Poll of the Day > A good remake of They Live would be pretty much impossible now

(+) Yeah! (+)

No one can stop consuming!
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Not sure it'd ever get remade. However, if it did, hopefully they'd cast Dean Ambrose in Roddy Piper's role.
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Would it ironically cause more douchebags to buy Obey clothing?
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It would suck just like the Total Recall or Robocop remakes.
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Half the charm of that movie was in the terrible acting. If they remade it today, it would be an overproduced CG disaster.
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They did "remake" They Live, in Saints Row IV. "He Lives"
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TheOrangeMisfit posted...

Would it ironically cause more douchebags to buy Obey clothing?

tbh, those would be kinda neat if the OBEY only showed under certain lighting.
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The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.
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http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104200/cripple-fight

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

Not really how remakes work, though. Usually the better a movie was, the more likely some studio exec will be to try to remake it for a quick buck. Luckily, however, a lot of those projects get stuck in development hell =p
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Zeus posted...

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

Not really how remakes work, though. Usually the better a movie was, the more likely some studio exec will be to try to remake it for a quick buck. Luckily, however, a lot of those projects get stuck in development hell =p

This is a really dumb and pedantic point to make dude, it in no way changes the fact that

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

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Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

Not really how remakes work, though. Usually the better a movie was, the more likely some studio exec will be to try to remake it for a quick buck. Luckily, however, a lot of those projects get stuck in development hell =p

This is a really dumb and pedantic point to make dude, it in no way changes the fact that

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

And that's a dumb and petty comment to make, bro, which in no way changes what I said.
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Zeus posted...

Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

Not really how remakes work, though. Usually the better a movie was, the more likely some studio exec will be to try to remake it for a quick buck. Luckily, however, a lot of those projects get stuck in development hell =p

This is a really dumb and pedantic point to make dude, it in no way changes the fact that

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

And that's a dumb and petty comment to make, bro, which in no way changes what I said.

Deal with it
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Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

Not really how remakes work, though. Usually the better a movie was, the more likely some studio exec will be to try to remake it for a quick buck. Luckily, however, a lot of those projects get stuck in development hell =p

This is a really dumb and pedantic point to make dude, it in no way changes the fact that

papercup posted...

The movie is fun as is, doesn't need a remake.

And that's a dumb and petty comment to make, bro, which in no way changes what I said.

Deal with it

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.
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If they remade it the story would be secretly communistic with the hidden alia s being racist intestlar capitalists that make people fight each other so they can steal theearths riches and humans have to band together to attack all the richest ceos in the world who have slightly altered names and appearances because they are all part of the capitalist alien group.

Naturally the U.S. pres will be sympathetic to aliens and will go on some stawmanned monologue about how capitalists believe in survival of fittest and social darwinism and equate it to capitalism somehow and its evil to fight against your slave opressors.
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As long as keith david is in it.
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Mead posted...

Deal with it

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

PyroBlade1985 posted...

What studios SHOULD do is remake bad movies. You know, make it good the second time around.

If a movie didn't perform well once at the box office, studios tend to assume that the same will be true of the remake so it's a money-losing prospect. Plus a lot of bad movies don't deserve to be remade. However, in general, I should note there's a curious contempt for film & tv remakes not found in other media. People are okay with covers of songs, revivals of renditions and plays are often praised while being compared to previous versions, etc.
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Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

Im not the one that kisses Trumps ass and praises him. By the way, have you saved up money to pay for the wall yet?
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TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

Im not the one that kisses Trumps ass and praises him. By the way, have you saved up money to pay for the wall yet?

Pointing out that bullshit accusations are bullshit isn't praising anybody, but nice deflection.
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I realize I didn't address this originally but, when glancing back at the topic, I'm tempted to just toss this out there:

Lokarin posted...

No one can stop consuming!

You mean like in the 1980s? >_>
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Zeus posted...

I realize I didn't address this originally but, when glancing back at the topic, I'm tempted to just toss this out there:

Lokarin posted...

No one can stop consuming!

