OCEAN'S 8 as all female remake: Bullock, Hathaway, Rihanna, Bonham Carter, Kaling, Blanchett in 2017 - Polidicks

Holding out hope for this one. Big fan of the cast.

[QUOTE=bdd458;50860844]He said good movies[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=kikomia;50860803]Oh man, Battleship was the pinnacle of movie making.[/QUOTE] [B]Or any movie for that matter? [/B] is what he said.

[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;50860913]You are, but calling it medioce 'because genderswap' is fucking dumb. All we know for now is that it's a remake with an all-women cast. That's it. Literally impossible to make any comment regarding the quality of the movie so far.[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm sure a movie starring Rihanna, the most painful female comedian in Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina, commonly known as literally who, will be a good movie.

[QUOTE=Fangz;50860681]I personally think we shouldn't dismiss this movie until we see actual footage. It could be good.[/QUOTE] I can always go for a good heist movie.

I want to get off Mr. Hollywood's Wild Ride now. [Sp]Hoping for the best![/sp]

Having Galadriel on your team for a heist is just plain cheating. She wrecked Dol Goldur so a bank vault or something would be nothing.

A movie like this depends more on good screenplay than good actors. Saving my judgement for the teaser/trailer.

The great irony of rebooting an IP with an all female cast is that it gives the impression that an all female cast wouldn't stand/sell on its own. I mean of course that's why these are being made to begin with. Hollywood wouldn't do something they see as so risky. But it's incredible to see some people singing the praises of feminism in Ghostbusters when it is anything but.

[QUOTE=Fort83;50860800]Well it could be worse. It could have Melissa McCarthy and Leslie Jones in it.[/QUOTE] Wasn't Leslie Jones actually the table turner that surprised everyone? I don't know. All I hear is that, the one character that everyone hated at first and that everyone thought was gonna deliver a bad part, is apparently the only one to actually be good. [editline]10th August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=SirJon;50860759]But this has rihanna in it Itll be worth it just for that[/QUOTE] :v: ahahahaha?

[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;50860913]You are, but calling it medioce 'because genderswap' is fucking dumb. All we know for now is that it's a remake with an all-women cast. That's it. Literally impossible to make any comment regarding the quality of the movie so far.[/QUOTE] So a remake with a weird arbitrary gimmick.

We had the remasters, we had the remakes, we had the reboots and now we have the all-female versions of movies, i wonder if this will become a trend... As for the movie, just going to wait and see how it turns out but i thought Ocean was really a dude-movie, as in jokes that men more like rather then girls or so i found out after watching it with my gf. In case this turns into a Ghostbusters 2016 flop i got some news for you: [URL="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-heading-70m-loss-sequel-918515"]'Ghostbusters' Heading for $70M-Plus Loss, Sequel Unlikely[/URL]

The later Ocean's films were pretty weak imo, so I'm a bit skeptical. I've got no issues with female leads, and actually see a couple competent names on the list, but I worry that this franchise is played out. I guess we'll see how it's handled.

I'll watch it only if they put George Clooney in drag and cast him as Daniela Ocean. :v:

Idk, it sounds like it could work better than new Ghostbusters. RedLetterMedia had a pretty good theory why - it just wasn't a macho movie in the first place. That and the mass-produced, outsourced "comedy" script + Feig not directing anybody = a typical, forgettable "comedy" that nobody would've been talking about if it were an all-male reboot. There's been a couple pretty good female heist movies in the past, even the Wachowski's (of Matrix fame) directed Bound and that was great. Keep in mind it's way easier to make a fun, badass action movie than it is to make an actually funny comedy movie, and action audiences usually don't like political commentary. I'd wait for the trailer.

[QUOTE=Xenomoose;50861207]I'll watch it only if they put George Clooney in drag and cast him as Daniela Ocean. :v:[/QUOTE] I was think more just Dani Ocean.

Hey, as long as the origin of the idea wasn't because your studio exec wanted to put in the most offensive team ever into your superhero movie and it became another film, I'm game

This is just stupid. Make a new original movie, for Christ sake. There's way too many reboots being pumped out.

