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y'know, just to play devil's advocate for a moment, some of us older guys round here... not sayin' it's anybody in particular, but we kinda start losin' track of time..., sorta like everythin' was just yesterday... sure seems that way to me sometimes.
poltergeist was released back in '82 if i recall rightly, sure was a hot summer then... i remember those gals in their tight-fittin' tops... grandma would say, hey, get those eyes on the schoolbooks, you ain't gonna get through school lookin' at some no good-for-nuthin' slut...
so i gets to thinkin', i'm thinkin' 1982... thirty-three long n' painful years ago... and i'm thinkin', boy, how us old-timers are just losin' track... it's all here and then it's all gone, like it never even existed... that goes for most folks' lives... sure seems the case with me n' mom when we look at those old photo albums - i mean jeez... where did all that hair go..., and the teeth...
so i was mullin' it over like, and i gets to thinkin', now wait..., 33 years... that's like the difference in time between like sorta bela lugosi doin' his first drac, or boris karloff doin' the first frank, and the year... hang on... '64 or thereabouts - now, i don't recall no young whippersnappers mouthin' off about how bela and boris had done it better, and how there was no need for re-inventions in 1964, much less than in '57 when those old spooks actually did get redone... come to think of it, there might have been one bloke, denis gifford i think, who said that the remakes were all sorta done like too modern, and in color... with red blood n' stuff.. and sex too, spurted right down the low neckline.
so just remember, you young 'uns, that time ain't a linear thing at all, kinda concept-wise at least... it's more a snowball gatherin' speed, and you'll be seein' remakes of things that just seemed to come out yesterday, but then you'll do the math and unnerstand.. to a point.
personally i don't give two muthafuckin' hoots about that new poltergeist, 'coz spielberg n' hooper n' goldsmith n' everyone just did it so great back in '82, in black and white, and before the automobile started clutterin' up the streets, and the kids started listenin' to that goddamn rock n' roll, and makin' out on my front porch.
that's the way i see it anyway.
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Feb 7, 2015 - 7:11 PM
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Zooba
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I hear ya Graham. Yeah seems like only yesterday and yet it's been 33 years. 1982, the summer of POLTERGEIST and E.T. The summer I started a hot relationship with my girl (who came out that she was lesbian)'s sister and we had a whale of a good time together. Sorry TMI. I guess I turned into my father in a way, cause I remember him saying, every time I used to try to get him to go see a movie when I was a kid, "They don't make 'em like they used to!" He was a big fan of The Ramon Navarro BEN-HUR!
For me, being the 57 year old I am now, a great part of movie music died in 2004 with Goldsmith, Bernstein and Raksin, all gone within months of each other. And then Barry, Poledouris, Jarre, Kamen and Small and so many of the greats all gone so fast. If it wasn't for Johnny Williams and composers like Elfman, Grusin and Horner still with us, I'd throw in the towel. Props to the new guys like Giacchino and Desplat, but that's about it for me. And of course long live Ennio Morricone!
I mean I loved so much of the output of Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, Victor Young and those Classy Maestros and adored Alex North and Miklos Rozsa who gave us such wonderful scores. I don't look forward to any scores any more. Last greats for me were Williams' WAR HORSE and LINCOLN and Elfman's MILK. For Zimmer, I liked his DA VINCI CODE scores but that's about it.
Maybe it is time for a new POLTERGIEST? It just looks so shitty.
I don't mind becoming my Dad at all!
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Well there you have your remake or reimagine in Insidious and that movie made something more with it. Why steal scenes directly from the original (the clown, the tree, the closet etc) and instead making your own movie?
F.U.C.K. lazyness, because that´s what it is...
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