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Dierna Soul, Reporter
 
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Big Trouble In Little China remake
*sighs* Dwayne Johnson is gonna star AND produce a remake of Big Trouble in Little China. FOX is doing it. GOSH DANGIT! This does NOT need to be remade!!!
 The original is one of my fave movies!! http://www.thewrap.com/dwayne-the-ro...ake-exclusive/
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06-01-2015, 05:28 PM
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Grossssss.
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06-01-2015, 06:31 PM
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I SEEN IT
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Whatever, I'll see it but won't pay for it.
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06-01-2015, 06:33 PM
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Mutant Tiger
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Well, I love The Rock, Hes likable, lovable, and a kick ass action movie star. So it'll be interesting to see his take on Jack Burton.
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06-01-2015, 06:58 PM
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I'm totes down for it. I'm a sucker for the Rock, ever since "Snitch."
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06-01-2015, 07:17 PM
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Why? Seriously, why?
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06-02-2015, 01:21 AM
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06-02-2015, 01:31 AM
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I'd be on board with a sequel to it 30 years later with The Rock... AND Kurt Russell. I'd actually imagine they'd have great chemistry.
But this? No. Pass. And I'm sure it'd be super neutered.
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06-02-2015, 02:25 AM
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Johnson's game plan has always been flawed. He's tried desperately to be the new Schwarzenegger in the whole time I was officially I was an adult and now, in 2015, he has only barely managed to achieve to be "cool guy who kind of saves franchises generally in a supporting role. And hey, in the new Shazam movie he may or may not be Black Adam but we'll just keep announcing it like it's a new thing every couple of years to make click-bait articles" status. Am I wrong? I really feel like I'm not.
Don't get me wrong. I love the guy. He's awesome. Even when I was like 17, I wrote him into my lame TMNT 4 script. He's got 100% more charisma than 90% of the working people in Hollywood today, but he really only suits certain roles. He was the reason I got into WWE when I was a kid, when he was beefing with HHH and Stephanie and all of that... and I loudly applauded his rising up in Mummy 2 and Scorpion King and all that. He's always entertaining to watch. To me. That said, it's always seemed to me he's approached his career in reverse. I mean, when you really hold things back in retrospect, how the biggest popcorn, larger than life action icons became icons in the age of unfiltered machismo (Arnold, Sly, Kurt, Seagal, Van Damme, etc.) when that was a thing that was allowed to be without "100 Moms" becoming a winning vote in anything... there's an order to it. An art? Maybe, maybe not, but certainly a method. You know, you come out guns blazing with Terminator. Made. Then you do a slew of adults-pleasing movies to cement your image (Conan the Barbarian, Running Man, Red Heat, Predator, Commando, etc.)... and THEN, only then you get to be able to make fun of the image you've already created, ala Kindergarten Cop, Junior, Twins, and so on. Not before. You don't do it right out of the gate (not unless you want to just kill everything you've been trying to accomplish). Dwayne Johnson seemed to want too much too fast and was like, "F*** that, I'm just gonna skip past the whole part of making myself a badass on screen for a stint and skip straight to my Kindergarten Cop phase because there's this script and they wanna pay me 3 million right now and that's tight"... well, that's up to you, buddy, but it's not going to be earned, everyone's going to see that it's not, and it's going to cost you and prevent you from ever even hitting that initial Schwarzenegger badass phase of success and it'll be the equivalent of perpetually walking around with a house arrest anklet. But it's your funeral, buddy. I did love the movie Faster with Dwayne. I could watch that over and over. Truly slick. That deserved to do far better than it did. Maybe that's a result of Dwayne preceding it with sh*t like Tooth Fairy when he never did what I just illustrated before it. Because it wasn't earned in the public eye.
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06-02-2015, 02:11 PM
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I only ever found Dwayne Johnson interesting in WWF, granted I haven't really seen many of his movies but he always feels out of place. Maybe he is just too ingrained on my brain as a pro-wrestler to take him seriously.
Anywho, I've never seen Big Trouble in Little China, does it hold up if I were to watch it now? I love martial arts movies but I'm not a big fan of 80s action movies. |
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06-02-2015, 02:23 PM
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06-02-2015, 02:32 PM
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06-02-2015, 03:26 PM
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I like the Rock as an actor for the most part, and can see him playing a Burton-esque character. But Burton is like Ash to me...there can only be one.
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06-03-2015, 12:05 AM
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I'm sorry, I just can't see The Rock as Jack Burton.
One of the big themes of the original was that Jack wasn't the real hero, he was a klutz that was a parody of the 80's action hero. His friend Wang was the real hero of the movie and in the remake it just seems like Hollywood will forget that fact. From what I've seen the Rock usually plays a straight-up action hero. He doesn't look like the type of character to play a klutzy parody of one. |
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06-03-2015, 12:15 AM
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06-03-2015, 01:09 PM
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Just watched the original for the first time a few weeks ago. I think if they got James Hong to reprise his role it could work, though at the same time I'd rather they could figure out some way to make it at the very least a soft reboot.
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06-03-2015, 08:00 PM
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Yeah, I cant see Lo Pan as ANYBODY but Hong. Heck I even lampooned him in one of my stories, as the owner of a curio shop who tells fortunes on the side.
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06-03-2015, 08:05 PM
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Mutant Tiger
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there's a tribute video about Big Trouble in Little China, James Hong makes a cameo in it, It's a Gangnam style parody.
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