In life, spewing hate comes easy; finding the good takes effort. That’s my mantra for “Revenge of the Remakes.” Get dirty and identify value where others hastily — maybe unfairly — laid harsh criticisms. Any remake, in any genre, faces biased outrage from peanut galleries who refuse to remove their nostalgia goggles. It’s easy to prey on the hate clickers out there, which is why I use this column as a voice for the misunderstood and wrongly delegitimized. A remake isn’t trash because it’s a remake, there’s more to the equation.
That said (and believed), not all remakes are created equal. With soaring highs come subterranean lows. Sometimes remakes are nothing but a copy-and-paste cash grab, devoid of creative ambitions. These examples fuel smear campaigns about remakes at large — and today, we’re dissecting one of the worst.
John McTiernan’s Rollerball is an unprecedented studio disaster...
That said (and believed), not all remakes are created equal. With soaring highs come subterranean lows. Sometimes remakes are nothing but a copy-and-paste cash grab, devoid of creative ambitions. These examples fuel smear campaigns about remakes at large — and today, we’re dissecting one of the worst.
John McTiernan’s Rollerball is an unprecedented studio disaster...
- 2/21/2024
- by Matt Donato
- bloody-disgusting.com
The first film to feature Tom Clancy's stalwart and honest action hero Jack Ryan was John McTiernan's 1990 thriller "The Hunt for Red October." In the early parts of McTiernan's film, a rogue Soviet submarine called Red October, captained by Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), has broken off from the Soviet fleet and may be planning an unauthorized nuclear strike in the United States. Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) pieces together some information about Ramius and concludes that he is not striking the U.S., but defecting. He is given three days to track down the Red October, confront Ramius, and confirm his suspicions.
"Red October" was successful enough to spawn a briefly popular subgenre of steely espionage thrillers that persisted throughout the front end of the decade. Jack Ryan would return in the hit films "Patriot Games," and "Clear and Present Danger" (with Harrison Ford as Ryan) and "The Sum of All Fears...
"Red October" was successful enough to spawn a briefly popular subgenre of steely espionage thrillers that persisted throughout the front end of the decade. Jack Ryan would return in the hit films "Patriot Games," and "Clear and Present Danger" (with Harrison Ford as Ryan) and "The Sum of All Fears...
- 11/4/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Rating: R
On 4K Ultra HD: December 13, 2022
Running Time: 117 minutes
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, and Sean Connery
Written by: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Produced by: Peter S. Davis, William N. Panzer
Executive Producers: E.C. Monell
Associate Producers: Eva Monley, Harold Moskovitz, John H. Starke
Director of Photography: Gerry Fisher
Production Designer: Allan Cameron
Edited by: Peter Honess
Casting by: Diane Dimeo, Anne Henderson, Michael McLean
Costume Designer: Jim Acheson
Synopsis:
The original Highlander, in electrifying 4K! When Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is slain in battle in the Scottish Highlands, his kinsfolk don’t mourn the tragedy of his death – they mourn the seeming witchcraft that’s brought him back to life. But MacLeod can’t die, and neither can Juan Ramírez (Sean Connery), who befriends Connor and shows him what it means to be immortal. Time dissolves,...
Rating: R
On 4K Ultra HD: December 13, 2022
Running Time: 117 minutes
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, and Sean Connery
Written by: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
Produced by: Peter S. Davis, William N. Panzer
Executive Producers: E.C. Monell
Associate Producers: Eva Monley, Harold Moskovitz, John H. Starke
Director of Photography: Gerry Fisher
Production Designer: Allan Cameron
Edited by: Peter Honess
Casting by: Diane Dimeo, Anne Henderson, Michael McLean
Costume Designer: Jim Acheson
Synopsis:
The original Highlander, in electrifying 4K! When Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is slain in battle in the Scottish Highlands, his kinsfolk don’t mourn the tragedy of his death – they mourn the seeming witchcraft that’s brought him back to life. But MacLeod can’t die, and neither can Juan Ramírez (Sean Connery), who befriends Connor and shows him what it means to be immortal. Time dissolves,...
