The audio quality on this might be worse than usual as I had to record it while dealing with a bout of COVID. My bad 😮💨
@polyestermammoth740
9 күн бұрын
Hope you are feeling better. Another brilliant video.
@steve_santiago
8 күн бұрын
You didn’t skip a beat actually. Great video as always. Get well soon!
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
dan aykroyd “But boy, I liked that film,” the Saturday Night Live alum continued. “I thought that the villain at the end was great. I loved so much of it. And of course, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you’re never going to do better than that. So I go on the record as saying I’m so proud to have been able to license that movie and have a hand and have a part in it, and I’m fully supportive of it, and I don’t besmirch it at all. I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made.”
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
dan aykroyd “I liked the movie Paul Feig made with those spectacular women,” Aykroyd said. “I was mad at them at the time because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about costs. And it cost perhaps more than it should, and they all do. All these movies do.”
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
Dan Aykroyd Defends ‘Ghostbusters’ All-Female Reboot Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig "I'm fully supportive of it, and I don't besmirch it at all," the actor and screenwriter says. "I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made." BY CARLY THOMAS Plus Icon JULY 27, 2024
@OrangeCatIntellect
9 күн бұрын
Worst ones are truly The Crow, The Lion King and Psycho
@sheilaholmes8455
9 күн бұрын
Especially Psycho.
@jseipp
9 күн бұрын
Whenever Disney does a remake I just assume it's for copyright reasons lol
@kenon6968
9 күн бұрын
Psycho and Carrie, shot for shot remakes with worse casts, what could go wrong
@ashwilliams84
8 күн бұрын
I honestly don't think Psycho was that bad, Vince Vaughn in a serious role is seriously under rated to me
@dcluvspie5777
8 күн бұрын
@@kenon6968Psycho was at least competently directed it was just a baffling choice for Gus
@dwc1964
9 күн бұрын
Some movies should never be remade, for the simple reason that they already exist in their optimal form, so any such attempt will _necessarily_ fail. _Ghostbusters_ and _RoboCop_ are two of them.
@davidsavage5630
9 күн бұрын
Only movies with potential/good concepts but that didn't live up to that potential should be remade. Remaking a classic is just asking to fail. Spawn is the type of thing that should be remade. There's a really good movie to be made from that....but the movie they DID make wasn't it..
@bb1111116
9 күн бұрын
The massive success of Disney which owns Marvel / Star Wars / Avatar, pushed other studio executives to ask, why their franchises couldn’t have $billion films. As a result of that, medium level hits such as with Star Trek (2009), Prometheus, Hellboy or The Mummy were no longer big enough box office for other studios. It was a $billion or failure. That brought in excessive studio executive meddling with the writing and directing. The result was instead of getting medium level hits, several franchises were killed (for awhile at least) by a filmmaking committee approach.
@Syntopikon
9 күн бұрын
This is pretty spot on. Bob Iger even said that they started to get disappointed when a movie failed to break a billion dollars. While it's become more common as of the 2010s, it's still a wild ask and studios are going to have to get happy with having modest hits. I hope we see an uptick in mid-budget films as movies like the John Wick series, Civil War, plenty of horrors, and Anyone But You prove they can be successful. I'd say Avatar is the only outlier because James Cameron seems to be in a category of his own. Then again, I think it's safe to say that he himself is the franchise.
@deadeyedmillennialmedia
9 күн бұрын
The thing about the Nu-Crow is that it was, in no way, shape or form an adaptation of the comic. And for something that claims to not be remaking the original, it’s hilarious they have a character yell the opening dialogue of the first film directly at the protagonist.
@ADreamingTraveler
Күн бұрын
The funniest thing about Ghostbusters is the video game was essentially the third movie. It was that good. Absolutely loved it. Yes it's not a movie but it still felt like a sequel to the movies with great writing and a lot of the cast reprising their roles
@Syntopikon
Күн бұрын
Yup, Ivan Reitman would agree with you.
