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Best and Worst Remakes?
Posted on 03/15/2014 8:44:52 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: yarddog
Funny - I just watched the original Cape Fear and thought it was terrible! Well, the end anyway. It’s been awhile since I saw the remake though.
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posted on
03/16/2014 3:06:26 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: DemforBush
They are remaking The Wild Bunch? Sacrilege!
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posted on
03/16/2014 3:08:14 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: MNDude
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posted on
03/16/2014 3:10:23 AM PDT
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
To: Conservative4Ever
Re Sabrina... How do Harrison Ford, Greg Kinnear, and Julia Ormond even compare to Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, and Audrey Hepburn? Directed by Billy Wilder!
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posted on
03/16/2014 3:11:08 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: Spartan302
I don’t suspect you watched the Blue Lagoon version made on Life Time, like most of their movies, it is comically bad.
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
That was one of Jack Nicolson’s first films.
To: MNDude
I have two:
1. Great Gatsby- DeCaprio was all right but the script was total trash Too not to nitpick but Gatsby is set in the 1920s. So why is he driving a Deusinberg SN and Tom driving an Auburn Speedster two cars from the 1930s
2. Tinker Tailor - totally screwed up the story as to be almost unidentifiable
A waste of some very high powered acting talent
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posted on
03/16/2014 3:37:14 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Rummyfan
“They are remaking The Wild Bunch? Sacrilege!”
I agree completely. I’m a huge Peckinpah fan, and Wild Bunch is simply a masterpiece.
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posted on
03/16/2014 4:29:41 AM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
To: kingu
“Why would they even think of remaking Pellham 123?”
Well, I hate to speak ill of the dead, but the late Tony Scott wasn’t much for honoring the classics, or doing them justice. He started on a remake of The Warriors (moving the story to Los Angeles and using actual gangbangers as extras, good gravy!) and was picked to direct the forthcoming remake of The Wild Bunch before he committed suicide.
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posted on
03/16/2014 4:33:19 AM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
To: MNDude
“Tora Tora Tora” was great. “Pearl Harbor” was a waste of time and money. Real airplanes doing real flying beats Star Wars computer animations every time.
To: MNDude
This is Nodame Cantabile, a Japanese comedy series that had two follow up movies.
South Korea have announced that they're going to do a remake of the series. They'll *#@$ this show up for sure, without a doubt.
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posted on
03/16/2014 6:00:49 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: norwaypinesavage
Tora Tora Tora was great. Pearl Harbor was a waste of time and money. Real airplanes doing real flying beats Star Wars computer animations every time.I never saw "Pearl Harbor," but they did have real airplanes in that movie. The local (Nampa, ID) WWII museum rented theirs out to the filmmakers and used the proceeds to expand and improve the facility.
http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/
http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/media/53
To: qam1
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posted on
03/16/2014 6:18:27 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(The President will return this country to what it once was...An arctic wasteland covered in ice.)
To: MNDude
Best (TIE): The Front Page (1931) was re-made in 1940 as His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Re-made again in 1974 as The Front Page with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon (with Lemon playing the part of Hildy- the Rosalind Russell role). Both versions better than the original with a slight nod to the 1940 version. Close second- Sabrina, with the re-make a little better than the original.
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posted on
03/16/2014 6:26:08 AM PDT
by
mgpilot
To: MNDude
The remake of Stepford Wives was horrid.
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posted on
03/16/2014 6:28:55 AM PDT
by
Verbosus
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To: yarddog
I didn’t have to read any further than your post. I agree completely. The original Cape Fear not only had superior actors, but the implied violence is much more eerie than the overt gore shown in the remake.
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posted on
03/16/2014 7:10:19 AM PDT
by
Dartman
(CDN PM Stephen Harper may not be perfect, but we don't have to be ashamed or embarassed of him.)
To: MNDude
If you have to do a remake. It means you have run out of original ideas.
To: DemforBush
Actually both BEN HUR films are good, the silent and Charlton Heston versions.
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posted on
03/16/2014 7:23:10 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: DemforBush
I didn’t include it because it sorta stretches the definition of “remake,” but The Sound of Music is based on a GERMAN movie. How’s that for wierd.
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posted on
03/16/2014 7:25:55 AM PDT
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dangus
To: DemforBush
Ben Hur was a 1925 movie, based on an 1887 novel.
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posted on
03/16/2014 7:26:46 AM PDT
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dangus
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