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  1. Oct 2, 2017 · Flatliners is a remake of the 1990 original, which starred Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland. Unfortunately, most critics said the film should not have been resuscitated.

  2. Jul 19, 2020 · Flatliners: Original vs Remake. Remakes of films are rarely wanted or needed, and Flatliners (Niels Arden Oplev, 2017) is no exception. The story is fundamentally the same as Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners (1990), with most of the changes made to the characters and visual style of the film.

  3. Sep 29, 2017 · The best that can be said about the “Flatlinersremake is that the new filmmaking team of writer Ben Ripley and director Niels Arden Oplev makes the original’s members look like peerless...

  4. Sep 29, 2017 · With its hot, young cast and vaguely MTV aesthetic, Flatliners fit into a cycle of Gen X allegories about comfortably numb characters chasing dangerous sensations; when Kiefer Sutherland’s ...

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  5. It is all just white light and sweet music as some returnees say, or is there more to it? In both movies the flatliners, on coming back, are snared in a liminal zone between life and death.

  6. Sep 29, 2017 · Hollywood’s defibrillator acumen on long-dormant properties continues with “Flatliners,” only without any real shock to life to justify remaking the 1990 cheating-death thriller starring ...

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  8. Oct 1, 2017 · The film is a remake of the 1990 film of the same name and it follows five medical students who decide to find out if there is a life after death by “flatlining” (stopping their hearts) for one minute and then being brought back with a defibrillator.