From Catwoman's awful solo debut to some great games that became terrible movies, 2000s action movie remakes could salvage a lot of wasted potential.While there were plenty of great 2000s action movies, there are also a lot of genre outings from the era that deserve a remake. Sometimes, ...
Modern Times A lot of movies are said to be timeless, but somehow in their immortality they fail to draw audiences. They lead a sort of half-life in film society revivals, and turn up every now and then on the late show. They’re classics, everyone agrees, but that word “classic” ...
Before graduating to stoner comedies likeThe Pineapple Expressand endless remakes ofHalloween, director David Gordon Green specialized in intimate character studies such asGeorge WashingtonandAll the Real Girls. He works in that mode here, while still bringing the brooding menace and punctuations of bru...
The Naruto series, however, can still turn to other reasons to get a remake, including the small but established presence of remakes in the anime industry. With the brewing excitement of Netflix's The One Piece also looming, it's unclear how it may shift the tide if it garners accolades...
and the acting was MIND BLOWING. Joaquin Phoenix honestly should’ve at least been nominated for Best Actor if you want my opinion. He was incredible. This film was moving and richly layered, and I honestly have seen very few movies that I walked out of feeling like it would be with me...
TV shows that become movies have a notoriously bad pedigree. Especially British comedy shows, which decide to send their cast off on holiday for their big screen adventure… Luckily,The Inbetweenershas never exactly played by the rules, first by becoming an unlikely foul-mouthed success, and then...
The new century has seen another new boom for Japanese cinema - Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror movies. The local industry has been turning out spooky flicks mainly for the summer market for years. But in 1998,The Ring(Ringu) really caught the public imagination. It also caught the eye...
The most obvious place for this is in movies. There are small independent films that try new things, but the big productions are all rehashes of old material. In many cases they are remakes that deviate in amusing ways from the original. This has become so obvious that there are a bunch...
Once your eyes stop bleeding, the advantages of this particular cheat become clear. Not only does the game run much smoother (which improves your reaction time), but it also features less aesthetic clutter. Imagine slowly advancing on an opponent, thinking that you're safely hidden by lush fol...
The new millennium opened with a slew of cheap horror remakes that did nothing to advance the genre. The scream queen title became somewhat devaluated as ’90s icons like Neve Campbell, Jennifer Tilly, and Sarah Michelle Gellar ventured into other genres. In all honesty, the 2000s were a ba...