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Film Remakes

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  • 01-12-2009 7:00pm
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    Skinfull
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    As hinted at on another discussion...surely this is a thread worthy topic. (did a search didnt see a similar thread but please merge if I missed it...)

    So remakes!? Where do you stand? Hate em or love em?

    Personally I cant say I'm a fan of them but then sometimes they just plain work. John Carpenters The Thing is a brilliant example of this. And being a die hard JC fan I was suprised at how much I enjoyed Rob Zombies remake of Halloween (original halloween just piping Jaws for the top spot in "my list") but I hated his sequel.

    However Rupert Wainwrights version of The Fog was horrendous, as was Gus Van Sants take on Psycho.

    So if you love them which ones and why...if you hate them which ones and why... :D
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    That_Guy
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    I hate remakes for the following:

    Friday The 13th
    The Hills Have Eyes
    Alfie (thought it was woeful)
    The Italian Job
    Plenty more but I won't go on.

    There's not really many good remakes I can really think of to be honest right now.

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wasn't too bad a remake but nowhere near as good as the original.


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    rednik
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    Add the remake of When a stranger calls to the list of crap remakes.


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    That_Guy
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    rednik wrote: »
    Add the remake of When a stranger calls to the list of crap remakes.

    Woeful woeful woeful woeful. Oh crap bad memories. Damn you.


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    Skinfull
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    That_Guy wrote: »
    I hate remakes for the following:

    Friday The 13th
    The Hills Have Eyes
    Alfie (thought it was woeful)
    The Italian Job
    Plenty more but I won't go on.

    There's not really many good remakes I can really think of to be honest right now.

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wasn't too bad a remake but nowhere near as good as the original.

    Oh god yeah! F13 was a terrible terrible remake!!! Maybe I should have called this thread CAN you name any good remakes!


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    Magic Eight Ball
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    Bangkok Dangerous remake made me wanna puke my balls out through my mouth.


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    Karl Hungus
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    Skinfull wrote: »
    Maybe I should have called this thread CAN you name any good remakes!

    Sure I can.

    A Fistful of Dollars
    The Fly
    The Thing
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (The one with Donald Sutherland)
    Scarface
    Nosferatu
    Cape Fear

    There's quite a few good remakes out there in fact. This is overshadowed by the sheer avalanche of terrible remakes.


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    DazMarz
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    The Departed (a remake of the Hong Kong cop thriller Infernal Affairs) was top drawer stuff.


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    bnt
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    Like A Fistful of Dollars, The Magnificent Seven was also a good remake of a Kurosawa masterpiece (Seven Samurai). I thought the Glenn Close version of 101 Dalmatians was pretty good, and Peter Jackson's King Kong too. Ocean's Eleven was a remake, but I haven't seen the original, though I hear the Soderbergh remake stands up well. I don't know whether his Solaris should be called a remake, though Lem (the author of the original book) thought it was and didn't like it too much.

    The most pointless and offensive remake I can think of? Neil Diamond's version of The Jazz Singer. :mad:

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    DazMarz
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    Oh, you've also got Desperado. While technically a sequel, it is more in fact a bigger budget, flashier, splashier, gorier and far more entertaining remake of El Mariachi, itself an excellent film.


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    JP Liz
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    3:10 to Yuma and King Kong two great remakes


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    MrStuffins
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    Casino Royale is not only a great remake, but far out-strips the original.

    Although i hate most remakes anyway as shown in this thread

    I'd throw out a suggestion. Remake rubbish films. I'm sure there's been 100s of film that had great promise but never quite met it. They should remake THOSE movies. It's maybe just as pointless and even if they fail and the remake is rubbish, they have a much bigger chance of it being better than the original!


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    Skinfull
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    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Casino Royale is not only a great remake, but far out-strips the original.

    Although i hate most remakes anyway as shown in this thread

    I'd throw out a suggestion. Remake rubbish films. I'm sure there's been 100s of film that had great promise but never quite met it. They should remake THOSE movies. It's maybe just as pointless and even if they fail and the remake is rubbish, they have a much bigger chance of it being better than the original!

    But if the movie was ****e to begin with possibly people wont bother forking out a tenner (plus) to go see a movie that has already proven to be ****e!
    I'm not disagreeing with you, just saying.
    Remaking the likes of total recall, Aliens, Robocop etc is just plain WRONG but maybe no one would care if they remade something like Tango and Cash, or Striking distance!