- 10/12/2022
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "The Hunt for Red October" (1990)
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: It's the mid-1980s, and the Cold War is nearing its bitter, drawn-out end. Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is made the Commanding Officer of the Red October, the Soviet Navy's most advanced ballistic missile submarine and a vessel capable of avoiding detection by passive sonar. When Ramius abruptly goes rogue, lying to his crew and telling them they are to carry out missile drills off the east coast of North America, the CIA is quick to assume the worst and takes steps to try and stop Ramius before he launches a nuclear strike.
However, CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) comes to suspect...
The Movie: "The Hunt for Red October" (1990)
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: It's the mid-1980s, and the Cold War is nearing its bitter, drawn-out end. Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is made the Commanding Officer of the Red October, the Soviet Navy's most advanced ballistic missile submarine and a vessel capable of avoiding detection by passive sonar. When Ramius abruptly goes rogue, lying to his crew and telling them they are to carry out missile drills off the east coast of North America, the CIA is quick to assume the worst and takes steps to try and stop Ramius before he launches a nuclear strike.
However, CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) comes to suspect...
- 9/14/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Giler was also a screenwriter on films including ‘Alien3’ and ‘The Money Pit’.
David Giler, a producer and writer on the Alien franchise, has died aged 77. He had been suffering from cancer and died at his home in Bangkok on December 19.
Walter Hill, his long-time producing partner with whom he co-wrote the story for Aliens and screenplay for Alien3, said: “If you knew David, you knew he was special.
“The magic of his personality is hard to describe: funny, angry, extremely knowledgeable, extremely well read; it was my privilege to write and produce with him, and more importantly, to have...
David Giler, a producer and writer on the Alien franchise, has died aged 77. He had been suffering from cancer and died at his home in Bangkok on December 19.
Walter Hill, his long-time producing partner with whom he co-wrote the story for Aliens and screenplay for Alien3, said: “If you knew David, you knew he was special.
“The magic of his personality is hard to describe: funny, angry, extremely knowledgeable, extremely well read; it was my privilege to write and produce with him, and more importantly, to have...
- 12/22/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Andrew Blair Jan 30, 2017
Sometimes, the best of intentions don't always lead to the best movie. Here are 19 films where everything didn't quite go to plan...
As Alan Parker said ‘no one sets out to make a bad film’. Yet in spite of good intentions, sometimes a project doesn't quite go to plan. We're going to look at a bunch of movies here that aren't always well liked, and give a flavour of the problems the beset them.
So, in no particular order, here are twenty of the films that have ever been made, which are considered by at least one sentient being to be bad. That's not the interesting thing about them....
Robin Hood (2010)
Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris had written a spec script with a twist on the Robin Hood legend: the Sheriff of Nottingham was the hero, a sort of medieval forensic investigator, and Robin was the bad guy.
Sometimes, the best of intentions don't always lead to the best movie. Here are 19 films where everything didn't quite go to plan...
As Alan Parker said ‘no one sets out to make a bad film’. Yet in spite of good intentions, sometimes a project doesn't quite go to plan. We're going to look at a bunch of movies here that aren't always well liked, and give a flavour of the problems the beset them.
So, in no particular order, here are twenty of the films that have ever been made, which are considered by at least one sentient being to be bad. That's not the interesting thing about them....
Robin Hood (2010)
Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris had written a spec script with a twist on the Robin Hood legend: the Sheriff of Nottingham was the hero, a sort of medieval forensic investigator, and Robin was the bad guy.
- 5/30/2016
- Den of Geek
During its fraught production, Alien 3 went through dozens of drafts. We look at some of the story ideas that never made it to the screen...
When the credits rolled on 1986's Aliens, the inevitable question from many cinemagoers was, "What happens next?"
For 20th Century Fox, and writer-producers David Giler and Walter Hill, it took nearly six years to figure out an answer to that question. Certainly, when Aliens was in production, director James Cameron had some ideas about a sequel; he once spoke about the prospect of Ripley, Hicks and young Newt - a makeshift family thrown together by that film's events - meeting up again for a second sequel to Alien.
“I know that James Cameron had planned to have Hicks, Ripley and me in Alien 3, to have a family-type thing", Newt actress Carrie Henn said in 1995.
A year after Aliens came out, Cameron was unequivocal...
When the credits rolled on 1986's Aliens, the inevitable question from many cinemagoers was, "What happens next?"
