Movie remakes as good as the original.

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May 20, 2017, 12:33 PM

Floyd D. Barber

Movie remakes as good as the original.

I know it's only an opinion, but, Of Mice and Men

1939 Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr.

1992, Gary Sinise, John Malkovich.

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May 20, 2017, 02:52 PM

YooperSigs

Coen Bros. True Grit
The remake of Cape Fear with DeNiro is pretty good, too.

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May 20, 2017, 04:08 PM

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Dangerous Female (1931)) ... Satan Met a Lady (1936) ... The Maltese Falcon (1941).

Third time's a charm. Better than the two preceding films.

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May 20, 2017, 04:24 PM

ChuckFinley

I disagree on True Grit. I tried to watch it, but turned it off in less than 10 minutes. Unwatchable.

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May 20, 2017, 06:12 PM

oddball

quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Coen Bros. True Grit

I actually like this version a little bit more than the Wayne original. Same with 3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, even though Glenn Ford was great in the original.

IMO, John Carpenter's The Thing is a superior remake of the Howard Hawk's original, The Thing From Another World.

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May 20, 2017, 06:31 PM

Voshterkoff

quote:
Originally posted by oddball:
IMO, John Carpenter's The Thing is a superior remake of the Howard Hawk's original, The Thing From Another World.

Beat me to it.

May 20, 2017, 06:35 PM

tdp113530

El Dorado / Rio Bravo
or is it Rio Bravo / El Dorado?

I dunno...but I love em' both.

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May 20, 2017, 07:28 PM

46and2

The Magnificent Seven (1960) is a solid remake of Kurosawa's (1954) Seven Samurai.

May 20, 2017, 07:42 PM

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King Kong with Jeff Bridges.
The island of Dr Moreau with Burt Lancaster.

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May 20, 2017, 08:30 PM

henryaz

Not just as good, but better, was Man on Fire with Denzel Washington. Much better than the earlier European version.

May 20, 2017, 10:17 PM

Storm

The Sword of Gideon and Munich (remake). I thought Munich was better.

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May 20, 2017, 10:36 PM

Orguss

quote:
Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:
Hopefully, no one mentions RED DAWN or POINT BREAK.

You just did.

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May 21, 2017, 09:21 AM

BillF

The 1995 version Gamera is fantastic. I liked it more than the original.

May 21, 2017, 10:08 AM

Cliff

The darker Batman Begins(2005) with Christian Bale just a tad better then Michael Keaton in Batman(1989)

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