stand back! i'm going to be sick.

Paul Anderson is going to be remaking the cult classic Deathrace 2000.

"The original was so much about decimating pedestrians that the actual race was almost irrelevant, and I want to restore that. Set in 202, ours in an ultra violent, no-holds-barred race with heavily armed Escalades, Ferraris, and Aston Martins" said Anderson.

He's going to restore what to what? If anything this quote is all the proof anyone needs to understand that Paul Anderson missed the point (and yes that was the sound of your sarcasmatron overloading). Let me type that one more time Paul... "YOU MISSED THE FUCKING POINT!" If you want to remake a movie by changing what is essentially the soul of the film, then for the love of god DO NOT CALL IT A REMAKE! Perhaps Mr. Anderson would like to remake The Godfather without all that arcane mobster bullshit. Who gets that shit anyway? Mr. Anderson, do you think you could perhaps remake Platoon and leave out all the depressing "was is hell" crap? It's such a downer.

It sounds (to me at least) as though this guy really, really, REALLY wanted to make Road Warrior IV but the people holding the rights to that material won't let him near it. And God bless em for it.

In my humble opinion, Mr. Anderson should have been killed slowly and painfully after what he did with the Alien VS Predator movie. I should state that I am not bitching about the pg-13 issue (which is a whole other rant entirely) but that it was in fact a piece of shit. So much a piece of shit that I was concerned about getting some horrible disease for only watching it. Mr Anderson, you are a hack and a studio beeotch. Go fuck yourself.

The obvious truth seems to be that there will never be any truly good remakes of any film since only shitty filmmakers appear to be attracted to the process (I'm looking at you Michael Bay)... and they also apparently make Star Wars prequels. Good filmmakers have... what do you call those things? Oh yes, IDEAS.