They're taunting Happy Fun Ball.

[tnmisery]

I've spent this day of unending rain bothering everyone I know on Facebook.  I mentioned my pro-active HATE for the new version of The Thing (a prequel, but I STILL HATE IT) and a good person linked me to this:

75 Movie Remakes and Reboots Currently In the Works

TEARS OF BLOOD.  If I don't even consider the tv series and recent foreign films being

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[sp23]

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK! THE FUCKERS ARE PLANNING ON RE-DOING ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK! A POX ON THEM UNTO THE TENTH GENERATION.

I'm Charlton Heston and that summary is the Statue of Liberty.

ROFLMAO. Oh, god, so, so true.

And that list just adds proof to the fact that this current crop of Hollywood pinheads have not one ounce of originality. Not that scripts have ever been terribly original. Hell, even Shakespeare was a great big ole plagiarist.

[tnmisery]

I think I wouldn't be as pissed off if these yahoos would just STEAL the source material and quit it with all this prequel-reboot-remake BULLSHIT. Just steal, give it a brand new name and cash in already!

Calling a piece of shit a REBOOTED piece of shit immediately means MONEY OUT THE WAZOO, so that's what everyone just has to do. MEANWHILE, I'm over here thinking I hated the original version and wouldn't pay 10 fucking cents to see whatever new fresh bullshit they're peddling. OR I'm thinking about a prequel to The Thing and GNASHING MY TEETH. *SPITS*

STEAL AND LIE TO ME ABOUT IT. PLEASE. I'M BEGGING. KTHXBAI.

[sp23]

Seriously, what the hell kind of prequel could they do? Is it all about the Thing, and how he had to leave his planet and his love to go to Earth only to get caught in the ice of several millennia while his love pines away on their home planet, and therefore turning The Thing into a fucking Teen Romance? In 3-D. I MEAN WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?

[tnmisery]

HAAAAAA, THAT WOULD BE PREFERABLE.

APPARENTLY, they've chosen a couple of young American actors, the chick being a Research!Scientist!, and they go hang out with the Norwegians, shoot the shit and be really fucking cold together before they ALL DIE.

So, I think a big, 3-D insano alien love story would rock my ass compared to this. Really. We know what happens. I don't need or want any more backstory on the Thing, because I LIKE THE NOT KNOWING. IT'S PART OF THE SCARY. WTF, HOLLYWOOD.
Maybe a musical 3-D alien romance. A fucking OVERWROUGHT OPERA OF ALIEN ROMANCE, AND THE STUPID HUMANS GET INFESTED WITH THING COOTIES AND ARE FORCED TO DRESS IN PIRATE OUTFITS AND SING LOVE SONGS AGAINST THEIR WILL. FUCK YES.

[txvoodoo]

Was it Scott who linked you to it? He linked me to it today.

[tnmisery]

Heeeee.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT LIST? I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE.

I don't even know how to begin to feel about Ridley Scott being a big part of the Alien fuckery. IDEFK.

HOLY SHIT, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE DARK TOWER?!?!?!
Talk about not knowing how to feel. I think I feel FUCKING SICK. Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer. I DON'T TRUST THEM WITH THIS. Check their credentials. I'm not seeing anything to indicate they're even remotely close to being up to this task.
J.J. Abrams drops out because he loves it too much to fuck it up and here come these guys? I can find no sunshine and unicorns that it's finally being made. WOE. AND STRIFE.

[txvoodoo]

This pretty much sums up why I don't watch movies anymore. TV shows. They're good.

[petzipellepingo]

"points to icon"

[thedabara_cds]

Jesus fucking Christ! The only way I'd watch any of these is if they gave me a button that was remotely linked to an inserted cattle prod, and every time the film made me want to retch I could push the button and remotely tazer all the producers.

The worst part is that I could think of 20 films off the top of my head that would be great fodder for a remake - good B-movies that were underappreciated in their time and could be updated and make a really entertaining new film. But what fucking criteria do these guys use to pick remakes anyway? This is completely whacked!!@*!!

[tnmisery]

YOUR ICON IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ICON EVER AND HAS TOUCHED MY SOUL IN A WAY NO OTHER ICON HAS BEFORE. LOVE X INFINITY

Also? Wordy McFucking Word.