Posted on 03/15/2014 8:44:52 PM PDT by MNDude
It seems there countless remakes of movies (RoboCop, Planet of the Apes, Total Recall, etc.)
So is your favorite and most hated remakes of movies?
Best: The Thing
Worst: Land of the lost
Worst: Gus Van Sant's virtually shot-for-shot do-over of Psycho is completely gratuitous. What was good was not original, and what was original was not good. Also, the recent remake of Total Recall was not only pointless, but seemed to me to miss the point.
1953 War of the Worlds 1953 George Pal
2005 H.G. Wells’ the War of the Worlds Pendragon Pictures
2005 War of the Worlds Steven Speilberg
2005 War of the Worlds Asylum
2013 War of the Worlds - The True Story Pendragon Pictures
The Pendragon version very closely follows the book, but manages to be practically unwatchable.
Their remake, the story told as a found film retrospective of an interview of the last survivor in the 60’s is much better on every level.
Best remake: I am Legend
Bad remake: Stepford Wives
The musical, “Little Shop of Horrors” was far superior to the original 1960 film.
My Favorite Wife with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne was so much better than the remake with Doris Day and James Garner. The remake was called, Move Over, Darling.
Original “Day the Earth Stood Still” was great.
Remake a few years ago was politiically correct stinker.
I like the 1960’s “War of the Worlds” but the recent Steilberg version was very well done and intense as heck.
Great movies people forgot are remakes:
Ben Hur
the 10 Commandments
The Lord of the Rings
Titanic (not great by my book, but people love it)
Ocean’s 11
Casino Royale
Man, I agree 100%, what an atrocious remake of a great franchise the latest "Green Hornet" was.
I usually do not watch movies that are remakes, but I did see this one, and it was pathetic. The guy who played Britt Reid was an embarrassment, in every way, and the one who played Kato was a good martial artist, but could not compare to the screen presence and amazing skill that Bruce Lee had. Actually, no one could, so I guess you can't hold it against him ... Bruce was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
I didn’t like Scorsese’s remake of Cape Fear, either.
“Remake” is a synonym for projectile vomit right?
My absolute favorite was the remake of “The Thomas Crowne Affair”. I liked it so much more than the original.
I agree completely.
In the first “Thomas Crowne Affair” you can see the old Mass Pike symbol of the pilgrim hat with an arrow through it, before the Politically Correct Sensitivity Police put an end to that.
My short list of best remakes or reboots:
True Grit
John Carpenter’s version of The Thing
Body Heat - basically a remake of Double Indemnity. Not as good as DI, but pretty good on its own.
Scarface - more of a update than a true remake, but this is one of my favorite DePalma films, Pacino’s bad accent and all (The original Paul Muni film is an outstanding old school gangster film, btw).
WORST:
All the King’s Men - Sean Penn ain’t Broderick Crawford, no way, no how. (BTW, back in the 80’s, Penn supposedly wanted to remake Casablance, with himself as Rick - argh!)
The Taking of Pellham 1-2-3
SOON TO BE WORST:
The Wild Bunch - Will Smith as Pike? And now he’s a DEA agent? No thanks.
Wow, I didn’t know that Ben-Hur was a remake. That’s cool.
Every remake of the Lone Ranger.
I still prefer the original. Same for ‘The Fog’. Both came out about the same time I think.
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