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Post by BrettVW on Aug 14, 2016 12:50:08 GMT -5
How have these movies been ruined? Its not as if the originals have been changed in any way. I think the new Ghostbusters and the new Vacation were both terrific. But even if I didn't, I would never think the franchise has been ruined. I am a big fan of the original Halloween. Didn't care for the Rob Zombie remakes one bit. Doesn't mean I feel the film makers have ruined it.
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Post by rgmike on Aug 14, 2016 12:57:14 GMT -5
I always love a challenge Mike Make fun of "Ghostbusters" all you want, I think it stands up 30+ years later. I would listen to this over anything on radio today. So what if Ray Parker Jr ripped off "I Want A New Drug". What's a little plagerism? The remake by Fall Out Boy is terrible though and I actually like FOB. . WMGN just played "I Want a New Drug" as one of their local "extras". Someone there has a sense of humor.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 13:22:24 GMT -5
How have these movies been ruined? Its not as if the originals have been changed in any way. I think the new Ghostbusters and the new Vacation were both terrific. But even if I didn't, I would never think the franchise has been ruined. I am a big fan of the original Halloween. Didn't care for the Rob Zombie remakes one bit. Doesn't mean I feel the film makers have ruined it. What they have done is completely make me disinterested in seeing the new Halloween remake. Truthfully, I'm over remakes. To me, Ghostbusters belonged in the 80s. It's just not something I imagine works well now. It might. I don't know. No interest in seeing it. Hate the new theme song. I was also the guy who refused to see the new Star Wars movies, is over Marvels stuff, and not giving DC's movies the time of day. So that's me.
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Post by briguy52748 on Aug 14, 2016 16:20:22 GMT -5
How have these movies been ruined? Its not as if the originals have been changed in any way. I think the new Ghostbusters and the new Vacation were both terrific. But even if I didn't, I would never think the franchise has been ruined. I am a big fan of the original Halloween. Didn't care for the Rob Zombie remakes one bit. Doesn't mean I feel the film makers have ruined it. What they have done is completely make me disinterested in seeing the new Halloween remake. Truthfully, I'm over remakes. To me, Ghostbusters belonged in the 80s. It's just not something I imagine works well now. It might. I don't know. No interest in seeing it. Hate the new theme song. I was also the guy who refused to see the new Star Wars movies, is over Marvels stuff, and not giving DC's movies the time of day. So that's me. For a lot of us, I think it is "remembering it as it was," that is, what made it great or otherwise appealing in the first place. I have not seen either the original or the new version of "Ghostbusters." I'd guess that for some, the remake includes much more coarse language or situations than the original did (or they perceived to have had). I know they've said the same for "Vacation" ... I mean, an audience cheering and laughing when a shockingly beautiful young woman is killed when -- while driving and flirting with the younger Griswold -- her car crashes head-on with an oncoming semitrailer truck, and that's just one instance. So-called fart jokes, just to appeal to the lowest common denominator, have also been added to many of these remakes. Or imagine a remake of "M*A*S*H" -- even Alan Alda, I'm sure, wouldn't approve of adding battle scenes of young men being blown apart on the battlefield just to add "realism." IIRC, words of what some of the soldiers described were quite enough to tell us that what they saw wasn't good. That's what made that show so great ... words. And while there surely are a lot of remakes that are superior to their predecessors through better production, directing, etc., there are just as many flawed remakes due to the opposite. Anyway, that's my two cents worth. Brian
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 16:41:22 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with that for me. More than anything I'm just tired of remakes in general. It's been done to death. Some remakes before this constant barrage of the last few years I liked. The new version of Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th I liked. Superman Returns back in 06 I thought was good. I loved the new Dallas until JR died and it was clear the show should have died at that moment with him. I am just tired of them. I never cared about the original MASH so that wouldn't bug me.
What I've always wondered is if they went to remake something from my childhood, how about do something that wasn't a huge hit. He Man, GI Joe, Transformers were really big. Two I've thought the modern day graphics could really do justice to and could possibly start their own movie/TV franchise now from back then: M.A.S.K. and Silverhawks.
I realize this has nothing to do with the 80s AT40 show. So if everyone wants to ignore this and go back to talking about it, fine.
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 14, 2016 17:51:16 GMT -5
^They're going to remake Wonder Woman. In fact I just saw the trailer last week. Nothing holds a candle to Lynda Carter in her CBS outfit, but I will still probably end up seeing it.
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Post by johnnywest on Aug 14, 2016 17:54:54 GMT -5
There is probably a < 1% chance that anyone will get all four extras for 1980. I'm assuming that one of them is not on the Hot 100 and is a number one (or close to it) on another chart. Either that or it only was a Top 40 hit in R&R.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 18:33:05 GMT -5
^They're going to remake Wonder Woman. In fact I just saw the trailer last week. Nothing holds a candle to Lynda Carter in her CBS outfit, but I will still probably end up seeing it. Ooooh yeah. They run those on METV. Before we dropped FIOS for Directv last year I would watch them frequently...and it wasn't for the intricate plot lines.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Aug 14, 2016 18:42:22 GMT -5
I thought the name of this thread was "AT40: The 80s ... This Week's Show" and not "Siskel & Ebert At The Movies"... . I could listen to Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" in rotation on 80s stations... and not just on Halloween.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 19:11:11 GMT -5
Well, Casey and his bimbo murdering wife are in Ghostbusters so it all works out.
