Posts Tagged ‘remake’

Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) is one week away from beginning to shoot his latest film Italia, the only problem is that he hasn’t written the script yet.  He’s being harassed by the press, his producer, his costume designer and even his star actress, Claudia (Nicole Kidman) for this script that he has no clue what it’s going to be about.  We follow Guido as he searches his life and looks back at all the women that influenced him into being who he is today as he tries to figure out exactly what he’s going to do about this film. (more…)

Here is Tony Scott’s remake of the 1974 film of the same name, except that one had words instead of numbers in the title, and I must say that Mr. Scott had a tough job to update this movie without making it completely ridiculous. The film is about Ryder [John Travolta] who decides to take a group of individuals and take a train hostage in the New York subway system and demand ten million dollars from the city. Walter Garber [Denzel Washington] is the guy who is on the dispatch line at the Metro Control Centre and gets mixed up in this hostage situation. (more…)

If you happen to be a dumb sexy guy or girl who likes to go camping then Crystal Lake Camp might be your thing. However, Jason Voorhees [Derek Mears] is lurking and for some reason people don’t make it back home after heading out into those neck of the woods. Another group of nameless actors and actresses head out to Crystal Lake to get stoned, have sex and eventually get hacked to shreds by this huge guy with a hockey mask.

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Here is another remake coming out.  I’ve never seen the original but after looking up some information on it and finding out that the original starred Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw I’m somewhat interested in that, but the trailer for this version starring John Travolta and Denzel Washington just looks aweful.  But with that said the trailer for the original looks bad as well.  Anyways here’s the trailer: (more…)

The uninitiated director Samuel Bayer has been hired to direct the upcoming reboot of The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise for Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, and New Line.  Wesley Strick has been reported to be working on the screenplay, he has also written screenplays for Aracnophobia, Cape Fear and Doom.

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Joe [Nicholas Cage] is a highly skilled hitman who is heading to Bangkok to do his final job. There he befriends a smalltime hustler, Kong [Shahkrit Yamnarm], who he contracts as his personal messenger. Joe is contracted by some Asian gangsters to take out four targets and we follow him as he completes these tasks.

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Klaatu [Keanu Reeves] lands on earth along with a huge unknown organic and mechanical being that is only referred to as GORT. When Klaatu lands in the middle of Manhattan the entire US Army is there to greet him along with a group of top scientists, including Dr. Helen Benson [Jennifer Connelly] who feels that we should not completely fear this alien. Klaatu befriends Dr. Benson, and she is trying to understand why Klaatu is here – on Earth – and at the same time trying to keep herself and her stepson, Jacob [Jaden Smith], safe from this impending doom.

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So hopefully every week, or everyother week I will highlight a film from the 90s that I have seen for the first time.  Recently I’ve realised there are so many, it’s time I get around to seeing them.  I’d like to consider my “Se7en” review last week a part of this, I just never thought of making it a weekly thing at that point.  May even get into the 80s one of these days.  Anyways we will start this off with Martin Scorsese’s remake of the 60s classic “Cape Fear”.

Max Cady (Robert De Niro) has been released from prison after serving a fourteen year sentence, and is stalking his former defense attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). After fourteen years of prison Max Cady has improved himself, he has brought himself out of ignorance and is now literate and as knowledgeable as any lawyer about the laws of society. He uses this to stalk his target in such a way that he is not prosecutable by any court, and at the same time making sure to drive a deep sense of fear into Sam and his family. (more…)