@wiseguy100
8 күн бұрын
Cushing and Lee weren't one of the greatest friendships in Hollywood history. They were one of the greatest friendships in the British film industry ;)
@Syntopikon
7 күн бұрын
Lol fair point
@dwc1964
9 күн бұрын
Remakes and reboots of movies and TV series are like cover versions of songs. They _can_ be good, even surpassing the original, _if they do everything right._ If you're going to do one of these, you do _not_ want a shot-for-shot (or note-for-note) redo, because that will almost always prompt the _why?_ question. That sort of thing can be good exercise, fun for a home movie (or a concert in between the new stuff and the old hits), but not for a full-budget feature for theatrical release or an album. Ideally, you want something that you have an entirely different take on, that stands on its own as a creative work rather than being a do-over of someone else's thing. To my mind, John Carpenter's _The Thing_ is like Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" - it takes the core idea of the original (or in the case of _The Thing,_ the original source material) in a wildly different direction, to the point where future generations are surprised that they _aren't_ the original.
@NebLleb
7 күн бұрын
John Carpenter's The Thing made the right move by being moreso an adaptation of the original book than a remake. Because of this, it created a worthy revisit of the concept with some of the best scares and practical effects ever in a film. In fact, any "remake" that instead serves as a new adaptation of the original source mostly has a chance of being good: IT: Chapter One, an adaptation of the 1950s plot from Stephen King's horror doorstopper, comes to mind for me. IT was filmed once as a miniseries, and sure that miniseries is meant to be good, but IT: Chapter One featured effects, frights, and an intense atmosphere that make it a worthy redo of the concept. In fact, it was my first Stephen King film adaptation that I saw and it was a great choice.
@emmajeane
8 күн бұрын
thank you so much for including the robocop dummy shot at 17:35 its one of the funniest ever to me
@tumppuman
9 күн бұрын
I for one still think that without studio interference and given an R-rating Padilha could have made a good RoboCop movie. His Elite Squad movies have some similar themes as RoboCop. But lesson is, never make a studio mandated remake of a Paul Verhoeven film. It's an failed endevour from the start. Especially with an PG-13 rating. Total Recall remake was also generic action movie crap. As for The Mummy, in my opinion it's hardly a remake of the 1999 movie. The movies have very little in common. They just wanted to use the property to start the Dark Universe. The 1999 Mummy has more in common with 1932 one.
@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
7 күн бұрын
If they didn't want an R rating, why hire Padilha at all? They was stupid.
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
dan aykroyd “But boy, I liked that film,” the Saturday Night Live alum continued. “I thought that the villain at the end was great. I loved so much of it. And of course, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig, you’re never going to do better than that. So I go on the record as saying I’m so proud to have been able to license that movie and have a hand and have a part in it, and I’m fully supportive of it, and I don’t besmirch it at all. I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made.”
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
dan aykroyd “I liked the movie Paul Feig made with those spectacular women,” Aykroyd said. “I was mad at them at the time because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about costs. And it cost perhaps more than it should, and they all do. All these movies do.”
@neilhannan7525
9 күн бұрын
Remeber Red Dawn 1984 movie that people sees as Propaganda but no one talks about how Red Dawn 2012 is Actually Propaganda i cringed when they have one of the character rob a subway and they reference Call of Duty i was rooting for the Chinese i mean North Koreans
@Syntopikon
9 күн бұрын
You just jogged my memory and made me remember that I actually saw the 2012 remake in theaters.
@KasumiKenshirou
8 күн бұрын
I forgot about that. The villains were going to be Chinese, but the studio changed it at the last minute to North Koreans to appease their Chinese investors. Marvel did something similar in Dr. Strange, changing The Ancient One from being a Tibetan man to Tilda Swinton to appease the Chinese. I don't know why they couldn't just change the Chinese dub to have him say he's from mainland China and hates Winnie the Pooh or whatever the hell kind of crap the CCP wanted. They filmed special scenes exclusively for the Chinese version of one of the Iron Man movies.
@henrywallacesghost5883
4 күн бұрын
Universal monster universe was probably the biggest failure. They had so many movies lined up after Cruise's Mummy movie.