You mean like in the 1980s? >_>

Well, it's digital consumption these days... I coined the term eBesity, but it's not catching on since no one seems to have a problem downloading like 100gigs of video every day
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Lokarin posted...

I coined the term eBesity, but it's not catching on

Well, it has another meaning dating back to 2011 apparently

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087971/

Most people call it digital hoarding, though. And that term goes back to 2012 or earlier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_hoarding
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Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

Im not the one that kisses Trumps ass and praises him. By the way, have you saved up money to pay for the wall yet?

Pointing out that bullshit accusations are bullshit isn't praising anybody, but nice deflection.

Again, have you saved up money for the wall that YOU claimed Mexico would "pay for"? (If Trump raises tariffs, Mexican companies will raise the prices, meaning American taxpayers will actually be paying for the wall.)
BTW, GWB tried raising tariffs on steel. He backed down a year later, after American companies were closed due to the negative effects.
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TyVulpine posted...

BTW, GWB tried raising tariffs on steel. He backed down a year later, after American companies were closed due to the negative effects.

American steel was already in a death spiral. Those tariffs just paved the road to hell, as will these.

I hope it gets made and they used technology to cast a cgi roddy piper with an impersonator.

coinstarcad posted...

I hope it gets made and they used technology to cast a cgi roddy piper with an impersonator.

Actually, get Randy Orton
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TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

Im not the one that kisses Trumps ass and praises him. By the way, have you saved up money to pay for the wall yet?

Pointing out that bullshit accusations are bullshit isn't praising anybody, but nice deflection.

Again, have you saved up money for the wall that YOU claimed Mexico would "pay for"? (If Trump raises tariffs, Mexican companies will raise the prices, meaning American taxpayers will actually be paying for the wall.)
BTW, GWB tried raising tariffs on steel. He backed down a year later, after American companies were closed due to the negative effects.

...and if Mexican companies raise their prices, people start buying American and there's more money going around in *our* economy instead of flowing out to a nation which undercuts us on labor thanks to unsafe working conditions and abysmally low wages. We have a massive trade deficit with Mexico before you even get into the fact that Mexican government is helping people sneak across our border including, as the NYT reported, by providing them with pamphlets detailing the best places to make a crossing.

In general, tariffs tend to be more of a Democrat thing because most Republicans don't give fuck-all about labor whereas Democrats listen to unions, etc. Tariffs protect US labor and -- back before tariffs were gutted (mostly by Republicans) -- tariffs used to pay for the majority of the federal budget which is why income taxes were far lower. However, people decided to fuck over Americans twice -- first, by letting foreign labor undercut them THEN by charging them more for the privilege of having their jobs lost (higher taxes).
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TyVulpine posted...

BTW, GWB tried raising tariffs on steel. He backed down a year later, after American companies were closed due to the negative effects.

....and other companies opened. And he removed them because of WTO sanctions, not because of any economic impact.

Lokarin posted...

coinstarcad posted...

I hope it gets made and they used technology to cast a cgi roddy piper with an impersonator.

Actually, get Randy Orton

It's like you don't know who Dean Ambrose is.
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Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

Im not the one that kisses Trumps ass and praises him. By the way, have you saved up money to pay for the wall yet?

Pointing out that bullshit accusations are bullshit isn't praising anybody, but nice deflection.

Again, have you saved up money for the wall that YOU claimed Mexico would "pay for"? (If Trump raises tariffs, Mexican companies will raise the prices, meaning American taxpayers will actually be paying for the wall.)
BTW, GWB tried raising tariffs on steel. He backed down a year later, after American companies were closed due to the negative effects.

...and if Mexican companies raise their prices, people start buying American and there's more money going around in *our* economy instead of flowing out to a nation which undercuts us on labor thanks to unsafe working conditions and abysmally low wages. We have a massive trade deficit with Mexico before you even get into the fact that Mexican government is helping people sneak across our border including, as the NYT reported, by providing them with pamphlets detailing the best places to make a crossing.

