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Posted: 7/28/2016 3:46:38 PM EDT
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That's a shame. I would have actually gone to see a GOOD remake of The Rocketeer. They can take their SJW turd and flush it.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 3:49:08 PM EDT
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We could write a better premise for a reboot/sequel in 30 minutes.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 4:08:10 PM EDT
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What has the original female lead been up to these days?  75 pounds 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 4:22:37 PM EDT
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I liked the original.
Nazi's, G-men, Weird hulking bad guy, Tommy gun action, MP 40 action, 1911 action, spys, gangsters, zepplins, a Gee Bee, planes, car chases, Howard Hughes, a rocket pack, hot girl and a fucking flying guy. What do you want??? Some artsey, fartsey, Brokeback Mountain or Gone With The Wind???? But a remake like that....... LOL......No....don't think I'd be interested. I'll stick to the original. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 4:27:04 PM EDT
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What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg That's sad. 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 4:28:48 PM EDT
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Remaking classic Americana with new genders/races/LGBT is part of the oligarchs' plan to destroy classic American culture. White male European-descent characters are the source of all evil now
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Posted: 7/28/2016 4:34:56 PM EDT
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I like to think that Lana Kane from Archer will be the new Rocketeer.
Or Halle Barry. Or Kerry Washington. Or Stacey Dash. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 4:37:43 PM EDT
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Set in Cold War era early 50s. A black female pilot becomes The Rocketeer.. Stopped reading right there. I was all excited when. I read the thread title because I've always liked that movie. Then I read the first sentence of the OP and my heart is full of disappointment. What the fuck? Oh yeah, I always had a crush on: 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:03:44 PM EDT
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No Jen Connelly , no timothy Dalton, no care.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:06:27 PM EDT
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No Jen Connelly , no timothy Dalton, no care. But... Timothy Dalton's character died in the first movie... 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:14:07 PM EDT
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How soon before I see it on one of the low end cable channels?
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:16:33 PM EDT
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Is she also gay ? Probably trans gender. And as bad as this sounds, I'm at least happy they are making a sequel instead of a reboot. I loved that movie as a kid. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:16:36 PM EDT
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What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg That's sad. Very sad. 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:17:40 PM EDT
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For fucks sake, why???
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:20:01 PM EDT
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I thought black chicks don't want their hair touched, how will she wear a helmet?
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:24:24 PM EDT
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I thought black chicks don't want their hair touched, how will she wear a helmet? Cabon fiber weave. 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:27:46 PM EDT
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I'm sure Disney will pick Leslie Jones to play the part. 
http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/styles/tout_image_612x380/public/i/2014/05/05/Leslie-Jones_612x380_0.jpg?itok=Yf59NNsO they'd have to use a Saturn V to get her off the ground. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:30:20 PM EDT
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What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg Good God, she getting herself in shape for a remake of Schindler's List? or The Boy in Striped Pajamas? |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:30:43 PM EDT
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Sigh...
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:36:54 PM EDT
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Lol, they had to make the rocketeer a black woman. Sounds like another Ghostbusters, that will make even less money, because no one really gives a flying shit about The Rocketeer. 
I'll continue to not watch this, just like the upcoming "The Mummy" remake.  I like the Rocketeer movie. Stuff like this just annoys me. Cast anyone but a white guy and call you racist if you don't pay to watch it. I'll wait until I can watch it free. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:45:20 PM EDT
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Sad that I am completely not surprised.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:48:46 PM EDT
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Set in Cold War era early 50s
this sounds stupid as fuck.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:52:05 PM EDT
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What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg ewwwwwwww 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:52:24 PM EDT
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Oh, fuck off, Disney.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:52:41 PM EDT
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Rocketeer isn't a bad movie... I think it is more a victim of that early 90s "neon retro" fad than anything else. It is so inoffensive and safe that it can hardly be called anything but a homage / family movie. You want bad in the same category? Dick Tracy. That movie was fucking garbage. I remember watching Dick Tracy in the theater. When Madonna came out I made the comment that you can tell how evil everyone is by how ugly they are. She's obviously the most evil of them all. Little did I know at the time.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:55:12 PM EDT
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This is the only reason I ever gave a shit about the movie.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:55:53 PM EDT
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*reads the thread title* "Oh, cool!"
 *reads the OP* "Oh... of course they did." |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 5:57:37 PM EDT
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I came here to joke that it was going to be a black Hispanic woman I guess I wasn't far off.
fuck this social justice history rewriting bullshit |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 6:00:28 PM EDT
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One of my childhood favorites! Nevermind how dangerous it would be to mount a rocket to your back. I loved the movie as a kid.
ETA: I just read about casting a African American woman for the lead role. Seriously? I'm not watching a movie intentionally meant to be a social justice, "black power!", "girl power!" film.  |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 6:02:39 PM EDT
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Wow! This movie sounds like a steaming pile of shit. No problem staying out of the theaters for another year. Thanks Mousechwitz! |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 6:16:45 PM EDT
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Nope worse because it will be even more period incorrect. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is it going to be as fucking stupid as the original? Nope worse because it will be even more period incorrect. Actually the period of the 1930s for the first movie was fairly well a period correct piece. The 1930s being a time where the novelty of flight still existed made the original film work as well as it did. And there were still larger than life figures in the fledgling aerospace industry, like Howard Hughes, to base characters on. I think the original Rocketeer wasn't well done, but the potential was there for it to capture the viewer and take them back to the pre-WWII period as well as Raider of the Lost Ark. Too bad Disney didn't do that. But a new Rocketeer set in the Cold War 1950s makes me think of a storyline like the one that made the last Indiana Jones movie work so well. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 6:54:15 PM EDT
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The 1990 film was pretty uneven. It has moments of good, but I remember a lot of stuff that wasn't where it needed to be.
