Jaws
10 Commandments
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Smokey and the Bandit
Most remade films today are polluted with political correctness
That’s the problem not remaking them
For example if they re-do Blazzing Saddles it would be only 20 minutes after editing 'objectionable' content.
Road House - the sequel was AWFUL and there would be picket lines today, because the kids would WANT to sell drugs here!
The Red Shoes - NO ONE EVER could replicate Lermentov like Anton Wallbeck played him
Guys & Dolls - Fugue For Tinhorns is over the head of anyone younger than 50 today
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner - The modern version: Ashton Kutcher instead of Sidney Poitier? YUCK.
Fiddler On The Roof - What a collection of music
We The Living - the hard to find Italian movie that was basically Ayn Rand’s early life in Russia, as told through her book of the same name. An absolute must watch if you want to experience what the early years of the Russian Revolution truly was.
Rudy - no way you can improve on the original
Pretty Woman
Recast with a transvestite as the lead.
After they fall in love there is a SURPRISE ending!
Any where the “remake” consists solely of a change of the leads’ skin color or gender.
That should pretty much do it.
Of course, a lot of these would never be remade, because of PC.
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Princess Bride.
Waterboy, Tremors, Gladiator
Raising Arizona
The original National Lampoon “Vacation”, especially the scene in East St. Louis.
These should never have been remade:
Forbidden Planet
King Kong
Psycho should never have been remade or had a sequel.
I still hope for Godfather IV and then Godmother.
Every Bind movie is formulaic and therefore a remake.
Can we stop remaking Batman and Superman origin stories?
Casablanca should not be remade.
Giant should not be remade.
Stop remaking Ben Hur.
Midnight Cowboy forget it.
Graduate, don’t bother trying
Gone With The Wind leave it.
Stop Making Oz movies.
Would Like to see a series World War II from Hitler election to his death, all German viewpoint.
Need a definitive Hamlet and MacBeth
Would Like to See a High-tech version of the world in 21 or 2200
All of them.
John Hughes movies like:
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
Other than that, I’d be fine with them remaking just about any movie created prior to 1970. I try, I really try, to rewatch the old classics. It just all seems so cheesily overacted by today’s standards.
I’m sure it’s sacrilege. But Bogart, Cagney, Stewart, even Wayne et al. just seem “cringey”.
It Happened One Night--Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
Random Harvest--Greer Garson & Ronald Coleman
The Thin Man--William Powell & Myrna Loy.
The hillarious reboot: Ghostbusers!
1. Flight of the Phoenix (was remade as a comedy, for Pete’s sake)
2. The Sand Pebbles (would take $150M to remake the San Pablo today and there is no Steve McQueen)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (horrible remake of several years ago was terrible)