I hope this has less controversy surrounding it than Ghostbusters. I hated Ghostbusters because Melissa McCarthy was in it. But one of my favorite performances ever was a live theater production of 12 Angry Men with women (it was called 12 Angry Women). Genderbending isn't always awful, if the production itself can actually make a point about the difference in gender, rather than just doing it "becuz lol!!"

They couldn't find three other women to make it 11? Ocean's Eight sounds kind of lame in comparison. But still, might not be bad

I'm waiting for an all-female cast reboot of something where suddenly half the girls turn into men because nature always finds a way~

sure, i'll wank to it

[QUOTE=darth-veger;50861179]We had the remasters, we had the remakes, we had the reboots and now we have the all-female versions of movies, i wonder if this will become a trend...[/QUOTE] This is my guess. I'm betting Hollywood is starting to get the hint that lazy remakes and reboots are no longer guaranteed cash-grabs, so they introduce gimmicks like this to spice things up (without putting forth TOO much effort). In the past, enough people would watch a movie based on nothing but name recognition that they were guaranteed to profit. It's not ALWAYS the case anymore, so it looks like they're trying something new. Now, I think they're banking on making a profit because an all-female cast is a ~progressive~ new idea. I put cynical tildes around "progressive" because it still strikes me as a lazy, gimmicky change. It doesn't take any creative effort to slap an all-female cast onto an existing IP, but it gets people talking about how groundbreaking and/or controversial it is. That said, since we still know so little about the movie, it MAY be some kind of sequel/reboot of the same caliber as something like Fury Road. Maybe a shitload of effort is being put into the script and it'll have one or two incredible action scenes. I don't think the all-female cast condemns it to NOT being something like that, but like I said, it strikes me as a fairly easy gimmick, which doesn't make me optimistic for the final product. Not really any more or less optimistic than I'd be for an all-male or otherwise diverse reboot.

Just when you start thinking Hollywood can't get away with being extremely lazy, they prove they can get away with it again just by lowering the laziness a notch. Truly amazing.

On one hand maybe this is the easiest way to get more female lead roles, but if they keep using franchises that have been done by men first and then they end up terrible, it's going to backfire. I would have more money put into stuff like the Mirror's Edge's show that's supposedly being made. Either one of these projects could turn out good or bad, but if I was trying to be progressive I would probably go with the one that had an asian female lead protagonist in the source material.

[QUOTE=Splarg!;50861652]On one hand maybe this is the easiest way to get more female lead roles, but if they keep using franchises that have been done by men first and then they end up terrible, it's going to backfire. I would have more money put into stuff like the Mirror's Edge's show that's supposedly being made. Either one of these projects could turn out good or bad, but if I was trying to be progressive I would probably go with the one that had an asian female lead protagonist in the source material.[/QUOTE] Doing female leads just for the sake of it isn't gonna change anything though. It might just make it worser.

[QUOTE=Citizen Insane;50860738]Can they seriously not create a new franchise to do this in? Do they really need to ride coattails off a franchise that's been dead for 10 years? Making a movie with an all-female ensemble is fine and all, but this "genderswap" shit is so fucking uninspired.[/QUOTE] But coming up with new ideas is hard and expensive. Would do better rewriting an old tale, switching shit around to call it yours, and advertising it into oblivion. Worked so well for ghostbusters didn't it? :v:

I hate remakes as it is but this is literally riding the shit stains of ghost busters 16. Its being done for no other reason than following the gender swapping trend. I won't even think about seeing this. And i imagine anybody who understood the ghost busters debacle wont be seeing this. I'm fine with an all female cast, by all means literally knock yourselves out. But its this remaking that irks me. Killing one classic at a fucking time.

Sandra, Cate, Anne and Helena are all great actresses though. Plus, Sandra is already established within the modern Oceans 11 story. If they made a spin off where she tries to out-heist Brad and George I'd be all for it. Making a pure genderbent reboot seems really misguided. I'm still pleasantly optimistic for it.

I want an all male remake of bridesmaids and sex & the city

Wouldn't a male version of Bridesmaids just be The Hangover lol