Poll of the Day > Oceans 8 (all female remake) trailer released

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZg72RlYlm4
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Why is Sandra Bullock so dead pan the entire time
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Because she's an Ocean and that's how George Clooney was in those movies. She apparently supposed to be his sister
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Hopefully they don't make it into a joke like that last all woman remake.
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I'm sure that will be terrible

Looks shit.
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yutterh posted...

Hopefully they don't make it into a joke like that last all woman remake.

Atleast this one has respectable actresses.

It looks like Anne Hathaway will play the antagonist. That's a shame, I think she would have worked great with the rest of the team
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Does hollywood not have 11 woman they can find?
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why cant they just make a different movie about 8 women? does it need to be called oceans-whatever
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Also, women irl dont do any of that shit.
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Looks pretty good. I wonder if any of the original cast will make a cameo. Id like to see George Clooney in it

FrozenBananas posted...

yutterh posted...

Hopefully they don't make it into a joke like that last all woman remake.

Atleast this one has respectable actresses.

It looks like Anne Hathaway will play the antagonist. That's a shame, I think she would have worked great with the rest of the team

Look for it in the sequel
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Looks pretty good. I wonder if any of the original cast will make a cameo. Id like to see George Clooney in it

Matt Damon is already credited on IMDb so he'll be in it
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FrozenBananas posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Looks pretty good. I wonder if any of the original cast will make a cameo. Id like to see George Clooney in it

Matt Damon is already credited on IMDb so he'll be in it

cool another soft reboot with Diversity and FanService
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PaddysPub posted...

why cant they just make a different movie about 8 women? does it need to be called oceans-whatever

Among older folks having a familiar names elicits ideas the product will be of similar quality to original.

There is no reason other than marketing. Most decisions about modern movies, script or advertising, is not done with a single artistic thought.
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FrozenBananas posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Looks pretty good. I wonder if any of the original cast will make a cameo. Id like to see George Clooney in it

Matt Damon is already credited on IMDb so he'll be in it

Thats cool. I love Matt Damon.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Looks pretty good. I wonder if any of the original cast will make a cameo.

Yeah, I hope Sammy Davis jr, Frank sinatra and the rest of the rat pack make an appearance.

I hear theyre about to reboot The First Wives Club with an all male cast
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green dragon posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Looks pretty good. I wonder if any of the original cast will make a cameo.

Yeah, I hope Sammy Davis jr, Frank sinatra and the rest of the rat pack make an appearance.

Funny

I'm waiting for the Stepford Husbands.
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ernieforss posted...

Does hollywood not have 11 woman they can find?

Given that Hollywood pays women less, couldn't they have cast 15?
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Zangulus posted...

Zeus posted...

ernieforss posted...

Does hollywood not have 11 woman they can find?

Given that Hollywood pays women less, couldn't they have cast 15?

I already made this joke. It was too subtle, I guess.

Yours just wasn't good tbh

No thank you.
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love the 2000s oceans movies. this look good

Looks great, but I could really do without Sandra Bullock.
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i generally find sandra bullock annoying but she does have the sassy spunk like the original ocean did so eh. seems like decent casting imo

argonautweakend posted...

love the 2000s oceans movies. this look good

Yeah I loved them too, especially 11 and 13 (12 was ok but really fucking weird...)
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yutterh posted...

Hopefully they don't make it into a joke like that last all woman remake.

it already is, whether or not they intend for it to be one
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Noop_Noop posted...

I'm sure that will be terrible

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Not looking good.

bulbinking posted...

Among older folks having a familiar names elicits ideas the product will be of similar quality to original.

Speaking on behalf of older folks, the opposite is usually true.

Hell, I assumed in advance that the Clooney Oceans 11 was just going to be a shitty remake of the original Oceans 11 when it first came out, and was pleasantly surprised upon seeing it that it was actually watchable.

That's rare, though. Other than the 1980s Thing remake and the 1980s Fly remake, I have a very hard time thinking of ANY remake, regardless of who they cast, that was significantly better than the original version. Almost any time someone does a remake or "re-interpretation" of something that was previously popular, the new version is qualitatively worse.

(In theory, I could probably throw the traditionally famous versions of movies like Ben-Hur and Wizard of Oz into the mix since they weren't the first versions of those movies ever made, but in those cases I kind of consider them more separate adaptations of the same source material than outright remakes. Though in that case, I suppose The Thing would also be disqualified on similar grounds, since it was an adaptation of an existing story.)

This raises an interesting question, though - ARE there any remakes that were better than the originals? By which I don't mean more financially successful (which is the only metric Hollywood actually cares about), but in terms of artistic merit and entertainment value.


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

bulbinking posted...

Among older folks having a familiar names elicits ideas the product will be of similar quality to original.

Speaking on behalf of older folks, the opposite is usually true.

Hell, I assumed in advance that the Clooney Oceans 11 was just going to be a shitty remake of the original Oceans 11 when it first came out, and was pleasantly surprised upon seeing it that it was actually watchable.

That's rare, though. Other than the 1980s Thing remake and the 1980s Fly remake, I have a very hard time thinking of ANY remake, regardless of who they cast, that was significantly better than the original version. Almost any time someone does a remake or "re-interpretation" of something that was previously popular, the new version is qualitatively worse.

(In theory, I could probably throw the traditionally famous versions of movies like Ben-Hur and Wizard of Oz into the mix since they weren't the first versions of those movies ever made, but in those cases I kind of consider them more separate adaptations of the same source material than outright remakes. Though in that case, I suppose The Thing would also be disqualified on similar grounds, since it was an adaptation of an existing story.)

This raises an interesting question, though - ARE there any remakes that were better than the originals? By which I don't mean more financially successful (which is the only metric Hollywood actually cares about), but in terms of artistic merit and entertainment value.

I know it might be an unpopular opinion, but the True Grit coen bros remake was way better than the original
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Remember when they made apollo 13 an all woman cast. they called it Hidden Figures

I laughed at the dumb youtube comment that said What's next an all woman godfather. She will make a pie you can't refuse.
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I expect companies to keep losing money on these until Disney buys them out after repeated failures lower their value. The majority doesnt give a shit about what SJWs like.
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I never saw any of the other movies but from the previews they looked like they were also intended to be super-campy cringefests.

Is this not just going to be more of the same?
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The trailer doesn't look too bad, but why do a remake instead of a continuation w/ just females? I don't see the point in rehashing something that's been done just to say "look, men did this 15 years ago, and now it's the girls turn!!"

Like, just make new movies. A remake already pegs it down a few notches, imo. I like Sandra Bullock so I might see this, but other than that I don't really see this as being a huge film other than the whole politicized "all girls cast!! Gurl Power!!" bs.

Like, we're all people. It doesn't fucking matter.

Wait until they get around to an all female Rocky or Armageddon...
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Cringe
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@WhiskeyDisk

I thought the female verison of Rocky was Million Dollar Baby.
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