Author Topic: remakes of neverending story and navigator (Read 1960 times)

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 22, 2010, 08:52:52 PM »

Quote from: King Class Scout on July 22, 2010, 08:27:57 PM

every show and movie they're remaking happens to be from 83-86, the years when Gen X started turning into teens (which makes me feel BLOODY old).

i dont think you have those dates right... Gen Xers were teens from the early 80s to early 90s... i am in the Gen X age-group, and i was born in 1976...

Locke · « **Reply #21 on:** July 23, 2010, 03:34:50 AM »

God damn I wish people would stop using "netspeak" stuff . . . it confuses the hell out of those of us that came from the era of handwriting letters . . .

Whoops! Showing my age . . .

Anywho: I love seeing these types of discussions. They generate more note for the subject than is probably worthy. After all, this thread was started to discuss "The Neverendering Story" (are you really surprised?) and The Navigator.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 23, 2010, 07:32:04 AM »

Quote from: Locke on July 23, 2010, 03:34:50 AM

Whoops! Showing my age . . .

:roll oh please i got like half a decade on you

Villain · « **Reply #23 on:** July 23, 2010, 07:40:04 AM »

Quote from: JimmyB76 on July 23, 2010, 07:32:04 AM

:roll oh please i got like half a decade on you

Yeah, don't argue with Jimmy, he is OOOOOOOOLD :rotflmfao: Just kidding, Jimmy, you're not THAT old.

King Class Scout · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:02:09 AM »

they keep changing the start year for Gen X 'cause they can't decide where the baby Boomers end. I've heard the start of gen X as low as 1961, and as high as 1983! the best I've heard is that the Baby boomers occupy the slot from 1946-1972...the entirety of the heavy part of the cold war.

you want old? besides a few other people on here, me and baz are the old farts that commonly post. today happens to be my 37th, at 0857 EDST (1357 GMT) give or take daylight savings.. i saw Star Wars in the THEATER during it's first run!

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:22:28 AM »

Quote from: King Class Scout on July 23, 2010, 08:02:09 AM

you want old? besides a few other people on here, me and baz are the old farts that commonly post. today happens to be my 37th, at 0857 EDST (1357 GMT) give or take daylight savings..

happy b-day! my 34th b-day is in a week and a half lol

mckinneyc · « **Reply #26 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:26:24 AM »

Jimmy you are almost exactly a decade older than me! How cool is that?

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:32:01 AM »

Quote from: King Class Scout on July 23, 2010, 08:02:09 AM

they keep changing the start year for Gen X 'cause they can't decide where the baby Boomers end. I've heard the start of gen X as low as 1961, and as high as 1983!

the general consensus is that Gen Xers were born between the mid 60s and 1980 (or 81)... tho it isnt "exact" and many different years are given, but that seems to be the general range that can be agreed upon...

Quote from: mckinneyc on July 23, 2010, 08:26:24 AM

Jimmy you are almost exactly a decade older than me! How cool is that?

it's good to be a Leo

metalnick · « **Reply #28 on:** July 23, 2010, 08:35:04 PM »

Explorers was an awesome movie. I just watched it on Netflix not too long ago. I guess some cheese just gets better with age huh?

deadthunder2_0 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 26, 2010, 11:42:07 PM »

jimmy is 2 decades older than me... in 1 week

mckinneyc · « **Reply #30 on:** August 07, 2010, 10:42:58 AM »

I've been thinking about remakes. Perhaps me and those others opposed to it are being selfish. I mean we see these films and Star Trek as classics most of which involve childhood memories that make us smile with nostalgia. Why shouldn't kids of today have the same?

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #31 on:** August 07, 2010, 10:48:31 AM »

because the point is, the originals mostly are timeless no matter what year they were made... it is the laziness of modern hollywood to continue recycling, combined with banking on our nostalgia and as well as consumers being pure sheep...
how would you feel if modern Hollywood did a remake of The Wizard Of Oz, or Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, or ET? it would be offensive, really... classic movies to tend tie you to history, back to the era they were made in, as they are reflective of the times; even if clothes or hairstyles or daily vernacular seem cheesy by todays standards, they represent; that is lost with remakes...

Lionus · « **Reply #32 on:** August 07, 2010, 11:08:32 AM »

remakes from early 80's? in that case, I'm eagerly waiting for Top Gun or Top Gun II..

Locke · « **Reply #33 on:** August 08, 2010, 02:27:51 AM »

Quote from: Lionus on August 07, 2010, 11:08:32 AM

remakes from early 80's? in that case, I'm eagerly waiting for Top Gun or Top Gun II..

Oh, good lord . . . now where's that vomit smiley . . . ;)

Nebula · « **Reply #34 on:** August 08, 2010, 09:17:51 AM »

Quote from: Lionus on August 07, 2010, 11:08:32 AM

remakes from early 80's? in that case, I'm eagerly waiting for Top Gun or Top Gun II..

please no >.<

King Class Scout · « **Reply #35 on:** August 08, 2010, 09:18:35 AM »

now, now. we've still got Ferris Beuler, Weird Science, revenge of the nerds, Back to the Future, and a lot of lousy Steven King movies to deal with, yet. we're only up to about 1985 on the nostalga filter right now. Top Gun is a couple years off, yet; it came out in 89, I think.

they've only missed one 80's adventure, so far...you think the Germans will love the Hoff all over again ?

Lionus · « **Reply #36 on:** August 08, 2010, 12:35:33 PM »

no. they're sadistic but not that sadistic. There's also a pile of other good ole BB-class movies like Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Critters, It, The thing..

King Class Scout · « **Reply #37 on:** August 08, 2010, 01:30:17 PM »

Ghostbusters has allready had a game threequal, and it's canon.

mckinneyc · « **Reply #38 on:** August 08, 2010, 03:34:44 PM »

Jimmy I completely agree with you but I saw another side to it. There are numerous films made in the 30s, 40s and 50s that have been done again but nothing said. We'll have our originals and let the obese, 5 second attention span goldfish (kids today) have their rubbish remakes.

FarShot · « **Reply #39 on:** August 08, 2010, 03:45:03 PM »

Hey, 10 seconds, and at-risk of obesity. Shut yer trap.

Time to go back to searching for college scholarships, right after I grab some ice cream...

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