Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Your Turn

I saw they are remaking Dirty Dancing. Simple question. Should it be remade or should you just leave it alone?

68 comments:

  1. I cannot be emphatic enough about this: LEAVE IT ALONE

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  2. Leave it alone.

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  3. Anonymous11:22 AM

    Why do they have to make a remake of it? Just like Psycho why did they ever make a remake and follow with continuations. They should have left Psycho alone. Classic movies should be left alone no remakes.

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  4. Leave it alone. Some things should never be tampered with. They could never, ever match the chemistry between Johnny and Baby. It's perfect the way it is. May the gods of dance intervene and stop the re-make before it begins.

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  5. Anonymous11:23 AM

    Leave Dirty Dancing ALOOOOOOOONE!

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  6. LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!

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  7. Has there ever been a remake that was better than the original?

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  8. leave it alone. I don't believe they ever thought it would do as well as it did which means (to me anyway ) that trying to recreate that type of chemistry and feel would be nearly impossible.

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  9. I doubt anyone in their right mind would think it's a good idea. Hollywood, wake the fuck up; remakes suck.

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  10. Did they learn nothing from the sequel?

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  11. They need to leave that film ALONE. NO REMAKES! NEVER!

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  12. Leave it alone, and I'm not even a fan of the film. Patrick and Jennifer were charming.

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  13. Agree with everyone .... LEAVE IT THE F#@CK ALONE!!!!!

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  14. It's not like they have a brain to think of anything else. They won't get any money from me.

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  15. Leave it THE FUCK alone. Dammit.

    Hollywood has NO ORIGINALITY ANYMORE -- hence the absolutely INSULTING upcoming sixties-era shows that are trying desperately to clone Mad Men. I just had to toss those in there -- I mean, could they PLEASE try to copy AMC more pathetically? Gawd.

    @Robert -- I'd argue that Adrian Lyne's version of Lolita was FAR better than the Kubrick one -- but that's an adaptation, not really a remake. And, obviously, the book was better than both those films.

    I *have* heard that the last True Grit was way better than the John Wayne version, but since Westerns bore me to tears, I'll probably pass on seeing both.

    If they ever remake The Wizard of Oz, I'm setting fire to the Hollywood sign. You heard it here, folks. If it happens, it was ME.

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  16. Don't mess with movie.......I love it.

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  17. I wonder if I'm the only one who hasn't seen it.

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  18. Groan...why, why? And it's not like there aren't good writers in H'wood shopping their ideas. Oy VEY!

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  19. High School Musical and Glee sexed up? Sure. Massive hit. (If done more as an "inspired by" than a literal remake.) Update the setting, cast two hotties and maybe a third unexpected super hottie to add some tension to the triangle/jealousy, and it would be massive.

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  20. I almost cried when I heard this this morning.

    Nobody puts the original in a corner!!!

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  21. Ha! Two Sherrys (I am # 2 today). I never saw the original DD either. And Ida, while I liked the second "True Grit" (and Jeff Bridges) there is still no one that can replace John Wayne. I liked the first better although the second was a good version.

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  22. Also, he kind of looks like Joe Francis.

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  23. Ida, please don't give 'em any ideas. Wizard of Oz? Oh hell no, what's next? Gone With the Wind? Aaaagggghhhh.

    I realize I'm in the minority here, but I was never a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I honestly liked Richard Marx's wife's dancing (too lazy to look her up) more than the others.

    I've got Stayin' Alive, A Chorus Line, and Flashdance on DVD and I'd hate to tell you how many times I've watched those movies. I love dancing, singing, and a romance, but Dirty Dancing never did it for me.

    Cynthia Rhodes! That's the name of the dancer I liked from from Dirty Dancing. She was in Flashdance and Stayin' Alive too.

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  24. LEAVE ALL ALONE AND STOP RAPING MY CHILDHOOD all for the stupid need for more and more money!

    That said, Dirty Dancing Havana Nights was literally the funniest hour and a half of my life. Seriously, it was so bad and unintentionally hilarious that it felt like a eating junk food for your eyes. Uh, did this make sense? :P

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  25. did the studios learn nothing from the Fame remake!!!! Horrible!!

    I can't even stomach the thought of the Footloose remake coming out in October. Thank Gods Kevin Bacon turned down a cameo.

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  26. I have to confess, I have never seen the original. I tend to love any movie with Kevin Bacon in it, so I say leave it the hell alone. I never wanted to see it because of the theme of the movie, bible beaters running and ruining the town. My parents moved me to a town just like that in middle school. Couldn't handle it at the time.

