Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2020. There is also an added framing device where Baby is attending a musical called "Dirty Dancing," based on a book she wrote about her life, and choreographed by Johnny. The Verge is a place where you can consider the future.

In 1997, Robin Williams starred in a remake of "The Absent-Minded Professor" called "Flubber." He survives as the last player on his team and scores the winning shot.

The remake of "Rollerball" had a lot of problems.
The newer one stars Billy Crystal and Robin Williams as two ex-boyfriends of the same woman, searching to find her runaway son. As a bonus, this movie also features Julia Louis-Dreyfus in her worst on-screen role, including this scene where Crystal doesn't understand how a telephone works. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. "Death Race" is a remake of 1975's "Death Race 2000" that came out in 2008, which is already a bad omen. Okay, well, I guess if I’m going to do a complete history of the game, I have to write about the disastrous 2002 remake. It's less a story of an African-American father objecting to his daughter marrying a white guy than it is a movie about a father objecting to his daughter marrying a spastic idiot. In fact, two actors blew their chances at other franchises: Mark Wahlberg left "Ocean's 11" to do "Apes" (replaced by Matt Damon), and Tim Roth chose to play the villainous ape General Thade instead of Severus Snape in the EIGHT "Harry Potter" films. Accurately Predicts the Career of NFL Legend Tom Brady!

However, it doesn't particularly update the screenplay, which means that there's a town of modern teenagers obsessed with rock n' roll, and their parents, who were born in the '60s, somehow hate rock music.

This is a very good film, however its a little dated now, they did an updated vision of this, but they did not do it justice it was awful..

By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. It's almost a duplicate of the original, albeit in color, although Van Sant bizarrely decides to have Bates pleasure himself while spying on victim Anne Heche. The film is also notable for landing director John McTiernan in prison, after he hired Anthony Pellicano to wiretap the film’s producer. This is a Blu-ray specific review, for the Arrow release of Rollerball. is the same as the 1974 version.

How does that makes any sense?

The movie: Rollerball (the 1975 original, not the 2002 remake) The future: Corporate nations and their supercomputers rule humanity, shaping digitized historical records to their liking. It’s an oddly innocent, distinctly pre-cyberpunk vision that vastly underestimated how well companies could co-opt and repackage freedom and rebellion.

Outstanding speculative fiction -- caution: spoilers, Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019.

As the titular alcoholic billionaire, Brand lacks the underdog charisma of Moore, while he and Helen Mirren struggle to match the chemistry of Moore with John Gielgud. Does the invention of Flubber save the professor's struggling university? Rollerball players have a glamorous existence: fans idolize them, executives envy them, and they’re provided lavish homes, beautiful wives or girlfriends, and fancy TVs with extra screens that show smaller, differently angled shots of whatever they’re watching. Prime Video $3.99 — $14.99 Blu-ray $16.62 DVD $14.98 VHS Tape $7.94 Additional DVD … Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. The ostensible feature film sequel from 2004, "Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights," is less a sequel than a remake set during the Cuban Revolution instead of the Catskills. Yes. Rollerball is surprisingly compelling for a fictional sport; it’s sort of convoluted and impractical, but at least designed with consistent and interesting rules. ROLLERBALL 2002 Johnathan Cross, a lover of extreme sports, is recruited by Alexi Petrovich to star in his sportive invention, Rollerball. The 2016 remake lost roughly $100 million, and as far as we can tell its only awards were for "Remake or Sequel That Shouldn’t Have Been Made." On the surface, Tony Scott's remake of "The Taking of Pelham 123" (the original spells out the numbers in the title, but who has time for that in 2009?)

The original was derivative enough, so making it slightly more violent is hardly an excuse for redoing a film that was only 14 years old. She creates a human hologram, Flubber is a sentient creature that does song-and-dance numbers, and it's all pretty slow.

Norman Jewison’s 1975 “Rollerball” isn’t necessarily a masterpiece, but it’s a damn good film that packs quite the corporate, ... the “Rollerball” remake is an absolute joke. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.

In 1998, Gus Van Sant had his greatest commercial success with "Good Will Hunting," a movie that pulled off the seemingly impossible task of getting Ben Affleck an Oscar for writing. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

Here are some of the strangest and most misguided efforts from the Hollywood remake factory. The present: Rollerball was remarkably bad at predicting the future, and in some ways, that’s more interesting than a generically “timely” commentary on how violence and corporations are evil.

The remake, starring real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, is pleasant enough for the first half, but in the second half, a car accident puts Bening in a wheelchair, and she ghosts Beatty when they're supposed to meet at the Empire State Building.
They’re all loosely about futures where comfort and civilization come at the expense of individual freedom and the natural world, and Rollerball is no exception — in what is by far the film’s weirdest scene, a bunch of socialites drunkenly blow up trees with laser guns.

Also, there are motorcyclists around to bring momentum to the players.