Escape from New York (Remake)

If you "HAD" to recast Plisskin...do you like the choice of Gerard Butler???

  • Yes I like him...not sure if he's my top choice but...I like it! :)

  • No he's not right for the role at all. :(

  • Not bad but...I'm not sure yet...need to give it more time.

  • Yes I like him...not sure if he's my top choice but...I like it! :)

  • No he's not right for the role at all. :(

  • Not bad but...I'm not sure yet...need to give it more time.


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Because John Carpenter is such a "genius"?

Actually Carpenter is pretty awesome. They can't equal or outdo the original, certainly no one can play Snake except Russell. Some movies don't need to be remade.
 
Because John Carpenter is such a "genius"?

omg. are you freaking serious?

Halloween, Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China?

Come on here. and it's not like a small minority of people liking him; it's a hefty majority and despite his recent '****ing' of his franchises (and he's honest about it), you can't take away what he has done for genre films.
 
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I'm not taking anything away, I'm just strongly disagreeing.
 
it's cool if you don't like him, but you cannot deny his accomplishments in Hollywood; it would be a big "Huh" to think so.
 
I'll admit: I don't like his later works in the 90s. He's not perfect. haha.

I just hope that you didn't see 'Vampires' and thought "What's the big deal with John Carpenter".
 
I assure you, I have seen most all of his works and been pretty underwhelmed.
 
aww. even Big Trouble in Little China? I love that gem! to each his own, I guess.
 
The one thing i do hope in the remake is Snake's personality about not caring for anybody himself (only in odd place and time would he care about someone) and mostly himself and his own survival. That's what made him a badass.
 
this is pathetic

there is only snake plissken and thats Kurt Russell.

The wankers better not mess with Jack Burton otherwise there will be a war going on!!
 
if they ever remade Big Trouble in Little China, I would go berserk.
 
Seeing as John Carpenter seems to be seeing off the rights to EVERYTHING he has ever done you know Big Trouble in little china will be remade.... sadly :(

A greed for money is pissing over my favourite films
 
it's cool if you don't like him, but you cannot deny his accomplishments in Hollywood; it would be a big "Huh" to think so.

I question his age or what type of genres he is into. A fair number of Carpenter's films are Cult films for the most part. The people that are into those(myself included)make up a very small percentage. Although with Carpenter, his cult films also tend to have a larger fan base and actually are popular for the most part. So I guess they really started out as cult classics but eventually moved above that level.

Either way, I fully agree that no one can deny what he's done in the world of film.
 
I love Escape From New York and Big Trouble In Little China, but Halloween bores the crap outta me.

I've never seen The Thing.


This breaks my heart almost. I highly suggest you watch it. For Kurt Russells awesome hat in that alone:woot:

Everytime it snows around here I gotta take the time to watch that movie.
 
Wow, so I caught Escape from LA last night on AMC. It was pretty much the same thing, they injected **** into him, hours to live, etc. And Peter Fonda as an old surfer dude? WTF?

So then I watched Dog Soldiers instead.
 
Wow, so I caught Escape from LA last night on AMC. It was pretty much the same thing, they injected **** into him, hours to live, etc. And Peter Fonda as an old surfer dude? WTF?

So then I watched Dog Soldiers instead.

As much as I love Carpenter, Russll and the character Snake Plissken, that was truly one of those films were the soundtrack was better than the film itself.
 
Watching some of the film, I think they should have changed the score. It just felt like one big retread. Russel pretty much looked the same though.
 
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