I thought the Steve Martin remake of the brilliant Pink Panther was a crime. This is worse:
Best pals MATT DAMON and BEN AFFLECK are teaming up on the big screen again to remake BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID.
The actors will take on the roles made famous by PAUL NEWMAN and ROBERT REDFORD in the 1969 classic.
Damon will reportedly play the Sundance Kid, while Affleck will recreate Newman’s role as Butch Cassidy, according to America’s OK! magazine.
Ugh.
Geek, Esq.
I’m going to put on my ruby slippers, click my heels and say “It’s only a rumor” three times.
Geek, Esq.
Though, I do find the original overrated.
srv
No, I heard they’re going to remake the Bird Cage.
Jim Allen
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Stormy70
You said it all, man.
Matt Damon!
Vlad
I could, under some circumstances, see Damon doing a passable job in that role. Affleck, on the other hand…
Forest
GAH! No, boys. Just. NO! I would recommend Starsky and Hutch but it’s already been handled as have the Duke brothers and the Honeymooners. How about Dumb and Dumber? Isn’t about time for a re-make of that?
I happened to find myself in the same room with Paul Newman for about two hours on Friday afternoon and although he appeared somewhat geriatric at first because he was wearing a pair of overly dark sunglasses that weren’t all that stylish, I later saw him talking to someone with his boot up on a chair and he was leaning over on his thigh in that way that men who are serious about what they are saying do and even at eightyleven, he is still one sexy sexy man. Ben Whofleck will NEVER have that.
Mark
Don’t forget about the travesties that are the remakes of The Bad News Bears and the Honeymooners.
The Other Steve
You know. I could see this… maybe.
Affleck by himself is retarded. Together with Damon, they’re a good team. Good Will Hunting was a spectacular movie, and Affleck’s performance was good.
I actually didn’t mind Martin’s remaking the Pink Panther, as I didn’t much like the original but loved the cartoons. :-)
Mr Furious
[vomits slightly in mouth]
Hands off that movie, Hollywood. And “The Sting” for that matter too.
Steve
Look at the bright side. Audiences may be happier about the ending.
Mr Furious
I should note that my objection is not the reflexive anti-Damon/Affleck norm. I also think Good Will Hunting was a terrific movie. I thought they were both good In it, and obviously have talent for making it. They have each been good in other roles. Affleck just has no “crap” filter when it comes to accepting parts.
The original is just too good. And Redford and Newman were never better. And that is saying something.
Mr Furious
Good one Steve…
Wrye
I guess it might work as parody or something, rather than remake. Get Kevin Smith to direct, set it in 1986, something like that. Otherwise, just one more of the long list of unnecessary recent remakes.
farmgirl
Yeah, that’s how I felt at the news Affleck was doing a remake of Brat Farrar … though I can’t find it on IMDB anymore, so maybe plans have changed. Thank goodness.
ET
I’m just waiting for some nitwit in LaLa land to remake To Kill a Mockingbird……
Paul Wartenberg
On the one hand, a Damon/Affleck teaming isn’t that bad: people overlook the job they did on ‘Dogma’.
On the other hand, this is more a fault of Hollywood being intellectually bankrupt and artistically void: the powers that be merely think Big Names + Cheap-to-do Remake = Millions in profits. For all the failures like a Bad News Bears there are the financial successes (if not the critical acclaim) like the Longest Yard.
Personally, I’m not thrilled with a Matt-n-Ben non-gay no-pudding Western. I really think the two should consider a remake of, oh, I dunno, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Just think: an Ed Wood script finally filmed with a decent budget and actual actors! I’m surprised the nimrods at Miramax hadn’t thought of it yet.
Paul Wartenberg
Movies that deserve remakes:
1) Plan 9 from Outer Space!
2) Manos: Hands of Fate!
3) Yor, Hunter from the Future!
4) Duck Soup!
5) The Mouse That Roared! (post 9/11 interpretation)
6) 2001 a Space Odyssey! (now with more monkeys!)
7) A Hard Day’s Night! (starring Green Day!)
8) TRON!
9) My Dinner with Andre! (now with more monkeys!)
10) Ben-Hur! (no wait, THAT was a remake already…)
Mr Furious
‘Dogma’ is perhaps the worst movie I have ever experienced. I walked out on it, and I was watching it in my own house.
The Other Steve
Go rent ‘The Thin Red Line’.
Best thing I can say is I fell asleep and missed most of it.
Stormy70
I walked out on it, and I was watching it in my own house.
Wickedpinto
When “Butch. . . ” was made the first time, there was a controversy, cuz it was originaly gonna star Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, two of the best and most manly actors of the time. After contract problems with Mcqeen, they turned to Robert Redford.
Ben and Matt aren’t in any of those great actors school systems, let alone class. As for any great acting that came out of Ben Affleck I always hear about his monologue in chasing amy, (“I love you, I … LOVE…YOU”) and the one in Dogma (“and he made THEM the ones he most loved”) aren’t dramatic. They are overly emotive to the point of farce, and his delivery always turns to mournful and whiny. Neither compares with the casual and somewhat lazy characters portrayed by two (and pursued by a third) of the greatest actors that have left their impression on Celluloid.
At current, since “Butch. . ” is just a hypothetical, what about the travesty of remaking “When a Stranger Calls?” I saw that movie the first time when I was bout 8 or so. that was a while ago, and it STILL! gives me the chills.
machs
That’s nothing. You should see Arnold’s new collaboration with Steve Spielberg.
Glen
The worst proposed remake ever was “Casablanca,” starring Ben Afleck and girlfriend-at-the-time, the very expensive Jennifer Lopez.
I had nightmares for a week.
Some movies should be protected by law from remakes.
Krista
Stormy – I agree with you about Ocean’s 12. I only wish I could have walked out, but it wasn’t exactly possible on that flight. Man oh man, it was tempting, though.
And if they do, may Gregory Peck haunt them for all eternity.
John Steven
…and in this version, Butch and Sundance will be gay cowboys. ;)
BIRDZILLA
Their so damn spaced out on dope and booze they are remaking old classics i mean no wonder hollywood is losing money they remake old films becuase the directors and producers are braindead