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thedailyfeed: In honor of ‘Total Recall,’ the Colin Farrell movie taking heat from reviewers this weekend for being a cheap rehash of the 1990 original, we present the top 5 worst movie remakes of all time.  5. WILLY WONKA/CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971/2005)At first we were intrigued: Quirk-meister Tim Burton seemed an obvious choice to retell Roald Dahl’s timeless tale. But Johnny Depp’s turn as Wonka was creepy in the wrong way — like a pale weirdo selling glow sticks at a rave. Gene Wilder is the real candy man.4. THE LONGEST YARD (1974/2005)For this prison gridiron classic, someone actually pictured Burt Reynolds’ badass icon Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, then pictured Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and thought to himself: “Yeah, that’s about right.” It wasn’t. At all.3. GODZILLA (1954/1998)Director Roland Emmerich, armed with a massive budget and cutting-edge special effects, updated the most destruction-heavy monster movie ever — and turned it into a total snoozer. This lizard was never meant for CGI. The lone enduring contribution: a Puff Daddy song. Sad.4. PSYCHO (1960/1998)Gus Van Sant’s colorized replica is a cautionary tale for young directors: Learn from the classics, but don’t serve them up warmed over. Roger Ebert called it “an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless.” Burn.  1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968/2001)Tim Burton makes the list again for this retread starring a bunch of damned, dirty apes and Mark Wahlberg, who reportedly chose this over a role in “Ocean’s Eleven.” Our theory on the flop: Wahlberg was simply not yet proficient in talking to animals. What do you think is the worst movie remake of all time?
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thedailyfeed: In honor of ‘Total Recall,’ the Colin Farrell movie taking heat from reviewers this weekend for being a cheap rehash of the 1990 original, we present the top 5 worst movie remakes of all time.  5. WILLY WONKA/CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971/2005)At first we were intrigued: Quirk-meister Tim Burton seemed an obvious choice to retell Roald Dahl’s timeless tale. But Johnny Depp’s turn as Wonka was creepy in the wrong way — like a pale weirdo selling glow sticks at a rave. Gene Wilder is the real candy man.4. THE LONGEST YARD (1974/2005)For this prison gridiron classic, someone actually pictured Burt Reynolds’ badass icon Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, then pictured Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and thought to himself: “Yeah, that’s about right.” It wasn’t. At all.3. GODZILLA (1954/1998)Director Roland Emmerich, armed with a massive budget and cutting-edge special effects, updated the most destruction-heavy monster movie ever — and turned it into a total snoozer. This lizard was never meant for CGI. The lone enduring contribution: a Puff Daddy song. Sad.4. PSYCHO (1960/1998)Gus Van Sant’s colorized replica is a cautionary tale for young directors: Learn from the classics, but don’t serve them up warmed over. Roger Ebert called it “an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless.” Burn.  1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968/2001)Tim Burton makes the list again for this retread starring a bunch of damned, dirty apes and Mark Wahlberg, who reportedly chose this over a role in “Ocean’s Eleven.” Our theory on the flop: Wahlberg was simply not yet proficient in talking to animals. What do you think is the worst movie remake of all time?
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thedailyfeed: In honor of ‘Total Recall,’ the Colin Farrell movie taking heat from reviewers this weekend for being a cheap rehash of the 1990 original, we present the top 5 worst movie remakes of all time.  5. WILLY WONKA/CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971/2005)At first we were intrigued: Quirk-meister Tim Burton seemed an obvious choice to retell Roald Dahl’s timeless tale. But Johnny Depp’s turn as Wonka was creepy in the wrong way — like a pale weirdo selling glow sticks at a rave. Gene Wilder is the real candy man.4. THE LONGEST YARD (1974/2005)For this prison gridiron classic, someone actually pictured Burt Reynolds’ badass icon Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, then pictured Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and thought to himself: “Yeah, that’s about right.” It wasn’t. At all.3. GODZILLA (1954/1998)Director Roland Emmerich, armed with a massive budget and cutting-edge special effects, updated the most