In general, tariffs tend to be more of a Democrat thing because most Republicans don't give fuck-all about labor whereas Democrats listen to unions, etc. Tariffs protect US labor and -- back before tariffs were gutted (mostly by Republicans) -- tariffs used to pay for the majority of the federal budget which is why income taxes were far lower. However, people decided to fuck over Americans twice -- first, by letting foreign labor undercut them THEN by charging them more for the privilege of having their jobs lost (higher taxes).

You can start by getting the Trump family to stop having their products made overseas.
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TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Zeus posted...

TyVulpine posted...

Forget trying to talk sense into people like Zeus, they just wont ever get it.

...he says without the slightest trace of irony or self-awareness.

Im not the one that kisses Trumps ass and praises him. By the way, have you saved up money to pay for the wall yet?

Pointing out that bullshit accusations are bullshit isn't praising anybody, but nice deflection.

Again, have you saved up money for the wall that YOU claimed Mexico would "pay for"? (If Trump raises tariffs, Mexican companies will raise the prices, meaning American taxpayers will actually be paying for the wall.)
BTW, GWB tried raising tariffs on steel. He backed down a year later, after American companies were closed due to the negative effects.

...and if Mexican companies raise their prices, people start buying American and there's more money going around in *our* economy instead of flowing out to a nation which undercuts us on labor thanks to unsafe working conditions and abysmally low wages. We have a massive trade deficit with Mexico before you even get into the fact that Mexican government is helping people sneak across our border including, as the NYT reported, by providing them with pamphlets detailing the best places to make a crossing.

In general, tariffs tend to be more of a Democrat thing because most Republicans don't give fuck-all about labor whereas Democrats listen to unions, etc. Tariffs protect US labor and -- back before tariffs were gutted (mostly by Republicans) -- tariffs used to pay for the majority of the federal budget which is why income taxes were far lower. However, people decided to fuck over Americans twice -- first, by letting foreign labor undercut them THEN by charging them more for the privilege of having their jobs lost (higher taxes).

You can start by getting the Trump family to stop having their products made overseas.

And the only way to do that is to ensure that other products were being made in the US instead of overseas, otherwise the foreign is undercutting the domestic. The government has created every incentive for businesses to manufacture abroad.
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Yeah, good luck getting companies to agree to come back and spend more on products here than having them made cheaply overseas, especially when The Donald is doing just that, along with Ivanka. Why should American companies do that when Trump himself isnt?
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TyVulpine posted...

Yeah, good luck getting companies to agree to come back and spend more on products here than having them made cheaply overseas, especially when The Donald is doing just that, along with Ivanka. Why should American companies do that when Trump himself isnt?

...hence why we need more taxes on imported goods. Otherwise the companies that rely on American labor will be undercut by companies that use foreign labor, thus forcing them to use foreign as well. It's about leveling the playing field.
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No, just no. Other countries have threatened to raise tariffs on US exports. A tariff War is the LAST thing you want, as it would mean higher costs at the checkout. Even you should understand that nobody wants to pay more simply because Trumpy wants a wall that wont stop illegals or drugs.
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TyVulpine posted...

No, just no. Other countries have threatened to raise tariffs on US exports. A tariff War is the LAST thing you want, as it would mean higher costs at the checkout. Even you should understand that nobody wants to pay more simply because Trumpy wants a wall that wont stop illegals or drugs.

Uh, what? These are completely different issues. If Mexico was being tariffed to fund a wall, Europe wouldn't raise its tariffs to defend Mexico. And a tariff war with Mexico wouldn't happen because Mexico knows it would be suicide for them, considering that we account for the largest share of their exports.
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Zeus look at what you did to this topic

This is the kind of devastation you leave in your wake. Shame on you
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Mead posted...

Zeus look at what you did to this topic

This is the kind of devastation you leave in your wake. Shame on you

Victim-blaming, nice.
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Zeus posted...

Mead posted...

Zeus look at what you did to this topic

This is the kind of devastation you leave in your wake. Shame on you

Victim-blaming, nice.

You crossed a line, pay tariff nao
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