The type of people who might be amused by a pointless poke in the eye and then instant forgiveness after a retaliatory nose tweak will wonder why they are offering up such weak attacks.

Where is the shopping cart full of goat semen and rotting fish smashing into your groin? Current trends just don’t seem to be forgiving of old school classics when you try to blend the two.

The failure of the above mentioned Brady Bunch movies should be a clear sign. The gag might be funny for a youtube video, but the studios are going to take a bath if they make that into a feature film.

If they did some silly “out of time” Stooges Movie it would also be on par with Dumb and Dumber. The point is that they CANT do a Stooges movie in a modern era and capture what made slapstick fun back then.

So they will rape it, and it will blow.

As far as modernization of the Stooges. I know these movies probably are not all that well liked, but I thought what they did with them on the remake was pretty hilarious: The Brady Bunch movies. Taking this family from the 70s (?) and not changing them at all, then placing them in modern times. It was funny as hell seeing how those two worlds collide. They could do a similar story, not that they will, where the Stooges start off in black and white looking just like they did when they were first release, then fall into the clutches of a time machine again (see Meets Hercules) and end up in modern times and in color. They could zap in and accidentally fumble a bank robbery or something, and end up with criminals and cops after them while they try to make it back to their own time. Or something ridiculous like that. But as I said, the director probably will not take this kind of approach and we will end up wit ha “Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest” Three Stooges movie.

I would have to disagree with you. Remakes are not cover ups. If anything they revive the original. Take a person that has never heard of the original. A remake is done, now one of four things can happen:

1. The person does not see the remake, and continues living in ignorance of the original. So in reality nothing changes.

2. The person sees it not knowing it is a remake, and continues living in ignorance of the original. So in reality nothing changes.

3. The person sees it and sometime before, during, or after the person discovers it is a remake. They choose not to see the original for whatever reason.

4. The person sees it and sometime before, during, or after the person discovers it is a remake. They hunt out the original to see.

There may be a few other outcomes such as they see the original because the remake brought to light an original and they see that instead of the remake, but will go off these four aforementioned outcomes. The first thing to point out is that in none of these outcomes is there any harm done in regard to the reputation of the original. We are talking about a person that has never heard of the original; therefore, the first three outcomes result in the continuation of the person not seeing it for whatever reason. Thus the original remains in it’s current state of neither growing in popularity or diminishing. On the other hand, the fourth outcome results in a new viewer. They may like it or they may not, either way it resulted in the person seeking it out and watching it. That is all personal opinion, for what is one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. If the person saw the remake and hated it, so when finding out about the original does not see it because the remake sucked. It still does not degrade the value of the original. It pretty much remains in the same state. This can be argued I am sure, but I do not want to get into that. In the end I still do not think the remake can do any harm to the original. It either leaves in the same state prior to the remake being released or it opens new doors to the original.

By the way, Indy 4 did not bring back the original three to DVD. I bought the original three box set about four years prior to the Crystal Skull even being announced as being in production. The DVDs have been for sale and on the shelves of most places since it’s release on DVD, the Crystal Skull only added one more movie to the set. If the Three Stooges do get a remake, then I will not be surprised at all if it gets any publicity that stores will start stocking the originals on DVD once again. Re-releasing originals prior to a remake’s release is only good business sense as it is just another form of advertisements. I was shocked looking on Netflix’s instant viewable movies to find The Day the Earth Stood Still, and I bet that would not be on their list if it was not for the fact that a remake is coming out in the near future. I am not looking forward to a remake of the Three Stooges, but if it is done I see no harm to the originals being committed. If anything, a few new fans may come from it.