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[The Loyal Nub]

Remakes of "Ghostbusters" and "Strangers On A Train" are in the works as well as "Bladerunner" I believe. The only way to get them to stop is to not go see this stuff. 

[raging_monkey]

And to think Goonies 2 is in the works. I really wish Hollywood would stop screwing up my childhood.

andraste's busom.... thats horrid

[LightningPoodle]

Remakes of "Ghostbusters" and "Strangers On A Train" are in the works as well as "Bladerunner" I believe. The only way to get them to stop is to not go see this stuff. 

 

Can't go wrong with more Ghostbusters. But Bladerunner is a classic. Movies like that shouldn't be remade and instead, just re-released in cinemas so people will go and see them.

[raging_monkey]

Can't go wrong with more Ghostbusters. But Bladerunner is a classic. Movies like that shouldn't be remade and instead, just re-released in cinemas so people will go and see them.

agreed... but hollywood says "remake is great"

[Basement Cat]

They've run out of good ideas. What we need is Hollywood to employ children with the imagination for good movies. Take those ideas, and turn them into movies better fitted for other audiences.

Not going to work. Hollywood works on a cycle. Find something that makes money, copy it until it stops making money then find something else to make money.

There were a lot of awful movies made in the 'golden age' of cinema, but we don't remember them because only the good stuff survived. Take all the movies that came out last year against the classics of a decade and yeah, most of the recent movies suck. Take all the movies that came out in 1971 and compare them to the movies that came out in 2011. I'd say the ratio of bad and good should be pretty even.

[Duelist]

Can't go wrong with more Ghostbusters. But Bladerunner is a classic. Movies like that shouldn't be remade and instead, just re-released in cinemas so people will go and see them.

I just hope they leave my favourite cartoons alone after what happened to Yogi.

[YourFunnyUncle]

Oh, no... I'm not a good pilot anymore. I used to be pretty decent. But I never really was among the best.

There is this situation two or three years ago when during the Operation Overlord virtual reenaction in Il-2 1946...
But that's a long time past.
I'll share the story, but spoiler it. Not everyone's interested in hearing my old aviation stories.

Spoiler

My squadron was the 609th RAuxAF, armed with the Hawker Typhoon at the time of the invasion. The whole event took from Friday night to Sunday evening.

Turns out, our first mission is PITCH BLACK bombing run on a Luftwaffe airfield, just about forty klicks away from the coast.
So we start up our engines, roll to runway, take off...
And lose each other almost as soon as we turn off our positional lights on either wingtip and tail.
So I end up having to navigate all the way to France, across the Channel, by myself. Mind you, our home field was near Southampton while our target was... I think it was the Abbevile aerodrome. So after half hour in the cockpit, with nothing but my cockpit lights for companions, I finally see France. I try to navigate as best I can, and somehow find the target airfield. I manage to drop my bombs on the field, creating two neat craters, as I imagine - the German Flukabwehrkanonen crews are filling the skies with tracers, leaving me with no intention to conduct a BDA.
On my way back, I spot a twin-engine with it's lights lit on my 11 o'clock - German, I think. Without the lights, I would never have a chance to see the plane.
I slowly turn around, get behind the plane, line up my sights, and kiss the trigger of my four twenty milimeter cannons.
As the guns launch a short burst of death towards the target, I can see a wing break off.
As I start celebrating snatching possibly the first kill of the entire weekend event, the game gives me a short notice on the lower left part of my screen: Friendy Aircraft Destroyed.
Considering I would think it be a Bf-110 Nachtjagd, I am all the more surprised, and start calling out the coordinates over the radio, hoping a pilot managed to save himself without me noticing.
I return to base, and the Mosquito pilot reports getting shot down by a Nachtjagd - the very thing I thought I killed.

A day later, on Saturday, I'm tasked with relocating to France - alone, as my squadron already did so while my plane was being repaired and I was catching forty winks over the night.
I regroup with them, and continue on a ground attack mission - Trouble! We encounter a flight of Fw-190F, doing the exact same thing.
Unfortunately for us, they have the advantage, and most of my flight is annihilated on their first passes. Only doing a different maneuver saves me, and allows me to line up a short on a Focke Wulf, just before it tears off the tail of one of my friends. I am too late in pressing the trigger, but all the more deadly with the surge of anger. My long burst tears the German to pieces.
The trouble is not gone, however, as I find my own engine hit my MG151/20 fire coming from behind me - I have to bail.
As I exit the cockpit, the German hits my parachute, no doubt not having enough time to notice my swift exit.
I plummet to my death, knowing I am the only one who bit back, and sad at the loss of four brilliant pilots from my squadron.

That already makes you a way more experienced pilot than I...

[LightningPoodle]

In UK, the re-released Back To The Future in cinemas and it actually did quite well.

[wintery]

Okay I'm off to the bank and then the grocery store on friday afternoon. Wish me luck.

[LightningPoodle]

I just hope they leave my favourite cartoons alone after what happened to Yogi.

 

What was the Paddington movie like, anyone know?

