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?
I just saw that remake. It does sucketh.
That was pathetic!
The 1962 version was really good, 2004 pretty bad, and the 2009 version that is still running is my worst nightmare.
Do you consider that a remake of “Pygmalion”? (1938)
The problem with remakes is that they have to upstage the original, usually by more killings, gore, horror, and graphic images.
That is why the original black and white “The Thing” was so successful. It had limited blood and graphic images, it was shot in black and white, with lots of shadowing (like Hitchcock did), and left some things to the imagination.
I refuse to go see remakes (I’ll look at them on TV once in a while if I have nothing else to do like trim my toenails).
Kurisawa’s “The Magnificent Seven” was a classic, again shot in B & W, with lots of noise. The American version was more true to the original version though it was set in a western motif with an American flavor. However, it did not try to outdo the original, only to slightly modify it.
Another lesson to learn in all this is that unless you’ve got top notch writers and actors, sequels are often failures, the exception being the original “Star Wars Trilogy”, the Indiana Jones first three movies, and the first two “Alien/s”.
The rest of the Juraissic Park movies were terrible in scripting (the acting wasn’t too bad), even stupid, as were the 3rd and 4th “Aliens”.
And how many times can you have “Rocky” win or lose after the first one which really stood out with a specific theme as its guide. The rest were basically exploitation follow-ups.
The same for the “Planet of the Apes”. If they had left it alone, this would have been one great, stand alone movie which left the viewer to ponder what they had seen and the inner theme of the movie itself.
The same can be said for the later “Terminator” movies, which were not only outlandish, but just plain stupid.
Sometimes you just have to leave things along.
The REAL original was with Irene Dunn and...brain freeze. 1937.
I hope they don’t even try to redo “Forbidden Planet”. To high a standard to match.
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That was exactly my thought as I was reading the comments on this thread! I viewed the movie just a month or so ago on some cable channel and it was great. Considering when it was made, the special effects were really “out there”.
The original “Little Shop of Horrors” was actually a spoof on scifi films, made on a budget of about $10.00.
The remake with Rick Moranis was a musical,in color, and reasonably funny.
Both were fun to watch. Easy on the brain and eyes.
“FEED ME!”
Ugh, I had forgotten about that stinker... Why would they even think of remaking Pellham 123? I accidentally ordered the remake version, then dropped it off for the friends of the library to sell off.
Original “Ben Hur” was made in 1925 for about $4 million, making it the most expensive film at that time (I googled it).
Produced/directed by Lew Wallace, starring Ramon Novarro as Ben Hur and Frances X Bushman as his friend.
A rally good film for so early a time in cinematography.
My absolute favorite was the remake of “The Thomas Crowne Affair”. I liked it so much more than the original.
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Both versions were very good, while employing differences in how Crowne was able to achieve his goals. The scenes of so many men dressed alike was hilarious in the remake.
I liked them both equally and watched each a couple of times.
worst - red dawn, stepford wives
The war of the worlds remake with Tom Cruse sucked.
Yup. I called it “Independence Day meets Star Wars”. (The ominous black clouds and the walker thingys).
Supposedly the Martians knew they would need to invade Earth long before humans evolved and they had that tech then to invade so they place the war machines underground but they wait thousands of years?
Why?
It just does not make sense at all...
Well, you ought to see the original, “No Man of Her Own “.
Kurt Russell: Let’s just wait and see what happens.
Great Movie!
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