The pictures are a touch too large for my taste, but I couldn't figure out how to make them smaller, I'm technologically ignorant. By the way, most of these photos I just had laying around in my computer, I'd love to source them, but I've no idea where they came from, so needless to say, I've no creational input other then the opinions in this editorial. So if one of the pictures are yours and you want it gone, let me know.
Lets push on.
To note all of these movies aren't bad, they just aren't known for being well received. However...
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5. Invasion of the Neptune Men.
If this doesn't ring a bell and then the theme song from Mystery Science Theater 3000 then we aren't friends anymore d@mn it! However, this movie sucked, and sucked hard, like a $20 Miami prostitute but like anything, if done right can be gold. Now appling a "Midas touch" to this bucket of what I can only guess is a dead badger would be difficult for even the top tier of film directors and writers, except for this guy
With this film there would have to an ambitious interpretation to make it great, I mean full on plot and mostly visual changes like space battles
and beautiful concepts of the universe and her characters
With only one hero against an army of aliens, this could be right up along the lines of a Die Hard...well a Die Hard 2.
Just not the kids, please not the kids, and if you're going to put the amorphic blob of children that were in this film in a remake, then do it with a goonies-esk pack, not a copy and paste of the same child six times. Plus redesign the suit.
Suggestions for lead: Yuki Matsuzaki.
The kids: not a clue.
Doctor Tanigawa: Togo Igawa
And none of that using white guys as asians crap, it's annoying.
4. Prince of Space.
Probaby a movie that could connect with Invasion of the Neptune Men or at least maybe a same theme of retelling, but this movie is on par with bat sh!t nuts with Invasion of the Neptune Men.
Our "Hero" fights the "Chicken Men" from the planet krankor and their leader...Krankor. Now imagine this movie in the same light as James Bond in space battles kind of action flick, and that watching it wouldn't make your unborn child want to become a stripper just to spite you for seeing this film. Prince of Space would have to be a more solo man film, not that it has less "Heroes" then Invasion of the Neptune men, but if you watch the originals, Prince of Space just has more screen time in general. Like #5 just about everything would need a redesign from character outfits
to space ships
given a more somber and serious tone. The villain as well need to be drawn out more, give a little scifi and a little less this...
Suggestions for lead: Takayuki Yamada
The kids: Still, no clue.
Krankor: No idea...what? I can't do everything for you!
3. Howard the duck.
A lot of people don't like this movie, but this movie has always had a special place in my heart, not to mention Beverly.
Yet never the less, I can't say this remake would be an action movie for Marvel to inject in the currect Avengers series like injecting herion into a crack addict, it may come from the same pool of illegal drugs but someones going to notice a difference. I'm talking a comedy, a self aware comedy, not comedy that it's funny because it's sh!t. Howard the Duck battling the Dark Overlord with scorpian tail and the voice of a kazoo being shoved violently into the throat of a cat can't be anything but a comedy in this day of age.
I don't have any suggestions as far as this movie goes, but I think if done right, could be a #1 comedy of the year it comes out in.
2. The Phantom.
Now this movie itself, the 1996 version that is well
yeah. It was a retelling of an already existing story, like Howard the Duck. Now yes, this movie was redone
big improvement (Sarcasm). This really is a story where less is more
no, not like that. Now this story is not at fault for the fact that it is yes basically a dude in purple hoping around and shooting people, for this story to be done a great light, get people who give a rats ass, I mean really do, as writing a plot that is daring and filled with action, characters who are dramatic and dynamic, and a costume that's true to the original but also practical plus designed with love like
and not this
Granted this isn't really a story I had a lot of interest in, but I want to be, even me who doesn't care about it can see potential in telling this story right.
I can't think of any real suggestions.
1. Superbabies. JESUS CHRIST DROP THAT GUN! I was kidding. (By the way how the hell did that movie get a sequel?)
Whatever, the answer is The Shadow
why!? Because the Shadow knows!
Anyways, The Shadow originally a radio show and in 1994 a non 24/7 drunken bar brawl Alec Baldwin starred in a The Shadow movie. Personally with a IMDB score of 5.7 I feel this is underrated, yet I get it, times have changed since it came out; there should be an honest and compelling film that can withstand the test of time, like Beverly Hills Cop...Okay I didn't think that one through, granted. However the facts are this, you got a lead character with an amazing back story, origin, and past whose powers are unique and ominous. A world of the 30s in which things are a little Sci Fi but still beautifully designed. Just think of the kind of story telling and love of source material we can get into just like all of the...most of the movies today mixed with this character and his world like
no
no
again no
What the hell, WHOSE UPLOADING THESE! Carrying on, for a character as old as a majority of our most iconic heroes the fact that he hasn't seen a truely captivating telling of his heroism is a shame. Now I'm not saying this should be a rehashing of the movie, there is a lot of bad guys for this guy I'm sure, but that movie plot should be at least considered.
Suggestions for lead: If the origin story deffently Matthew Lewis, he's a pinch too young even for an origin, but it could work. If a story set post origin in sort of his prime, so to speak, maybe Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Round out with people Chris Hardwick, Amy Acker, and if using the Ghangas Khan character maybe Hiroyuki Sanada.
Not so honorable mention. Puma Man, I thought about including this movie, but it really sucked, beyound that of earing a redeeming feature. No offense Donald Pleasence, R.I.P.
Unrelated side note: Personally I would love to a good Venom based film set in the spider man universe, but only if it was done well with a vicious yet conflicted Venom in the film. Put him against Spider Man at first then the two of them against Carnage...probably a sh!t idea, but meh, it's just that, an idea.