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Author Topic: Worst remakes: 2011 edition Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-12-2011 02:26 PM                        I am tempted to declare the race for worst remake of the year to be over already, based on the trailer for "Arthur" which looks positively amazingly awful. How anyone at WB could have put a stamp of approval on this remake of a truly wonderful movie is beyond imagination. Watch this trailer if you dare.  |  IP: Logged Bernie Anderson Jr Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Woodbridge, New Jersey Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-12-2011 04:57 PM                        Agreed  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-12-2011 05:27 PM                     ^^What he said. ^ What he said. v What he says.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-12-2011 05:37 PM                      |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-12-2011 07:04 PM                     Looks like a total waste of Helen Mirren.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-14-2011 09:27 AM                        While the title might be the same, it looks nothing like the original. We gotta remember - we're probably the only people who go to the movies now days who actually remember the original. I could probably ask all of my concessions staff about Dudley Moore's Arthur... and they'd all look back at me and go Huh? Who?  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 02-14-2011 10:23 AM                     No Christopher Cross. No sale.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-14-2011 10:39 AM                        It looks like they totally removed the Liza Minelli character from the story! At least that character isn't in the trailer (or did I just miss it?).  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 02-14-2011 12:31 PM                        New York Times article about filming the new Arthur According to the article I just found there is, in fact, someone playing the same role that Liza Minnelli played in the original movie. She's kind of an unknown actress so maybe the movie-makers wanted her to be kind of a surprise. Who knows? It also appears that Bollywood already remade Arthur anyway, which means this new movie is completely unnecessary, right? Unfortunately, it seems that the whole "alcoholism is funny" idea was already a problem when they made the official Arthur sequel in the late 1980s.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 02-14-2011 09:08 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley It looks like they totally removed the Liza Minelli character from the story! At least that character isn't in the trailer (or did I just miss it?). She is there, but not used much in the trailer. It's the woman in the first shot in the blue shirt who says "Who are you people?" She is played by a fairly new actress Greta Gerwig. Shw was last seen starring opposite Ben Stiller in Greenberg, and she was good in that so I think she'll suit the role.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-16-2011 04:33 PM                     Wait...it gets worse.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-16-2011 07:09 PM                        They used the same logo, but in the original the "a" was tipped up against the r. This time, it's just a flat, lazy remake of the logo. Probably a metaphor for the whole film. Jeez I usually try not to pre-judge a movie from its trailers but this one just keeps looking worse and worse.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-16-2011 07:54 PM                     Not that I ever want to see the trailer again, but didn't they tilt the 'a' in that?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-17-2011 01:30 PM                        No, in the trailer it's written like this: aRTHUR (but with all letters the same height)  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-17-2011 02:12 PM                     Ah.  |  IP: Logged

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