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The new Robocop trailer is out, and yes that shlt looks badass

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A lot of remakes are just updating the CGI with nothing more, kinda a wash, rinse, repeat. Even with a huge improvements in quality of a movies scenes, it's pretty hollow if everything else is the same. A few exceptions have come along where they took a new perspective and retold the story better than original. The Michael Keaton Batman vs Christian Bale Batman have been a huge difference and the latter a huge upgrade.

As for classics like Neverending Story, I'm not sure making a visually nicer movie will capture what made that movie so special to many and so nostalgic. I can even think that a movie like Flash Gordon where the quality of special effects was pretty mediocre, even for the time, I think the movie may even get worse if redone in modern fashion.

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what gets lost the most in the remakes/reboots is the original spirit of the first film. some things you can't replicate.

 

take Jaws. part of what made it great was accidental. they didn't have the shark ready so Spielberg had to show the shark little by little which added to the lore of the film.

 

some things you just can't repeat.

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A lot of remakes are just updating the CGI with nothing more, kinda a wash, rinse, repeat. Even with a huge improvements in quality of a movies scenes, it's pretty hollow if everything else is the same. A few exceptions have come along where they took a new perspective and retold the story better than original. The Michael Keaton Batman vs Christian Bale Batman have been a huge difference and the latter a huge upgrade.

As for classics like Neverending Story, I'm not sure making a visually nicer movie will capture what made that movie so special to many and so nostalgic. I can even think that a movie like Flash Gordon where the quality of special effects was pretty mediocre, even for the time, I think the movie may even get worse if redone in modern fashion.

The thing about The Never Ending Story is that the original only covered the first half of the book. The second half about Bastian's time actually in Fantasia is also awesome but darker. They made The Never Ending Story II but completely fugged it up. I wouldn't mind it if they could do the second half of the book justice in a sequel.

I guess I felt the first one was incomplete even though it was an awesome movie that I loved.

But I also fear that they would completely fug up how magical that movie was and make it to over the top with either action or have CGI and special effects overwhelm the heart of the movie.

I'm conflicted bc it is a tricky story to tell and attract the masses without ruining the heart of the story.

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Movie was too short.  Right when it started getting going, it ended.  Like a lot of movies, they banked on a sequel and cut it short, like that movie Jumper some years back that had potential.    I respect that they didn't try to copy everything though and made their own version of the film.  Main guy is a good actor and was decent with what he had to work with.

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