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Classic Movies that should never ever be remade?

Posted on 09/19/2019 6:58:06 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

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To: Bigtigermike

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


41 posted on 09/19/2019 7:17:36 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Ancesthntr
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

42 posted on 09/19/2019 7:17:52 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Taking my boys to see that one for sure!


43 posted on 09/19/2019 7:18:25 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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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


44 posted on 09/19/2019 7:18:29 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Bigtigermike
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.

45 posted on 09/19/2019 7:19:01 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Bigtigermike

ANY OF THEM!

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


46 posted on 09/19/2019 7:20:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: rjsimmon

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


47 posted on 09/19/2019 7:20:26 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Peter W. Kessler

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.


48 posted on 09/19/2019 7:20:57 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Mastador1

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


49 posted on 09/19/2019 7:21:48 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Bigtigermike
If you consider The Princess Bride a classic, you know not of classic movies. JMHO!
50 posted on 09/19/2019 7:22:41 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Joe 6-pack

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


51 posted on 09/19/2019 7:23:12 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Big Red Clay
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.

52 posted on 09/19/2019 7:23:39 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Bigtigermike
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!

53 posted on 09/19/2019 7:24:07 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Bigtigermike
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.

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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.

54 posted on 09/19/2019 7:24:07 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Bigtigermike

Dr. Zhivago


55 posted on 09/19/2019 7:27:08 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Bigtigermike

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.


56 posted on 09/19/2019 7:27:10 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rjsimmon
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.
57 posted on 09/19/2019 7:28:09 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Pearls Before Swine
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.
58 posted on 09/19/2019 7:28:24 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Bigtigermike

The Warriors.


59 posted on 09/19/2019 7:29:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Phlap

“You keep.using that word...”


60 posted on 09/19/2019 7:29:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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