Who are you, Joel Schumacher? Pitof? Marcus Nispel?

What hell IS wrong with you?

And by the way, Mary Poppins has already been remade. Now it's called "Nanny McPhee".

Good point about Ebert, too -- even Roeper's handing out thumbs up like crazy these days. I remember when he would at least hardcore diss almost every film he laid eyes upon, but I guess the network execs asked him to be a little more forgiving or something because goodness he gave Flightplan a thumb up. Good lord that movie was horrible.

And yeah, screw all of these remakes. Admittedly, though, if I were a filmmaker I'd probably go for a bunch of remakes too. My remakes would totally and intentionally deviate from the spirit of the original works, though. Marry Poppins as a slasher film? Oh, the possibilities are endless.

1. Screwing "anything that moves" includes record-players and toasters. I'm serious.

2. None of the ones I knew ever did get the girl. Not even the ugly ones.

Now about Kong. What you said about racism in King Kong reminded me of something I read about King Kong in a Barry Ween comic. The line in question goes like this..."And the sombitch is RACIST. These dudes must have been tossing him a tribal woman once a month. But WHO does he start chewing on natives and sailors over? WHO makes him go postal? The white girl. TYPICAL male posturing--".

Anyway, I think the real problem with Kong here is too many remakes. I don't know about you, but I'm sure sick of all these remakes coming out. The REAL problem with remakes is that they tend to replace the original. Whenever a remake gets popular there's like a cover-up that the original ever existed. Well, maybe not a cover up, but it gets ALOT harder to find the original. Just ask any fan of the original version of "The Jackal" as oppossed to the crappy remake.

While we're at it, have you ever noticed that the better the media says a movie is, the worse it is. Ebert is such a corprate shill.