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Post by nucleusofswarm on May 7, 2022 0:35:11 GMT
Which Take 2 actually managed to best the old film/TV version for you? A DePalma Scarface, a Carpenter Thing, nuGalactica etc. etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2022 3:13:50 GMT
The obvious - The Fly, The Thing, Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers. Of course, you can say The Thing is really a new adaptation of the book, which is true, but its clear Carpenter loved the 50s film - the title card, the fact it was on the TV in Halloween etc. So, some more remakes, or better adaptations: Oceans 11. The Rat Pack one is really slow and was not a well received film even then. The 2000s one has agency, memorable characters and fun twists. True Lies. Most people do not even realise this was a remake of La Totale. Little Shop Of Horrors. I love the Corman one but this combines that with the musical and creates a masterpiece, especially the directors cut. Heaven Can Wait. Warren Beatty takes the 40s film and turns it into a wonderful comedy drama, which he could do like few others in the 70s. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Another people do not realise is a remake, Caine and Martin are SO much better suited to it than Niven and Brando. 3:10 To Yuma. A more tense and ferocious film than the Ford original. Crowe and Bale have terrific chemistry. Fistful Of Dollars. Takes Kurosawa and makes it leaner and meaner. Not an easy job. The Maltese Falcon. The Bogart classic was the third version in a decade and by far the best. His Girl Friday. Wow, they were swappin genders for remakes way back in the 40s!  It allows for wonderful chemistry between the leads. Thomas Crown Affair. Unlike the original, this Crown does the heists himself. McQueen hires others which lowers investment. The Man Who Knew Too Much. Alfred Hitchcock remade his own 30s film and makes it a star studded event all over the world. Someone should make vids about Jimmy Stewart! Heat. Michael Mann remade his own LA Takedown and makes a 90s crime masterpiece. The Blob. I doubt the 50s one would be as famous without McQueens career after. The 80s one is streamlined, more well rounded characters and a real fun dark tone. Imitation Of Life. Sirk made his masterpiece here. One of the best films about race ever made. Juanita Moore is a powerhouse. Sorcerer, Suspiria and Nosferatu I wont mention as I believe them to be equal but different to their source. |
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Post by Digi on May 7, 2022 17:31:46 GMT
Challenging question, mostly because (at least for me) it's a challenge to differentiate "remake" from 'fresh adaptation of the same source material that the original was based upon.'
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Post by shutupbanks on May 8, 2022 1:15:52 GMT
Flying High/Airplane! is much better than Zero Hour!
And I might be controversial here, but while I love the original quintet of movies, the 2011-2017 Planet Of The Apes films are far superior to them.
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Post by Kestrel on May 9, 2022 13:31:04 GMT
Yeah, there's definitely an odd bit of difference between remaking something and re-adapting something, and I definitely don't know where that line is. EG I think Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is an utterly brilliant film... but is it an adaptation or a remake? Or a reimagining? Or are all of these effectively synonyms? After all, adapting a story from one medium to another requires remaking it just as much as retelling the story in the same medium.
With that in mind, handful of "remakes" that leap to my mind would be... at the risk of exposing (oh no!) my other fandoms:
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -- How often does a hyper-popular animated adaptation of a wildly popular manga get remade within just a few years of the prior two stories ending? You might think the answer is, "never," and you'd almost be right. It's once. This has happened exactly one time, with FMA Brotherhood. The first anime adaptation was a huge hit, but because the manga was on-going it's story wound up going in a very different direction after the halfway point or so, but even then it was very popular. And just a few years later, after Arakawa Hiromu's manga concluded... the powers that be decided to do a second anime adaptation, more faithful to the manga. I say "more" rather than "fully" because Beotherhood still took some pretty big liberties with the story, mostly in the first few episodes, resulting in the first anime being mich more faithful early on and the second much less, only for that dynamic to quickly invert. The changes Brotherhood makes are made with the assumption that audiences are already familiar with the source material... and they do not improve the story. So while Brotherhood is not superior to the manga, in my estimation, it still eclipses the first anime adaptation.