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  27. No originality left in Hollywood. Leave it alone!

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  28. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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  29. bringing up Havana Nights makes me think Enty needs another "Your Turn" with the following

    what is the worst movie you have ever seen

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    is there a movie that SHOULD be remade

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  30. This question shouldn't even have to be asked.

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  31. @BigMama- lets just start that then, shall we? :))

    I'll go first, while Havana Nights *gag *choke *gag was pretty intensely bad, I'm gonna have to say in the top 5 worst movies ever would have to be...

    Glitter (starring thespian Mariah Carey)
    and maybe
    Crossroads (starring Oscar winner Britney Spears)

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  32. Why would any movie producer think this was a GOOD idea, unless of course they wanted to lose a bunch of money on it? I can't think of a single person I know that would go see a remake of Dirty Dancing.

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  33. Worst movie ever? Okay. I'll play. :-)

    It's a tie between Nacho Libre and Cloverfield.

    Seriously, I've seen both Glitter AND Crossroads and...at least they weren't *trying* to be great, you know? ;-)

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  34. Oh pfft. Nacho Libre was hilarious.

    I vote "The Last Action Hero" for worst movie of all time. That's the one that had random animation in it, right? SO BAD. It's the only movie in my life that I've actually walked out of.

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  35. The studios should not re-make cult classics. The re-makes of Psycho, Planet of the Apes, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and scores of others should never have been filmed because the originals were great. Why doesn't Hollywood take movies that weren't successful and see if they can make them better? Instead, they take movies people love and just make them worse.

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  36. I didn't like it the first time.

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  37. Cannot be improved upon. Leave it.

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  38. Worst movie I have ever seen was that one where Kevin Bacon is invisible and mean.

    They can see him if they wear nightvision goggles, but for some reason, everyone chooses NOT to while they're trying to find him.

    Don't remake Dirty dancinig...stop remaking everything. There are thousands of stories out there waiting to be told, and thousands of people who can tell them! Let them!

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  39. Um...Dirty D-A-N-C-I-N-G. Geez.

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  40. @Rocket Queen -- you thought Nacho Libre was hilarious?!?! There's not enough weed in the WORLD to make me willingly watch that movie again! I kept sitting there trying to calculate all the money and food wasted in the feeble attempts to satiate Jack Black during filming, and I think I did more cringing and head-shaking than actual chuckling. It was SO frickin' BAD. Come ON. ;-)


    @Maja -- that Kevin Bacon movie sounds stupendously bad and unintentionally hysterical -- one of my favorite combos. I wanna watch it!

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  41. Never watched Nacho Libre... I had my fill of Jack Black after watching Shallow Hal.

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  42. RQ, one of my favorite movies was one that everyone thought was horrible --- Ishtar. I loved it.

    As for remaking ANY movie -- stop dammit. If you can't think of anything original, then get out of the business.

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  43. Leave it alone. LEAVE. IT. ALONE.

    That was the first time I ever left a movie theater completely happy and in a totally different place than when I walked in. Has happened only one other time ... when I saw "The American President."

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  44. Mark my words. Someday they'll want to remake "The Godfather" and "Jaws".

    Oh, It's coming. It's coming.

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  45. @sassyyankee - LOVE "The American President". Aaron Sorkin is one of my heroes.

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  46. They could never fill Swayze's shoes. Or Jerry Orbach's! Leave it alone. Why can't film producers come up with some original ideas.

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  47. @JasonBlueEyes. Me, too. "Sports Night" and "The West Wing" rock. I even watched that "60 Sunset Strip" or whatever that debacle was called because he wrote it.

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  48. OPEN LETTER TO HOLLYWOOD:

    Would you, TPTB, PLEASE for the love of all that is celluloid,
    PLEASE stop with te remakes! I am tired of seeing them. Tired of them cluttering up theaters,dvd shelves and bins and my air waves.

    Get an original idea. Hard to find, I am sure, but doable. Go find some geeky kid in a video store(with a foot fetish) or a film student. Get their great idea for the next BIG movie and run with it. Stop "refreshing" a used idea. I beg you!

    By the way that NEW idea with the kid robbing a bank with a bomb strapped to him is in deeply sick taste. The poor guy who that happened to in real life did not make it. Do you really think that was worth a few laughs??? REALLY????

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  49. OH! I forgot WaterWorld!

