Dear Hollywood:

[yendi]

Stop it. Right fucking now. We do not need another fucking Snake Plissken.

Comments

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Not even John Carpenter And Co. could make a remake of Escape From New York. They tried, 11 years ago. The one benefit: Shirley Walker's score kicked ass. But otherwise, 'twas ass-flavored.

So: word.

[yendi]

Two benefits: Bruce Campbell's Surgeon General was wonderful.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Oh. True, dat. (Getting to feel up Valeria Golino was, I'm sure, a fringe benefit...)

I remember writing (when I reviewed Vampires back in '98) that when John Carpenter's films don't work, they sound "as if each line of dialogue was written by a different person in a different room." I was thinking of Escape From L.A. when I wrote that.

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely the high point. And I always enjoy Ms. Pam Grier. But otherwise, eep.

[lovingboth]

Compared to the original's? No way!

There was one good section, coincidentally the Surgeon General.

[boomuse.livejournal.com]

Even though my love for Gerard Butler is deep and unpure, EVEN I think this is a sucktastic idea.

[montykins.livejournal.com]

We do not need another fucking Snake Plissken.

"...we don't need to know the WAYYY HOOOMMMEE!"

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Ah, an fellow '80s survivor... ;-) That's fantastic.

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

What?! Another friggin pointless remake?! LEAVE SNAKE ALONE, DAMMIT!

[ewin.livejournal.com]

I could have done without the original, actually.

[lovingboth]

Heresy! :)

[ewin.livejournal.com]

Ah, there it is. :)

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Well...I dunno. Maybe if they had him fighting Samuel L. Jackson....

[reannon.livejournal.com]

That is the only way this would not suck. :)

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

"I have had it with these motherfrakkin' Snake Plisskens in this motherfrakkin' city!"

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

I could go for Samuel L. as The Duke...

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

Oh... dear...

*sobs*

[phantom_wolfboy]

I thought he was dead?

(Well, someone had to say it . . .

[yndy.livejournal.com]

ugh.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I think Butler's gonna have a lot of roles to shop from.

I don't think this is one he needs.

[amokk]

Didn't any of these people learn in school that making up your own stuff was better than using someone elses?

In school it's plagiarism, in Hollywood it's business as usual.

[windswept.livejournal.com]

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