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Post by Mike on Aug 14, 2016 20:14:32 GMT -5
I totally agree with you. Film makers have ruined "Red Dawn", "Footloose", and "National Lamthingy's Vacation". If they touch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", I will revolt! I love autocorrect on this site - Lamthingy lol!!! There should be an Admin setting to where the original word can be censored, but not ALL instances of that spelling will be - i.e. "p---" will be when standing alone, but (example) "Lamp---" would not be. Doesn't mean Scott would know where it is or would bother to make the change, though. In other news, johnnywest hit the mark that the fourth extra is a #1 on one of Billboard's other charts, though not on this particular week. In any event, reveal will be forthcoming shortly.
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Post by Mike on Aug 14, 2016 20:30:26 GMT -5
OK, so as I just mentioned, no one was going to get all four this week, because the odd one out was a #1 on another Billboard chart. But it wasn't there this particular week. No, this song was #1 on the Disco (now Dance) chart a full month later, on 9/20/80. Why they're only bothering to dust it off now...I'd love to know. This week's extras are: "Love Sensation" - Loleatta Holloway* "Xanadu" - Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra "Never Knew Love Like This Before" - Stephanie Mills "Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen *Some of you may be wondering, what the heck?...until you remember this song that sampled it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDB06Shv8zY briguy mentioned "Fool For Your Loving". You must have forgotten the 2011 repeat of 8/30 - where that one was the first extra. I don't think the 1985 extras (same as before) have been re-posted yet...but even if so, here they are again: "Be Near Me" - ABC "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" - Loverboy "I Got You Babe" - UB40 with Chrissie Hynde "And We Danced" - The Hooters This week's issues of Billboard: August 23, 1980August 24, 19851980 Hot 100 charts1985 Hot 100 charts
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Post by jmack19 on Aug 14, 2016 21:45:55 GMT -5
Predictions for the stations with a history of playing the "B" shows: WLIX - Both - 1980-Fri,1985-Sat KMXG - 1985 - Prefers "B" shows. KABQ - Both - 1980-Sat,1985-Sun KOLA - 1985 - Passed on 1980 the past year KOOL - 1985 - Does not play early 80s shows. WPNC - 1980 - Played "A" shows in this situation. KZOY - Both - 1985-Sat,1980-Sun WODC - Both - It is what they play. KOKZ - 1980 - New show WKZG - 1985 - Does not play 1980. WMGN - 1985 - Played 1980 in July. KXGL - 1980 - Plays early 80s. WRQQ - 1985 - Prefers "B" shows Stations that alternate 70s & 80s: KODS - 1980 - Prefers early 80s. I will go with the August 27, 1983 show, from 2010, for the weekend of August 27-28.
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Post by dth1971 on Aug 15, 2016 6:51:01 GMT -5
OK, so as I just mentioned, no one was going to get all four this week, because the odd one out was a #1 on another Billboard chart. But it wasn't there this particular week. No, this song was #1 on the Disco (now Dance) chart a full month later, on 9/20/80. Why they're only bothering to dust it off now...I'd love to know. This week's extras are: "Love Sensation" - Loleatta Holloway* "Xanadu" - Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra "Never Knew Love Like This Before" - Stephanie Mills "Another One Bites The Dust" - Queen *Some of you may be wondering, what the heck?...until you remember this song that sampled it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDB06Shv8zY briguy mentioned "Fool For Your Loving". You must have forgotten the 2011 repeat of 8/30 - where that one was the first extra. I don't think the 1985 extras (same as before) have been re-posted yet...but even if so, here they are again: "Be Near Me" - ABC "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" - Loverboy "I Got You Babe" - UB40 with Chrissie Hynde "And We Danced" - The Hooters This week's issues of Billboard: August 23, 1980August 24, 19851980 Hot 100 charts1985 Hot 100 chartsI got 1 out of 4 right (I predicted the Stephanie Mills song), and I guess all 3 AT40 1960's Archive segments - even Lawrence Welk's "Calcutta" - stay in this 8/23/1980 AT40: The 80's broadcast.
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Post by dukelightning on Aug 15, 2016 6:58:22 GMT -5
Interesting that Loleatta Holloway is behind that odd OE. She may or may not still be the owner of a chart record. On the 8/10/91 show that I heard the other day, Shadoe told us that she set a record for the female artist who waited longer than any other between her first chart appearance and her first top 40 hit. She had hit the Hot 100 in 1975 before reaching the top 40 in 1991 with "Good Vibrations" which is the song Mike has a link to (for those that bypassed it).
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