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February 23rd, 2007

Why won’t they just leave the classics alone?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, ,

It’s hard to imagine ever improving on that great movie, E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, and yet, here they are filming what obviously will be a shabby, low-budget remake, in Chile. The old magic just doesn’t seem to be there this time around, especially in the movie’s most breathtaking scene…

Wait, maybe that’s not what’s going on here at all. Share your alternative captions with us, via Post a Comment.

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A competitor rides his bike during the “Valparaiso downhill Cup” mountain bike race, in the Cerro Alegre Hill, in Valparaiso city, 75 miles northwest of Santiago, Chile February 18, 2007. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez

3 comments so far

Fear Factor: Chile was filming smoothly until someone realized that they had forgotten to attach safety harnesses to the contestants as they crossed a 2X4 plank between buildings…

- Posted by K

Somewhere over the Chile bowl
Way up high
There’s a land that I heard of
Once on a Bianchi bi

- Posted by Jim

None of the abducted cyclists have been found.

- Posted by Bill in Detroit

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