Further Remake Misery

CatFang · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:28 am Post subject:

If something interesting is done - ie Yojimbo being remade as Fist Full of Dollars being remade as Last Man Standing (not to mention a dodgy sword and sorcery version with David Carradine - "The Warrior and The Sorceress" oh yes!) then that is giving new light on the story and showing it is timeless qualities.

Just remaking (worse in most cases) for the sake of it is lazy and cynical.
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Web of Fear · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

That's Hollywood!
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Robin The Boy Wonder · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

When all is said and done, Hollywood exists purely to generate money for itself.

When a remake is green-lit for production, the question isn't so much 'Should we do this?' but more 'How much money can we make?'.

Poor remakes are swiftly forgotten (The Wicker Man is an excellent example). This may not make it right, but, when all is said and done, this is a practice Hollywood has followed for a considerable length of time - it's not about to change now... Sad

...I'm trying to think of a good remake...

...I don't know if Batman Begins counts...

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Web of Fear · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject:

Good remakes:

The Maltese Falcon
The Thing
The Fly
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers

Struggling to think of any more......
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The "Dead" series. Night, Day, Dawn.
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CatFang · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

Zatoichi - doesn't replace the original Shintaro Katsu ones but stands alongside as a good telling of the same story.

DOA with Dennis Quaid
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Web of Fear · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

Ocean's Eleven
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Xeall · Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:01 am Post subject:

Evil dead 2 is technically a remake of the first.
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Fantastic Four
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waffle · Fanboy Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 815

Okay - decent remakes:

Thomas Crown Affair

The Departed (although Infernal Affairs was still aces)

The Italian Job (put the rose tinted specs away - the modern version was damn good fun)

The Ring (obviously, not as good as the original, but a damn good shot all things considered)

Titanic (does this count cos it's a well-known story... I dunno?)

Planet of the Apes (this may be a 'comedy' entry)

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