Yours could be very popular, a cult classic or an all time legend...or anything that suits your tastes really...
Blazing Saddles for me ( the racial humor was hilarious and made asses out of the racists...Nobody greenlights that sort of thing today...its not PG13...)
Yours..?
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Nooooooooooooo
No matches for you!
The Birth of a Nation (1915). An artistic masterpiece that is emotionally and spiritually uplifting.
shareLOL! No way THAT gets made now and no need...historic in terms of movie making but complete and utter bullshit...but a milestone for sure...sad as the subject matter was
shareThey actually did a remake in 2016. Of course Hollywood has to ruin it with their PC crap and do a complete reboot with blackwashed characters. I'd rather have a sequel with all of the original actors, I would love to know how it all ended!
sharea remake of The Birth of a Nation ?? when ??
share2016. With Nate Parker and Armie Hammer. Of course they felt the need to change every single detail. Go figure.
shareNate Parker's The Birth of a Nation from 2016 is not a remake of D.W. Griffith's 1915 film. Parker's is a period piece based on the life of Nat Turner an enslaved man who leads a rebellion against slavery. The movie ends in 1831 or so.
shareHopefully they wouldn't be able to make St. Elmo's Fire today!
Or any other day, including those in the past. Brat Pack?! The Rat Pack would've sodomized those kids while smoking Luckys. And laughing.
shareHorrific movie and message
'boohoo, im upwardly mobile and me and all my friends are pretty and have decent apartments!!! Why God,WHY ME?'
Crybaby shit...
Your goddam right
They better not try:~€
Back To The Future
shareLoads... here are a few... Movie - Reason it couldn't be made today...
Chinatown - too adult and would have been remade as a victim narrative or revenge movie today
The Godfather - too slow and idiosyncratic, would be sped up and watered down today... also, it would seem too cliche to remake as so many movie directors have been influenced by it
Eyes Wide Shut - Would be overexplained if made today...
Just to be clear, they can remake any movie today, but the ones mentioned on this thread would probably be severly compromised.
I think there is a lot of pandering these days to fanboy audiences and to the media (social & regular)... Also, the watered down bland commercialism that comes woth trying to make a movie that appeals to the most general audience globally, or similarly the need to appeal to the niche festival circuit rather than the movie simply being a way for the director to convey their sensibility about an idea to you as an audience member... It's not that filmmaking in the past was an utopia, they had different constraints and challenges...
Theee are still good movies being made, but their either compromised by the above, or by lack of scale in production or sometimes both...
I agree about commercialism...the almighty PG13 rating is tops at the studios...not many R's and i havnt seen too many NC17's of late...even in f'ing Horror!!!!!
They want all the asses in seats so everything gets watered down
Its why Indies are so popular to a lot of movie fans
ETA thank you for a most excellent post:)
You're welcome... Great topic
shareMy opinion of movies that couldn't be made today, regardless of what anybody else says or thinks, is....would you all believe...West Side Story.
There's supposedly a re-make of West Side Story that's happening under Steve Spielberg and Tony Kushner, but I frankly think that it'll never, ever beat the old, original 1961 film version of such a classic movie-musical.
I think they could do it...i just dont think they need to
The original was a great classic imo...and i dont even like musicals