Remakes

Im not to happy with all the remakes at are surfacing around now. Footloose, Top Gun, and the Three Musketeers, are the few that I remember. Footloose has an all new cast and Top Gun is getting done in 3D of in your face homoerotica. Goose Dies.

I'm actually pretty pissed off about The Musketeers remake. I love the 1993 version and i think it was one of the few Disney movies that was actually done right. With its allstar cast
Keefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Charlie Sheen, and Michael Wincott.
The movie itself is outstanding, its funny, great action, comraderie, a chase scene, betrayal, and just an amazingly fun action movie. This remake with Orlando Bloom(default renaissance guy, since Pirates of the Caribbean) and Milla Jovovich(who i love) looks like they took the game Assassins Creed and put it to film. Theres the Flying dutchman, which is a flying ship/blimp/thing which has an airbattle straight from Pirates but in the air. And they made the Countess D'Winter out to be some crazy Electra assassin in a corsett and bloomers. None of it looks fit for the period except the clothing. Its pretty much an affront to the novel by Alexandre Dumas which from last i check included no mention of flying blimps and other such redikulousness.

In essence i guess im just not a fan of remakes unless they are true to form. Along the same vein, the Count of Monte Cristo (also by Alexandre Dumas) was remade with Guy Pierce, but it kept pretty much the same storyline just updated from the 1975 version and it was good.

While i am putting up a fuss about this remake because of the over the top of it all, which isnt really needed for good storytelling, i am very much looking forward to the Sherlock Holmes sequel the Game of Shadows. I loved the first movie they did, and Robert Downedy Jr, and Jude Law are marvelous together, and I hope the sequel builds on the foundation that first one built. Guy Ritchie has a habit or directing good movies, so i doubt that i have much to worry about it.

Any remakes that you guys have seen and are looking forward to, hated very much so, or want to talk about?

Next they will remake Goonies, and Terminator 1.