Remake This SF Movie, and I'll KILL/LOVE You!!!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, September 26, 2010 17:38
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Quote:I love the movie, and even the garish, sparkly look to it, it's just that a remake could do the actual STORY from the novel, which is light years superiour to the limited glimpse the movie provided.
Originally posted by lwaves:
Logan's Run - A good call. It's a great story but does look very dated these days.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Since someone mentioned Battle of the Planets, I'll throw in Star Blazers. Yeah, I know there's a Japanese live action version in the making, but I think it's the ideal Michael Bay project.
Speaking of Bay, if we have to get more big robot movies, I'd rather Shogun Warriors than Transformers.
And the idea that there could FINALLY be a Micronauts movie has me almost as excited as the original announcement that there would be another Star Wars trilogy. (I hope they use the classic first story arc of the Marvel comic as a basis).
I'm probably the only one who remembers this one, but there was a Marvel comic called Strikeforce: Morituri that I think would make a great movie (or possibly HBO/SyFy series).
www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."
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Dream remakes:
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Remake Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. No - scratch that. Don't "remake" it; just render it in 3D. That's doable now, allegedly - the doing old 2D movies into 3D, but it's expensive and time-consuming, but those aren't things that have bothered Lucas in the past.
I don't know what kind of digital trickery they are using to modify old films so they can then call it 3-D (just to sell tickets), but this can't really be done with any movie that wasn't shot with dual 3-D optic cameras from the start. They might be able to selectively fuzz different parts of wide shots like foreground and background to give the very worst, faintest (er, bullshit) illusion of depth and multiple dimensions, but in the end to me it's the worst kind of fakery. So I guess we should expect it pretty soon.
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Quote:Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles has dropsuits that only allow wearers to waddle and bunny-hop like Apollo Moonwalkers. They are fired downward from spaceships. Near the ground, the dropsuits open and inside is a soldier wearing a powersuit. When the battery dies in a powersuit, the soldier becomes a statue. The flashback episodes show their basic training without powersuits. And then with armored suits and guns.
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,
?!? I just watched a clip from that Roughnecks cartoon. Apparently better than the movie, but... even in a CARTOON they chose not to do the suits? Do they deploy as they do in the book? And do the early episodes show the recruitment and training process?
--Anthony
If Robert Heinlein's descriptions of suits were followed exactly, soldiers would need bones that stretch and compress like silly-putty. This was learned when animators were building computer models of characters. Heinlein is excellent at faking his science, but when you try to convert fake science into engineered product, even if only computer animation...
Then there are Marauders. A soldier in a powersuit rides in the cab like a farmer on a air-conditioned tractor. The machines come in styles: The Ape and The Duck.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I don't know what kind of digital trickery they are using to modify old films so they can then call it 3-D (just to sell tickets), but this can't really be done with any movie that wasn't shot with dual 3-D optic cameras from the start.
Oh, you SO can produce a 3D image from a 2D one now.
The program simply produces a second image from a 4 inch different theoretical perspective. It then distorts all the images to correspond to that perspective, and voila! 3D.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Hello,
I can't believe the effect is as good as real 3d?
--Anthony
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I don't know what kind of digital trickery they are using to modify old films so they can then call it 3-D (just to sell tickets), but this can't really be done with any movie that wasn't shot with dual 3-D optic cameras from the start.
Oh, you SO can produce a 3D image from a 2D one now.
The program simply produces a second image from a 4 inch different theoretical perspective. It then distorts all the images to correspond to that perspective, and voila! 3D.
The laughing Chrisisall
Of course - Simple! "In Software We Trust."
If it's so easy why don't they just make 4D then, huh Mr. Science??
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,
I can't believe the effect is as good as real 3d?
Of course not. But we are meant to think it is.
CGI has a strong influence on the weak-minded.
But you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
If it's so easy why don't they just make 4D then, huh Mr. Science??
Mr. Cameron is working on it, surely.
The laughing Chrisisall
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