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Jimor:
There's so many remakes that are at least at the rumor stage, and many of them are too minor for their own threads, but it still might be fun to express the occasional "WTF???" or "Hmmm, interesting" on some of them.

So here's a place to subject Hollywood to a healthy dose of cynicism, to express hope or despair, to rage or sigh about lack of creativity, and on rare occasions even praise new insights into old material.

If it's big enough news, or close enough to release to warrant a full blown discussion, don't let this thread stop you from starting a more focused topic, this is just to collect our miscellaneous thoughts until those occasions come around.

I'll start things off by swiping this list. It's a couple months old now, and there are more detailed descriptions at the site.

Videodrome
Barbarella
Guys And Dolls
Highlander
Mona Lisa
Alien
Fletch
Flight Of The Navigator
Cliffhanger
Judge Dredd
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Daredevil
Tomb Raider
Predators
True Grit
The Party
X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes
Lady Vengeance
The Crazies
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Total Recall
And Soon The Darkness
The Thing
The Shadow
The Phantom
Romancing The Stone
The Crow
Masters Of The Universe
Fantastic Four
Slap Shot
Evil Dead
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Clash Of The Titans
Tell No One
Drop Dead Fred
Arthur
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Piranha 3-D
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Footloose
Conan
Straw Dogs
Red Dawn
Fright Night
Mother’s Day
The Mechanic

elizaknowswhatshesfor:
I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want them to leave Flight Of the Navigator alone.

I would happily see Daredevil & Judge Dred re-done if they get someone good who actually has an understanding of comics at all to do them. It might wipe my memory of the previous travesties.

Baberella seems pointless to me as that film is so much of it's time.

Honestly are there no good stories left in the world? Really?

Most remakes are just awful. (I'm really trying to rack my brain to think of a good remake, urgh!)

Border Reiver:
Some of those titles would make for interesting remakes in my opinion since filmaking has advanced considerably even for schlock movies (Creature from the Black Lagoon), or at least wouldn't suck nearly as much as the original (I'm looking at you Daredevil).

Others, such as Red Dawn wouldn't make any sense if remade.  Without the USSR/USA tension the movie wouldn't make any sense, and lets face it there really is no other nation that you could drop in the Soviet Union's place.

a pack of wolves:

--- Quote from: elizaknowswhatshesfor on 04 Aug 2009, 05:44 ---Most remakes are just awful. (I'm really trying to rack my brain to think of a good remake, urgh!)

--- End quote ---

A Fistful of Dollars? The Magnificent Seven? Evil Dead 2? The Thing? Invasion of The Bodysnatchers? If you try telling me you don't like a single one of those films I will be highly disappointed in you. I'm with you on them not touching Barbarella though, since it's one of the greatest films of all time (seriously) and there's no way they'd get the tone right. I also stand by my desire to kill anyone who attempts a remake of Kind Hearts And Coronets. In neither case would it harm my enjoyment of the original but I hate to see bad films being made, particularly when the starting point is from something so good.

I'm actually surprised by how few films on that list are out-and-out remakes. Films like Predator and Highlander have already been franchised so much it's hard to see them as sacred cows, and with the likes of Judge Dredd, The Crow, Conan, The Shadow and even Total Recall they were adaptations in the first place. There's nothing wrong with going back to the same source material someone else once used and seeing what you can make of it. Others come from a tradition where remakes and sequels were fine like Creature From The Black Lagoon or Piranha. I mean come on, you can't start getting precious about Roger Corman productions.

Basically, I like remakes. I actually think it's a really interesting way of making films. They only annoy me if they're bad or if they've obviously been made so that a film will be in English and feature white people.

Border Reiver:
I don't know - some of Corman's work with Vincent Price and AIP to adapt Poe to the screen are very good, and are as close as I'd come to saying we shouldn't interfere with Corman's work....

Going back to the source and trying to retell the story isn't a bad idea, but if they execute it as badly as House of Wax I'm out of there.

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