Remake of BloodSport Announced

Xlami

http://www.cagepotato.com/god-damn-it-those-hollywood-sons-of-bitches-are-remaking-bloodsport/

Remake of 80's classic Martial Arts films Blood Sport. This is probably my second favorite film of all time and I'm not looking forward to seeing a butchered remake. Martial Arts films of late have been very poor and was just wondering if anyone an interest in seeing this being re-made?

Phony Scott

I've no issues whatsoever about it being remade. The original was fun in a gory bone-crunching sort of way, so any remake would need a good director like Prachya Pinkaew at the helm.

Mickeroo

Guess I was about 10 when I saw blood sport, if its anything like I remember then its nothing short of the greatest movie ever made. Shouldn't be messing with the greats.

Otis Driftwood

I was a huge Van Damme fan when I was a kid.Looking at the movies nowadays,despite the rose tinted nostalgic glasses,they are actually pretty crappy so remakes of them doesnt bother me.

Hollywood has remade countless horror classics,most of movies that still hold up today so it was only a matter of time before the overpayed hacks picked a new genre to pillage.

I reckon this will be the first in what will be a slew of remakes from this particular genre.

Duggy747

Bloodsport is the Citizen Kane of our generation, how dare they mess with this celluloid masterpiece.

Heh, JCVD's films aren't particulary good bar this, JCVD, and his other early works. They have that charm that rises them up from being completely throwaway toff.

Duggy747

Duggy747 wrote: »

Bloodsport is the Citizen Kane of our generation, how dare they mess with this celluloid masterpiece.

Heh, JCVD's films aren't particulary good bar this, JCVD, and his other early works. They have that charm that rises them up from being completely throwaway toff.

Van Damme's last few films have been pretty damn watchable, Wake of Death had him try acting for the first time ever and he acquitted himself well. Then came The Shepard which was a great little action film and Until Death which was a real surprise given that he held his own and acted people like Stephen Rea off the screen. JCVD should by rights have been the start of something good, a return to theatrical releases but it wasn't to be. But that's not a bad thing, Universal Soldier Regeneration is one of the best action films of the past decade and his next few films, Weapon and Dragon eyes are shaping up well and he's going to get one hell of a career boost this summer with Kung F Panda 2.

There's only really one 80s action star who actively tried tot make something more than direct to DVD junk, Dolph Lundgren. Over the past decade he wrote, directed and starred in some very entertaining films. Stuff like The Mechanik, Missionary Man, etc will never be considered great art but for what they are they certainly do impress.