(July 30, 2010 at 11:53 pm)KawaiiKoneko Wrote: Jurassic Park 1&2... remake?
Yes or No?
PS, there was no third book. Which is why the third movie was so horrible. It was entirely made up.
Eh. The JP movies are classics and film is rarely ever compariable with the novels. This is particularly true for the first movie precisely because it really is a classic to the same leagues as Star Wars, Indy Jones, and Planet of the Apes. Crichton is a fantastic writer and has had virtually every book he's ever written made into a movie.
That said, I would be against a remake for a few reasons:
With rare exception, I am loathe to feed hollywood's ravenous appetites for remaking older films. This is especially true for Spielburg and George Lucas.
Remakes of classic science fiction films seem to do worse than remakes of other types, but my only proof of that is the horrible face rape that is the Planet of the Apes remake and all the AVP movies. I'd be really hard pressed to find anyone who could honestly do better than the first film out of the vast majority of directors, particularly considering that JP 1 & 2 were done by Spielberg during his heyday.
The only reason I could get behind a revamp of the old movies is to alter the dinosaurs to be up to modern knowledge of them, notably now that our concept of velociraptors should have been deinonychus (V-raptors were much smaller than those depicted in the film) and they should have pretty much been covered head-to-toe with feathers. Triceratops apparently also weren't.
We just recently discovered that the Tri-tops may have been a juvenile of another dinosaur whose name escapes me. I just know it's larger with a frillier horned crown on its face.
Plus, I'm not sure if archeologists are still quibbling over whether the T-rex was purely a scavenger or not. (Many top predators won't skimp on a free meal here and there, but I'm also certain that the Rex was still a predator, but until there's a real Jurassic park, we'll never know.
Even then, though, we're still talking about doing a George Lucas-style revamp of the classics, which I don't think is necessary.
So... I'm perfectly content with all three of the movies (I did like the third one) as they are and I really don't want Hollywood to remake something else into a horrible mutated monster of a remake.
