tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post2595050304364211410..comments2007-05-10T09:24:04.450-04:00Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416matt@paleofuture.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-58252413370826585852007-05-10T09:24:00.000-04:002007-05-10T09:24:00.000-04:002007-05-10T09:24:00.000-04:00Do not lose sight of the fact that at one time the remakes were better. I would cite the remakes of The Maltese Falcon (1941), Wizard of Oz (1939), Ben Hur (195x), Great Expectations (1946) and possibly Oliver Twist (1948), The Cat and the Canary (1939), His Girl Friday (1940). <BR/><BR/>Films like Vice-Versa have been remade with that title half a dozen times and more if you include derivatives such as Freaky Friday. Debatable which is the best.TDKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-40390678035458483692007-05-07T21:00:00.000-04:002007-05-07T21:00:00.000-04:002007-05-07T21:00:00.000-04:00<I>Casablanca</I> has been remade, as <I>Barb Wire</I>, starring Pamela Anderson. No, she doen't play the Ilsa-analog role.Rich Rostromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13262703348236110420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-66171311114193381552007-05-07T10:19:00.000-04:002007-05-07T10:19:00.000-04:002007-05-07T10:19:00.000-04:00Omni was a fabulous magazine. Good science, great sci-fi, nice humor and fantastic mind puzzles. I grew up on it and still have two issues hanging out and still re-read them.<BR/><BR/>One article of note from 1980 tagged young senator Al Gore as the great white hope for environmentalisn. Shame it took him 20-odd years to do much and an even bigger shame that he's turned into a carbon-offest buying hypocrite.Arkonbeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11056581569235023216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-80300111572768327312007-05-06T18:58:00.000-04:002007-05-06T18:58:00.000-04:002007-05-06T18:58:00.000-04:00Leave well enough alone, yes?<BR/><BR/>But a lot of Omni's predictions seem spot-on, or am I out of touch with pop culture? (Aargh, that phrase probably shows my age.)SheriVanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02156394881058117903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-68971485022601924712007-05-03T11:31:00.000-04:002007-05-03T11:31:00.000-04:002007-05-03T11:31:00.000-04:00We could not agree more on the remake thingy. They get it wrong most of the time on remakes, heck look what they did to 'Planet of the Apes.'Dr. Monkey Von Monkersteinhttp://monkeymucker.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com