[mylife]

Sometimes remakes are better.
Usually they are not.
The USA networks remake of Moby Dick is so superior to the original it is stunning, and they made it for TV!

[BillyBoy]

I'd say they're only better than the original 5 to 10% of the time.

There are only two legitimate reasons to remake a movie:

1) The original version did not do justice to the source material and was widely panned and a disappointment (for example, if you wanted to remake Bonfire of the Vanities, I wouldn't have a problem with it, since nobody liked the 1990 movie)

2) The original version was popular it is day, but now it's hopelessly dated and the general public either doesn't know it exists, or has no interest in seeing it (for example, if you wanted to remake Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), I don't have a problem with it, as nobody watches the original anymore.

Anything else is just a lazy cash grab. If the original film is a timeless classic and still popular with audiences, don't touch it. We don't need remakes of Superman II or Robocop.

[Vanders9]

Is that the one with Patrick Stewart?