Movie Thoughts 8-22-2012

There is a 5th Resident Evil movie comming out this year,  I saw part of the fourth film in a theater.  It was not good, it lacked urgecy, and I walked out of the film before it finnished but I remember little else about it.  (I don’t think I have ever said that another movie lacked urgency.)   So as bad as it was it, it might not be really memorable.  I wonder if this one will be any better.

The Dark Tower will apparently not be made into movies any time soon.  Warner Brothers has decided not to make the series of movies.  Maybe it was concerns over the possible budget.  Universal made the same decision in 2011, so maybe the Dark Tower series won’t be coming to film any time soon.

Movie thoughts 9-12-2010

The new Resident Evil movie is a movie that I could have waited for it to pop up on cable. It was not terrible but either a lack of star power or director skill made the movie a lot less than it could have been.  I just felt like it should have been a lot more involving/interesting than it was.  Maybe last weekend, I should have held a film in reserve for this weekend.  (It is hard to explain why the movie fell so flat for me without giving more details about the plot and I am not sure it would be worth the effort.  I knew I was not expecting a great film but I expected more than the movie delivered.)

I wonder why the studio is advertizing a movie, Priest, that won’t come out until next summer.  It seems odd.  I know it happens but it still seems a bit odd.  At least the movie is similar enough to the Resident Evil movie that I can see why they’re advertizing it before the Resident Evil movie.

Here are the remake rules

rule 1 The more you like or love the orginial movie, the less likely you are to love the remake

rule 2 If you have not seen the original movie and you are interested in the remake, see the remake first

if there is a third rule, I am not sure what it is yet.

An example of rule 1 is Cape Fear.  I think the original is pretty good and well the remake was almost over the top.   I found the orginal more believable and more compelling.  Perhaps I liked it too much to give the remake a fair chance and would have been better off skipping the remake.

The best example of rule 2  that I can think of 3;10 to Yuma.  I saw the promos for the movie and I knew it was a remake but I had not seen the original film.  I watched the remake in theaters and I enjoyed it a lot.  Christian Bale was really good in that and so was Rusell Crowe.  Later I picked up the original film on dvd and I enjoyed that one also.