Films where remakes are better than the originals (1 Viewer)

[Charlie Bucket]

"step away from the bicycle!"

 

[Lili Marlene]

must another thread descend into this....

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I like most of his other movies.
Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho especially.

isn't gus van sant just a load of bollocks? generally?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Dawn of the Dead

No way! I was tempted to de-rep there for the first time in a a while!
The original is superior to the new one. It's scarier, it's grittier and it's full to the brim with socio-political commentary. The new one is glitzy but empty imho.

 

[pete]

The thing isn't really a remake - they are both adaptaions of the same source - the story 'who goes there?'. Carpenter's film is actually closed to the original story concept (the shape shifting type alien).

The same could prolly be said about The Maltese Falcon but there was an earlier version made some 10 years before the Bogart classic.

The first remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the version with DOnald Sunderland) is in my opion better than the 50's Original.


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bleedin pedant. anyways the Invasion Of The The Body Snatcherses movies are also based on a novel.


so what about that remake of The Stepford Wives ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaaa.

worst. film. ever.

 

[therealjohnny]

i saw the trailer for The Hitcher remake last night- all i could think was "why?"

I see The Wickerman up there- thats my No.1 worst remake ever
Psycho- most pointless

 

[flashback]

i saw the trailer for The Hitcher remake last night- all i could think was "why?"

I see The Wickerman up there- thats my No.1 worst remake ever
Psycho- most pointless

Yeah. I refused to watch the New Hitcher!!! .|..|.|..|.|..| because Rutger rocks the face off everyone in that film.
And I hate the Cager very badly, so I am not able to watch that Wickerman shite.
I saw the new Psycho. I mean... it wasn't painful. But, basically, no.


I have been trying to think of a cover of a movie that is better than the original. And... yeah, still nothing.

 

[Janer]

No way! I was tempted to de-rep there for the first time in a a while!

Then you realised he has alot more than you and he is a subscriber.
I want to derep him everyday but hold back thru fear.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Then you realised he has alot more than you and he is a subscriber.
I want to derep him everyday but hold back thru fear.

Nah 'cos he's a top geezah that's why!

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Then you realised he has alot more than you and he is a subscriber.
I want to derep him everyday but hold back thru fear.

heh heh

 

[Goodbye]

Re: Films were remakes are better than the originals

The Thing

John Carpenter's The Thing.

The most essential use of the word "the" in a movie title in motion picture history.

 

[evil bandit]

The best remake is

Worst remake has to be this

Followed by these two

or this

Damn Walberg, ruining everything !!

 

[THRILLHO]

Ocean's Eleven. But only because the original plumbed new depths of bullshittery.

 

[Goff]

The best remake is



Worst remake has to be this


Followed by these two



or this


Damn Walberg, ruining everything !!

I'd agree with that.

 

[david jatt]

The greenlight has been given to a remake of Escape From New York.

 

[Ferox13]

Good call on HEAT.

 

[lucky_dresden]

Ben Hur

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Heat is a remake? When was the original made?

I think the remade Man on Fire is better than the original.

 

[Ferox13]

Heat is a remake? When was the original made?

Yeah - it's a remake of a Televison Movie that Mann made in the late 80's. It's not bad for what it is..

I didn't know Man on Fire was a remake though.

Ben Hur

Have you seen the original? I've only seen clips...Looks good though,.

 

[Goff]

Have you seen the original? I've only seen clips...Looks good though,.

Ah, it's shite. It's in Black & White, there's no sound and there's no rampant homosexuality.