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes -- Specifically the original OVA anime adaptation that ran from 1988 to 1997, based on Tanaka Yoshiki's sprawling science fiction epic of the same name--arguably the very best space opera ever made. More specifically it's me who would argue that, at great length, with few caveats. Anyway, the original novels were written in an affected faux-academic style that made the story pretty... pretty dry. But after the series ended, Tanaka wrote several side stories taking place at various points along the main series' timeline, fully fleshing out characters, events and backstory. The OVA series, when it adapted the original 10-volumes, also took all of this side material (an immense amount) and then inserted into the appropriate points. The result is the most genuinely epic of epics: 110 episodes of drama, intrigue and tragedy, following the careers of soldiers on both sides of a galactic conflict that sees the rise and fall of empires, ultimately reshaping the universe forever. Further, one could argue that Tanaka's novels are themselves a remake--specifically a reimagining--of Star Wars (also, coincidentally, on this list) as the basic premise is a hard-SF chronicle of a conflict between an evil eugenicist Galactic Empire and a more diverse "Rebel Alliance" -- written with the unpredictable yet relentless style of history plodding ever-forward into an uncertain tomorrow; its heroes living and dying and shaping the course of that history as they, themselves, are shaped by it. This is one of those few cases where the adaptation is so much better than the original that it's hard to even recommend the novels at all--the OVA series is just that much better. An absolutely towering, immaculate and utterly unprecedented achievement.
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild -- So much has been said (by so many) about Breath of the Wild that I'll keep this short (ha ha ha, look at how funny I can be). It's essentially a remake of the very first Legend of Zelda game all the way back on the NES. And it perfectly recaptures -- at a far more visceral and immersive level -- the sheer joy of exploring a vast, untamed land teeming with secrets and wonder that the original managed with 8-bits all the way back in 1986. The open world genre of games has been around for a very, very long time -- but Breath of the Wild feels like the first game to truly understand what that genre means, and fully utilize the unique advantages it offers. There were so many moments while playing that I had,to just stop for a bit and catch my breath: moments of pure, unadulterated awe.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin -- The original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam was a phenomenon that has been remade and reimagined and reiterated upon more times than I can count. Just in those first few years after it was unceremoniously cancelled, creator Tomino Yoshiyuki wound up both writing a (wildly different) novelization and adapting the 43-episode anime series into a trilogy of feature films. But The Origin was different. Written and illustrated by the jaw-droppingly brilliant Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, who helped create the original series in 1979 with Tomino, it is a much more serious and earnest retelling of the original story that takes pains to render the setting in greater detail, and the characters with greater dimensionality. All with some of the most lovingly-composed art you're ever likely to see, drawn by an experienced master at the pinnacle of his craft. Yas takes everything that was silly or nonsensical in the original story and discards it; everything compelling and engaging, he elevated and expands upon. If there is such a thing as the platonic ideal of Gundam, it is most certainly Yas' The Origin.
- Mobile Suit Victory Gundam -- Oh, look. Tomino again. It's hard to talk about Gundam without talking about Tomino and his often precarious mental state. Victory Gundam was the last animated show he produced for Sunrise Animation prior to their very ugly falling out, at the very height of his depressive period. The result is Victory Gundam: a deeply cynical masterpiece that takes all of the themes that Tomino suffused in his prior work (the brutality of war, the hollowness of victory, the dehumanization of soldiers, the inevitability of violence and the weird transhumanism) and dials it all up to 11. Or 12. Or, frankly, 20. Meanwhile the absurdity--silliness, really--is also dialed up. So we get this fantastical story that's effectively a much more cynical retelling of the original 1979 Mobile Suit Gundam: our child forced to be a soldier in a war he doesn't understand is far younger and far more a victim of manipulative adults; newtype telepathy is even less effective at curbing violence; the violence itself is far more brutal and far less selective--no one is safe--and there are also gigantic "land battleships" that roll around a ruined, post-apocalyptic earth on pairs of equally gigantic tires, motorcycles the size of aircraft carriers. It is an experience.
- The Once and Future King -- Written by T.H. White based on Thomas Mallory's Le Morte d'Artur, The Once and Future King is one of many, many, many adaptations of the Arthurian legend. Another one of which is also included in this list. But to me, White's story is the definitive version--the story of Camelot that supersedes all the others. It can be a bit of a dense read, but it just... perfectly captures what King Arthur's story is meant to be. To me, at least.
