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BrunoMattei said:
I like the change that the Blob is the result of a government experiment. The ending with the deformed priest was excellent as well.
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Yeah the only part that's really rough is the end part with the giant Blob using the green screen. Other then that it was a perfect remake. I did like the ending with the priest, but I'm also glad that they didn't do a sequel. We saw how that turned out with the Fly.
 
Yeah even I love the Blob remake. And that's hard to say since I have an absolutely visceral hatred of Matt Dillon.

I like that the first one was a screed against the creeping menace of teenage consumerism, while the re-make is about a fucking acid blob as it should be.
 
Vampirella said:
We saw how that turned out with the Fly.
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I have to disagree. I did like The Fly part 2. Not as good as the first, sure, but still a worthy follow up.

The original concept of The Fly part 2 was much more Sci-Fi inspired where Seth Brundle's consciousness would have been downloaded into the computer he was working on and his son works with his father's ai to betray the evil corporation. It was to conclude with the Seth Brundle ai letting all of the teleportation experiments loose and kill everyone. It was written by Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog fame but only certain aspects of it were brought over to the completed film.

Wot Zit Too Yah0996 said:
The Blob SUCKS. It'll never be as awful as The Stuff, on the other hand.
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BullfrogBill said:
I think "reimagine" is a better word for the ones that work. Things like Carpenter's The Thing for example or Cronenberg's The Fly. I love the originals more personally, but the reimaginings brought something new to the movies that make them actually distinct from the originals in exciting ways that are worth watching multiple times.
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Yeah there is merit to what you're saying there.

Both "the Thing" movies were fuckin amazing tbh. I had actually never seen the OG but knew what it was, I only watched it after seeing the newer one. Loved it.
 
BrunoMattei said:
I have to disagree. I did like The Fly part 2. Not as good as the first, sure, but still a worthy follow up.

The original concept of The Fly part 2 was much more Sci-Fi inspired where Seth Brundle's consciousness would have been downloaded into the computer he was working on and his son works with his father's ai to betray the evil corporation. It was to conclude with the Seth Brundle ai letting all of the teleportation experiments loose and kill everyone. It was written by Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog fame but only certain aspects of it were brought over to the completed film.
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I will say that I like the design of both the fly monsters for different reasons. The original brundlefly looks pitiful and sympathetic, and his son looks like an awesome monster. Both looks work for both films. And if we want to get technical you don't know that a human/fly will turn out looking the same each time. My biggest problem with it is the fact that his son is technically 5 or 7 when he sleeps with that girl. Yes, I know he's growing fast and is physically in his 20s, but it's still kind of gross. At least they didn't go with the bad butterfly baby from the cut ending of the first one.
 
Vampirella said:
I will say that I like the design of both the fly monsters for different reasons. The original brundlefly looks pitiful and sympathetic, and his son looks like an awesome monster. Both looks work for both films. And if we want to get technical you don't know that a human/fly will turn out looking the same each time. My biggest problem with it is the fact that his son is technically 5 or 7 when he sleeps with that girl. Yes, I know he's growing fast and is physically in his 20s, but it's still kind of gross. At least they didn't go with the bad butterfly baby from the cut ending of the first one.
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Although brief, it does have some astonishingly good gore for a mainstream 80's flick:


 
When I was a kid, I rented a lot of shitty movies because they had cool VHS covers. The Blob remake had a very simple cover, but that screenshot gave me high hopes, and unlike many other movies, it didn't disappoint.

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Samhain said:
When I was a kid, I rented a lot of shitty movies because they had cool VHS covers. The Blob remake had a very simple cover, but that screenshot gave me high hopes, and unlike many other movies, it didn't disappoint.

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Biggest disappointment as far as how cool the cover is vs how suck the movie is for me is Zombie Lake.
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The zombie
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I'm not sure there's much to do with a remake of Shadow unless you go off in some directly like Current Thing or, ooh, might be a good hook that it's the filming of the 79 remake, and it turns out to be the OG vampire from the first movie back because Herzog found out about the whole vampire thing and did evil rituals to bring him back for extra authenticity
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Well what if it's a movie about the filming of Shadow of the Vampire and Willem Defoe is a real vampire
 
Vindeo said:
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Anyone else think this movie was fuckin terrible?

Went and saw it in theaters, the ending was so damn awful. I was in disbelief.

how are you alive for centuries but get tricked into staying the night at some mid Victorian woman's place and get burnt up in the sun. Orlac literally should have an internal clock in his head where he knows the sun will be coming up in a few hours before it even happens.
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BullfrogBill said:
I refuse to watch the new Nosferatu because it's just a massive insult to me that Eggers thinks he can make a better Nosferatu than the og.
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But do you have the same issue with Herzog?

I've had essentially zero interest in Eggers one way or the other ever since he spelled "witch" with two V's instead of a W. And on the surface I don't have any issue with another Nosferatu/Orlok movie because god knows we've had a million Dracula adaptations. I basically view Orlok and Dracula as two different characters at this point. The main question I have is what exactly am I getting with this new one? Herzog seemed to have a clear intention behind his remake, and it clearly led to a revival of interest in the character. Whatever your thoughts on Nosferatu in Venice and Shadow of the Vampire are, we likely would not have gotten them without Nosferatu '79. I do hope the new Eggers film leads to other interpretations of the Orlok character, because I'll definitely be disappointed if Nosferatu just gets relegated to the status of "semi-arthouse Germanic horror film that gets remade every 50 years".
 
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