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NO NO NO REMAKE!!!? NOOOOOO!!!!!


That just sounds so wrong it just cant be remade...i dont care i like this movie the way it is...rihanna as Laura? oh dear lord no please dont do it!!!!! i have no problem with rihanna and her decision to act but not this movie i just cant see her acting like vanity oh no oh no smh this is just wrong so so wrong......stop the madness!!!!




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I like Rihanna, but I really dont see her acting. It's always good to see what she can do though.
I'm just kinda pissed they're doing a remake. I like the movie the way it is.

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I hate when idiots remake classics. All they do is ruin them.

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A remake?

It's about time they remade it.


But couldn't they remake it with actors people respect?


Are they going to have Chris Brown be the villain? Because that's the only way the story would work with her in it.


Maybe if they had someone, like Alicia Keys would it be okay.

But Rihanna?



I just know if I am under he Arm-ba-rella-ella-ella then that means I might get punched and concussed from Chris Brown.

I don't want that in my dvd collection.

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please no rihanna. alicia keys, nia long, erica ringor, tia or tamara mowry. hell, i'd even accept beyonce knowles. not to name all the other women i'd rather see on a big screen other than rihanna. shucks,the leading actress from any local elementary school's 2nd grade thanksgiving play. anyone but rihanna. use rihanna for the stunt double. the world knows she can take it.

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The movie is too dated to do a remake. The only way they can remotely make it work is if they update it and we all know that would suck. Not unless like a previous poster said, change it from a remake to a sequel. Better yet, leave it alone.


PLEASE DON'T FOLLOW THROUGH WITH A REMAKE. WE ENJOYED THE 80'S THE FIRST TIME AROUND. WHY FIX WHAT AIN'T BROKEN!!!!!!!

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i totally agree with you on that. i just got done watching this movie and making a remake is a bad idea. i wouldn't go see it either way b/c i only watch remakes if they come on tv but that's not the point. When people do a remake they try to make it based on the original that's fine but then they just start changing things and its just gonna be something totally different by the time its over and i know i'll hate it. I mean I know remakes aren't supposed to be exactly the same but when they do happen i'm the type of person who can't help but compare the two and that's what messes you up when you like the original better. It's like what they did with that newer version of Carrie in 2002, i like the sequal better so some movies you shouldn't remake. if i saw 2 versions of the same movie, the whole time i would be thinking was that did i see that in the first one and then i won't enjoy it. I wouldn't mind if it was a sequal to say what happened after this movie because trying to bring an 80s movie out in 2010 is crazy. I haven't heard any new stuff just that it's in development on here so i hope whoever's making this thing changes their mind.

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Thank you! This movie is a cult classic and it worked in a very 1980s way. I don't see how it could work in the present-day, and I don't want to see an update for 2012; suddenly there'll be drugs and weapons dealers and drive-bys in it because they'll say that nobody will "get" the idea of black people marking territory in neighborhoods with or for the sake of kung fu supremacy alone; there will have to be some other "more realistic" motivation. The whole idea of a remake just sucks, and when you add in the casting of Rihanna, who can't act but has name recognition, you can already see that the whole thing is headed in the wrong direction. The original production had heart, even if it wasn't polished; this is going to be a soulless piece of sh*t with massive production values, and it's going to be terrible.

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I kid you not. A remake of this film is the kind of thing I'd actually put effort into boycotting.

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If it ain't broke... This is such a terrible idea, it's like people are too lazy to come up with something original. The movie is such a classic they need to leave it alone, I don't care who is on board RZA, Rihanna, Sam Jackson etc... A remake would be an insult.

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I agree with you guys. When a film is so completely a product of it's time as The Last Dragon is, it should never ever be remade.

Is there anyone in Hollywood producing original scripts anymore?

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Why do people always complain about remakes, a remake does not devalue the original, You don't like it don't go see it.
I for one would like a remake, becasue i always felt you got to see to little of the glow.

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The orignal is great and but this remake idea sounds like a weed influenced project and will probably suck balls unless they get the right people involved. Having some rappers and singers star in it because they 'love the original' won't be doing any justice whatsoever to the original. These personal love projects usually end up stinking. RZA, if he's the guy behind would be better off campaining to get an anniversary DVD edition of the original produced and mass advertised. Depending on who's directing this remake it could turn out to be a decent film, but I doubt it.

Now you listen to me. And I'll only say it once....We are not sick men!

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I would like to see them remake this... only this time make it a decent film. The original was'nt great and having watched it fairly recently i would say it does'nt stand the time either.

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i totally agree! no Rihanna the only person i thought that could pull off laura charles is aaliyah and she's passed away! So there is no one else unless they get an unknown which they should. maybe nicole from the pussycat dolls but i'm not even sure about that!

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God , NO! She looks like a lady boy .

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I can't stand that she likes to dress and look like a lesbian.

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Im usually the first to complain about remakes but this was never a good movie to begin with. Typical 80s with plenty of buffoonery. I'd like to see it redone as a serious movie with some good action rather than a clownish music video. Of course, with Rihanna in a lead role, you already know where this is headed.

A sequel would be cool too with Taimak reprising his role but as a mentor or sensei to a younger marital artist.

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As much as I hate remakes, I'll see it if Mark Taylor plays Leroy That would be hot. If the new Leroy isn't as hot as Taimak, I'll pass

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There is someone who can pull off Laura; it's Jessica Lucas. Google her; she looks just like Vanity. Samuel Jackson would play the Shogun but who would play Taimak's role? I would want the Hughes Brothers to direct it.

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agreed mclovemovies remakes are a bad idea i hear that they are remaking flight of navigator and the karate kid and the never ending story too why can't they stop with remakes however i was a huge fan of flight of the navigator so i would probably watch that one but still remakes are a bad idea!

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