Screaming for a remake
Would a remake be better than this one or worse?
shareOr you could just watch the movie! Why kids are so obsessed with everything being remade these days (of course you're a kid, otherwise you wouldn't be trying out for a remake) is beyond me. A movie gets a decade old and its written off as out-of-date.
This is only 22 years old and its old school FX have dated well (except the helicopter sequence), while I find the film more enjoyable than Raimi's Spider-man movies.
No a remake is not such a bad idea at all. People need to grow up and stop calling other people kid for their opinion.
Remake is not a bad thing. Remakes have resulted in some of the greatest movies in cinematic history. Notably the new Batman series and Scarface come to mind.
Darkman is hardly a classic bit of movie history or untouchable in anyway. And with a 6.4 imdb rating that leads me to believe that not to many people would disagree with that statement. The ones here that do act childish and insane. I think Lucas has made us all think that a remake means that they are going to CGI in some storm troopers and have Greedo shoot first. No that is not a remake that is just f ing with the film. Darkman 1990 will still remain and there could be another Darkman movie in which you enjoy. What would be bad about that?
I'm not even saying I hate Darkman. Darkman has good concepts and interesting characters, but the execution is not perfect.
It's not like he's talking about remaking Casablanca.
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Uhh, no. The point is it could be better. I'm not talking about a Charlie's Angels attempt here. Darkman could be a good movie, even if the first one was just ok. So why not make it better?
And yes Batman is a remake. There was a Batman movie in the 60's. They toke the source material and remade it again in the 80's. Then Nolan again toke the source material and remade it with Bale. And they will probably do it again. Just because they call it a reboot doesn't make it any different.
Batman and Batman Begins are NOT remakes, films adapted from the comic books have multiple interpretations to look toward, the 60's Batman was based on the 50-60's Batman comics, whereas the Burton Batman is more based on the 70-80's Batman. Batman Begins combines different versions, but mostly is based on the 2000's Batman stories. A remake is a film that takes ONE story and updates it for a new generation.
I don't think this film needs to be remade at the moment, it still holds up well and 20 years is still within the same generation who grew up with it, now give it another 10 years and I would say its fine to remake, since a new generation would enjoy an updated interpretation.
"Remake is not a bad thing. Remakes have resulted in some of the greatest movies in cinematic history."
How many of today's remakes are even decent? Go ahead, think of one. I'll give you a minute...
"Darkman is hardly a classic bit of movie history or untouchable in anyway. And with a 6.4 imdb rating that leads me to believe that not to many people would disagree with that statement."
Of course, the imdb ratings always dictate how good a movie is.
Judge Dredd.
Also of note, Batman (even though I personally didn't really like them), Conan was much less terrible than I thought it was going to be...
There that's three. Though I'll be honest, I'm hard pressed to even think of that many movies that are actually remakes. And you're right, they usually aren't as good as the originals or that great on their own. But that's not the same as being absolutely terrible. And I feel like a lot of the movies most people think about when they think terrible remake are actually just terrible sequels. But I could be wrong.
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Is 'Judge Dredd' a remake? I haven't seen it, so I'd have to take your word for it (at least, until I do see it), but it looks like it has nothing in common with Stallone movie except that they revolve around the same character and they're based on the same source material. That'd be like calling 'Mary Shelly's Frankenstein' (1994) a remake of 'Frankenstein' (1931).
With 'Batman (Begins, I'm assuming)' I never thought of it as a remake, but a adaptation. Is 'Batman' (1989) a remake of 'Batman: The Movie' (1966)?
This does not necessarily mean that a remake from today can't work, though again, I can't really think of many recently that have (I'm referring only to those that I actually consider remakes). And, yes, I did just say "many" because I came up with two; 'My Bloody Valentine 3D' and 'Piranha 3D' (I know most people would disagree with me on these, but tough tits). These are two that I found worked, but two out of (what are we up to now? 5 billion?) is not a good ratio.
That leads us to my main problem; I'm just plain sick of remakes. When there was a remake every once in a while I didn't complain too much, but now we have another remake coming out every nine minutes and I am starting to miss the days when I could talk about a movie without always having to specify which one I'm referring to. That maybe a smaller complaint, but I find it annoying.
You can't really say the new batman series and Al Pacino's scarface are remakes - the only similarity is the title. I hope they do try and remake it though, because they will just be made to look pathetic like 99.9% of remakes since the 1990 Darkman is a bona fide classic and deserving of a much higher score in IMDB.
As an aside, the only remake I've seen which has surpassed the original is 'True Grit'.
Because even though I love the film, I think it does have flaws. I enjoy it's goofy tone but I know many others don't. I watched the film with some friends, and at the end asked them what they thought, and none of them had enjoyed it as much as I had.
So the idea of remaking it so it appeals to a newer generation is not a bad idea. I'd be interested to see what someone else could bring to the franchise. Maybe David Lynch would do it, and make it some cerebral art-movie about questioning the very meaning of having an identity, and it'll end with a twist that Peyton Westlake is an inmate at aan asylum with a multiple-personality-disorder.
Or maybe Spileberg would try his hand at it, and give us something very cinematic with lots of impressive effects with maybe a happier, haert-warming ending as Darkman comes to accept his problems and live with them.
Or maybe Sam Raimi would do it again, and do it even better than before while still keeping that goofy, light hearted + tragic horror tone.