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Metropolis...could it be remade?

  • 02-05-2009 1:08am
    #1
    Richard Dower
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    A true classic, but could it ever be remade and updated?....or would it turn into a Fifth Element/CGI fest and just be utterly dire?....has anyone come close to putting a new movie together?

    or would the story and concepts just not work today?


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  • #2
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Have you seen the anime movie of the same name (loosely based on the 1927 movie) that was released in 2001? It's outstanding imo.


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Nooooooooooooooooooo! Thats like wondering if Potemkin would benefit from modern techniques.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mike65 wrote: »
    Nooooooooooooooooooo! Thats like wondering if Potemkin would benefit from modern techniques.

    The irony being that Potemkin gave us many of our modern tecniques.


  • #5
    funky penguin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    I have to write an elctro acoustic composition to this for Wednesday. HELP! :D

    Seriously though, easy when you have material like this to work with.


  • #6
    aidan_walsh
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    Richard Dower wrote: »
    A true classic, but could it ever be remade and updated?....or would it turn into a Fifth Element/CGI fest and just be utterly dire?....has anyone come close to putting a new movie together?

    or would the story and concepts just not work today?
    The Day The Earth Stood Still.

    That is all.


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  • #7
    pinksoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭pinksoir


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    Have you seen the anime movie of the same name (loosely based on the 1927 movie) that was released in 2001? It's outstanding imo.
    Yeah it's awesome. The jazz soundtrack is only fookin rapeh too.


  • #8
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    The Day The Earth Stood Still.

    That is all.

    You take that back.


  • #9
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The irony being that Potemkin gave us many of our modern tecniques.

    It also gave us Beshoffs fish and chips ;)


  • #10
    Brimmy
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    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    The Day The Earth Stood Still.

    That is all.

    From what I heard that wasn't too bad. I still haven't seen it though so disregard this.

    AS for Metropolis, could it be remade? Of course it could. Should it be remade though? I see no harm in it, it's not going to effect the original in anyway if someone wants to take a crack at it let them.


  • #11
    Not The Real Scarecrow
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    Remember being forced to watch this in college years ago.hated it and it bored the ****e outta me.Can see how advanced it was for its time ,but, from around that time I'm more of a Nosfereteau man,so I see no reason why it shouldn't be remade.The story was solid enough and has probably been imitated hundreds of times already and I think there was either a remake a few years back or it was colourised and given a special release.


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  • #12
    Richard Dower
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    Brimmy wrote: »
    From what I heard that wasn't too bad. I still haven't seen it though so disregard this.

    AS for Metropolis, could it be remade? Of course it could. Should it be remade though? I see no harm in it, it's not going to effect the original in anyway if someone wants to take a crack at it let them.

    No i agree, it really was bad....the first 20 mins were good, but it fell flat and they totally borked the story up. Keanu play his usual stiff plank.....even Gort was botched.

    Meh.


  • #13
    BlitzKrieg
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    From what I heard that wasn't too bad.

    Oh its really really bad.
    he irony being that Potemkin gave us many of our modern tecniques.

    It also led to October a 2 hour film by Eisenstien (sp?) about the october revolution completely edited as a montage.

    It really didnt work.

    In fact it almost turned me into a capatilist pig.



    On the notion of metropolis being remade, it should not be a question of can we? It should why should we? I wouldnt oppose a remake if it was genuine attempt at a modern interpetation of future urban civilisation and artificial intelligence in the future from a modern perspective.


  • #14
    mike65
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    BlitzKrieg wrote: »
    I wouldnt oppose a remake if it was genuine attempt at a modern interpetation of future urban civilisation and artificial intelligence in the future from a modern perspective.

    Blade Runner?


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