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Ranting About Remakes

~ JodiLea ~ 3 Comments

I decided to boycott remakes.   100x100_neverend

They (meaning Hollywood big-shots and producers) are taking our favorite movies, and screwing them over.  Do they need more screenplays? I have a couple in the works – where do I send them?  Something needs to be done to stop this insanity!

For example, I saw a movie I wanted to watch listed on the cable menu, and I set it up to record. When I start to watch the recording,  I realize that it’s a remake of the film I wanted to watch. This spikes my blood pressure.  Footloose without Kevin Bacon and Christopher Penn is like  The King and I without Yul Brenner. Oh, wait, they remade that film too. They call it Anna and the King. Like that’s going to fool anyone.

When Walt Disney re-released classics like Bambi to a new generation, they were the same movies you watched with your daughter, and she with hers. That makes family traditions that reach across generations. When the family talks about Bambi, we are all talking about the same movie.

100x100_three_men_and_a_baby  The number of re-makes in the past couple of years astonishes me. And I’m not talking about the re-makes of A Christmas Carol or new Star Trek movies. Nor am I talking about the classics. They are re-making movies that debuted in the 1980’s. Perfectly good movies that don’t need to be  remade.

Just because people liked the film does not mean it needs to be made again by someone thinking they can re-do a good thing and make money off of it.  People must be going to the theater to see these copy-cat movies, because  re-makes are being thrown out at us from every genre.

I researched  (OK, I did a Google search for “remake movies”), and discovered that Hollywood is remaking some of my very favorite films in the near future. I refuse to watch ANY of these debaucheries.

I put together a list of movies being remade soon or for 2015 release. I was astonished. Perturbed. Pissed. Ready to write a letter pissed.

Read it and weep…

  • War Games
  • Commando
  • Poltergeist
  • Drop Dead Fred
  • Overboard
  • Porky’s (a more tasteful version?)
  • The Orphanage
  • Soap Dish
  • Stephen King’s It
  • Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  • Honey I Shrunk the Kids
  • The Never-ending Story
  • Flight of the Navigator
  • The Wild Bunch
  • Cliff Hanger
  • Three Men and a Baby
  • House Party
  • Videodrome
  • Endless Love
  • About Last Night
  • Agent 47
  • Fantastic Four
  • The Harder They Come
  • Police Academy
  • Dirty Dancing
  • Escape From New York
  • Fletch
  • Highlander
  • National Lampoon’s Vacation
  • Short Circuit
  • Pet Semetary
  • Scarface
  • Time Bandits
  • Romancing the Stone
  • Weird Science
  • The Toxic Avenger
  • Godzilla
  • Gremlins
  • Jumanji
  • Van Helsing
  • The Monster Squad
  • Annie
  • An American Werewolf in London

See what I mean!

A website shows 20 of these films and gives details about the remake and the actors being cast. I read a few of these and things are WAY worse than I thought. If you are prone to depression – do not go there!

I’m serious.

The Sisterhood

~ JodiLea

SisterhoodOfWorldBloggers   A few days ago I was nominated for the auspicious ‘Sisterhood of the World Bloggers’ Award.

Many thanks to Shelley Cormac, author of LivingWithShadows for including my blog in her list of nominee’s. I am flattered to be one of the chosen few, so of course I accepted the nomination.

Award Obligations (Rules):

  1. Provide a link to and thank the blogger who nominated you for this award.
  2. Answer ten questions.
  3. Nominate 10-12 blogs that you find a joy to read.
  4. Provide links to these nominated blogs and kindly let the recipients know they have been nominated.
  5. Include the award logo within your blog post.