    BTW...Oceans 11 (and 12) are terribel movies. The original is WAY better!


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    Exclamation Marc
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    Planet of the Apes remake. Awful.


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    BlitzKrieg
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    king kong was sh*te.


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    Exclamation Marc
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    Actually, the two worst remakes of all time;

    Psycho and Godzilla.


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    BlitzKrieg
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    i think people are mixing up remakes and adaptations a bit here.

    I wouldnt consider charlie and the chocolate factory a remake its an adaptation of the same source material.


    Casino Royale is another case of adaptation and not remake.


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    fonecrusher1
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    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    Sure I can.

    A Fistful of Dollars
    The Fly
    The Thing
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (The one with Donald Sutherland)
    Scarface
    Nosferatu
    Cape Fear

    There's quite a few good remakes out there in fact. This is overshadowed by the sheer avalanche of terrible remakes.

    Holy sh1t i just discovered The Thing was a remake from looking at your post!:eek:
    I consider it to be one of the best horror movies ever made but I always thought the title was terrible.

    It cheapens what i think is a cracker of a film, obviously they had to call it that to honour the original.
    Havent seen the original but I doubt its in the same league as the 1982 version.


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    Exclamation Marc
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    BlitzKrieg wrote: »
    Casino Royale is another case of adaptation and not remake.

    Big time, very different story, and its a satire.


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    Karl Hungus
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    Here, I believe, is one of the worst remakes to ever darken our screens:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2EBuaPXTJA


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    Duggy747
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    I'll see your Haunting remake, and raise you The Hitcher

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCx5WrEdRWk


    Good God!


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    Klingon Hamlet
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    Evil Dead II is technically a remake, and a 100% awesome film altogether.

    Little Shop of Horrors with Rick Moranis

    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (remake of Bedtime Story)

    The Mummy (I really enjoyed it and I love Rachel Weisz)

    The Bounty


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    Karl Hungus
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    Duggy747 wrote: »
    I'll see your Haunting remake, and raise you The Hitcher

    Good God!

    I'll see your Hitcher remake, and I'll raise you the rip-off Korean version of the Hitcher, Say Yes. It's offensively crap.

    I'll also raise you one further, the Nic Cage version of the Wicker Man. Again, so awful, it's offensive.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo


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    Klingon Hamlet
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    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    I'll see your Hitcher remake, and I'll raise you the rip-off Korean version of the Hitcher, Say Yes. It's offensively crap.

    I'll also raise you one further, the Nic Cage version of the Wicker Man. Again, so awful, it's offensive.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
    AAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

    BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

    Oh Nic. You sap.


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    fonecrusher1
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    Ah The Haunting..... I remember I actually started laughing at it in the cinema during certain scenes. Couldnt help it.
    Literally follows the old haunted house routine to a tee... badly, regardless of how much the CGI cost.

    Only movie I ever seen where about a third of the attendance walked out of the cinema a good hour before the end!

    Definitely in my top 10 worst movie list.


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    Duggy747
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    Heh heh;

    "How'd it get burned-how'd it buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurned!!!"

    The Fog remake was actually, in my honest opinion........shìt.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m31wSrpHTc


    Night of the Living Dead 3D - Nuff said

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZvCxFkJayg


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    Serafina27
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    There is soo many I would like remade!!


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    chopperbyrne
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    Ocean's Eleven was a damn good remake.

    The fairly recent Halloween remake was also quite good.


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    #29
    fonecrusher1
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    Isnt Robocop due for a remake in a few years time?


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    Klingon Hamlet
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    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Isnt Robocop due for a remake in a few years time?

    Darren Aranofsky was working on a sequel. Not sure on the status. Love to see his vision of this. He's a master of dark storytelling and he doesn't compromise.


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    fonecrusher1
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    Klingon Hamlet wrote: »
    Darren Aranofsky was working on a sequel. Not sure on the status. Love to see his vision of this. He's a master of dark storytelling and he doesn't compromise.

    A lot fans of robocop are already moaning about how much of a pale imitation it will be of the original.
    As a fan myself i cant wait for it, couldnt be any worse than the terrible sequels spawned from the original.

    Wonder will it deviate from the original's plot?


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