destruction-heavy monster movie ever — and turned it into a total snoozer. This lizard was never meant for CGI. The lone enduring contribution: a Puff Daddy song. Sad.4. PSYCHO (1960/1998)Gus Van Sant’s colorized replica is a cautionary tale for young directors: Learn from the classics, but don’t serve them up warmed over. Roger Ebert called it “an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless.” Burn.  1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968/2001)Tim Burton makes the list again for this retread starring a bunch of damned, dirty apes and Mark Wahlberg, who reportedly chose this over a role in “Ocean’s Eleven.” Our theory on the flop: Wahlberg was simply not yet proficient in talking to animals. What do you think is the worst movie remake of all time?
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thedailyfeed: In honor of ‘Total Recall,’ the Colin Farrell movie taking heat from reviewers this weekend for being a cheap rehash of the 1990 original, we present the top 5 worst movie remakes of all time.  5. WILLY WONKA/CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971/2005)At first we were intrigued: Quirk-meister Tim Burton seemed an obvious choice to retell Roald Dahl’s timeless tale. But Johnny Depp’s turn as Wonka was creepy in the wrong way — like a pale weirdo selling glow sticks at a rave. Gene Wilder is the real candy man.4. THE LONGEST YARD (1974/2005)For this prison gridiron classic, someone actually pictured Burt Reynolds’ badass icon Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, then pictured Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and thought to himself: “Yeah, that’s about right.” It wasn’t. At all.3. GODZILLA (1954/1998)Director Roland Emmerich, armed with a massive budget and cutting-edge special effects, updated the most destruction-heavy monster movie ever — and turned it into a total snoozer. This lizard was never meant for CGI. The lone enduring contribution: a Puff Daddy song. Sad.4. PSYCHO (1960/1998)Gus Van Sant’s colorized replica is a cautionary tale for young directors: Learn from the classics, but don’t serve them up warmed over. Roger Ebert called it “an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless.” Burn.  1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968/2001)Tim Burton makes the list again for this retread starring a bunch of damned, dirty apes and Mark Wahlberg, who reportedly chose this over a role in “Ocean’s Eleven.” Our theory on the flop: Wahlberg was simply not yet proficient in talking to animals. What do you think is the worst movie remake of all time?
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thedailyfeed: In honor of ‘Total Recall,’ the Colin Farrell movie taking heat from reviewers this weekend for being a cheap rehash of the 1990 original, we present the top 5 worst movie remakes of all time.  5. WILLY WONKA/CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971/2005)At first we were intrigued: Quirk-meister Tim Burton seemed an obvious choice to retell Roald Dahl’s timeless tale. But Johnny Depp’s turn as Wonka was creepy in the wrong way — like a pale weirdo selling glow sticks at a rave. Gene Wilder is the real candy man.4. THE LONGEST YARD (1974/2005)For this prison gridiron classic, someone actually pictured Burt Reynolds’ badass icon Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, then pictured Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and thought to himself: “Yeah, that’s about right.” It wasn’t. At all.3. GODZILLA (1954/1998)Director Roland Emmerich, armed with a massive budget and cutting-edge special effects, updated the most destruction-heavy monster movie ever — and turned it into a total snoozer. This lizard was never meant for CGI. The lone enduring contribution: a Puff Daddy song. Sad.4. PSYCHO (1960/1998)Gus Van Sant’s colorized replica is a cautionary tale for young directors: Learn from the classics, but don’t serve them up warmed over. Roger Ebert called it “an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless.” Burn.  1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968/2001)Tim Burton makes the list again for this retread starring a bunch of damned, dirty apes and Mark Wahlberg, who reportedly chose this over a role in “Ocean’s Eleven.” Our theory on the flop: Wahlberg was simply not yet proficient in talking to animals. What do you think is the worst movie remake of all time?
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In honor of ‘Total Recall,’ the Colin Farrell movie taking heat from reviewers this weekend for being a cheap rehash of the 1990 original, we present the top 5 worst movie remakes of all time. 

