Remake plz

No.

What would be the point? The story is fine as it is. No major plot holes, no paradoxes. It doesn't need added twists and turns. To update it with current technology? Wouldn't make it any better. One of today's carriers wouldn't be much more effective against the Japanese fleet than the Nimitz would have been. An F-18 or even F-35 wouldn't take out the Zeros any faster than the F-14s did. There was a gigantic gap in technology between 1941 and 1981. Not that much advancement since then. If you wanted to do a movie about the 2017-era Gerald Ford going back to face off against the new-in-1976 Nimitz, the fight wouldn't be as lopsided as in this movie. Unless you're just interested in seeing a "modern" Michael Bay-style movie with 3-second-long shots, shakycam and an explosion every 30-60 seconds or so. If you want that, just go watch Battleship.

Remakes of substandard movies are fine, at least if they're well done. But just to say remake any movie for no other reason than it's old is stupid. There's no need to remake Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon or The Final Countdown. They've rebooted Superman twice in the last decade and neither was as good as the 1978 movie with Chris Reeve. The Taking of Pelham 123 wasn't as good as The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

Maybe the next time around the U.S. Carrier can show up to confront the British Fleet off the U.S. eastern seaboard in 1776. They'll bring some "cheeky" Brit aboard instead of the Japanese Pilot. 


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