- Pluto -- A complete reimagining of Tezuka Osamu's classic manga, Astro Boy, Urusawa Naoki's Pluto is a mature and nuanced exploration of humanity and AI wrapped around a beguiling mystery and compelling set of characters. It does a masterful job elevating a relatively simple childrens' comic (good robot defeats bad robot) into a poignant and mature tale of tragedy, grief, determination and transformation.
- Rashomon -- This hugely famous and impossibly influential film was, in fact, an adaptation of a short story by famed Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryuunosuke. The film takes many liberties with the source material to create a far more compelling and dynamic narrative--especially with regard to the characters in the framing device who relate the events of the main story to each other while sheltering from a storm. The cinematography is excellent, and the story delightfully uncertain. Ever single scene oozes style and character. You know within the first few minutes of watching it that Rashomon is something special: the scene of the woodcutter walking through the woods with the sunlight flashing off his axe utterly sublime and almost hypnotic in effect. But director Kurosawa Akira also imbues the film with a degree of subtlety, nuance and relevancy absent in the short story, by drawing parallels between the destruction wrought by the wars of the past to the more recent trauma inflicted on Japanese cities by American bombs at the end of WWII--the decrepit ruins of the titular gate an evocative reminder of the recent past paired with a deeply subjective narrative that explores human frailty, cruelty and self-deception. It's no accident that Akutagawa's short story has largely been forgotten while Kurosawa's adaptation has, for decades, been heralded as one of the most important films of all time.
- A Song of Ice and Fire -- Writer George Martin used to be far more open about this in the past, but did you know that A Song of Ice and Fire is essentially fanfiction? Martin's throney saga began as a more thoughtful retelling of Tad Williams' (very conventional) four-volume fantasy series, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Ice and Fire takes a fairly solid, if unremarkable, story and just dives right in, rendering the world and it's conflicts in excruciating detail, and carefully plotting out a more "realistic" (to Martin's tastes, at least) take on the familiar Fantasy trope of a kingdom fractured by bitter infighting faced with overwhelming existential threats from supernatural foes. And while much can be (and already has been) said on the quality of the latter entries in this series (nevermind the HBO adaptation) I think it's fair to say that the first three books were spectacular, offering a far more compelling view into a&@4more carefully constructed world than Tad Williams' work.
- Space Battleship Yamato 2199 -- The original anime aired in 1974 and exported overseas with the new title, Star Blazers. While one of the first anime to really make it big with adult audiences, Space Battleship Yamato was largely forgotten after the boom of SF anime in the 1980s, which saw the likes of Mobile Zeta Suit Gundam, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Armored Trooper VOTOMs, and Patlabor rise to prominence. The 2012 remake was an astonishingly good remake of the original, updating the campy 70s show to something much more slick and modern (with stunning animation) while still retaining much of that idiosyncratic 70s charm. The rather simple tale of an old battleship retroffitted into a powerful starship, sent alone on a desperate mission to save Earth from the onslaught of terrible alien invaders, finds its best version here... a dramatic space opera that still finds ample time for humor, Star Trek-inspired episodic detours, and slice-of-life moments to bring the action into sharp clarity. Easily one of the best examples of how to take an old, dated story and,modernize it for an entirely new generation of fans.
- Star Wars: A New Hope -- It's no secret that George Lucas was very inspired by Kurosawa Akira's The Hidden Fortress when he directed the first Star Wars film. But I'd say the similarities are strong enough that the latter qualifies as a remake of the former, even though they're different enough that I'd never even dream of calling either one superior to the other. The main difference that fascinates me is that The Hidden Fortress was an adventure film that felt very grounded, with some of the most realistic fight choreography that has ever been filmed, whereas Star Wars has a much more heightened, fantastical, mythical quality.
- Tales of the Otori -- Another retelling of the Arthurian legend, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori was a favorite of mine in childhood, though given Hearn's fairly disappointing recent work, it's possible my opinion would evolve upon a reread. But that's neither here nor there. For now I'll simply say that I really loved the unique spin on the familiar legend here: King Arthur transposed to a faux-Japanese low-fantasy setting, rife with samurai, ninja, warlords, violence, prophecy and tragedy. A ripping good yarn, as I recall.