    Kevin Costner drinking his own urine?? Come on

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  50. Let them remake it. They can reemake Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, the Godfather, It's a Wonderful Life and On the Waterfront while they are at it. Maybe, their idiot asses will go bankrupt and get replaced by someone with an original thought.

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  51. Don't remake it.

    I'm tired of remakes. Studios are cutting their budgets back, and wasting so much money on remakes that barely wind up breaking even. Take a chance on new material.

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  52. I'm firmly in the don't remake it column. My problem (which others have touched upon) is that remakes only work if the underlying story is worthy of a remake. There are movies with stupid plotlines and cheesy dialogue that have become classics solely because of the amazing chemistry between castmembers (like the original Dirty Dancing). But a good story can always be further explored. Go ahead, Hollywood - put Baby in a corner! There is, was and will ever be only one Johnny.

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  53. Worst movie - either They Call me Bruce (walked out of the theatre) or the Second Crocodile Dundee.

    Movie that SHOULD be remade - the latest Robin Hood with the original script instead of the crap that got shredded to make a certain director and his favorite actor happy.

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  54. WTF? HELL NO!!!!!! I won't go see it or the Footloose remake bullshit either.

    Worst movie EVER is ISHTAR. I have seen a heck of a lot of movies. I don't even attempt to watch crap, especially the current teen slasher genre. I did like the Halloween movies and Nightmare of Elm Street shows back in the day. Good to cuddle with the cute high school boyfriend ; ). My funny favorites are "Undercover Brother", "Office Space", "The Hangover", "Super Bad" and "Christmas Vacation". So damn funny you cannot hardly catch your breath, frickin hilarious.

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  55. Jasmine, I thought Kevin's peepee went through a filter before he drank it?

    Ya, like that mattered. ;)

    What's the name of that movie with Demi Moore and I think Dan Akroyd and supposedly most of the cast/crew were doing coke? There were weird monsters... anyhow, that has to be one of the worst movies.

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  56. Anonymous2:37 PM

    NOOOOO! Death to the infidels who remake this movie! Or at least professional death. I seriously get vomity just thinking about it. These execs are so dumb: "Oh, it made a billion dollars the first time; let's remake it with generic teen idols and make a trillion dollars this time!" I hate them so hard for this.
    Worst movies I've ever seen? Three movies directed by Terry Gilliam (Dr. Parnassus, Baron Munchausen, and the absolute worst, Time Bandits); Sylvia and View From the Top (both starring Fish Sticks!); The Rules of Attraction; and various foreign films that are too terrible to even remember the names of. Also, I watched that documentary "Babies" this weekend, and could not believe I was watching the same film I had read so many great reviews for. Seriously, the next time I have to have surgery, I'm going to ask them to play that instead of giving me anasthesia. The effect is the same.

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  57. I vote NOT. My girls loved that movie when they were teens. It was timeless.

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  58. LEAVE IT ALONE!

    Why does Hollywood have to ruin everything and everyone it comes across!

    It's like a car accident, it bothers me and is bad but I cannot for the life on me not look and watch!

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  59. No, no remake. Never saw the big whoopty the first go 'round.

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  60. Ida - I really did. All the conversations between him and his sidekick "Esqueleto" were gold.
    "I don't know why you always have to be judging me because I only believe in science!"

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  61. Anonymous4:01 PM

    I don't know where the creativity has gone. Everything is a remake and it's kind of an insult to the original. There are a lot of good books out, make some of them into movies and leave my Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and all my other favorites (and I do mean Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) alone!

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  62. Hell no! They already tried to re-make it! That disastrous Havana Nights! Movieline is suggesting Dianna Agron & Channing Tatum as Baby & Johnny! For the love of God and all that is holy NO NO NO NO NO!

    I have seen Crossroads...but I've got another nominee for worst film...."From Justin to Kelly."

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  63. I LIKED the latin kid in the Havana Nites one.
    The movie itself?
    rotten

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  64. Nothing is original so let them remake it. At least they are being honest ;)

    Movies are meant to entertain, movies are an escape. The remake, while you may despise it, is an escape for another generation that we don't understand. call it being old. Sure. Let em have it I say.

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  65. "Why doesn't Hollywood take movies that weren't successful and see if they can make them better?"

    Great suggestion! Like Bourne - have you seen the first one, the one before Damon? Not bad but the one with Damon was so much better. That's the way to make money! Maybe they need a tax deduction??? Gaming the system........

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  66. Leave it alone. No one can replace Patrick Swayze Why do they have to ruin everything. Not every movie needs a remake.

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