Hell,no!!! Don't remake it! That's all Hollywood is anymore is remakes and sequels. We get enough remakes and sequels un
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Sand Pebbles
sawyertom — 18 years ago(December 17, 2007 07:31 AM)
Hell,no!!! Don't remake it! That's all Hollywood is anymore is remakes and sequels. We get enough remakes and sequels until they're coming out of our @ss.
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olihist — 17 years ago(May 29, 2008 02:40 AM)
Having just watched "Sand Pebbles" a minute ago on AMC, I don't think you need to do a remake of a movie simply to bring it to a "modern" audience. I think great movies, like great books or great art, resonate with people regardless of time or place. "Sand Pebbles" is one of those movies, and any effort to "remake" it would be an injustice.
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Polaris01313-1 — 17 years ago(November 11, 2008 11:24 PM)
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!!!!! Let's not give Hollywood anymore fodder for the remake machine, shall we?
The 1966 classic is just fine the way it is!
Honest to God, there have been enough remakes as it is! How many more classics need to be ruined by the no-brained, unoriginal talent that calls itself Hollywood?
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rwsmith29456 — 17 years ago(February 25, 2009 08:16 PM)
I would LOVE to see a remake, IF, IF, IF they could top the original. But I'm afraid it would be a flop today because so few people are interested in that place and time. CGI would NOT make this a better movie. So this one falls in the 'don't try to top a classic' department.
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bradford-1 — 14 years ago(March 20, 2012 08:54 AM)
Er, there were some remakes that DID work:
THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) Had actually been filmed twice, in 1931 and '36.
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) Several Oz-based silent films had been done, the most prominent (1926) featured Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodsman!
OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001)The original Rat Pack and very little else, going for it. It was molasses-paced, and IMHO, threw away the casino robberies. I found the Soderbergh version to be exciting and humorous.
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EastCoastMariner — 14 years ago(March 31, 2012 06:26 PM)
The acting, special effects and general mood of the 1966 version could never be recaptured, and today's actors don't possess the same class or realism as the men in this film.
While I understand the question and don't criticize it, I think it'd be best to just leave this film as it is instead of potentially ruining it with a remake. -
photoe — 12 years ago(September 30, 2013 04:32 AM)
Wont happen because:
- Hollywood would never green light another movie about a period in history this obscure.
- THe ships would be done in CGI, and considering how much was shot on deck, it would cost far too much to reshoot the movie, plus the chinese locations, not happening, refer again to point one.
- The acting is so tremendous, particularly McQueen as the heroic, capable, and yet utterly jaded and hurting soldier. Any actor would be crazy to follow him.
We've got plenty of antiwar stories to do, unfortunately, out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows where else. Maybe something about the Mexican-American war could be saleable, but its a different story than this one. The US has a long, long history of pointless interventions, but good luck making a film about one.
Fact is, you can't recreate a period in time. Saving American missionaries was critical to the plot line here, and that again, has almost no relevance now. Well, maybe in africa against muslim extremists.
I just don't see the offbeat wars film of the 60s to 80s being equalled - Wild Geese, Shout At The Devil, Platoon, High Velocity, Apocalypse Now, Burn, and on and on and on. Noone can question the overlords anymore, for the time being,
and the colonial period is over, at least in the same form as it was.
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tristan_erwin — 12 years ago(October 28, 2013 05:43 AM)
I don't believe there are any ships from this era left around. So it would be pretty close to impossible. Same reason why you don't see WW2 Naval movies most of those ships are gone. I do agree that more naval movies need to be made, especially ones about surface warships. Sand Pebbles is one of the few naval movies not about a submarine.