion of remakes is so offensive, just don't go. The original sacred version is probably in the $5 bin at Walmart anyway, knock yourselves out!
I also done heard there's gonna be a Creature From The Black Lagoon remake..
It is just another sign that Hollywood has no new ideas is all. Remakes ARE offensive and for me at least they are never as good as the original. But yeah, if you don't like then don't go...you know...like the Twilight movies.You guys crack me up......I just don't understand this stuff. If the notion of remakes is so offensive, just don't go. The original sacred version is probably in the $5 bin at Walmart anyway, knock yourselves out!
But that's the thing Joe, Hollywood has been out of new ideas since the beginning. I mean the freaking Wizard of Oz from 1939 is a remake! Sometimes they are better, sometimes they are worse, but that doesn't matter because we are resistant to any kind of change and are just always gonna like the one we are used to better
Point Break was far from a classic movie...fairly lame if you ask me.
Probably an easy movie to make if you're trying to out-do the original version.
Which is probably what they're thinking and probably why it's going to suck. The original endures mostly because it's so bad. If it had been competently done it would have been a fairly forgettable picture. As it stands its a time capsule back to the days when Keanu Reeves thought he was capable of conveying emotions on screen. "I am an F! B! I! AGENT!"
For what it's worth I think they remade this when they started The Fast and The Furious franchise.
Still waiting on Top Gun 2
I have at least ten original movies ideas that would do very well, if you're a hollywood producer PM me.
For example: Who wouldn't watch a dramatic comedy about a 35 years old virgin guy that falls in love with a 16 years old promiscuos girl? cry provoking ending and Sex scenes included.
airtight logicBut that's the thing Joe, Hollywood has been out of new ideas since the beginning. I mean the freaking Wizard of Oz from 1939 is a remake! Sometimes they are better, sometimes they are worse, but that doesn't matter because we are resistant to any kind of change and are just always gonna like the one we are used to better
What the are you talking about? Hollywood's never had any original ideas and The Wizard of Oz is proof?
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Point Break was badass. But I thought they allready remade it and called it Brokeback Mountain.
Yes. I said that. Exactly.
never seen the the first one and probably wont see the remake also
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