Sentences with phrase «bad as remakes»

Not exact matches

He could easily spend the next few years starring in blockbuster remakes and sequels (like the upcoming Aladdin and Bad Boys movies), and and casually maintain his status as a global movie superstar.

For better or worse, the trailers set up the film as a shot - for - shot remake of Sylvester Stallone's «Over the Top,» except with fighting robots instead of arm wrestling.

The burial sequence exists only because Tarantino really likes The Vanishing, and it handles that element of the plot about as badly as that film's English - language remake.

I have a hard time not letting shitty remakes taint the originals for me (that fuck George Lucas being the worst culprit) So if it's going to happen regardless, I guess that it might as well be Cronenberg.

this remake was as bad as what those hollywood boobs did to the remake of «the fog».

Sony is being productive with their time by setting release dates for as many as 16 movies which include possibly two Bad Boys films along with a Jumanji remake and more.

The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.

This is easily the worst high school situated motion picture since a few people decided upon the misguided course of remaking 1987's Can't Buy Me Love as 2003's Love Don't Cost a Thing.

There have been worse remakes — that's as ringing an endorsement as anyone will get from me.

This is on par with Friday the 13th remake as far as modern horror goes, which isn't just bad; it's boring.

In the end, it's a pretty authentic reimagining of a classic story, and as remakes go, it's not half bad.

Westerns aren't going anywhere, and as much as I am loathe to bolster Hollywood's nostalgia - happy speeding train, this wasn't the worst remake I've seen.

Of course, Verhoeven's US big - budget genre work, such as RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990), both spawning recent lackluster remakes, and pulpy neo-noir Basic Instinct (1992) were overshadowed by the debacle that would come to be Showgirls (1995), now celebrated as one of the best worst films ever made.

Think the dismal City of Angels as a remake of the brilliant Wings of Desire to get an idea of how bad it can get...

In the end, it's a superfluous remake, but not a bad one, and with supercharged leads in full swing, lightning still manages to have struck as many times as Postman has.

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In the majority of cases, it seems, a remake is either seen as worse than the beloved original (for example, the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake) or is a straight retelling of the same story, doing nothing to make it stand out (such as this year's CARRIE).

He's always trying new things as a storyteller, even in the instance of his Bad News Bears remake, but of course, the most well - known example is his 12 - year project, Boyhood.

In addition to tying for worst film of the year, «Fantastic Four» was also lambasted as worst remake, rip - off or sequel and earned the worst director prize for Josh Trank.

«Swept Away» (2002): Choppily edited and badly acted (though only by Madonna), this awful Guy Ritchie remake of the 1974 Lina Wertmuller film stars Madonna as a haughty socialite who belittles a deckhand on a pleasure cruise.

In this case, we see Alfred Hitchcock's original take on this kidnapping and espionage story — the color remake with James Stewart and Doris Day is better known and possibly also better in many ways, but this one has the distinct advantage of Peter Lorre as one of the bad guys.

Ira and Ruth's plotline borrows so liberally from The Notebook, with its use of another 1940s WWII - era time period, as to play like a bad remake, right down to having Huston and Chaplin frolic in the surf like a latter - day Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.

Sure there was that little remake called All the King's Men that should have been brilliant, but as stated, Cannes wasn't scathing; I think the bad publicity might even help my perception of the film, as I won't be expecting it to be the greatest thing of the year.

In this remake, those images have been replaced by badly photoshopped images of animals humping and people in weird situations such as a person riding a horse with a hard - on or a father having his nipple squeezed by a baby.

The details: It's been four years since news of a Point Break remake, um, broke, and we're no closer to understanding why: It's not as if Kathryn Bigelow's original has aged badly over the last 25 -LRB-!)

A Kiss Before Dying was poorly remade in 1991, with Matt Dillon in the Wagner role and Sean Young playing both sisters (thus enabling her to win Razzie Awards as Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress).