- Three Kingdoms -- Hoo boy. How much could I explain here? How much should I explain? The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the oldest (arguably the oldest) novels ever written, dating to the 14th century. It is a lengthy work of historical fiction covering China's Three Kingdoms era in the 2nd century BCE, chronicling the collapse of the Han dynasty, the successor kingdoms, and the eventual ascension of the Jin Dynasty. It has been adapted and retold very possibly more than any other story in human history. The adaptation I want to single out is the 2010 TV drama, simply titled Three Kingdoms. The TV series is long, but cuts a lot of the fat from the (honestly pretty tedious) original novel, and tells its story with some phenomenal acting and (mostly) very solid effects work. Granted, much of the show is carried by Chen Jianbin, playing the charismatic, brutal, and brilliant tactician Cao Cao, so it loses a lot of steam when Cao Cao dies (don't worry, it's not a spoiler: the story cover several generations and everyone dies eventually), so it kind of peters out a bit in the last stretch as the three kingdoms dwindle down to just the one. But even so. If you're looking for a historical epic, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything even half as good as Three Kingdoms. Personally it ranks near the very top of my list of favorite (live action）TV series, right under Babylon 5, which sits--of course--at the undisputed #1 spot.
- Throne of Blood -- Honestly not much to say here. More Kurosawa, surprise, surprise. Throne of Blood is a retelling / reimagining / what-have-you of Shakespeare's MacBeth -- and debatably the most accessible of all Kurosawa's film. Clocking it at around 90 minutes, Throne of Blood is a very direct, violent film buoyed by lead actor Toshiro Mifune's incomparable skill. It's not a complicated or nuanced film -- just action and drama NS lots of blood, as you might expect from the title. Personally my very favorite version of MacBeth.
- Twelve Kingdoms -- Congrats on making it to the bottom of the list. That takes some serious stamina and tolerance. I appreciate it. Anyway, Twelve Kingdoms is possibly the most niche of the remakes that came to mind, but I wanna talk about it because I adore this series so, so much. Specifically the anime adaptation of Ono Fuyumi's novels. Set in a gorgeous and intricately detailed fantasy setting loosely inspired by Chinese myth, in a land where babies grow from trees, immortals rule by divine mandate, and monsters form pacts with humans contingent on the latter eventually devouring the former because humans are just so delicious. The series follows a young girl, Yoko, as she is suddenly swept into this world and hunted by assassins at every turn, a mystery she eventually solves with the aid of a giant talking mouse (Rakushun is such a great character). The story eventually evolves to focus on different characters at different, pivotal moments of their lives, combining myster and fantasy with drama and personal growth. Where the anime adaption really succeeds is with the introduction of,two new characters who get dumped into this fantasy realm alongside Yoko--who had,to find her way through it alone. Their experiences in this new world are all very different, and serve very effectively to highlight (and explore at a far deeper level) the themes of the story. We see with great clarity just how special Yoko is by the juxtaposition of other highschoolers in similar circumstances. It's hard to say more without spoiling anything, so I'll leave it at that. Easily the best fantasy anime out there, so if you haven't seen it already I highly recommend,end,correcting that deficiency ASAP. Just be warned that the first episode doesn't do a,good,job of "hooking" viewers and is,not very indicative of the rest of the series. Also, Kanno Yoko did the soundtrack and she is an impossibly brilliant composer.
I limited myself to just the one, but frankly there are a lot of video game remakes that surpass the originals (like Monkey Island, Final Fantasy IV DS, or Demons Souls PS5) to the extent where, contrary to other mediums, it feels like the stinkers (EG Final Fantasy VII Remake) are the exception rather than the rule. And also it should go without saying that Doctor Who is rife with remakes. Or, at very least, premises that have been iterated on repeatedly. The TV show famously adapted several stories from other media, and certainly Big Finish is no stranger to "redoing" stories that maybe didn't come out fully-cooked at first, and recycling them--drawing from both the TV show and their own extensive back-catalog. I've nowhere near the memory or stamina to even begin to try and evaluate any of that, however.
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Post by grinch on May 9, 2022 21:58:47 GMT
Does the Spanish version of Dracula count? The one they shot alongside the original Lugosi classic?
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Post by Timelord007 on May 10, 2022 1:24:09 GMT
The Thing (1982) The Fly are awesome but apart from that originals everytime.
Hollywood become lazy churning out remakes or reboots it easy money.
Now we getting alternative timelines arcs like Halloween.
