I think that most people here will agree that Hollywood's current trend of remaking old movies is often *really annoying*, because movies that were already great don't get any better when you regurgitate them with better special effects. On the other hand, I would argue that there *are* movies that should be remade. Ones that were promising but not quite there. . .
The big one on my list is "The Final Countdown". Because let's be honest -- while the acting and pacing were actually pretty good, the bottom line of that movie was to be time travelling Navy porn, but they blatantly ran out of budget for the climax and left all the viewers with blue balls. So a do-over here is actually appropriate, and with the first *new* class of carriers in many years just hitting the water, I'd argue the time is perfect. You *can't* do a movie like this without the Navy's enthusiastic cooperation, but the Navy would certainly be enthusiastic about showing off how badass the Ford and F-35C combination is. . .
. . . just imagine the "classic" dramatic fighter catapult shot, cutting to a high overhead view of the carrier deck that lets us actually *see* how the movement on deck translates to all four EMALS catapults in rapid back-to-back-to-back-to-back launches, the aircraft and weapons elevators doing their thing, building to the full alpha strike launching at surge rate and unleashing *absolute destruction* on the treacherous Japanese with maximum loadout Harpoons and StormBreakers.
The big one on my list is "The Final Countdown". Because let's be honest -- while the acting and pacing were actually pretty good, the bottom line of that movie was to be time travelling Navy porn, but they blatantly ran out of budget for the climax and left all the viewers with blue balls. So a do-over here is actually appropriate, and with the first *new* class of carriers in many years just hitting the water, I'd argue the time is perfect. You *can't* do a movie like this without the Navy's enthusiastic cooperation, but the Navy would certainly be enthusiastic about showing off how badass the Ford and F-35C combination is. . .
. . . just imagine the "classic" dramatic fighter catapult shot, cutting to a high overhead view of the carrier deck that lets us actually *see* how the movement on deck translates to all four EMALS catapults in rapid back-to-back-to-back-to-back launches, the aircraft and weapons elevators doing their thing, building to the full alpha strike launching at surge rate and unleashing *absolute destruction* on the treacherous Japanese with maximum loadout Harpoons and StormBreakers.