Movie remakes that shouldn't have happened..

[Uncle Spielberg]

I'm not sure you can count* TV movies really. But I love the original actor was called Scott Plank!

(*if there are any rules in this thread!)


I have a soft spot (or possibly guilty pleasure) for Spielberg's WOTW. It's probably Cruises best film bar Magnolia, and Spielbergs best of the last 10 years (although that's not saying a lot)

Lincoln ? Also I LOVE War Horse. I know a lot didn't but it worked for me.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Funny Games remake was vile. I hated it.

 

[Albumen]

Lincoln . . . War Horse . . .

Yup, overlong sentimental dreariness. I'd probably watch the War House play though.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Yup, overlong sentimental dreariness. I'd probably watch the War House play though.

Fair enough, each to their own.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

War Horse live is being shown at the Brighton Marina on 27/2.

 

[METALMICKY]

Absolutely no need to make a Hollywood remake of the Norwegian film Troll Hunter. An excellent horror mockumentary with comedy moments. If you have not seen yet you are missing a treat.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Absolutely no need to make a Hollywood remake of the Norwegian film Troll Hunter. An excellent horror mockumentary with comedy moments. If you have not seen yet you are missing a treat.

I concur. A real treat. For heavens sake they will be remaking Dog Soldiers soon.

 

[Smeagull]

I know it was a bit of a marmite film but I read recently that they're gonna remake starship troopers but as a serious action movie, similar to the total recall remake. It was the comedy aspects of these films that made them classics IMO. Love the propaganda news reels in starship troopers.

 

[Yoda]

Tim Burton fare from the past decade or so could be included, if we're willing to put in his renditions of Wonderland and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Apes and especially Charlie and the Choc were abysmal and stainers of a legacy.

I think following on from this, any remake that has Johnny Depp as the lead.

 

[Garage_Doors]

But I listed it as it appeared on several lists of good remakes, including an Empire magazine list

Have you read this thread and then gone and researched it

 

[beorhthelm]

Tim Burton fare from the past decade or so could be included, if we're willing to put in his renditions of Wonderland and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

what is Burton's Alice in Wonderland remaking? it not like any other Alice film i've seen, its rather the demonstration of how you can or should revisit a book or other films, by re-imagining it.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

This

Is there even a point to the remake?

None whatsoever as it was remade frame for frame. Only difference was it was in colour and different time.

 

[Questions]

The excellent 'Manhunter' remade as 'Red Dragon'.

View attachment 50530

Yes most definitely this and of course Alien Anal Intruders. The remake lacked the characterisation of the original and of course there was a real dearth of actual anal.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Yes most definitely this and of course Alien Anal Intruders. The remake lacked the characterisation of the original and of course there was a real dearth of actual anal.

Got the Bruce Willis remake but can't trace the original.....any ideas? Who was in it?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Got the Bruce Willis remake but can't trace the original.....any ideas? Who was in it?

I may be wrong but think it may have been Anne Widdecombe.

 

[AgerBomb22]

Walking with Dinosaurs 3D. utter Crap compered to the BBC show

 

[Mowgli37]

Has Godzilla been mentioned? Loved it when I was a kid but upon re-watching recently I realised it was a steaming pile of

 

[Mental Lental]

I find it hard to class films where the source material is a book or short story as a "remake". To take "The Thing" as an example, John Carpenter's "remake" was based on the short story "Who goes there?" by John W. Campbell. A story about a shape-shifting alien set in The Arctic. Carpenter's film was much closer to the book than the first "The Thing from Another World", which was just another 50s B-movie "man in a rubber suit" monster flick, which happened to be set in The Arctic.

Some "remakes" are actually more faithful adaptations of the original novels and novellas and thus not "remakes" at all IMO.

 

[desprateseagull]

Also Sleuth- Laurence Olivier & Michael Caine in the original is a masterclass. MC as the older guy in remake just didnt work.

I have also seen the stage play, with original plot (using other actors), which was very good.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

This is the winner... Hands down!

**** me that is dreadful ha ha ha I love the typically Turkish music with it !!! Ha ha ha ha