Showing posts with label blogfest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogfest. Show all posts

Friday, 17 May 2013

Best or Worst Movie Remake Blogfest.......

........and Tamsin is giving away free stuff!

Anyway Alex is hosting along with others a blogfest asking what are the best and worst movie remakes ever made, I've done 10 of each (you have to set a limit) that I believe are good candidates but everyone will not agree......maybe and there's one or two that may even be controversial!

I give you my lists........and don't forget Tamsin is giving away free stuff (that must be worth 10 extra Tamsin as I mentioned it twice!).


Hosted by:
Alex J. Cavanaugh  http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com/



The Best Remakes in no particular order...............

A clever reworking of the original...........


There was nothing wrong with the original Infernal Affairs but this was an epic collaboration of  great performances.......


A remake of Yojimbo by Kurosawa which is in it's own right a masterpiece but this was a relaunch of the western genre and the epic rise of Mr.Eastwood........


Very enjoyable remake of the slightly dated original, great performance from Colin Farrell.........


Good update of the Charles Bronson original with maybe a different ending.........


No question here, far better than the original..........


Not that there's anything wrong with the original L.A Takedown but this is slicker than goose faeces....


Speaking of slicker than Ray's hairdo...........


This is a good reinvention of the slightly dated original.............


Enough said, blots the stain that was Stallone's abomination...........

.....many others out there obviously!

Now the worst remakes...........


James Caan would be horrified, this is shocking.........


Now before we start the ranting I prefer the original, there's nothing really wrong with the new one but the old one had a better story and the slow zombies still get my vote...........


Very foggy fecking remake, the original scared the faeces right out of me...........


The originals ending still annoys the faeces out of me but Stallone should apologise for this....just after he apologises for Judge Dredd


The original is dated but not compared to this................


The original Nikita is leaps ahead of this wooden remake, it also goes under the title The Assassin..........


There is only one Willy Wonka and that's Gene...........


Fecking merde...............


Alec Guinness would be upset, along with Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers etc.........


Shocking descent of a once great actor..............



....and don't forget Tamsin's give away (that's 15 extra Tamsin!)







Monday, 18 March 2013

Top 10 Movie Countdown Blogfest........

.........Alex.J.Cavanaugh invited other blogs to his blog hop to simply list your 10 favourite movies.....so I did!



In no particular order and a list that might be different next week or even tomorrow but ten movies that I can watch again and again.......

                                                          10. Dead Man's Shoes.


One of the best revenge movies....ever!

9. Lucky Number Slevin.


Another great revenge movie.

8. The Wind and the Lion.


Worth it alone for the scene with the marines....brilliant!

7. Freebie and the Bean.

A great but silly buddy cop movie.

6. Midnight Sting.


The only movie ending that has ever made me cheer!

5. No country for old men.


A bleak look at modern times...........

4. Yojimbo.

Mifune and Kurosawa at their best, remade several times with Clint Eastwood and Bruce Willis playing the Mifune role......

3. Kingdom of Heaven (Directors Cut)


An okay movie until the extra 40 odd minutes were added and then became a brilliant movie.....

2. Judge Dredd.


Not the fecking Stallone one but the Karl Urban one.....

1. I Went Down.


Low budget Irish brilliance..........



Now I've forgotten, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, LA Confidential,