herzog should redo christiane f instead of this one.

In this case that town is Hollywood.

Cage needs to stick with Ghost Rider sequels, obviously.

Herzog needs to stick with documentaries about wackos-eaten-by-bears, obviously.

Bad Lieutenant needs to be in your netflix queue if you've not seen it. Obviously.

Better to listen to your boyfriend's cack. Obviously.

Having Nick Cage in the role may take me - along with the film's protagonist - over the edge. It'll turn a stark and hopeless story into a merely depressing one.

Speaking of remakes with Nicolas Cage:

His next release is a remake of the Pang Bros' Bangkok Dangerous. (The remake was directed by the Pang Bros. but the script has been massaged by a Hollywood writer.) The original was a story about a profoundly deaf-mute hitman.

In the new version, he's not deaf-mute (because apparently audiences would be angry about seeing a Nic Cage movie in which Nic doesn't talk, or something). So they've remade a movie about a deaf-mute hitman, without a deaf-mute hitman in it. (His girlfriend is now the deaf-mute character, but really, what's the point?)

Hollywood's capacity for absolute absurdity is unlimited.

keitel, on the other had, has only missed with the Piano and his hideous kiwi accent ( 4 keys!)

the only other person who could nail bad liutenant is treat williams from prince of the city.

as far as someone saying herzog should only do documentaries, i disagree, any man who can do aguirre wrath of god can keep making as many films as he wishes.

"We did it before, and we can do it again!
We can do it again!
We can do it again!"

(from the cartoon the kids are watching in the flick, sticks in my head something awful)

De Gustibus Non Disputadem.

Aren't there tens of thousands of scripts running loose in Hollywood? Why do they keep dredging up every bit of TV nostaglia and make a movie out of it? And make remakes of things that... oh, bother.