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post #1 of 18
10/11/10 at 1:10pm
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Remake may not use the sunglasses element from the original.

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post #2 of 18
10/11/10 at 1:20pm
I can't help but read that and have a flashback to the Supernatural episode where they work on the horror movie set and use the digital camera to see the ghost.
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post #3 of 18
10/11/10 at 1:22pm
I agree, I think part of the charm of this film is that the sunglasses are so bizzare an item it adds to the fact it may all be in Piper's head.
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post #4 of 18
10/11/10 at 1:50pm
"We're gonna use "alien vision" contact lenses instead of the shades. That's gonna be better regardless, but the real kicker is the alley fight. Let's throw out the wrestling bullshit and amp up the action. The audience wants a high octane MMA fight full of speed, blood and hits that make you hurt just to look at. Let's tap into that UFC fanbase. We need Brock Lesnar and Joe Rogan for consult and then we'll get Keith David in here to beat us to death with his voice for even considering a They Live remake."

- from an interview I just thought up
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post #5 of 18
10/11/10 at 3:20pm
90% sure Andrew Hawkins is working on this remake let's kick his ass

But yeah, the idea of them dropping the shades is kinda making me irate.
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post #6 of 18
10/11/10 at 3:42pm
Dropping the glasses is just ridiculous, it's when they make the heroes middle class I'm going to get really angry...
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post #7 of 18
10/11/10 at 3:48pm
Surely a sequel set in an alternate 90s timeline would be better? They could call it 'we sleep' and have it focus on the alien government cover up after the reveal and have the poor labelled as terrorists and enemies of the state... Ooh you could get so allegorical with this instead of just remaking it. That's probably too daring though...
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post #8 of 18
10/11/10 at 3:52pm
Assuming I'm okay with a remake in the first place, dropping the shades is hardly a dealbreaker. They'll probably be visible through iPhones.
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post #9 of 18
10/11/10 at 5:54pm
But... why? It's not like sunglasses are out of fashion.
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post #10 of 18
10/11/10 at 5:58pm
One of the few, if not only, Carpenter remakes that I find intriguing since there is so much potentially interesting material that can still be mined from the premise.
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post #11 of 18
10/11/10 at 6:19pm
I'm not getting why anyone would be upset here. I hope they stray as far as possible from the original and at least try to do their own thing. Isn't that what film nerds always bitch about - the remake being to similar to the original? I say go crazy and be able to see the aliens through holographic shades or some shit. Doesn't mean I will see it or like it, but remakes should start to genuinely try to distance themselves as much as they can to get a new take on the material. Not like I really care that much, but I don't want the producers of this to act like Platinum Dunes did over an early script review at AICN (for ANOES), where the negative backlash of "film fans" clamored to remove the one element of the script that wasn't seeped in goat shit : Freddy being innocent. I'll say it once and I'll say it again : fuck the fans. Seriously. Get good people on the project who will be enthused about it and want to make a new version all their own.
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post #12 of 18
10/11/10 at 8:20pm
They don't need to keep the shades, or the fight scene, or the one-liners. I have over two decades worth of love for those things but they don't have to be in the remake. The only thing a remake MUST retain is the interrupted TV broadcast ("They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor" etc). What's most important is that the movie still be about greedy and manipulative "aliens" who leave the masses homeless and penniless. Meanwhile, We Sleep, and we consume, and we refuse to see things as they really are. I have no problem with a remake but they need to time it for the next time we have a Republican administration.
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post #13 of 18
10/11/10 at 8:46pm
So what, two gigantic guys are going to have en epic fistfight in an alley with one yelling "put on these contact lenses"?
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post #14 of 18
10/12/10 at 10:14am
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Originally Posted by Ken Savage View Post
I agree, I think part of the charm of this film is that the sunglasses are so bizzare an item it adds to the fact it may all be in Piper's head.
Love They Live but it's been a while since I've seen it. What part of the movie implies that it might all be imaginary? Honest question here.
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post #15 of 18
10/13/10 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post
So what, two gigantic guys are going to have en epic fistfight in an alley with one yelling "put on these contact lenses"?
They'll make it 3D glasses instead of sunglasses. So the audience can participate as well... in 3D. Think Castle's 13 GHOSTS.

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post #16 of 18
10/13/10 at 4:56pm
Who cares as long as Roudy Rodey shows up to do two things, chew bubble gum and kick ass.

Heaven help you if he runs out of bubble gum.


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Originally Posted by Sherman Davies View Post
Love They Live but it's been a while since I've seen it. What part of the movie implies that it might all be imaginary? Honest question here.
I thought I remembered that, throughout the film, they drop little hints that he might be/ other characters think he is Schizophrenic? Maybe? am I remembering wrong?
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post #17 of 18
10/14/10 at 12:22am
Other characters in the movie certainly think he's nuts, but I really don't remember the movie supporting the idea that the events aren't actually happening, a la Inception.
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post #18 of 18
10/14/10 at 12:55am
Other characters think he's nuts, particularly the woman he basically kidnaps to escape and Keith David. Both eventually see the aliens. Nothing in the movie hints or supports any schizophrenic interpretation.
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