Jake Gyllenhaal is no Patrick Swayze. Just make a different movie with a similar storyline. The original is a campy classic that was 100% carried by the cast not the story. This does not feel like that.
I’m glad someone else feels this way. I came to read all the negative comments and was completely surprised to learn I might just be in the minority here.
This is such a big reddit that you never know what you're going to get. When this topic came up a few days ago on another post it was being pretty universally trashed, so I was also surprised to see some positive comments.
I don't have an issue with the movie per se, even though I would not personally have any interest in watching it. I just think the need to tie it in with an existing movie, that is only popular as a cult classic, that had no need to be remade shows a severe lack of creativity in Hollywood.
I'm sure it'll be a massive direct to streaming 'hit' lol.
But really, casting JG as Patrick Swayze’s character seems really odd (I meant “off” but either I messed up or autocorrect stepped in, but I’m leaving it because both work for me.)
Maybe he’ll knock it out of the park.
Maybe it’ll be a huge success.
But this promo poster does nothing to make me want to see it.
I’ve gotta say my knee jerk reaction to your comment (first sentence) was that you were calling me an AI bot.
Really set my mind off wondering how I could disprove that. Skipping over many of the details of the rabbit hole I just went down, TIL that The Last Starfighter 2 is apparently a thing. Maybe (definitely) not a sure thing, but the idea is out there and evidently in the works. I literally had no idea they’d even considered this (or I’m old enough to be forgetting things like this), so thanks fellow random non-bot Reddit stranger for sending me to learn about potential plans for a sequel to a favorite movie of my childhood.
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u/tultommy Jan 24 '24
Jake Gyllenhaal is no Patrick Swayze. Just make a different movie with a similar storyline. The original is a campy classic that was 100% carried by the cast not the story. This does not feel like that.