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Invasion of the Premise Snatchers

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KharBevNor:
Couple of Points:

1: The new Will Smith movie (I Am Legend is the actual title) is not, in fact, a remake of the film 'The Omega Man'. Both are adaptations (as is the earlier Vincent Price film 'The Last Man on Earth') of a rather good sci-fi novel entitled 'I Am Legend'

2: Remakes that do not suck include, but are not limited to:

David Cronenburgs remake of 'The Fly'
Werner Herzogs remake of/homage to 'Nosferatu'
Terry Gilliams '12 Monkeys' (for all intents and purposes a remake of 'La Jetée')
Sergio Leone's 'A Fistful of Dollars' (basically Akira Kurosawas 'Yojimbo'. A bunch of other classic westerns are also adaptations of Kurosawa films, and interestingly enough, some of Kurosawas films are based on westerns.)

...probably some more shit.

bujiatang:
Or Roman Polanski's Macbeth.  fewer than 40 lines removed from the entire play, but with the McDuff murders he drove the play immediate. 

Dammit Khar now I want to watch Macbeth.

Lines:

--- Quote from: Postino on 15 Aug 2007, 14:00 ---On the subject of movies with happy endings that really shouldn't. Who else thinks that Stranger than Fiction would have been so much better had the main character died at the end. I felt that statement would have been so much more moving than what actually happened. I mean willing to give your life for something greater than yourself.

--- End quote ---

I loved this movie. I didn't think the ending was really that "happy". I mean, yes he lived, but he got hit by a freaking bus. And yeah kind of what Cai said, I think the point of it was that even though she loved killing characters in her books in weird ways, she couldn't bring herself to kill a real person.

I think making crappy remakes of old movies is about as annoying as turning a good book into a crappy movie. Or even taking a crap book and making it into an even crappier movie. Lately most of the movies coming out have been remakes or based off books/stories and for once I really want to see a movie that is a completely original (and well done) screenplay. I've got no problem with turning books (or even comic books) into movies or doing remakes if they're done well, but I'm getting somewhat tired of it.

But speaking of Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate factory, the original movie was not as close to the book as the newer movie. Even though they are basically about the same subject, they're so different. One is a musical and overall quite cheerful and the other is more eccentric and has a darker feel to it. I can't really compare the two because I find both enjoyable because of their differences.

TheBoredOne:
I sometimes wonder what remakes will be like in 10-20 years or so.

Can you imagine a remake of The Matrix, or Independence Day?
The remake of Die Hard or Jurrassic Park?

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