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Post by Kestrel on May 12, 2022 7:23:18 GMT
Throne of Blood is better than Macbeth? I have really heard it all now! Depends on the performance, I suppose, but the Kurosawa film really embraces the violence of the story that I just haven't seen with other adaptations. |
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Post by shutupbanks on May 12, 2022 11:05:33 GMT
- A Song of Ice and Fire -- Writer George Martin used to be far more open about this in the past, but did you know that A Song of Ice and Fire is essentially fanfiction? Martin's throney saga began as a more thoughtful retelling of Tad Williams' (very conventional) four-volume fantasy series, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Ice and Fire takes a fairly solid, if unremarkable, story and just dives right in, rendering the world and it's conflicts in excruciating detail, and carefully plotting out a more "realistic" (to Martin's tastes, at least) take on the familiar Fantasy trope of a kingdom fractured by bitter infighting faced with overwhelming existential threats from supernatural foes. And while much can be (and already has been) said on the quality of the latter entries in this series (nevermind the HBO adaptation) I think it's fair to say that the first three books were spectacular, offering a far more compelling view into a&@4more carefully constructed world than Tad Williams' work.
Fun fact: To Green Angel Tower, the third (and, in paperback, fourth) volume of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, was published three years after Stone Of Farewell, the second volume. During that time Tad Williams got divorced and had to make a few changes in his life. Also during this time he went to a convention and George R. R. Martin asked him why he wasn’t at home finishing that last book. Look, I’m totally up for you calling ASOIAF a remake, but it is in no way superior to M,S and T. It borrows heavily from the same tropes that both authors use, but MST is a deconstruction of epic fantasy told like a traditional Tolkienesque trilogy, while ASOetc is… n’t. Also, while Martin is one of the premier short story writers in the genre, he is a terrible novelist. I’ve had a go at reading A Game Of Thrones twice - once when it came out, and once more when the TV series came out - and I just couldn’t finish it either time and there was nearly twenty years between the attempts. There’s also a lot of borrowing of plot elements in AS Nauseam from MST that borders less on homage and common heritage and is more like lazy writing: both stories feature a one-handed prince who spends some time incarcerated; there’s a girl who dresses like a boy for large periods of the plot; there is a lot of time spent in the wilderness “oop North”; a mad king; the weather is mucked about with; a soldier says quite early in the piece that “Winter is coming”… I feel that Martin borrowed the bits that he liked but not the parts that made the story enjoyable. (obviously, YMMV and it doesn’t really matter, nor am I that worried if you prefer one over the other, but I’ve got a lot of history with MST and I really didn’t enjoy ASBO all that much.) Edit: a quick reread of this reveals that I may have had a worse day at work than I thought and what was intended as “playful” came across as unduly snarky. My apologies to Kestrel. |
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Post by Kestrel on May 13, 2022 12:00:01 GMT
- A Song of Ice and Fire -- ....
Fun fact: To Green Angel Tower, the third (and, in paperback, fourth) volume of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, was published three years after Stone Of Farewell, the second volume. During that time Tad Williams got divorced and had to make a few changes in his life. Also during this time he went to a convention and George R. R. Martin asked him why he wasn’t at home finishing that last book. Look, I’m totally up for you calling ASOIAF a remake, but it is in no way superior to M,S and T. It borrows heavily from the same tropes that both authors use, but MST is a deconstruction of epic fantasy told like a traditional Tolkienesque trilogy, while ASOetc is… n’t. Also, while Martin is one of the premier short story writers in the genre, he is a terrible novelist. I’ve had a go at reading A Game Of Thrones twice - once when it came out, and once more when the TV series came out - and I just couldn’t finish it either time and there was nearly twenty years between the attempts. There’s also a lot of borrowing of plot elements in AS Nauseam from MST that borders less on homage and common heritage and is more like lazy writing: both stories feature a one-handed prince who spends some time incarcerated; there’s a girl who dresses like a boy for large periods of the plot; there is a lot of time spent in the wilderness “oop North”; a mad king; the weather is mucked about with; a soldier says quite early in the piece that “Winter is coming”… I feel that Martin borrowed the bits that he liked but not the parts that made the story enjoyable. (obviously, YMMV and it doesn’t really matter, nor am I that worried if you prefer one over the other, but I’ve got a lot of history with MST