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    How about Movie Remakes? What remakes were mistakes?

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    edited January 27 in Chit-Chat
    Personally, the one that jumps to the top of the list for me is "Psycho". On the other hand, the remake of "Twelve Angry Men" , especially Edward James Olmos' performance is a beautiful bookend for the original movie. What say ye, community?

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      The American Godzilla should never have been made.
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      Mistakes:
      Arthur
      Nightmare on Elm Street
      Planet of the Apes
      The Pink Panther

      Not Mistakes:
      The Thomas Crown Affair
      Ocean's Eleven
      Father of the Bride
      Scarface

      I should also say that I don't consider films like "Batman Begins" to be a remake. Because it's a new movie using the same source material as a different movie does (the comic book), but it doesn't use the original movie as source material, if that makes sense.
    • Posts: 2,777 Member
      All I know is that if Hollywood ever decides to make a remake of Back to the Future, I'm never watching a movie again.
    • Posts: 188
      Clash of the Titans remake. I know the special effects were lame in the first one (1981) but I STILL have to stop and watch it when it is on TV. The remake in 2010 was just awful!! If they said "cracken" one more time, I was going to have to get violent.
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      Yes, the first one had truly and profoundly poor special effects- it's just slightly pre-Star Wars, if I'm not mistaken. I apologize for this in advance, but it's really not a conscious choice, but impulsive behavior that demands I say........RELEASE THE KRÄKEN!!!!
      Thanks for posting....
      Samiam
      Clash of the Titans remake. I know the special effects were lame in the first one (1981) but I STILL have to stop and watch it when it is on TV. The remake in 2010 was just awful!! If they said "cracken" one more time, I was going to have to get violent.
    • Posts: 590 Member
      love johnny depp but Charlie & the Chocolate Factory was just weird!!!
    • Posts: 2,352 Member
      The Truth About Charlie (2002). Just didn't work.
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      Ghostbusters 2
    • Posts: 2,511 Member
      Guess Who's Coming To Dinner - remake with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kuscher was tastefully funny and still a sweet movie!!!
    • Posts: 9,883 Member
      love johnny depp but Charlie & the Chocolate Factory was just weird!!!



      ^^^^ Yeah...... I didn't like that remake.

      I have heard talk about Hollywood remaking "The Thin Man" movie from 1934. I will be pretty upset if they do that. Its a whole different era. Lots of witty banter and subtle sarcasm. Stuff that's lost in today's movies.
      I hope they leave the classics alone...
    • Posts: 2,297 Member
      Personally, the one that jumps to the top of the list for me is "Psycho". On the other hand, the remake of "Twelve Angry Men" , especially Edward James Olmos' performance is a beautiful bookend for the original movie. What say ye, community?

      I was thinking the exact thing with Psycho.

      I think that "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" are right up there...the original was ten times better.

      As far as a remake that needs to be made, "A Tale of Two Cities"...why is it taking so long?!
    • Posts: 1,957 Member
      Footloose!!!

      Also, all the american remakes of japanese horror films...Ringu ( Th Ring ), Ju-on ( The Grudge ), Kaoro ( The Pulse ), can't even pick good names for them....
    • Posts: 2,833 Member
      "The Wizard Of Oz" remake. Total crapola.
    • Posts: 362 Member
      Red Dawn....
    • Posts: 4,584 Member
      If they ever remake the Goonies, I'm burning the studio and salting the earth underneath.
    • Posts: 1,206 Member
      Clash of the Titans remake. I know the special effects were lame in the first one (1981) but I STILL have to stop and watch it when it is on TV. The remake in 2010 was just awful!! If they said "cracken" one more time, I was going to have to get violent.

      That wasn't a remake so much as destroying the good name of a decent film. The "remake" wanted to be God of War more than it wanted to retell a story.
    • Posts: 2,820 Member
      Red Dawn
    • Posts: 9,883 Member
      If they ever remake the Goonies, I'm burning the studio and salting the earth underneath.


      YES!! I will be standing with you on that. With matches. Setting booty traps. Doing the truffle shuffle while the studio burns.


      Also, I agree with Footloose. I wouldn't even watch it. Can't believe they remade it.
    • Posts: 226 Member
      That one remake of Phantom of the Opera that had the Phantom as half-masked Gerard Butler (2004). Seriously, if they're making the Phantom the "hot" guy, then they're missing the point entirely.

      Oh, and the American version of "Death at a Funeral" was terrible. The only good thing about it was that they kept Dinklage in it. But the original was SO much funnier!
    • Posts: 2,777 Member
      Red Dawn wasn't terrible, but the fact that they didn't have the balls to stick with the Chinese as the bad guys and went to North Korea made it completely unbelievable.
    • Posts: 14,186 Member
      Psycho
      Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
      A bout de souffle(Breathless)....American remake with Richard Gere sucked
      I hear they're remaking The Crow....that's just a travesty, I don't care if I haven't seen it yet.
      Oh and did I mention Psycho?
    • Posts: 213 Member
      "The Wizard Of Oz" remake. Total crapola.

      What are you talking about?
      The book was nothing like the musical.
      So going back to the source...
    • Posts: 925 Member
      I agree with a prior post, Breathless with Jean Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg far better than Gere version in '93

      The Vanishing -- original French-Dutch version far better to the Kiefer Sutherland version

      Cape Fear -- original version with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum far superior to the Robert DeNiro and Nick Nolte remake.
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