remake?
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thomengel-1 — 17 years ago(August 24, 2008 12:03 AM)
Remaking this film certainly couldn't hurt anything. It's not like it's really a classic. Actually, it's probably one of the worst epics made during that era. Charlton Heston is just downright awful. How that guy ever got a movie contract bewilders me. He's about the most non-actor of any of the Hollywood non-actors. It isn't fair to judge an actor by the movies he's been in, and Heston has been in some fairly famous movies, but he's a drag to watch. John Wayne is a much better actor than Charlton Heston, and Wayne is pretty mediocre.
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russedav — 12 years ago(July 26, 2013 07:29 AM)
Though everyone has a right to his opinion, thankfully many aren't as ignorant about movies and actors as this drivel groundlessly impugning Heston's considerable abilities. As the saying goes, those who are able do or teach (Heston did both), those who aren't able criticize, like thomengel-1.
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ScarletPimpernel64 — 17 years ago(April 07, 2008 03:26 PM)
They need to leave it be.
- They certainly cannot improve on it.
- Everything will just be CGI, which is always disappointing, so why try?
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roman8 — 17 years ago(July 16, 2008 10:41 AM)
I actually always thought that El Cid is not popular enough as theme, so maybe a remake might be not an altogether dreadful idea. After all, remaking The Fall of the Roman Empire as Gladiator proved a quite successful endeavour.
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PostmortemG — 17 years ago(February 14, 2009 12:02 PM)
"After all, remaking The Fall of the Roman Empire as Gladiator proved a quite successful endeavour."
But Gladiator pales in comparison to T.F.O.T.R.E.
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syntinen — 17 years ago(February 20, 2009 09:23 AM)
That was because (a) it had an incoherent script, and the theatrical release made even less sense due to having about an hour roughly chopped out of it to reduce to to a sensible length for showing in commercial cinemas; and (b) it starred Orlando Bloom, who can't act his way out of a paper bag. There's no telling how successful it might have been with a sensible script and a really talented male lead.
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Rueiro — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 03:25 AM)
A remake??? Half of the final film would consist of CGI effects! And what is worse: the sanctimonious PC brigade would take thorough care that the Christians would be portrayed as racist chauvinists while the Arab wannabe conquerors would be the misunderstood, grossly bullied victims of racial prejudice.
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IndianaMcClane — 12 years ago(March 29, 2014 05:06 PM)
Shortly after
Gladiator
was released and became a big hit producer Arthur Sarkissian intended to do a remake, claiming that this film would be his blueprint, and claimed it would be a superior remake to the original like
Gladiator
was in his mind to
The Fall of the Roman Empire
. (Naturally it's all to our own discretion whether or not we think he's actually right about that.) It got to the point that Martin Campbell was hired to direct and Antonio Banderas to star (the team from the highly successful
The Mask of Zorro
). But things were slowed down/muddled after conflict escalated in the Middle East and definitively killed after
Kingdom of Heaven
(which also dealt with Christian and Muslim conflict and was set in the Middle Ages) underperformed at the box office. With the epic genre as well pretty much fading away with it sans a few exceptions.