Answer these ten questions…

  1. Your favorite color …lavender
  2. Your favorite animal … Dogs
  3. Your favorite non-alcoholic drink ….Rock Star (sugar free, white can)
  4. Facebook or Twitter – I have never tweeted.
  5. Your favorite pattern …..polka dots
  6. Do you prefer getting or giving presents? I like both! What really gets me excited about presents is when I find the “perfect” thing for someone. I can’t wait for the occasion so I can see their face.
  7. Your favorite number … 7. I keep thinking it will bring me luck in Vegas. I’m still waiting.
  8. Your favorite day of the week …Thursday, because the next day is Friday
  9. Your favorite flower …. daffodils and daisy’s
  10. What is your passion? …..Playing with my granddaughters. Writing

Now here are my nominations into the Sisterhood.. These blogs are definitely worth the time to read!

http://mymeanderingtrail.com

http://k8edid.wordpress.com

http://notquiteold.wordpress.com

http://5kidswdisabilities.com

http://whatimeant2say.wordpress.com

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Welcome to the Sisterhood ladies  😉

And The Nominees (For The Liebster Award) Are…

~ JodiLea ~ 3 Comments

liebster2_thumb  Willow Scottling, author of Willow’s Corner, nominated me for the Liebster Award on Jan 16th, 2014. It has taken me a long time to accept the award, but this does not reflect any lack of gratitude on my part.   Thank you, Willow, for this honor  🙂

If  nominated, and you choose to accept my nomination of your blog and continue with the Liebster award process – here are the rules:

  1. Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog.
  2. Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.)
  3. Answer eleven (11) questions about yourself, these will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.
  4. Provide eleven (11) random facts about yourself.
  5. Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers. (Note that you can always ask the blog owner this since not all blogs display a widget that lets the readers know this information!)
  6. Create a new list of questions for the bloggers you nominate to answer.
  7. List these rules in your post (You can copy and paste from here.) Once you have written and published it, you then have to:
  8. Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that you nominated for the Liebster award and give a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it.

Willow’s questions for me to answer:

  1. What do you think of when you think of California? Home. I’ve lived here all my life.
  2. What food is too much work for you to eat? Pomegranates
  3. Did you ever have a tree fort growing up? How about a secret club? Dad built my sister and I a “playhouse’ in the backyard.
  4. What technology (if any) in today’s world are you suspicious of? Security cameras
  5. What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night? Say a prayer.
  6. What (if anything) would you absolutely refuse to do under any circumstances? Why? Eat bugs. What do you mean why?
  7. If you could ask one person one question and get a completely honest answer who would it be and what would you ask? I thought about this a lot, but my brain did not come up with any person or questions.
  8. What is the first thing you learned to cook? Did you enjoy the experience? A Chow Mein Casserole. It was not fun at all, because my mom hovered and corrected everything.
  9. What thing sucks most of your free time away? Do you enjoy it?  Writing. I LOVE it!
  10. Describe a time when a small decision brought big consequences (good or bad).  The time I decided to reboot a critical system and used the shutdown command by accident.  I did not know where this system was located to boot it back up. I finally found a co-worker to show me where it was. Whew!
  11. What major historical thing(s) has happened in your lifetime? Has it changed your life?  Sept. 11, 2001. It changed my feeling of security into fear.

11 Random Facts About Jodi Lea:

  1. My teeth can hold a lot of food ( I have to floss after every meal)
  2. My TMI filter needs to be replaced, according to my daughter.
  3. I think she’s right.
  4. It feels like everyone is the boss of me.
  5. I have a degree in computer science, however, I am not smarter than a 5th grader.
  6. I refuse to update to Windows 8.01.
  7. I’m extremely lazy on rainy days
  8. I have a love/hate relationship going on with my novel
  9. I used to love cooking
  10. I miss the hand-drawn animated classics
  11. I over think everything.

My Nominee’s for the Liebster Award Are…

http://pissykittyslitterbox.com

http://itsames.wordpress.com

http://americanainjustica.wordpress.com

http://pickupmypancreas.wordpress.com

http://funnyfornothingblog.wordpress.com

http://tenderheartmusings.wordpress.com

Nominee’s List of 11 Questions:

  1. What embarrassing moment sticks foremost in your memory of High School?
  2. What activity/thing did your parents forbid you, that practically all the other kids you knew had permission?
  3. Your favorite part of the Academy Awards.
  4. Who do you think was the best Host of the Academy Awards?
  5. What makes you smile?
  6. What sport & Team are you passionate about?
  7. What genre do you prefer to read?
  8. Who is a hero in your life?
  9. What is one of your talents?
  10. What TV show you watch, but don’t admit it?
  11. Any advice (or tips) you would like to share with your fellow bloggers?

Blog On  🙂