I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things:

http://www.thewrap.com/dwayne-the-rock-johnson-to-star-in-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake-exclusive/

No. Just... no.

Good God No. They just won't stop until they've ruined everything will they.

I'm unfazed by this. Much as I love most of Carpenter's movies, Big Trouble in Little China I don't really care for.

Ditto. It was just too stupid, even for me, which is why a remake might be nice. If they make it a little darker it might work.

On a related note, early reviews on the 'Point Break' remake are that they shouldn't have remade it. :P

It was a parody of action movies. "Darker" doesn't really fit with parody.

Lo Pan is dead and the evil curse has been lifted. Years ago I promised myself a long vacation (from remakes). It's time to collect. Big Trouble in Little China is in the heart. Wherever I go, she is with me.

One, I don't see how this is possible. Two, Telika expressed it brilliantly. Three, with the remake they will likely make it too serious & try to turn it into a real action flick. Which I don't see working well at all.

I really like Dwayne Johnson and I loved Big Trouble in Little China, but I don't hold a lot of hope for the remake. Still, I'll be keeping an eye out for this. Personally, I think this has potential.

I´ll watch it as if it was a new unrelated movie not as a remake.

Wow, that sucks. I loved Big Trouble in Little China. Please don't ever touch Goonies. I'll kill them!

BTTF aged really well though. Except for their predictions on how 2015 should look like, everything's aged pretty well.

You said it. What's next? Back to the Future? The Breakfast Club? Dead Poets' Society?
Actually, I quite liked the new Robocop. They avoided the mistake of trying to straight up remake the original story, and chose instead to approach the concept from a totally different angle. That is good, because it makes it much easier not to compare the two movies. The original Robocop 2&3 however, yeah, they should have skipped those.

Still, the new Robocop for me is the one remake that worked in a sea of ones that didn't.

Get the pitchforks and torches!

Now, THIS IS AN IDEA!

;)

About the topic, I like Dwayne Johnson and the main character of Big Trouble in Little China is really the kind of characters where he shines. Strong man in a new situation he does not really understand. Like in Race to Witch Mountain or even The Tooth Fairy.

HOWEVER... Why a remake? Make an original story! Just state: it is an story inspired by the classic of the golden age of cinema, the '80. Nobody is bothered if something is similar*, but why just remake. :(

*Otherwise you can say that: The Last Samurai[2003] is just Dances with Horses[1990] that is just A man Called Horse[1970] that is just Wagon Train...

I gave up trying to explain the genius of Big Trouble to people. You either get it or you don't. Carpenter managed to take several out of date genres, throw in some crazy set pieces and humor, and let the kung fu fly. Big Trouble in Little China mocks every single movie concept it can get its hands on, then roundhouse kicks it into a giant ball of awesome covered in green flames... green flames! I mean all hell was breaking loose there.

And another thing. According to Carpenter and others who worked on the film, the story goes that the original script was set in the old west, and instead of looking for his truck, Jack Burton had his horse stolen by the wing kong... who was gonna be a front gang working on the railroads working for Lo Pan. The whole thing was going to be a western martial arts movie. The budget and studio didn't cover for a big period piece film, so they brought in W.D. Richter to modernize it and polish it up. Point being, it was an accident! A happy little accident. Hollywood won't and can't understand the miracle of accidents. Everything has to go by the book. It's all about the numbers, and since Big Trouble in Little China failed to make a big return at the box office, I can safely question Hollywood's business sense as well as its creative sense.

But yeah, remaking a movie that already failed to draw a dime in its own time is a really stupid fucking idea. Please Hollywood, let me keep my poorly performing B movies to enjoy in peace! Is nothing sacred? What's next, a Michael Bay 200 million dollar remake of Manos Hands of Fate?

well lets be honest here superman returns look gorgeous but was boring
nothing really happen
superman returns we find out he is a super deadbeat dad he rescues a plane gets shanked lifts a tectonic plate in to space and then crashes to earth and thats 155 minutes

the two FF movies were bloody awfull and not in a so bad they are good but so bad i want to devour my own eyeballs way

the spiderman reboot was utter bollocks though especially the way the origin was crammed in there
spiderman 1 was by that time just 10 years old and its still clogging up the dvd aisles
i doubt the average movie punter doesnt know who spiderman is so that whole rebooted origin thing was superfluous at best
damaging the movie at wors
i dont know
some of their predictions for 2015 are pretty close to the mark
voice control
computers every where
3D ( fad )
flat screens
hundreds of channels to choose from

course the really big things everybody wants hoverboards flying cars self drying and adjusting clothes and self lacing boots arent going to happen quite yet

but they were still eerily on the mark with some things
not as much as 2001 but thats a whole different movie