Kurt does his own gushing with William Friedkin's restored and glorious remake of Wages of Fear, the 1977 hidden gem, Sorcerer as well as his bafflement with 2013 Best / Worst type cinematic oddity, Fateful Findings.

Establishing himself from child actor to adult Academy Award - nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in Watchmen, as horror icon Freddy Krueger in the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, released on April 30, 2010, and most recently as Guerrero in Fox's drama Human Target.

WHY: Hollywood hasn't been shy about its love for sequels, reboots and remakes this year, but as far as big screen adaptations of mildly popular television shows go, you could do a lot worse than «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» In fact, though director Guy Ritchie has admitted that he wasn't overly familiar with the 1960s TV series before signing on to the project, it's the ideal property for a filmmaker like Ritchie to tackle, because it allows him to cherry - pick the show's best bits and put his own spin on the material without worrying about stepping on too many toes.

Hollywood hasn't been shy about its love for sequels, reboots and remakes this summer, but as far as big screen adaptations of mildly popular television shows go, you could do a lot worse than «The Man from U.N.C.L.E.» In fact, though director Guy Ritchie has admitted that he wasn't overly familiar with the 1960s TV series before signing on to the project, it's the ideal property for a filmmaker like Ritchie to tackle, because it allows him to cherry - pick the show's best bits and put his own spin on the material without worrying about stepping on too many toes.

Instead, director Jim McBride — who earlier paid homage to the Killer by making Richard Gere's narcissistic dreamer a huge Jerry Lee Lewis freak in his shockingly kinda - awesome remake of Breathless — uses Lewis» legend as the springboard for a pop - art cartoon take on the»50s, with a never - better Quaid playing Lewis as a cross between a strutting comic - strip rooster and a human version of Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf.

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

Charlie arranges for the Angels to enroll in stunt school and then go to work as stuntwomen on a picture called «Marian and her Merry Maids» — a bad remake of an old Errol Flynn classic.

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But «Batman v Superman» didn't go away empty handed, as it also received four awards from the Razzies: Worst Screenplay for Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, Worst Supporting Actor for Jesse Eisenberg's bizarre Lex Luthor, Worst Screen Combo for Affleck and Henry Cavill as the titular superheroes, and Worst Remake, Rip - off, or Sequel.

The most reasonable worst case scenario for Last Jedi is that it's basically the same sort of remake for Empire, but considering Empire is often cited as the best Star Wars film, that's still pretty good for a worst case scenario.

But as shown by the new 9 - 3 sedan — first of the remade Saabs — that's not a bad thing.

Everything from backwards compatibility to HD remakes are in the sights of the team as they try to get to the bottom of both the good and bad of the nostalgia train.

obviously you's have all been preoccupied working on this, really had to be The worst HD remake i had bought, But am Not complaining, (honest), as the game still played on my ps3.

This is the odd thing really, as Konami should have known that outsourcing these kind of HD remakes to a studio that's done a series of Wii games would end badly.

Games such as Kingdom Hearts 3, Beyond Good and Evil 2, and even the Final Fantasy 7 Remake are all titles that have one very bad thing in common: they are all in development hell.

Conker originally released on the first Xbox in 2005 as a remake of the Nintendo 64 classic, Conker's Bad Fur Day.

There are a few notable remakes making the headlines (such as Rez HD) but also a lot of really very bad product (such as the Battlestar Galactica game, or the port of Marathon) and the service has lacked focus for quite some time.

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Sombreros is an arcade shooter made for Arthur Lee's Action 52 remake challenge, where you play as a Mexican gunslinger who has to retrieve a couple of giant hats from the bad guys.

She has also worked as a writer and the managing editor for Bad at Sports, a leading international arts journal and podcast, and is currently producing (with Meg Onli) Remaking the Black Metropolis: Contemporary Art, Urbanity and Blackness in America, a forthcoming research survey and digital archive.