For 20th Century Fox, and writer-producers David Giler and Walter Hill, it took nearly six years to figure out an answer to that question. Certainly, when Aliens was in production, director James Cameron had some ideas about a sequel; he once spoke about the prospect of Ripley, Hicks and young Newt - a makeshift family thrown together by that film's events - meeting up again for a second sequel to Alien.
“I know that James Cameron had planned to have Hicks, Ripley and me in Alien 3, to have a family-type thing", Newt actress Carrie Henn said in 1995.
A year after Aliens came out, Cameron was unequivocal...
- 1/12/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Alien 3
Directed by David Fincher
Written by Larry Ferguson, David Giler & Walter Hill
USA, 1992
It’s a classic chapter of Hollywood lore, one of those great cautionary tales of executive mismanagement and shattered dreams. With behind-the-scenes chaos in both the boardroom and editing suites following up on indecisive strategizing and constant creative overhauls, 20th Century Fox’s hotly anticipated third installment in the Alien franchise was always set up to fail. You could argue that the writing was on the wall when the marketing department jumped the gun by releasing an infamous teaser trailer with the quickly irrelevant tagline “On Earth, everybody can hear you scream”. Half of the industry’s writing population seemed to have a go on spec, from William Gibson (with what was ostensibly an Aliens screenplay) to David Twohy (featuring a Ripley-less premise), $7 million was wasted on rejected sets and the film spent a year in editing,...
Directed by David Fincher
Written by Larry Ferguson, David Giler & Walter Hill
USA, 1992
It’s a classic chapter of Hollywood lore, one of those great cautionary tales of executive mismanagement and shattered dreams. With behind-the-scenes chaos in both the boardroom and editing suites following up on indecisive strategizing and constant creative overhauls, 20th Century Fox’s hotly anticipated third installment in the Alien franchise was always set up to fail. You could argue that the writing was on the wall when the marketing department jumped the gun by releasing an infamous teaser trailer with the quickly irrelevant tagline “On Earth, everybody can hear you scream”. Half of the industry’s writing population seemed to have a go on spec, from William Gibson (with what was ostensibly an Aliens screenplay) to David Twohy (featuring a Ripley-less premise), $7 million was wasted on rejected sets and the film spent a year in editing,...
- 12/15/2013
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
Directed by: David Fincher
Written by: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Vincent Ward, David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Lance Henriksen
It happens to everyone. You dislike a film, then rewatch it years later and discover it wasn't as bad as you thought.
Perhaps you initial response was marred by the events in your life. Or maybe a few years more of life experiences allowed you to see something in the film you missed in your previous viewing.
In the spirit of such misguided opinions, I'm starting a new feature entitled Is It Really That Bad? Each month, I'll pick a film I disliked/hated/had issues with when I first watched it and see if time has changed my opinion. For my first film, I decided to watch both the theatrical and director's version of Alien 3, to...
Written by: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Vincent Ward, David Giler, Walter Hill, Larry Ferguson
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Lance Henriksen
It happens to everyone. You dislike a film, then rewatch it years later and discover it wasn't as bad as you thought.
Perhaps you initial response was marred by the events in your life. Or maybe a few years more of life experiences allowed you to see something in the film you missed in your previous viewing.
In the spirit of such misguided opinions, I'm starting a new feature entitled Is It Really That Bad? Each month, I'll pick a film I disliked/hated/had issues with when I first watched it and see if time has changed my opinion. For my first film, I decided to watch both the theatrical and director's version of Alien 3, to...
- 9/25/2011
- by Chris McMillan
- Planet Fury
Eraser is poised to resurface as a USA Network drama pilot for Oscar-winning producers Arnold Kopelson and Anne Kopelson and Warner Bros. Television. USA Network is in talks with the studio to develop a loose adaptation of the 1996 Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner, which the Kopelsons produced for Warners. Arnold Kopelson said the TV version would be based on "some aspects of the federal witness protection program," as explored in the feature, but would not be strictly modeled after the characters in the movie. In addition to Eraser, Kopelson Telemedia has a sizable put pilot commitment at ABC for a TV rendition of the 1998 feature U.S. Marshals to be penned by Larry Ferguson (The Hunt for Red October). Also at ABC, the company is shepherding a Hawaii-based detective drama from writer Greg Poirier (Rosewood) to be produced with Touchstone Television. The project is one of a flurry of Aloha State-based projects in development at the major broadcast networks.
- 10/2/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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