Alien is an interesting case study.

Dan O’Bannon wrote the screenplay for the movie Dark Star. It was not a great movie. He took his core concept, wrote a new version with less comedy and more horror and that became Alien.

You’re right.

I think a lot of people here are missing the point. It should not be, “I like this thing so remake it”, it should be “this thing had a great idea but the execution was awful so remake it”.

Krill, absolutely. The original was fun but not good.

Enemy Mine was a great movie and should be left untouched.

The Last Starfighter is an interesting one. I don’t think it would benefit from a remake, but because the entire movie is split between the live action scenes and the cheese 80s CG scenes, you could easily replace the space battles with a new version and leave the rest alone.

Or shorten public domain back to a reasonable level.

It does to me. I expected it to be crap. Happy surprise it wasn’t terrible.

I would be much happier if they threw out the fucking cat book.

Every movie now is predictable because they all follow the exact same structure. It annoys me when I can predict what the next scene is going to be. Genuine surprise is rare.

For anyone who doesn’t know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Cat!:_The_Last_Book_on_Screenwriting_You’ll_Ever_Need

Fucking arrogance to imply that the US won either of those wars. The alliances won, not a single country.

But it you want to rally push for an answer, in WWI, the UK nearly bankrupted themselves paying for the war. France and the UK fielded much larger armies than the US by double. And Canada, one of the smaller players in the war, during the hundred day offensive, was responsible for killing a quarter of the German soldiers, while only making up 3% of the fighting force.

In WWII, the Soviets killed more Germans than everyone else put together by 4 times. Americans also conveniently forget that the rest of us were fighting 3 years before they joined. I’m not diminishing the US and their role, but to imply the US won, like they did it alone is just fucking insulting.

As a note, on D-Day, Canadians troops pushed further and deeper into France than either the US or UK on the initial landing. I could also point out that had Canadians not won the Battle of the Scheldt, the war could have gone a very different way. Antwerp was essential to get supplies to the fighting forces. I don’t care how important the US thinks they were, they wouldn’t have done much winning without food, bullets or bandages.

I am not a redneck, but I know a few. Not one of them is a MAGAt.

Then again, if they were, I wouldn’t be friends with them.