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Geek Culture / The Pink Panther (and other Hollywood insanities)

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Philip
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:02
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Bad news people.

Some crazy person in Hollywood has decided to remake The Pink Panther. Its now set in America and the heist is set in a baseball game. But much, oh much much worse, Steve Martin has been cast as Inspector Clouseau of the Surete.

The trailer at [href]www.apple.com/trailers[/href] looks absolutely dire.

Why oh why is it that Hollywood executives suddenly feel the urge to remake classic films? They can't better the original, only embarrass the people involved in the remake. Steve Martin could never fill Peter Sellers' shoes.

I'm depressed.

Philip

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Neofish
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:03
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Please kill me before that is released...

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Philip
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:03
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PS:

Chief Inspector Drefus: "What kind of beurmb was it?"

Inspector Clouseau: "The exploding kind!"

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Major Payn
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:04
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This is just like hollywood with their willy wonka remake, WHEN WILL THEY STOP DAMNIT!

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Jeku
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:23
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There's no room for originality in Hollywood, didn't you know that?

"Why risk a fortune on an original storyline, when we can milk a remake or sequel for a sure amount of millions?"

^^^^^^^ Hollywood exec.

Sad thing is this is also happening in the videogame industry. There's more sequels than originals.


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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:29
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So its finally true...

As I wasn't particularly fond of the orginals, I dont mind.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:36
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Quote: "As I wasn't particularly fond of the orginals, I dont mind."


ditto.. but I liked the cartoon there's a new series of that comming soon aparently, god knows what channel I saw the ad for it on though.


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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 08:57 Edited at: 2nd Jan 2005 08:58
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I thought the Ocean's Eleven remake was pretty good, despite the original having the popular rat pack, it was pretty much total garbage.


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 09:01
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Wasn't the original called the Dirty Dozen? I don't really know cause I've never seen it, I thought OceansEleven was cool though.

It does depend on how the remakes are done really, and what they try to do with them. Most people tend to prefer the one they saw first; The Italian Job wasn't bad either though, I like them both in thier own right.


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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 09:13
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Nope, that was a different movie entirely, released around the same time period though.

The original Ocean's Eleven starred Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. However, although it did have a nice twist ending, the majority of the movie was filled with racial slurs and bad jokes.


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Ian T
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The original Pink Panther was fantastic, and there's no way they could make one better. But Steve Martin is actually pretty funny, I think, and a much better choise than many other comedians. Nevertheless-- the trailer is indeed dire. They obviously don't understand what made the original so damn funny.

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Major Payn
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Originality can pay off, look at the Matrix, that movie was pretty original, I mean the story was brilliant.

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Cian Rice
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Yeah but then it was followed up by two crap sequels... both being released in the same year.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 12:12
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ahh.. Well was watching the trailers: Pink Panther looked pretty funny in Steve Martins usual way.

just out of interest how long has he looked like that; i mean seriously I was watching a saturday night live from the 70s and he looks like identical... the dude is like some unaging clone

checked out some other movies though: Chicken Little looked cool, so did Sin City, seems to be a comic adaptation; but has Jessi Alba so heh gotta see that! Cars also looks pretty cool.


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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 12:49
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Yeah, Sin City looked 'interesting', I don't know if it will pay off though.


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Ian T
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Posted: 2nd Jan 2005 15:22
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The shifting color tones of Hellboy made me feel rather queasy, dunno if I could take Sin City in one sitting. Still looked interesting though .

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