[Duelist]

Not going to work. Hollywood works on a cycle. Find something that makes money, copy it until it stops making money then find something else to make money.
There were a lot of awful movies made in the 'golden age' of cinema, but we don't remember them because only the good stuff survived. Take all the movies that came out last year against the classics of a decade and yeah, most of the recent movies suck. Take all the movies that came out in 1971 and compare them to the movies that came out in 2011. I'd say the ratio of bad and good should be pretty even.

Nostalgia is the sweetest lie, no?

[The Loyal Nub]

Can't go wrong with more Ghostbusters. But Bladerunner is a classic. Movies like that shouldn't be remade and instead, just re-released in cinemas so people will go and see them.

 

The Ghostbusters one could be interesting in that they plan to use a female cast this time. I'll be interested in who they cast and how it works from that take. But Bladerunner should just not be touched. "Strangers on a Train" as well. I doubt there are many directors who could do a better job than Hitchock already did. In fact we know who is involved in that. It's Ben Affleck and the director from "Gone Girl." 

[Fiery Phoenix]

Since everybody is talking movies, I figured I'd say I'm going to see American Sniper tonight with a few of my classmates.

 

No doubt I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this movie.

[Serza]

That already makes you a way more experienced pilot than I...

 

Bah, I just had the most kills from my squadron. No big deal.

 

The reason I had the most was because we were fighter bombers.

And a LOT of dumb luck. The first kill, the Mosquito, just came in my sights... And wasn't even an enemy. I shouldn't count him.

The Fw-190, nobody came back, so we didn't even report that kill. Also a lot of dumb luck. Instead of taking a right turn, like the other three pilots in my flight, I took a left. That is what allowed me to live long enough to send it.

 

There's the situation from even earlier, during a random MP sortie, when a 109E pounced me in Battle of Britain, near Dover, and I was in a Hurricane, with a pilot I knew operating nearby on a Spitfire. When I realized there's a 109E, I immediately called for backup, but before my friend arrived, the guy was squared in my sights through some epic application of turn'n'burn. Still, more than my own skill, that kill was awarded by the lack of skill from the 109.

[Serza]

Since everybody is talking movies, I figured I'd say I'm going to see American Sniper tonight with a few of my classmates.

 

No doubt I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this movie.

 

American Sniper...?

I read a book titled the same way. Is it about the "Devil of Rammadi", a Navy SEAL sniper? I can't remember the man's name.

[Roamingmachine]

Remakes of "Ghostbusters" and "Strangers On A Train" are in the works as well as "Bladerunner" I believe. The only way to get them to stop is to not go see this stuff.

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Blood eagle the lot of them!

[lady_v23]

Okay I'm off to the bank and then the grocery store on friday afternoon. Wish me luck.

[LightningPoodle]

Since everybody is talking movies, I figured I'd say I'm going to see American Sniper tonight with a few of my classmates.

 

No doubt I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this movie.

 

I want to go and see that but haven't got the money. Do tell whether it is a must watch and I will find the money somewhere.

[LightningPoodle]

American Sniper...?

I read a book titled the same way. Is it about the "Devil of Rammadi", a Navy SEAL sniper? I can't remember the man's name.

 

I think it is about a Navy SEAL but I could be wrong. The trailer is based on what can only be the first real scene.

[The Loyal Nub]

Not going to work. Hollywood works on a cycle. Find something that makes money, copy it until it stops making money then find something else to make money.

There were a lot of awful movies made in the 'golden age' of cinema, but we don't remember them because only the good stuff survived. Take all the movies that came out last year against the classics of a decade and yeah, most of the recent movies suck. Take all the movies that came out in 1971 and compare them to the movies that came out in 2011. I'd say the ratio of bad and good should be pretty even.

 

Hmm...yes but with one exception. In the early 70's which is when I started being taken to the movies there was a more clear delineation between top of the line A pictures and what were called B pictures. You could open a paper and find theatres showing stuff for the general public and then others showing the grindhouse or b films and some of these were simply released to the drive-ins.

 

I find the line more blurred now than it was then. There was a lot of crap released in 1971 but you could avoid it better as we didn't have the multiplexes so our local two theater cinemas would tend to pick the most mainstream dramas or top line action films to draw the crowds in. 

[YourFunnyUncle]

Not going to work. Hollywood works on a cycle. Find something that makes money, copy it until it stops making money then find something else to make money.
There were a lot of awful movies made in the 'golden age' of cinema, but we don't remember them because only the good stuff survived. Take all the movies that came out last year against the classics of a decade and yeah, most of the recent movies suck. Take all the movies that came out in 1971 and compare them to the movies that came out in 2011. I'd say the ratio of bad and good should be pretty even.

It's like old buildings. People will look at them and say something like "in the old days they built to last..." Some people, maybe, but all the old buildings that weren't built to last are hardly likely to still be standing, are they?

[Fiery Phoenix]

American Sniper...?

I read a book titled the same way. Is it about the "Devil of Rammadi", a Navy SEAL sniper? I can't remember the man's name.

Yes, it's based on it.

[Lady Luminous]

Wait, where'd you pick up the term "paprika"?

 

Uhm, not a term? It's a warm, red spice in my cabinet?