They should remake "Citizen Kane" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" too

Goddamn it so much.

The ad agencies used the music of my youth for commercials and I looked away.
My comic book characters became movies and I pretended I didn't care.
Freaking GI Joe became a TV series and I chuckled.
They "remade" TV shows into movies for no reason other than a cheap buck, making the originals lose their luster; and it didn't really matter that much.


But now the line has been crossed...they are taking the spirit of the one idol, the one hero, the one (to me as a kid) shining example of the American Spirit...a man who was looked up to by at least a couple of generations; a man who via film settled the wild west, fought at the Alamo, fought in 2 world wars, the Civil War, Nam, Korea; and in his final film died of cancer, mirroring how he would die soon after in real life...and "remaking" one of his legendary movies???

YOU DIRTY BASTARDS!!!

/Sorry...I get a little emotional about the Duke.
//Was my ultimate hero.
///I'm glad he's dead...so he won't have to hear of this bullshiat.
////Still have an old pencil portrait sketch of him that I got as a small kid, hanging on the wall in my office.

Um, settle down, people, it's not so much a remake as another movie based on the same book. I have a feeling it will be very different, so don't worry about your precious memories of the Duke.

Actually, I never cared much for True Grit to begin with. I feel it was one of Wayne's lesser films. He won the Oscar for it because he had been passed over so many times. Kinda like Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond.

I know it ruins the meme, but this "out of ideas" thing assumes that Hollywood remaking popular movies once a generation is somehow new. Consider...

Ben Hur: Original 1907/Remake 1925
Robin Hood: 1908/1912
The Three Musketeers: 1921/1933
Spartacus: 1909/1913

...and so on. Many of these movies didn't achieve what many consider their best incarnation until the 3rd, 4th or 5th try. (Douglas Fairbanks was the 3rd Robin Hood, Errol Flynn 4th.)

None of this, of course, is any excuse for remaking movies for which once was plenty, especially when the remake loses the essential point of the original (Rollerball, Deathrace 2000, ...).

Errk: They should remake "Citizen Kane" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" too

Why? Those are classics and I don't recall Welles or Nicholson phoning their performances in.

NeuroticRocker: Nabb1: Errk: They should remake "Citizen Kane" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" too

Why? Those are classics and I don't recall Welles or Nicholson phoning their performances in.

if they remade citizen kane, it would be called Citizen Came, and instead of Rosebud it would be Pinkbean, and would be her clit. And dane cook and jonah hill and seth rogan and will ferrel would all be farking her dead, 13 year old corpse while stroking a cock with "Taco Bell" written on it. and it would be #1 at the box office.

no thank you.

Hell I'd watch that.

vdantev: worked until their clothes fall off

But it's too late. I've seen everything.

Fill your hands, you son of a biatch

Obscure?

It couldn't be any worse than the original. IMO John Wayne is overrated, don't be messing with my Clint Eastwood westerns though, you hear that Bruce Willis?

robmilmel: Goddamn it so much.

The ad agencies used the music of my youth for commercials and I looked away.
My comic book characters became movies and I pretended I didn't care.
Freaking GI Joe became a TV series and I chuckled.
They "remade" TV shows into movies for no reason other than a cheap buck, making the originals lose their luster; and it didn't really matter that much.


But now the line has been crossed...they are taking the spirit of the one idol, the one hero, the one (to me as a kid) shining example of the American Spirit...a man who was looked up to by at least a couple of generations; a man who via film settled the wild west, fought at the Alamo, fought in 2 world wars, the Civil War, Nam, Korea; and in his final film died of cancer, mirroring how he would die soon after in real life...and "remaking" one of his legendary movies???

YOU DIRTY BASTARDS!!!

/Sorry...I get a little emotional about the Duke.
//Was my ultimate hero.
///I'm glad he's dead...so he won't have to hear of this bullshiat.
////Still have an old pencil portrait sketch of him that I got as a small kid, hanging on the wall in my office.


The best thing about Fark is that everyone has something in common.

John Wayne was a hero to most...now the motherfarker is comatose.

Wingnutwillie: IMO John Wayne is overrated, don't be messing with my Clint Eastwood westerns though

I'm with you on this one. There are two families of Westerns: mainstream and deconstructed. Mainstream Westerns gave us John Wayne and his imitators. The rugged white hatted hero style Western.

Ugh. Hate 'em. The Deconstructed Westerns focus more on moral conflicts and tend to use anti-heroes. I love the Leone Westerns and Eastwood's other work.

Sticking a little more to Wayne's time period, I think High Noon is not only one of the greatest Westerns in history, but one of the greatest films.

Wayne's best work was The Conqueror, if for no other reason than hearing him drawl Temujin's lines is downright hysterical.

While I'm no fan, it's sad that The Conqueror basically killed him.

bikkurikun: robmilmel: Goddamn it so much.

The ad agencies used the music of my youth for commercials and I looked away.
My comic book characters became movies and I pretended I didn't care.
Freaking GI Joe became a TV series and I chuckled.
They "remade" TV shows into movies for no reason other than a cheap buck, making the originals lose their luster; and it didn't really matter that much.


But now the line has been crossed...they are taking the spirit of the one idol, the one hero, the one (to me as a kid) shining example of the American Spirit...a man who was looked up to by at least a couple of generations; a man who via film settled the wild west, fought at the Alamo, fought in 2 world wars, the Civil War, Nam, Korea; and in his final film died of cancer, mirroring how he would die soon after in real life...and "remaking" one of his legendary movies???

YOU DIRTY BASTARDS!!!

/Sorry...I get a little emotional about the Duke.
//Was my ultimate hero.
///I'm glad he's dead...so he won't have to hear of this bullshiat.
////Still have an old pencil portrait sketch of him that I got as a small kid, hanging on the wall in my office.

John Wayne was gay.

/not that there is anything wrong with that..

He just liked wearing women's girdles.

McManus_brothers: He's dying of cancer, but goes down shooting in one last gunfight.

And, like most of their careers, Eastwood does it better.

Eh, the Coen Bros make too much good original shiat to resort to remakes.

Komplex: morally complex issues

I'm oversimplifying because this is a fark comment. And I never used the term "popcorn" movie. Mainstream is utterly unrelated to whether or not something is a popcorn movie.

John Wayne did a few revisionist westerns, mostly without his knowledge. Shane and The Searchers fall into that category.

But by and large, his work fell squarely into the mainstream of Westerns (because, let's be honest: John Wayne defined the genre). That mainstream focused on the rugged, independent, and morally upright hero and featured a very 1950s vision of masculine behavior.

Your typical revisionist/deconstructed western usually renders the protagonist as morally ambiguous or even reprehensible- in High Plains Drifter the protagonist is introduced by having him rape a woman.

FTA--The brothers have already stated that they will be more faithful to the Charles Portis book than the 1969 film, which scored Wayne an Oscar for best actor.

Odd. There's very little difference betweeen the 2 in the main body of the story. The endings deviate somewhat, although not enough to call for a remake of the movie.

MarshHawk: This is an outrage. I'll be speaking with my lawyer Daggett about this.

Make sure he writes up a writ for the rat.

True Grit was one of the 1st dvds I ever bought. Actually just read the book a couple months ago.