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The Time Machine (2002)
Leave art alone and go back to your day job!
Would you people in Hollywood and Beverly Hills please just leave H.G. Wells and the classic movies he inspired alone and go back to work where you belong, stamping out copies of other things that are not a affront to every filmmaker and artist on the planet.
A cheapshot, is a cheapshot, is a cheapshot!
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa; it is already finished!
What did you do to the acting and the plot? Destroy it. In so doing, you destroyed the work, your work, because you can't destroy the Masterpiece that is the original.
Is it that bad out there that no one can think up an original idea anymore?
Really! Some people will sell anything for money, including any semblance of their artistic soul.
The Time Machine (1960)
You can't top this!
You cannot top this! You cannot even approach its shoelaces.
This is "The Time Machine." There is no other.
Look at the effects: no computer and no graphics, art designers, nor staff can even come close to this today.
Today what we get is jerky, straightlined, cgi graphics that look so fake it makes every science fiction film a comedy.
It's the difference between a granite hand crafted stone castle and a stucco on top of the Hills ready to roll into the ocean at the first drop of rain.
This one stands the torrent, for a thousand years, while the stucco and popsicle stick hovels on in the Hills come tumbling down, just like the copies they make of a Masterworks Film.
This is the Masterworks Film!
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa
Because it is already finished.
Everything after the original is a forgery.
It does not matter that you are a Matisse or even DaVinci himself, you cannot duplicate a Masterpiece no matter how hard you try, not matter how much money you put into it, because it is priceless.
Had the whole company instead worked on a new Masterpiece, they had done a better service to themselves and to everyone else.
Where can any artist or any orchestra even dare to compare themselves to the Master and the Maestro?
They've both insulted the founders of an entire art form, and, at a much bloated price. I understand it that Disney and crew worked basically for food, shelter, and clothing in those days. And what did these modern drawers work for? A Lexus, a star on the boulevard, or was it that old enemy of art, money?
Remakes are insults, nothing less.
And in the end all you did was sell out for a far lessor price.
Old Enough (1984)
"Old Enough" what an original idea!
Living in New York City at the time of this film, and doing more than a few performances there, around the corner from my apartment at 4th & LaFayette Streets, I often wonder how films like "Old Enough" get made. I mean, where do they start and how do they develop? I'm sure that this is a great 'coming of age' film, but where does the inspiration start and why doesn't IMDb have pictures of the lead character {they only seem to have pictures of A list people}.
Strange, I don't remember any "Old Enough" before I wrote "Old Enough" which you can find under /Artists/TerryJames/Lyrics/OldEnough/OldEnough.html which John Hughes used in "Home Alone." Like IMDb, there seemed to be a lack of listing the song credits here too.
But make it worth your while to go see this film, it's worth it.
I just love "original" ideas!
The Ten Commandments (1956)
You have to see the original in a real theatre
This film cannot be remade. cgi is not going to make this classic better, it can only do worse, and anyone can see the difference, even a 2 year old.
To know why Moses' hair turns white or is shortened, you have to actually watch the film.
DeMille was often criticised for his lavish expenditures, yet he never made a film that lost money.
Moses leads the people Israel out of bondage and in so doing upsets the world leader of the times, his adoptive father, Pharoah.
Many critics have written about this film, most of whom have gotten the content all wrong. So, you have to see this film from 1956 before seeing any attempt at an impossible remake.
"The Ten Commandments" is about those ten laws, not moral codes or ethics, but actual laws, that every lawyer and judge love to argue about as some kind of religious conflict between state and church; this is precisely what Moses and Pharoah argue about, Who's law is it, anyway? As such, the film shows not only what the basis of law is, but who suggested the profession of judges, since there were no judges before Moses time, only administrators acting on behalf of dictators.
There is so much to this film that every frame of it was justified. I seriously doubt than any remake will have anywhere near the length of this film, which required an half hour intermission and during the 1950's you could still get a real meal in a theatre, nor can it achieve the quality of a once in history masterpiece. The film represents also a once in history masterpiece event, liberation from slavery in Africa. And its script stuck strictly to the original story line.
There were two originals, both directed by DeMille; one in 1923 and one in 1956. Both original because one was black and white with no sound, and the other was done by DeMille when colour and sound were available, and he topped his first production with this one.
This is what a film should be and cgi should stay on the computer, where it belongs, and be forbidden from film works. Were Cecil B. DeMille and the cast around today, he and they would insist on much better special effects than can be provided by the limitations of digital reality "look-alikes" {are you kidding me with the spell checker? - a typical example of how computers simply can't get it right - "look-alikes" as well as the square brackets as tags instead of parentheses - there were five things the computer cgi missed from this human director as well - I have "misspelt" nothing, perhaps Miriam Webster is the one who can't spell in English and does not know the conjugations of the Enlish language - oops! the cgi has "misspelt" "English" and missed its misspelling! Is there any other proof needed to show that cgi can't remake this film?}.
And Hollywood should just leave well enough alone and try, for a change, to make something original, as DeMille and his cast and crew did.
Find it in a theatre, or ask for it in Santa Cruz at one of the world's only remaining drive in theatres, you will clearly see that any attempt to remake it is sheer vanity.
This was no cheap film. It ranks among the greatest films ever made, and right up there with DaVinci's "Mona Lisa" and Michaelangelo Buonaroti's "David." You can't remake them either and you have to see the original in person. There is no other way to know what great art is.
Go see the real "Ten Commandments."