What's up with the pathetic remakes of shit

[RoIIo Tomassi]

Brain, face, spinal cord, and some rudimentary organs(like a stomach) to keep the organics alive. They also managed to save an arm, but the OCP guys agreed on full body prosthesis. So they lost the arm.
They were basically using the brain as a hard drive.

Speaking of the "dated" effects, if you ever get a chance to watch the Criterion DVD they've got some great documentaries about how they did a lot of the stop-motion ED-209 stuff. Great stuff.

[vynsane]

It's incredibly dated to the late '80s in terms of the effects, politics, and overall style, so I can't say I blame them for wanting to take the idea and update it to the modern world (though I'm sure that wasn't the original intention of the remake).

as long as they maintain the Amurican Robot Jesus angle...

[anarky]

Yeah, I don't watch any science fiction movies that have anything that date them. There was this movie on the other day, something about a farmboy on a desert planet who joined an old man and some robots to get a ride with a smuggler and a bigfoot so they could save this princess from a black robot or cyborg or something with magic powers. Anyway, I couldn't get past those shitty 1977 hairdos and references to "data tapes," so I gave up trying to watch it.

[vynsane]

also, death stars are SOOOO 70's...

[Diabolical]

I was just reminded of this:

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

Speaking of the "dated" effects, if you ever get a chance to watch the Criterion DVD they've got some great documentaries about how they did a lot of the stop-motion ED-209 stuff. Great stuff.

I did like this effect. The fact that it couldn't walk down stairs due to its giant feet was pretty goofy, though.

Yeah, I don't watch any science fiction movies that have anything that date them. There was this movie on the other day, something about a farmboy on a desert planet who joined an old man and some robots to get a ride with a smuggler and a bigfoot so they could save this princess from a black robot or cyborg or something with magic powers. Anyway, I couldn't get past those shitty 1977 hairdos and references to "data tapes," so I gave up trying to watch it.

Huh, sounds interesting. But aside from the haircuts and some of the technology, the fact that Star Wars isn't set on Earth or anywhere near the "modern day" makes such things easier to overlook, at least to me; they don't overwhelm any other elements. In Robocop, things like the "futuristic" cars and homes are immediately recognizable as decades out of date (the SUX was supposed to look shitty and old, but the top-of-the-line police cars don't look much better at this point). If they had presented it as the way things were (like in something like ET, which at least fully takes place in the time it was made) then it would have been less unintentionally funny. I guess it was the combination of the late Cold War era politics, '80s style presented as future-style, actual futuristic design elements (like the bulletproof vests) clearly designed in the '80s, and extremely '80s things like the cocaine use and evil corporations. It's difficult for any movie to make itself look timeless, and things like fashions are tweaked to still make them palatable for audiences (even The Godfather always reminds me more of the '70s than the '40s), so while it's not a bad thing, it's definitely still very, very dated.

[Diabolical]

The original Total Recall has a part where the bad guys are tracking Arnold with a GPS-type thing...and its the size of a 80s portable tv.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

Wargames is the king of looking dated. I literally laugh out loud every time I see him whip out those giant ass floppy discs.

[Ran]

Or how about that old modem that actually requires taking the land line receiver and hooking it to the computer?

[Diabolical]

Or early 90s sci-fi movies that use VHS tapes. Johnny Pnenomic comes to mind.

Or Alien, where the computer screens are black with green lettering.


This "Technology of Future Past" discussion sounds rather inane.

[vynsane]

and extremely '80s things like the cocaine use and evil corporations.

you're right, because there's no more of either of those things

This "Technology of Future Past" discussion sounds rather inane.

definitely - and can go way back in time to the era when they thought we'd have flying cars by now, and further...

[anarky]

IIRC, The Jetsons takes place 40 years from now.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

More in the "Remake" than the "Pathetic" side, the new Lone Ranger teaser.




It doesn't show much, and thus it hard to get excited. But it's the Writers, Director, Producer, and Star of the Pirates films. So, Benefit of the Doubt is heartily given.

[Ran]

IIRC, The Jetsons takes place 40 years from now.

Do you think it would tick anyone off at other websites if it was suggested that Cloud City was Jetson's rip off?

[Diabolical]

2 more technology of future past:
Lost in Space took place in 1997, IIRC and there was an old Looney Tunes where Elmer Fudd has a Rip van Winkle experience and wakes up in like 1996.


And we're getting awful close to BTTF's 2015.