and I really didn’t enjoy ASBO all that much.) Edit: a quick reread of this reveals that I may have had a worse day at work than I thought and what was intended as “playful” came across as unduly snarky. My apologies to Kestrel. Lol, it's fine. I'll be the absolute last person here to ever criticize someone for tone or subtext. Zero hesitation criticizing folks for other things... but not that. Anyway, I don't really hold either MST or ASoIaF in particularly high esteem. The former felt very much like conventional fantasy stuff to me, whereas the latter felt more like conventional fantasy stuff that was embarrassed by conventional fantasy stuff. Where I think it has the advantage over MST is that I think the characters, generally, have more depth and the setting is more carefully articulated. Granted it's been a few years since I read either, so maybe ,y opinion would change upon a reread, but generally I found MST as around the same level as, say, Raymond Feist's or Mark Lawrence's stuff: decently well-written and entertaining, but nothing I'd ever care to revisit. Whereas I could see myself maybe rereading the first three ASoIaF books someday, or the Dunk & Egg stories. But, yeah, it's definitely all very YMMV. |
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Post by shutupbanks on May 13, 2022 14:03:57 GMT
Fun fact: To Green Angel Tower, the third (and, in paperback, fourth) volume of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, was published three years after Stone Of Farewell, the second volume. During that time Tad Williams got divorced and had to make a few changes in his life. Also during this time he went to a convention and George R. R. Martin asked him why he wasn’t at home finishing that last book. Look, I’m totally up for you calling ASOIAF a remake, but it is in no way superior to M,S and T. It borrows heavily from the same tropes that both authors use, but MST is a deconstruction of epic fantasy told like a traditional Tolkienesque trilogy, while ASOetc is… n’t. Also, while Martin is one of the premier short story writers in the genre, he is a terrible novelist. I’ve had a go at reading A Game Of Thrones twice - once when it came out, and once more when the TV series came out - and I just couldn’t finish it either time and there was nearly twenty years between the attempts. There’s also a lot of borrowing of plot elements in AS Nauseam from MST that borders less on homage and common heritage and is more like lazy writing: both stories feature a one-handed prince who spends some time incarcerated; there’s a girl who dresses like a boy for large periods of the plot; there is a lot of time spent in the wilderness “oop North”; a mad king; the weather is mucked about with; a soldier says quite early in the piece that “Winter is coming”… I feel that Martin borrowed the bits that he liked but not the parts that made the story enjoyable. (obviously, YMMV and it doesn’t really matter, nor am I that worried if you prefer one over the other, but I’ve got a lot of history with MST and I really didn’t enjoy ASBO all that much.) Edit: a quick reread of this reveals that I may have had a worse day at work than I thought and what was intended as “playful” came across as unduly snarky. My apologies to Kestrel. Lol, it's fine. I'll be the absolute last person here to ever criticize someone for tone or subtext. Zero hesitation criticizing folks for other things... but not that. Anyway, I don't really hold either MST or ASoIaF in particularly high esteem. The former felt very much like conventional fantasy stuff to me, whereas the latter felt more like conventional fantasy stuff that was embarrassed by conventional fantasy stuff. Where I think it has the advantage over MST is that I think the characters, generally, have more depth and the setting is more carefully articulated. Granted it's been a few years since I read either, so maybe ,y opinion would change upon a reread, but generally I found MST as around the same level as, say, Raymond Feist's or Mark Lawrence's stuff: decently well-written and entertaining, but nothing I'd ever care to revisit. Whereas I could see myself maybe rereading the first three ASoIaF books someday, or the Dunk & Egg stories. But, yeah, it's definitely all very YMMV. Yeah, I thought my tone in that post was a little on the “offputting” side: I’m not normally bothered by people having different tastes to me but I really don’t enjoy ASOIAF. In the context of your original post, I did enjoy the tv series a hell of a lot more, despite only seeing most of the first four seasons. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on May 31, 2022 13:47:40 GMT
The Blob (1988) is definitely a remake i prefer because you really dont know who's gonna make it to the end
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Post by Timelord007 on May 31, 2022 17:24:08 GMT
The Blob (1988) is definitely a remake i prefer because you really dont know who's gonna make it to the end Good one, i forgot about this gem. Still not had a UK Blu ray release which is shocking i had buy the Umbrella Entertainment Aussie Import |
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It allows for wonderful chemistry between the leads.
