Alien is an interesting case study.

Dan O’Bannon wrote the screenplay for the movie Dark Star. It was not a great movie. He took his core concept, wrote a new version with less comedy and more horror and that became Alien.

You’re right.

I think a lot of people here are missing the point. It should not be, “I like this thing so remake it”, it should be “this thing had a great idea but the execution was awful so remake it”.

Krill, absolutely. The original was fun but not good.

Enemy Mine was a great movie and should be left untouched.

The Last Starfighter is an interesting one. I don’t think it would benefit from a remake, but because the entire movie is split between the live action scenes and the cheese 80s CG scenes, you could easily replace the space battles with a new version and leave the rest alone.

Or shorten public domain back to a reasonable level.

It does to me. I expected it to be crap. Happy surprise it wasn’t terrible.

I would be much happier if they threw out the fucking cat book.

Every movie now is predictable because they all follow the exact same structure. It annoys me when I can predict what the next scene is going to be. Genuine surprise is rare.

For anyone who doesn’t know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Cat!:_The_Last_Book_on_Screenwriting_You’ll_Ever_Need

Of course

Get fucked cunt.

You know what else will save Linux? Not being in the US.

I know it’s not common knowledge, but there are as many as 3 or maybe even 4 other countries.