@NightSentinel51
9 күн бұрын
The reason why these types of movies fail is simply because they lack any creativity. Instead of adding or exploring what came before, they simply steal and do the same while not understanding what makes those old films great. IT'S all about the money and nothing else. And when they fail, it's somehow the customers that are wrong. Maybe it's me but I know what I like and what I dislike.
@moviemaniac14
9 күн бұрын
Interesting you mentioned Scarface (1983) and The Thing (1982) in the beginning of remakes that did do well, and while they have gathered popularity over the years, they both still bombed heavily at the box office, and even received Razzie nominations as well. I guess that's something for a whole other video idea because you could also include The Shining in that lineup as well (minus the remake factor).
@bradroberts4202
8 күн бұрын
Spike Lee's "reimagining" of the classic Korean movie, Old Boy is #1 on my sh*t remakes list. It's absolutely abysmal, apart from the "father" scene. (If you've watched it, you will know what I mean). 😀
@KasumiKenshirou
8 күн бұрын
I forgot about that one.
@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
7 күн бұрын
I heard even Lee disowned it.
@carmelosgro6413
9 күн бұрын
The Mummy bombed because Tom Cruise made it about himself instead of the title character
@mannyja
2 күн бұрын
The female Ghostbusters could have served as a sequel if done correctly.
@bryedtan
9 күн бұрын
You should do a video on remakes done right especially remaking bad films and making them better in particular films like 1980s Dune to the new Dune even comparing the first Super Mario Bros with the animated one.
@leesimmons5453
9 күн бұрын
The reason Mignola blocked Del Toro from directing the third Hellboy movie was because he didn't like changes that Del Toro made to the character and wanted a more comic accurate version. That said, the movie has some strange differences from the comic: Hellboy sympathizes with the monsters (the opposite of the comics I read), Professor Broom seems more of a villian, and the comic is less about gore than mood. Go figure.
@NebLleb
9 күн бұрын
And sure enough, Mignola is now producing a second reboot that IS focusing on the mood more than gore (The Crooked Man). TBH, makeup isn't good, but it looks promising.
@KasumiKenshirou
8 күн бұрын
That sounds a lot like how Stephen King didn't like original The Shining movie, and made that TV version that is generally considered to be a lot worse. Mignola should've stuck with Del Toro and worked with him to address his concerns. I haven't read any of the comics with the character in question, but wasn't there a Japanese character that was almost cast with a white actor until the public complained about whitewashing? If that's accurate, then that sounds like quite a deviation.
@leesimmons5453
8 күн бұрын
@KasumiKenshirou I think you mean Ghost in the Shell, where Scarlett Johansson played a Japanese character. And yeah, Mignola and Del Toro should have just ironed out their differences and completed the trilogy.
@masudashizue777
8 күн бұрын
I'd rather have them stop making films until they can actually come up with new ideas.
@seantlewis376
8 күн бұрын
When a classic gets remade, my most common response is "Why? Who asked for this?" There are times when a movie gets remade, and is improved, such as with "The Thing", but usually, the result is disappointing, and I'd rather watch the original again.
@Syntopikon
8 күн бұрын
That's pretty much the gist. Despite the connection between The Thing From Another World and The Thing, the former was black and white while the latter was in color. It's why I don't mind the "The Day the Earth Stood Still" remake with Keanu Reeves. I think there're allowances when there's some significant technological change i.e. silent to sound, black and white to color.
@Spiyder11
7 күн бұрын
Nothing makes me cringe more than that one magazine article where they were hyping up the Universal Monsterverse. And they had al the actors there and were really hyped about it! Only for it to fail badly 😅
@davidsavage5630
9 күн бұрын
The Fog remake from 2005 is the worst remake I've ever seen. Which makes it a contender for worst movie I've ever seen period..
@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
7 күн бұрын
Glad that Universal monsterverse failed. They were so smug thinking that they were 1st to do cinematic universe, so that means auto respect right? Wrong. But I never got the backlash for Tom Cruise for "stealing" The Mummy from Brendan Fraser. Like it's a reboot, of course it'll star another actor. Where was this backlash when The Rock got his Scorpion King spinoff or when The Mysterious Island starred him instead of Fraser, despite being a direct sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth?
