Comments on: Hollywood’s first billion dollar January http://www.p2pnet.net/story/19000 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: hackers/pirates of the world unite http://www.p2pnet.net/story/19000/comment-page-1#comment-970246 hackers/pirates of the world unite Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:32:26 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=19000#comment-970246 Readers write NO the old film if it falls out of the 50 year limit is public domain in effect what htey do is just try to make a buck before it goes to public domain im surprised they haven't redone metropolis in the USA with its crazy 95 year and more copyright Readers write NO
the old film if it falls out of the 50 year limit is public domain
in effect what htey do is just try to make a buck before it goes to public domain

im surprised they haven’t redone metropolis in the USA with its crazy 95 year and more copyright

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/19000/comment-page-1#comment-970207 Reader's Write Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:47:40 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=19000#comment-970207 I have another question: are the remakes serving a second purpose to prevent the original characters from falling into public domain? I have another question: are the remakes serving a second purpose to prevent the original characters from falling into public domain?

]]> By: catflap http://www.p2pnet.net/story/19000/comment-page-1#comment-970204 catflap Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:31:37 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=19000#comment-970204 i only board game movie i might consider paying to see would be a HD movie of naked "Twister" in an IMAX theatre. :P i only board game movie i might consider paying to see would be a HD movie of naked “Twister” in an IMAX theatre. :P

]]> By: Henry Emrich http://www.p2pnet.net/story/19000/comment-page-1#comment-970197 Henry Emrich Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:45:14 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=19000#comment-970197 Okay, this is just -- wow. 1. Remakes are usually about half (to a quarter) as good as the original: case in point, the godawful remake of "The Music Man" with the guy who played Ferris Bueller. Compare that to the one with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, and the second one is so obviously worse that there's no point ever watching it again. Remakes are the ultimate no-effort route to success: They don't involve actually writing a new script, and they can cash in on people's nostalgic memories of the previous version. "Gee, Robert Preston was good in this, so this one should be great, too!" As an added bonus, the corporate weasels can use remakes to keep "monetizing" stuff, so they can go whimpering to the government for the next copyright term extension every few years. I mean, if the Big Bad evil Public Domain swallows "their" content up like a piranha, how can they continue to throw lavish coke-parties on their private jets? :) 2. Candyland? They're gonna make a movie about CANDYLAND? Why not "hungry hungry hippos": at least that would be a fast-paced drama set in the African jungles or something. Or maybe a tense, heart-rending medical drama based on that "Operation" game I used to play when I was a kid. (That'd work, actually: Middle-eastern terrorists take over a hospital and force the doctors to do unnecessary surgery as a means of torturing hostages. If they refuse, the terrorists use a cattle-prod on them. It's up to Bruce Willis or some other action-hero type of dude to save the day.) That could kinda work -- but Candyland? Wow. Okay, this is just — wow.

1. Remakes are usually about half (to a quarter) as good as the original: case in point, the godawful remake of “The Music Man” with the guy who played Ferris Bueller. Compare that to the one with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones, and the second one is so obviously worse that there’s no point ever watching it again. Remakes are the ultimate no-effort route to success: They don’t involve actually writing a new script, and they can cash in on people’s nostalgic memories of the previous version. “Gee, Robert Preston was good in this, so this one should be great, too!”
As an added bonus, the corporate weasels can use remakes to keep “monetizing” stuff, so they can go whimpering to the government for the next copyright term extension every few years. I mean, if the Big Bad evil Public Domain swallows “their” content up like a piranha, how can they continue to throw lavish coke-parties on their private jets? :)

2. Candyland? They’re gonna make a movie about CANDYLAND? Why not “hungry hungry hippos”: at least that would be a fast-paced drama set in the African jungles or something. Or maybe a tense, heart-rending medical drama based on that “Operation” game I used to play when I was a kid. (That’d work, actually: Middle-eastern terrorists take over a hospital and force the doctors to do unnecessary surgery as a means of torturing hostages. If they refuse, the terrorists use a cattle-prod on them. It’s up to Bruce Willis or some other action-hero type of dude to save the day.)
That could kinda work — but Candyland?
Wow.

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