Why, God, why?!? - Films That Should Not Get The Greenlight

[Cecil]

Why, God, why?!?

cause there is no god

[Duck Sauce]

I think it's too late to stop this movie... I'm sorry if this old news for some but I just want to say that this movie will stink!

When Harry Met Lloyd: Dumb and Dumberer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/dumb_and_dumberer/trailer

I have got to say something about this. What a god damn shame. I was hoping for one day a real sequel where everybody returns, but now they have ruined a franchise.

[cine]

You know, I first heard this on SNL and was shocked. I thought it was a joke. And hopefully it really is.. because I would go as far as to say it would be the second worst remake in the history of the movies, next to a "Citizen Kane" remake (especially if it was to exclude the great photography and special effects of the original)..
lets look at the optimistic side of it... based on Lopez's record, they won't be married long enough to get into the pre-production of it anyhow.

And I was thinking about a better idea of a Casablanca remake.. here it is: If they wheeled out the corpses of the entire original cast and just shot it like that with the original dialogue from the film on the audio track. I guess the only difficult shot would be when Rotting Rick Blaine has to tell the Ilsa Corpse "Here's lookin' at you, kid." I just think technically they're going to have a problem getting a romantic two-shot out of that. But all in all that would be a better remake than Affleck-Lopez.

Also, if or when this remake happens, two actors that come to mind for Peter Lorre's Guillermo Ugarte character are Tony Shalhoub and John Lequizamo.. and I just expect Taye Diggs to be Sam. What an ugly looking movie. I refuse to even think of who would replace Sidney Greenstreet or Claude Rains.

When it comes to admiring the characters in the REMAKE and really feeling the empathy for Affleck and Lopez and the others.. I'm directly reminded of Rick's speech to Ilsa: "I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."

[Cecil]

holy shit.... id LOVE to watch a film (not necessarily a casablanca remake) starring dead bodies!!!

[Derek]

This is BS. I don't think Affleck is dumb enough to star in this, unless he's pussy-struck. Lopez is dumb enough.

[MacGuffin]

Warner Bros. Reloads The Wild Bunch

Training Day writer David Ayer has been hired to adapt the Sam Peckinpah classic Western The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Variety says that the original film, nominated for an Oscar for best screenwriting in 1970, was set just months before the start of the World War I. Following a band of outlaws on their last robbery along the U.S.-Mexican border, violently operatic pic mixed machine guns and cars with horses and single action Winchesters. The anachronistic band faces a crisis of conscience before their final appointment with history.

The trade adds that the new "Bunch" will be set in contemporary Mexico and deal with a robbery amid the corruption and payoffs of the drug business.

[budgie]

Warner Bros. Reloads The Wild Bunch

Training Day writer David Ayer has been hired to adapt the Sam Peckinpah classic Western The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Variety says that the original film, nominated for an Oscar for best screenwriting in 1970, was set just months before the start of the World War I. Following a band of outlaws on their last robbery along the U.S.-Mexican border, violently operatic pic mixed machine guns and cars with horses and single action Winchesters. The anachronistic band faces a crisis of conscience before their final appointment with history.

The trade adds that the new "Bunch" will be set in contemporary Mexico and deal with a robbery amid the corruption and payoffs of the drug business.

[Gold Trumpet]

This is terrible news. The Wild Bunch was a very bloody and violent movie, but still acted with a structure of a great story. The drive now is exploitation of that violence as if a porno was being made and all elements of a great story gone. Its sad because considering the man doing this, it will try to go for realism but speak in repitition of blah.

~rougerum

[cowboykurtis]

needles in my eyes

[cowboykurtis]

what have we done to deserve this?

[Pubrick]

what have we done to deserve this?

WE 3/05 - 10.5 Rating, 17 Share
11.08 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

TU 3/04 -  11.0 Rating, 17 Share
11.61 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

WE 2/26 -  9.7 Rating, 15 Share
 10.23 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

TU 2/25 -  11.7 Rating, 18 Share
  12.34 Million Homes
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WE 2/19 -  10.0 Rating, 15 Share
  10.55 Million Homes
2nd Behind ABC

TU 2/18 - 11.4 Rating, 17 Share
  12.03 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

WE 2/12 -  10.9 Rating, 16 Share
  11.50 Million Homes
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TU 2/11 -  11.4 Rating, 17 Share
  12.03 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

WE 2/05 - 10.9 Rating, 16 Share
  11.50 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS, ABC

TU 2/04 - 12.0 Rating, 18 Share
  12.66 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

WE 1/29 - 13.75 Rating, 20.5 Share
  14.51 Million Homes
1st Ahead of ABC, CBS

TU 1/28 -  13.2 Rating, 20 Share
  13.93 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

WE 1/22 - 13.4 Rating, 20 Share
  14.14 Million Homes
1st Ahead of ABC

TU 1/21 -  14.8 Rating, 22 Share
  15.61 Million Homes
1st Ahead of CBS

It attracted more than 52 million viewers for its finale in summer 2000.

[RegularKarate]

WE 2/19 -  10.0 Rating, 15 Share
  10.55 Million Homes
2nd Behind ABC

Interesting... what happened on ABC that day?

[cowboykurtis]

what have we done to deserve this?

It attracted more than 52 million viewers for its finale in summer 2000.

true -- allow me to refrase -- what have I done to deserve this?

[cowboykurtis]

true -- allow me to refrase -- what have I done to deserve this?

cause there is no god

if have seen the light

[MacGuffin]

Another tidbit fitting of this topic:

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: E! reports Bernie Mac will play the father who is upset when he learns his daughter's dating a white man in this comedy remake of the Sidney Poitier/Spencer Tracy classic.