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Bird, I'm glad your sister is alright. I spoke to a couple of animation/special effects pros I know in the UK and got all sorts of unpleasant details. As someone who watched the towers burn for three weeks after 9/11, and having just recently visited that wonderful city called London (I do love...

Hi Bird & welcome, Write 'em. With the other board collapsing badly, it doesn't surprise me that you'd be looking for a little productive chat elsewhere. I'd agree with write em about the old addage of write for what you know, with one caveat; write the movie you really want to see! The flip...

It's usually based on whoever gets the best deal negotiated by the agent, and get's the highest credit, though often the most prestigeous actor will get the line..... and So and So (actor) as Such and Such (character) at the end of the credits during the opening. Sometimes it's alphabetical...

Wozy, I made a similar offer myself at another post board to get a little variety in my life a year or so ago and had, eh, a few*interesting* (as well as a couple of good) experiences. If you're getting responses to your offer, then you're certain to see and hear some unusual things! Good luck!

OH! Oops! Cross-pollinated posts! Next time I'm say the NAME!

Bird, Audrey Hepburn's movie caper with Peter O'Tool: "How to Steal A Million." Very good , if you like light romantic comedy from that era.

Garmon, "Can you tell the story better?" This really harkens back to an early part of this thread, in which we all kinda agreed that remaking films most people could agree were never good in the first place was a bit different than remaking classics( but that one could be sticky too...

Shipley, Ray is personally very much a gentleman. I can say this catagorically. I can also say catagorically that what I also quoted him prior as saying is true, since that's on record, also. He has stated his public opinion on it, and I'll respect his public opinion on it. Do trust me, not...

Actaully, so did George Pal, and I love that film. I suspect that all films based on War of the Worlds will reflect Orson Wells' radio broadcast elements, as did that film. With part of the new version filmed in New Jersey, where the invasion started in the radio broadcast, I'm guessing there...

Imagine, a story about earth being invaded by men from mars! Man, has that guy got a head on his shoulders! (Okay, I'll stop.....)

Actually, I don' think you're being nearly as harsh this time as in the post prior. Considering it is a remake, I think its absolutely fair to question his motivations, just as colorizing or anything else (colorizing was defended on the same principal, that it would make B&W films appealing to...

Well, she did do that caper with Peter O'Tool, all we have to do is update it with guns and explosions. Hey! We can do a REMAKE!

Bird, Some interesting choices being posted here. I take your point about Athena, it may be that I'm thinking of the style in whch they have been presented in the past ten years. As far as actresses form the past, the list could be miles long. Wouldn't it have been interesting to see Audrey...

Remaking a film is rarely done for anything OTHER than in money, certainly not inspiration, a conventional wisdom i thought everyone pretty much understood. There is no bigger fan of Kong than Ray Harryhausen, and he said he would never have thought of remaking Kong out of respect for the...

Jackson may be doing film history a favor, now, just like DeLaurentis did, when distributors decided it was worth releasing Kong on primetime TV with the censored scenes restored . How it helps in the long run I have no idea. As far as throbbing brain cells, try to work out existentialism...

Dunst would be excellent in that kind of thing.

Well, this discussion is taking some stupid turns (not you, Walter), so I'll leave it where it is.

Okay, I'll play. Uma Thurman and sara Michelle Geller are already out there doing it, more or less, though not spcifically in the sci-fi genre (thriller for Thurman, horror for Geller) . Maybe someone VERY against type, like sandra Bulloch, which would either be an amazing success or an...

Well, in a way we sort of already have the first part, and it's called copyright law. We also do have experts who decide which are good films, like the AFI's 100 best films list, much of which I felt was a joke, not only in content, but concept. I DO think that for film history sanity in a...

In my mind we don't need to any more than we needed to see colorization, the remake of psycho, et al. For me, it's the principal of the thing.