@tsitracommunications2884
9 күн бұрын
they should had never made those films in the first place; thay way money would be saved and actors careers would be unscathed
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
Dan Aykroyd Defends ‘Ghostbusters’ All-Female Reboot Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig "I'm fully supportive of it, and I don't besmirch it at all," the actor and screenwriter says. "I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made." BY CARLY THOMAS Plus Icon JULY 27, 2024
@Novastar.SaberCombat
9 күн бұрын
As always, it usually depends on the script, direction, cast, and budget.
@bheast86
Күн бұрын
what do you really mean by 'failed'? - commercially or artistically? If the latter, then the most extreme failures must be the JJ Abrams STAR TREKs. the GHOSTBUSTERS revamp was in many respects better than the original, with a more sensible take on the scenario, and not heavily reliant on a Bill Murray type to do something brilliant (though the worst bits were probably the Ackroyd & Murray cameos).
@Kwippy
9 күн бұрын
The recent Twisters, who asked for that? But the very worst in my memory is the Psycho remake. It truly disgusted me.
@Syntopikon
9 күн бұрын
Yeah, I saw Twisters and wasn't a huge fan. I like each of the actors individually, but the movie as a whole was a bit lackluster. I compare every sequel that comes out decades later to Top Gun: Maverick and so far, they've all fallen short.
@Bisaju2
9 күн бұрын
I enjoyed twisters. It lacks the kinetic spectacle of the first though. But I liked the performances. However maybe no one asked for it and it did not do well internationally but it was popular in the "fly over" states. So apparently a bad tornado season in the southern United States wouldn't push people away for that movie. So I expected it to do well where I live. Which is texas. It overperformed its opening in the us and I felt it never should have been that underestimated. Hollywood thinks everything is new york and California. Also Glen Powell is hot stuff right now.
@internziko
9 күн бұрын
This channel is a gem and I'm happy it's growing. Keep up the great work.
@Itsberserkintime2024
9 күн бұрын
Cooper and Mcavoy ccould have been interesting choices....for a completely different Crow character, NOT Eric
@parth5k
9 күн бұрын
I have a cool idea for a video: Trilogies with forgotten extra films. Idk if it there would be enough for a full video but I think it would be cool to look into. (an example of this could be something like the jason bourne trilogy that actually has 5 films total in the franchise)
@steveaustin4118
9 күн бұрын
I think a remake of the crow no matter who played it would be a flop it's a remake nobody wanted
@ohuckabee
9 күн бұрын
The 2017 Mummy might not have been good, but it *did* have one of the better movie tie-in games.
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
@historylover
9 күн бұрын
Ghostbusters -- I'm a woman, and I have just never liked Kristin Wiig. I didn't like her on SNL. I never found her funny. Melissa McCarthy--I liked her in Gilmore Girls, and I like Spy (mainly because Jason Stratham is so funny in this movie), but I also don't find her all that funny, although I like her more dramatic turns. But, between the two of them, there was nothing about the 2016 Ghostbusters that appealed to me in any way.
@dcluvspie5777
8 күн бұрын
I mean people found them funny Bridesmaids was the highest grossing comedy of the year it came out so obviously they aren’t hated. The movie wasn’t good because it wasn’t good that’s all
@historylover
8 күн бұрын
@@dcluvspie5777 I didn't find Bridesmaids funny at all. But that's just not my sense of humor. Again, I have never found Kristin Wiig funny in slightest, and I realize I'm all by myself with that opinion.
@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
7 күн бұрын
I like Wiig, but not McCarthy. But I think both are better in dramas anyway.
@samuelcrows
9 күн бұрын
This an almost never ending list. And some of thoose could actually be good, like Hellboy.
@PaulVandersypen
8 күн бұрын
I hear Psycho is terrible because it is merely a shot-for-shot remake, except in colour. I haven't seen either version. The remake I want to add to this list is Total Recall.
@Syntopikon
7 күн бұрын
Yup, Total Recall would also fit. Psycho simply didn't need to be done.
@Sir_Godz
9 күн бұрын
Dracula has been done and redone dozens of times some of which were fantastic.
