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Hey if the crazy freak wants to make a movie that NO ONE will go see and spend millions of her dollars.  I see no reason why she shouldn't be aloud to.  Until stupidity is painful entertainers like her will make folleys like this one.  In my opinion though this is just another way the left is trying to tear down our soldiers in Iraq.  Yes I said it, Madonna is a member of the the left as are many others in the motion picture field.

Someone must be kidding!!! I got two negatives for my above post.  Just because some of you do not agree with me, this is a ridiculous call for a negative.  The lurkers strike again...

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Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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Hey if the crazy freak wants to make a movie that NO ONE will go see and spend millions of her dollars.  I see no reason why she shouldn't be aloud to.  Until stupidity is painful entertainers like her will make folleys like this one.  In my opinion though this is just another way the left is trying to tear down our soldiers in Iraq.  Yes I said it, Madonna is a member of the the left as are many others in the motion picture field.

Someone must be kidding!!! I got two negatives for my above post.  Just because some of you do not agree with me, this is a ridiculous call for a negative.  The lurkers strike again...

I don't think they were lurkers...probably leftists .

Thanks for the laugh Max I needed that...

Perhaps to you, gunnar, but I find it a perfectly acceptable reference to Madonna, I might not put it the way lord did but still. I think the woman is a tad off center.

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Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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Quoting Lord Of The Sith:

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Hey if the crazy freak wants to make a movie that NO ONE will go see and spend millions of her dollars.  I see no reason why she shouldn't be aloud to.  Until stupidity is painful entertainers like her will make folleys like this one.  In my opinion though this is just another way the left is trying to tear down our soldiers in Iraq.  Yes I said it, Madonna is a member of the the left as are many others in the motion picture field.

Someone must be kidding!!! I got two negatives for my above post.  Just because some of you do not agree with me, this is a ridiculous call for a negative.  The lurkers strike again...

Well, I wouldn't (and didn't) give you a negative for that, but my guess would be that they didn't give them because they disagreed with your opinion, but because they felt that calling someone "crazy freak" for remaking a classic was inappropriate.

I still think it is more likely that it is one of the two who normally give me a negative when they disagree with my opinion...

No, no, no, no, NO! Absolutely not! Nein. Nei. Nej.

*Please Madonna - let it it be, let it be*

Casablanca might not be my ulitmate favourite, but I still love this film with all my heart. It's part of history and I would prefer it stayed that way - not ruined by Madonna or anyone else.

"Say it ain't so, Joe!"
Actually there are only a few remakes that come out fairly decent.
The remakes of "The Searchers", "Stagecoach" & "The Wiz" were pretty much bad to watch, to name a few.
"I am Legend" which is a remake of "Omega Man" and "Last Man on Earth" came out a pretty good film!
Unfortunatly, when I hear of Madonna starring in "Casablanca" , I am reminded of her in "Who's that Girl". Not many singers can become a decent actor.

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it's a pet peeve of mine when people automatically react with disdain whenever a remake is announced.

I think this happens mostly when a classic movie is up for a remake. And by "classic" I don't mean just "old".

Also, I wouldn't automatically call something a remake just because it's based on the same book (or whatever) as another film. A remake, IMHO, is based on the basically same screenplay as an earlier film. So, I'm not sure I would consider the 1939 Wizard of Oz a remake of the 1925 silent version, for example.

His Girl Friday is more iffy. Although both it and The Front Page are both based on a play, they are indeed more similar than the Oz films. And Charles Lederer who wrote the screenplay for His Girl Friday was also involved - although to a lesser extent - in The Front Page. So that one I would probably consider a remake.

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It's part of history and I would prefer it stayed that way - not ruined by Madonna or anyone else.

I don't get this mentality. Don't get me wrong, I feel no need to see a remake of Casablanca, but I don't understand how one could ruin the original. It will always be there, regardless of how many remakes are done.

As an aside, there's plenty of remakes which have proven superior to their predecessors. I highly doubt this one will be one of those, just thought I'd point it out.

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I didn't say that remakes automatically are a bad thing, it's just that sometimes it's better to just let things be.

Of course it will always be there, but it will always be compared to that bad movie (and no - I doubt Madonna will ever be able to make a good movie, not like that) Madonna once made. It ruins the repuation for one thing - and it's sort of disrespectful in my eyes. She obviously is milking this to gain her own interests, instead of honouring  the dead. I might think differently about an other director/actress/actor, but not someone like Madonna. She's a great artist, but not one for the movies. I'm afraid she'll make a modern love-story thingy with a twist of the old. Well, it doesn't work for me.

And not to speak of the actors. Good luck in finding a suiting  actor and actress in the main parts.

If you don't agree with me, fine. This is my opinion. You don't have to like it. I love the old classics, though I love new films too. But I think there's a limit, well, in Madonna's case anyway. You might even think my reasons for saying this are quite mad, well - I don't. The history of the film industry is as important to me as new technology. And Casablanca is a part of that. Not just in itself, but all the films from that time. And I'm not really pleased with the way many of the films today has turned out to be. In my eyes, they've lost their soul. It's all the same now, these days, films from Hollywood I mean. Doesn't mean I don't like some of them, but they don't really impress me as much as the old ones do. And if Madonna makes just another chick-flick, then what's the use? We don't really need another film like that, not when I know the original is ten times better.