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We all have hatred for movies that are remade of ones that are our favorites.
There are also some remakes that are better. Such as the Island of Doctor Moreau. The remake is better than the original in my opinion.

So what movies can you think of that should be remade? The answer can include technical reasons.

For me it would be The Highlander. I liked the characters. I didn't like the clarity of the film the used. The film seemed improperly pieced together. Soundtrack was great.

Whats your choices?



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What's the remake for Highlander? Or do you mean the one with Sean Connery is the remake of the 1959 movie?

For my picks:
Dredd (remake of Judge Dredd)
Batman Begins/The Dark Knight (remake of the Batman movies before them)
Appleseed (remake of Appleseed)



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Logan's Run...

I thought it was a pretty good movie for its time. However the book is much better and with modern effects, it could be re-made following the books story line more closely.



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What remakes do we like?

3:10 to Yuma, I liked the new one better



What would I like to see remade?

They Live

its hard to beat Roddy Piper. But a modern big budget redo could be awesome




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Man on Fire, 2004 version with Denzel Washington was much better than the 1987 European version. Denzel is Creasy.



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I would like to see the third Alien movie remade. Everything after Aliens was soul draining garbage.

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please someone do 'Starship Troopers' correctly...

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Clear and Present Danger, my favorite Tom Clancy novel. The movie sucked more than a Whitehouse intern and really didn't follow the book.




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I've always wanted to see a big-budget version of Hitchcock's The Birds. I know when he was first developing the film, Hitchcock wanted to have scenes of birds taking over San Francisco, but he didn't have the budget or technology to show that. Now we can show scenes like that fairly easily.

There's a caveat though. I'd want the remake to be done correctly and capably by a director who is skilled in bigger-budgeted suspense fare, like a Spielberg or Nolan or Fincher. But, what would happen in reality is that it would get handed to some hack like Roland Emmerich to churn out some lightweight silly throwaway PG-13 family-friendly spectacle starring The Rock, and that's not the idea I have for this film at all!

Instead, they've wrongly remade some of Hitchcock's classics in the past like Psycho and Rear Window, and I'm like, "No, don't touch those! Remake The Birds!"
 
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Originally posted by Captain Morgan:
We all have hatred for movies that are remade of ones that are our favorites.
There are also some remakes that are better. Such as the Island of Doctor Moreau. The remake is better than the original in my opinion.
are you comparing that to the original Island of Lost Souls (1932)? Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi. I don't think the 1977 or the 1996 remakes compare favorably at all.

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Dune could be done better now than it was then.

I like the old one okay - but special effects have progressed beyond what they were back then...

Has there been a really decent attempt at a frankenstein movie lately ?


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The remake of "Of Mice and Men". was good.

As was the remake of "True Grit".


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I think an awesome remake would be Go For Broke if produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
 
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Originally posted by Sig209:
please someone do 'Starship Troopers' correctly...

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this, in spades



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Originally posted by SBrooks:
Dune could be done better now than it was then.

I like the old one okay - but special effects have progressed beyond what they were back then...

Has there been a really decent attempt at a frankenstein movie lately ?



didn't sci fi channel do a remake of Dune as a miniseries,

remember it but did not watch it,


when the original came out, it was amazing, to me the late teenager who had read the book a couple times in highschool,

went to see it with a friend that had also read the book,

helped us with some of the pronunciations in the book



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As was the remake of "True Grit".


I agree - that is among the best examples of a 're-make' being done correctly.

great movie - both versions

John Wayne because he is - well - John Wayne

But I think Jeff Bridges actually played a more realistic 'dirty - nasty' Rooster Cogburn

great scene here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rnaa9qtGgs

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Originally posted by Sig209:
please someone do 'Starship Troopers' correctly...

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this, in spades


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Originally posted by Floyd D. Barber:
As was the remake of "True Grit".


I, too like the remake more than the original, which I feel was more a vehicle for John Wayne. Not that I don’t enjoy watching it. However, given the choice, I’d prefer to watch the remake.


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As do I (as much as I like the Duke)...also, I liked the origional Lady Killers I also liked the Cohen brother's remake (don't hate me) Big Grin


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Originally posted by LastCubScout:
I've always wanted to see a big-budget version of Hitchcock's The Birds. I know when he was first developing the film, Hitchcock wanted to have scenes of birds taking over San Francisco, but he didn't have the budget or technology to show that. Now we can show scenes like that fairly easily.

There's a caveat though. I'd want the remake to be done correctly and capably by a director who is skilled in bigger-budgeted suspense fare, like a Spielberg or Nolan or Fincher. But, what would happen in reality is that it would get handed to some hack like Roland Emmerich to churn out some lightweight silly throwaway PG-13 family-friendly spectacle starring The Rock, and that's not the idea I have for this film at all!

Instead, they've wrongly remade some of Hitchcock's classics in the past like Psycho and Rear Window, and I'm like, "No, don't touch those! Remake The Birds!"

Seeing Fincher's take on a Hitchcock film would be fantastic.
 
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