Classic Movies that should never ever be remade?

[Bigtigermike]

In light of the heavy backlash from fans and celebrities over rumors of a possible remake of ‘The Princess Bride, What other movies stands on its on as a classic (those near perfect movies) that should not be bastardized in being redone?

1. Godfather 2. Back to the Future 3. Die Hard 4. Shawshank Redemption 5. Original Star Wars, especially Empire Strikes Back 6. Rocky

What else?

[Spok]

Plan 9 from Outer Space. And any other Ed Woods film.

[Political Junkie Too]

If you think about it, Gone With The Wind was mad 70 years after the Civil War. A WWII movie made today would be 70 years after WWII.

One reason why I like the old movies from the 1930s is that they were made much closer to the time periods they were attempting to depict, meaning that the people who made the movies either were alive in those periods, or had parents and grandparents who were alive in those periods.

I believe there is a certain authenticity that comes from that.

-PJ

[Mathews]

Taking my boys to see that one for sure!

[frogjerk]

A disgusting list of what producers are looking to remake:

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/reboots/248590/126-movie-remakes-and-reboots-currently-in-the-works

[Mastador1]

Any Cary Grant Movie

Hatari, McClintock, The Quiet Man and several other Wayne movies.

There are lots of classic(my definition may different because, well..........I'm old) that simply can't be remade because the talent simply does not exist today.

[Buckeye McFrog]

ANY OF THEM!

Hollywood will just completely rewrite them to peddle their politically correct bullcrap.

[gundog]

“Seven Samurai” and “Rashoman” get ripped off a lot. I don’t think anyone’s attempted remakes, though.

[Jane Austen]

I agree. None should be remade. It’s not like a shortage exists as to plots. Many excellent books have never been made into films.

[Night Hides Not]

Hatari was a very underrated movie IMO. Won’t be remade, too many animal activists would protest.

[Phlap]

If you consider The Princess Bride a classic, you know not of classic movies. JMHO!

[Magnum44]

Lets hope its better than Pearl Harbor...

I need u like Ben Affleck needs acting school
He was terrible in that film
I need u like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part
He’s way better than Ben Affleck
And now all I can think about is your smile
and that shitty movie too
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you

Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked
Just a little bit more than I miss you

[Night Hides Not]

Good list, Big Red. Allow me to add Monty Python and the Holy Grail to the list.

Anybody tries it, I'm sending a moose to bite their sisters.

[frogjerk]

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/reboots/248590/126-movie-remakes-and-reboots-currently-in-the-works

The Naked Gun

"More a reboot in the style of the recent Vacation, the new take on The Naked Gun won't be a spoof and will see Ed Helms playing a relative of Leslie Nielsen's peerless Lt. Frank Drebin. Thomas Lennon and R. Ben Garant (Reno 911, Night at the Museum) are penning the screenplay. No word yet on when the film is going into production. Not soon seems to be the hope of many. "

MAKE IT STOP!

[Hostage]

Dr. Zhivago was remade by Grenada and it was much better in keeping with Pasternak's masterpiece. In my view it was much better all round.

The producers struggled to answer the question why they were remaking the big screen classic starring Rod Steiger, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie but the film speaks for itself, it puts the big screen version in a category of Big Hollywood rather than a faithful rendition of a literary masterpiece.

It's worth the time to watch as it brings out all the facets of human nature not developed in the Hollywood version.

I agree that Godfather I and II cannot be made better but Godfather III should be remade. It was very disappointing in my view.

Same goes for the original Starwars three, parts 4, 5, 6. The others made to complete the series of nine were not watchable in my view. Whether that was script related or production-acting related is arguable. Sometimes problems go hand in hand with the two.

Because of technology such as Augmented Reality, all the classics may undergo remake with better versions or they may be remade with more bells and whistles that degrade the literary aspect of original distinguishing elements of the story-telling.

Bottom line is story-telling is always an art form and can be done with great effect around a campfire or a in front of a big screen depending on how it's told.

I find the portion of films produced today that are impressive to be vanishing. Most films are trash in my view but with increasing bells and whistles. Good storytellers are hard to find. Good actors seem to be extinct.

[NEMDF]

Dr. Zhivago

[Rurudyne]

Anything by Mel Brooks except Dracula: Dead and Loving It ... it was that Neilson was really bad as Dracula, but that the movie just didn’t work.

OTOH, Men in Tights, though it might have been have better if it had been made a few years earlier before Brooks seemingly started trying to do what Mel Brooks did rather than just be himself, shouldn’t be remade because like the Last Remake of Beau Geste, the one with Marty Feldman, it just exhausted the material.

Somewhere in Hollywood there’s sadly someone plotting an Even Younger Frankenstein....

I don’t think the Evil Dead series should ever be remade.

We do need a feature length Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century done in the same style at the cartoon series of the same name ... the perfect vehicle to send up all these explosions and lens flare style over substance hacks that now dominate big budget sci-fi.

[PUGACHEV]

Seven Samurai is one of my favorites, but it has been remade twice with more or less credit as the Magnificent Seven. Even Hidden Fortress, another Kurosawa gem, was remade successfully as Star Wars.

[jeffc]

Casablanca should be number 1. I'd go so far as to say it can't be redone - it's too classic a movie, too well done.

[dfwgator]

The Warriors.

[BenLurkin]

“You keep.using that word...”