@CappyLarou
8 күн бұрын
You list all the people slated to play The Crow, yet leave out Jason Momoa the one that people wanted more than anyone. And it still would suck even if he was in it
@davidmeyer4506
3 күн бұрын
The Mummy had a broken trailer uploaded, go see it it's hilarious
@abdulmohsin23
9 күн бұрын
I kinda like new hellboi
@awesomedallastours
9 күн бұрын
Hellboy fighting the giant ogres was awesome!
@abdulmohsin23
8 күн бұрын
@@awesomedallastours yeah! We kinda like it. Great movie with low budget. Still fun, not like general movie these days
@larryisntmynamebutyoucanca9625
8 күн бұрын
I actually really like Ghostbusters 2016. Maybe it's cause I'm not a gigantic fan of the original, having only seen it a couple times, but the 2016 film holds up well as it's own comedy, especially in comparison to a lot of truly awful modern comedies. Plus, most comedies don't get such a large budget or fantastical premises. It's pretty good!
@KasumiKenshirou
8 күн бұрын
Is your real name David Manning?
@TheTyroofToriyama
9 күн бұрын
Scarface is a remake?!?!?!?
@Syntopikon
9 күн бұрын
Yup. The original Scarface movie is from 1932 and takes place Chicago. And both are adapted from a 1929 novel.
@TheTyroofToriyama
8 күн бұрын
@@Syntopikon 😯
@mchale1014
9 күн бұрын
Nice video
@Sus_Bak
9 күн бұрын
Can't wait for the SKIBIDI TOILET movie btw
@datmallers
8 күн бұрын
ghostbusters 2016 made more money at the box office than all the other ghostbusters apart from the 1st...... it also has the best critics score on imdb etc..... again apart from the first........ $229 million dollars box office
@robblumenberg5965
9 күн бұрын
I liked the 2014 Robocop movie.
@traveller2378
9 күн бұрын
jesus.. you need to hire a narrator
@michaelhband
8 күн бұрын
👍👍👍
@seangalvin4582
9 күн бұрын
The. Constant. Stops., as. If. There. Are. Periods. After. Every. Single. Word. Make. The. Videos. Hard. To. Get. Through. This channel is good. I enjoy the subject matter, editing and writing of the viideos, but the bizarre cadence of the narration is genuinely hard to get through. Not the voice. The voice is good- in fact the videos sound fine when they are reading quotes. Im not sure why, but they dont seem to perform those with the constant stops. I know that the whining and complaining of viewers is probably frustrating. I don't mean to sound mean or inconsiderate and i really believe this strange audio style can be hurting the channel. Thanks for your time.
@polyestermammoth740
9 күн бұрын
The female Ghostbusters reboot is far superior to the recent films, which play to all of the worst aspects of sequel bait, and are pretty dreadful films. At least the Feig film approached it from a fresh direction.
@NebLleb
9 күн бұрын
NO. Where did you come from, Reddit? At least Afterlife has a soul. Unlike 2016.
@ThePrinceofHisOwnKingdom
7 күн бұрын
Nah. The recent films suck but Feig's are worse.
@FrostytheWicked
9 күн бұрын
Calling Robocop a masterpiece is crazy
@polyestermammoth740
9 күн бұрын
It’s accurate
@tumppuman
9 күн бұрын
It's really not
@polyestermammoth740
9 күн бұрын
You can say you don’t like it- that’s fine- but you can’t deny the fact that it is made with such skill and is so highly thought of that it can legitimately be called a masterpiece. Perhaps you haven’t fully understood its nuances or the multiple levels that it is working on, or know enough about filmmaking, or even the context in which it was released, to fully comprehend what makes it great. That is on you. I wrote my masters dissertation on the film, so have pulled it apart from every angle, and I’ve seen enough films to know that the cream rises to the top. It’s a masterpiece. Bona fide. You can argue against that as much as you like but it’s a fact, a widely held one at that, and it’s not going to change because you say so. Robocop = masterpiece.
@erikscream
9 күн бұрын
How you go from Alexander to bill Skarsgård. You a weirdo for not giving us more info but I’ll find out to see if you bs like ya usually do
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