[gymbeau]

You may be right. I don’t like remakes in general but there are exceptions, like Cronenberg’s The Fly and Spielberg’s War of the Worlds.

I guess we’ll find out.

[Viking2002]

Agreed. Some classics should be left to stand alone. An exception, for example, would be John Carpenter's '82 remake of The Thing with Kurt Russell. Carpenter actually stuck closer to the original story monster-wise than did the '51 Howard Hawks version, but most other aspects followed the same plotline, and side-by-side, they were eventual equals as far as how they're viewed today. Both had great ensemble casts. That remake-of-a-remake (a pseudo-prequel, actually) that was done about ten years ago was a stinkbomb.