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Good movies dont need to be remade. What movies deserve a re-release

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[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

They should advertise all this movie trailers again and just release them as is.

12 Angry Men

2001

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Sting

Zulu

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Terminator 1 and 2

Alien

Back to the Future

Rollerball

Primer (It's fairly new but didn't get the justice it deserved)

[–] banichan@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, Primer doesn't really have mainstream appeal, about as much as π

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I watched it once in a university movie theater. They showed it twice because they said that watching it once isn't enough to understand it. I didn't watch the second one because I felt twice still isn't enough eitherway

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

A good five or six times does it. The time travel is all logically consistent, but it's a rat's nest

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

ive seen it 20 times over 30 years and it still keeps me thinking.

there was one thing just this last time.. he says "lets live here" in the end.. and i never understood why when he was basically tortured/trapped in the same place for decades. wouldnt you want to gtfo? i recently realized; that last day, he actually came to care for those humans. why leave home?

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You think?

I feel like it has a much larger potential following than it actually does though.

I feel I'm more likely to have a conversation with someone who says they like scifi/time travel but hasn't heard of Primer than I am to talk to someone who has actually seen Primer.

[–] Beardwin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Far too often i hear people say “i watch movies to escape, not think.”

Primer is one if my all time fav scifi flics. I have watched it maybe a dozen times. I have to literally pause the movie every time and think “what the fuck is going on again at this point?“

It is a deeply complex plot which does nothing to try and help the audience. You have to sink or swim. I don’t think it would fly… a lot of people would leave wishing they had 75 minutes back because “it was stupid and didn’t make any sense.”

To this day i am convinced Christopher Nolan attempted to make a commercially successful version of this (Tenet) with questionable results. I thought it was alright, but was… messy.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They should cut a trailer for Terminator 2 that hides the twist that Arnold is playing a good guy this time. They originally wanted to keep it out if the marketing but Arnold was a much bigger draw since the first movie and the studio wouldn't let it be a surprise.

Can you imagine how epic that mall hallway shootout scene would have been if you went into it blind?

[–] Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

Yea it sucks. "He's back but now he's good!"

I watched t2 first I think as a kid so I don't ever remember the reveal on this.

But I knew about what you are saying and made my girlfriend watch t1 and then t2. She actually thought Arnie was the good guy before we watched but I assured her he's the bad guy. "He's a terminator he is designed to kill humans!"

I was really excited for the reveal and she said she was surprised when I asked but I was hoping for a bigger reaction.

[–] APassenger@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I'd go to the movies for almost every one of these. That would be a blast.

Great list.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Primer came out 20 years ago. Its not fairly new.

And as much as i really like primer, it doesnt deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the rest of most of the list. Its a hot mess, with a really clever concept.