5. WILLY WONKA/CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971/2005)
At first we were intrigued: Quirk-meister Tim Burton seemed an obvious choice to retell Roald Dahl’s timeless tale. But Johnny Depp’s turn as Wonka was creepy in the wrong way — like a pale weirdo selling glow sticks at a rave. Gene Wilder is the real candy man.

4. THE LONGEST YARD (1974/2005)
For this prison gridiron classic, someone actually pictured Burt Reynolds’ badass icon Paul “Wrecking” Crewe, then pictured Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and thought to himself: “Yeah, that’s about right.” It wasn’t. At all.

3. GODZILLA (1954/1998)
Director Roland Emmerich, armed with a massive budget and cutting-edge special effects, updated the most destruction-heavy monster movie ever — and turned it into a total snoozer. This lizard was never meant for CGI. The lone enduring contribution: a Puff Daddy song. Sad.

4. PSYCHO (1960/1998)
Gus Van Sant’s colorized replica is a cautionary tale for young directors: Learn from the classics, but don’t serve them up warmed over. Roger Ebert called it “an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless.” Burn. 

1. PLANET OF THE APES (1968/2001)
Tim Burton makes the list again for this retread starring a bunch of damned, dirty apes and Mark Wahlberg, who reportedly chose this over a role in “Ocean’s Eleven.” Our theory on the flop: Wahlberg was simply not yet proficient in talking to animals.

What do you think is the worst movie remake of all time?

Should this young man — whose nature was apparently so obvious to his mother that, when a ABC News reporter called, she said “You have the right person” — have been able to buy guns, ammunition and explosives? The gun lobby will say yes. And the endless gun control debate will begin again, and the lobbyists of the National Rifle Association will go to work, and the op-ed thinkers will have their usual thoughts, and the right wing will issue alarms, and nothing will change. And there will be another mass murder.

That James Holmes is insane, few may doubt. Our gun laws are also insane, but many refuse to make the connection. The United States is one of few developed nations that accepts the notion of firearms in public hands. In theory, the citizenry needs to defend itself. Not a single person at the Aurora, Colo., theater shot back, but the theory will still be defended.

I was sitting in a Chicago bar one night with my friend McHugh when a guy from down the street came in and let us see that he was packing heat.

“Why do you need to carry a gun?” McHugh asked him.

“I live in a dangerous neighborhood.”

“It would be safer if you moved.”

This would be an excellent time for our political parties to join together in calling for restrictions on the sale and possession of deadly weapons. That is unlikely, because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a federal takeover of personal liberties that many politicians feel they cannot afford to advocate gun control.

Immediately after a shooting last month in the food court of the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto, a young woman named Jessica Ghawi posted a blog entry. Three minutes before a gunman opened fire, she had been seated at the exact place he fired from.

“I was shown how fragile life was,” she wrote. “I saw the terror on bystanders’ faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime. I saw lives change. I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath.”

This same woman was one of the fatalities at the midnight screening in Aurora. The circle of madness is closing.

Columnist ROGER EBERT, writing in the New York Times (via inothernews)

24 Elimination Rounds.

It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. 

Already being about a month into summer, I have been working in the sustainability office at school, which has been really great! I am not used to having this much freedom, but I get to sort of do what I want. (I am currently doing a cost comparison, to convince more offices on campuses to use bulk water rather than bottles for office functions. AWESOME! I get to research the necessary information, meet with appropriate affected people to brainstorm solutions, and eventually, present a solution! I also get to be in charge of recycling events all over campus!!!)

Unfortunately, though, this job is only part time, so I’m still looking for something full time. I’ve found a lot of pretty good stuff lately, and it seems that more people are finding quality jobs lately. I’m trying to be hopeful! 

Also, my parents just visited this past week, and I felt like we all had a great time! It seemed very healthy, clarifying, and loving. It made me miss living so close to my parents (and family, in general). We’re hoping to visit Ohio this winter, around the holidays, so we can see people and revisit the old stomping grounds and such. Who knows if that will happen, but it’s in our heads! 

I’m really looking forward to our new place. I am hoping that when we move, the new place will be less stressful, so my creative juices will flow more fluidly. I miss writing and playing music and listening to records and reading. I feel like I just spend all of my time working and looking for jobs and being stressed out about money. I like who I used to be, and I hope I can get back to that place. We’re getting to a healthier place in life; both of us are trying to work out more and we’re eating better! Not that I’m putting everything in the new place, it just seems that there are a lot of things changing. I just hope I can mentally get to a place where I can live in a comfortable place with a homey feeling, working (full time!) at a job I love, be creative in my spare time, and spend quality time with my love. 

Now, back to laundry and tidying (people are coming to see the apartment tomorrow …) and The Guild. 

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