An SJWed version is gonna suck, and fail at the box office.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 7:55:16 PM EDT
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Why don't we just remake EVERY film in history and replace all of the white leads with black main characters. Would that be enough virtue signalling from hollywood? Seriously, FUCK. YOU. DISNEY. Black, LGBT etc. Throw in some pop culture references, elude to saving the environment, perhaps a stab at a conservative politician or viewpoint and there ya have it. The modern "reboot". Kinda funny to me how many people over say about 25 or so don't even bother going to the movies anymore. They either steal/watch it on the interewebs or just watch classic movies on Netflix. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 8:12:26 PM EDT
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why? PC for diversity's sake Disney: How do we take a semi-popular character that nobody really remembers, remake it, and ensure that nobody goes and sees it; yet we will get praised for "our courage and vision." Answer: Make the Rocketeer both black and a female.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:04:52 PM EDT
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What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg lol, dat photo chop doe |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:07:33 PM EDT
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Is it going to be as fucking stupid as the original? You shut your whore mouth. Truth hurts. Yep it was a shitty movie in the first place, quite surprised it's even getting a remake. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:09:16 PM EDT
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I'm hoping they remake Snow White as Snow Black. And she is all black and sassy and stuff.
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:12:20 PM EDT
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Another Disneyfied movie
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:18:32 PM EDT
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Best scene in the original is the American Gangsters turning their guns on the Nazis and saying" We might be bad guys, but we're American damn it!"
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:19:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Soviets will turn out to be the good guys. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Set in Cold War era early 50s. A black female pilot becomes The Rocketeer...I mean, we're already talking about flying jetpack crime-fighters here I guess, buuuuut... The new take keeps the story in a period setting and offers a fresh view on the characters. Set six years after the original Rocketeer and after Secord has vanished while fighting the Nazis, an unlikely new hero emerges: a young African–American female pilot, who takes up the mantle of Rocketeer in an attempt to stop an ambitious and corrupt rocket scientist from stealing jet-pack technology in what could prove to be a turning point in the Cold War. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rocketeer-disney-movie-reboot-works-915037 Quoted: I actually came here to make a snarky comment akin to "Watch them make him a black female" and .... Shit, man. I've been out-trolled by the insanity. The Soviets will turn out to be the good guys. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:27:09 PM EDT
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They could never able to remake the young Jennifer Connelly: http://www.jenniferconnelly.net/coppermine_gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_the_rocketeer_5_pg.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/77/cb/77/77cb771de9a3805d002850b728b11873.jpg Milky Ephriam from "Last Man Standing" comes very close. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:27:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol, they had to make the rocketeer a black woman. Sounds like another Ghostbusters, that will make even less money, because no one really gives a flying shit about The Rocketeer. I'll continue to not watch this, just like the upcoming "The Mummy" remake. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:40 PM EDT
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No Jennifer? No Nazis? No zeppelins? What could the film possibly have that would make it even remotely appealing? No Jennifer's Zepplins you mean? |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was a tiny blip on the radar of other great 90's movies. The saving grace was Jennifer Connelly. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Lol, they had to make the rocketeer a black woman. Sounds like another Ghostbusters, that will make even less money, because no one really gives a flying shit about The Rocketeer. I'll continue to not watch this, just like the upcoming "The Mummy" remake. It was a tiny blip on the radar of other great 90's movies. The saving grace was Jennifer Connelly. This. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:28:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They could never able to remake the young Jennifer Connelly: http://www.jenniferconnelly.net/coppermine_gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_the_rocketeer_5_pg.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/77/cb/77/77cb771de9a3805d002850b728b11873.jpg And this. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:35:10 PM EDT
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lol, dat photo chop doe Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg lol, dat photo chop doe 
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:44:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: What has the original female lead been up to these days? 75 pounds http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Jennifer-Connelly-Running.jpg lol, dat photo chop doe http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/22/article-2428371-1827CA4300000578-176_306x784.jpg https://www.pkbaseline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Jennifer-Connelly-weight.jpg Meh, I'd still wipe a wet fart out of her panties and use it as lipstick |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 9:53:07 PM EDT
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Rocketeer isn't a bad movie... I think it is more a victim of that early 90s "neon retro" fad than anything else. It is so inoffensive and safe that it can hardly be called anything but a homage / family movie. You want bad in the same category? Dick Tracy. That movie was fucking garbage. It's the first movie I can remember watching at the movie theater. Honestly, it's not bad. Even re-watching it as an adult. Not mind-blowing, but it has a good story, decent acting, decent effects... what's not to like? It's a bit corny but who cares? Compared to alot of today's movies, it's citizen fucking kane. |
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:01:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/28/2016 10:07:05 PM EDT
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Why, the original was just perfect.
Hollywood can take their PC stance and shove it up their ass. |
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