Am I getting old?

John Carpenter's "The Thing".

While the SPFX were ground breaking for the time the cast and script were really good.

It was closer to the original story which was written during the McCarthy era... didn't know who was a communist.

Nothing nowadays can even equal the suspense in that film.

Better than the originals IMO.

There's really no winning on this issue; if a remake is bad, then there's a chorus of condemnation about the death of originality in Hollywood. But if it's a good remake, then there's always a stalwart band of diehard who insist that the original was better.

I just figured it could never be as good as the original. I'll have to rethink that.

and just well done.

suggest a modern remake of Metropolis. The themes in the film could certainly be fascinating in a modern remake, but it would have to be handled with great care and not just constitute a CGI festival. I would suggest a director with great narrative, story-telling skills and not a visual cartoonist. I'd stay away from directors who normally make special effects films or action films. Avoid Tarantino in favor of the subtlety of a Scorsese.

Tim Burton has done enough damage already and shouldn't be allowed to punish society further.

the supposed strong influence of Metropolis and Fritz Lang on Burton in his Batman films. I liked Burton's Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands but Johnny Depp had a lot to do with it.

Even so, if they were to remake it, they should give it to an actual director, rather than Burton.

I agree about Scissorhands & Ed Wood. Burton is at his best when Depp is doing the heavy lifting.

There is no plot, no story, no remake, no anything I'd watch (even for free) if I were to learn that Tim Burton were involved in its production in any way. Hell, if he were just the coffee-and-donut runner for the cast and crew he'd find a way to fuck up the movie.

remade as a 7 season long BBC, HBO or Showtime series. That way, they don't skip over a lot of the smaller elements & characters that made the books special.

Men in Black.

Done in the style of The Matrix or Dark City. I thought making it a comedy was a mistake.

Actually i wish that was never made. Peeps bagged on Alien 3, but I
thought the criticism was mostly unjust. I liked it more than Aliens with all its over the top macho
crap.

I thought Logans Run was supposed to be re-made.

Bruce Dern. A movie way ahead of its time.


Oh yeah...and "Outland" - Sean Connery.

Remade with todays effects would be awesome.

didn't seem to do it any harm. It was perfectly rendered for its time. I think advanced modern special effects would ruin a re-make. Unless they actually made an effort to create a well-written, thoughtful story. And how many film-makers want to do that these days? Explosions, more explosions, and showy, balletic renditions of android technology. That's what we'll get instead of "Westworld, 21st Century."

BTW, "WW" was the first film to use pixelated computer graphics, to portray the robots' infrared vision.

Loved those.

Westworld and Futureworld were pretty freaky, too. I have a thing for 60s-70s sci fi.

and do not make for a better product. Is there anyone on earth who prefers the remake of Clash of the Titans? Or the two that are mentioned in the OP?

The recent SW trilogy had magnificent effects. Not a person on the planet prefers them to the first trilogy.


There are thousands of SF novels that have never been adapted. I would rather see something new than retreading films that are mostly fine as they are.

That said, I would like to see a proper version Zelazny's Damnation Alley as the film version had very little to do with what Zelazny wrote. They changed a biker named Hell Tanner into an officer in the air force who launched nukes on Russia.

Perhaps we could have a Sci Fi movie with an engaging plot for a change.

I am looking forward to seeing Snowpiercer, based on the French graphic novels series Le Transperceneige.

I also would like to see more films based on completely original SciFi/Fantasy scripts.

I've read thousands of Science Fiction stories that would make excellent films. Yet it also makes me crazy when Hollywood barfs on a story I've enjoyed; this makes me a tough customer.

Original scripts would be awesome too. I'd also like to see more plausible science fiction, where the story works mostly within the known physics of this universe and it's not all just magic.

...I mean, who else? Now, of course... Cripes. Who would make a good Gully today? I can't think of a single living actor who'd do him justice...

It is a shame that his Punisher didn't get as much traction.
It was great in comparison to the others.

It's an epic story and the swashbuckling black Lorq Von Ray would make a great screen character.

And the theme song for it has to be Neil Young's After The Gold Rush.

I still love "Them" (great story & cast), but the giant ants could use a Jurassic Park quality updating and color.

"The Crawling Eye", "The Deadly Mantis", "Earth vs the Flying Saucers"

Maybe the cast could be all cats???

Seriously though;
The Blob could do with some decent effects
Dune as at least 3 films and NO Sting in leather knickers.
and maybe Silent Running and Dark Star

...that was actually better than the novel in some ways, and they went on to make *Dune Messiah* and *Children of Dune* as well...it was terrific...

Is it on amazon at all?

Netflix has the dvds

With William Hurt?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032/

and there's the follow up, The Children of Dune with James McAvoy as Leto II

...if done right, that would be the most terrifying film ever made...Frank Robinson's *The Power* was made once upon a time as--of all things--a George Hamilton vehicle. That could use remaking as well...

Make it much more faithful to the source material.

Turning it into a Schwarzenegger revenge flick was a major fail.

It drags along WAY too much.

The Long Walk is my choice if you had to make a film out of a Bachman Book.

And a decent plot. It needed a bigger budget for costumes and special effects though the acting in the original was good, it wasn't spectacular.

gets my vote. mainly because i loved the book so much and then when they made the film they completely and utterly missed the entire POINT of the book.

sP

Cast Samuel L. Jackson as Thorne, John Hurt as Sol, any one of a thousand beautiful actresses as Shirl...oh, and at least try for production values higher than a fifth-grade play.

though the ending would need a new twist since the surprise element is gone.

Certainly every movie reviewer pointed out the cannibalism aspects of the movie. But what I really wanted to see, and I think you did too, is what the people did after they found out what Soylent Green really is. And this is where Sam Jackson, a very good action star, comes in. I think he'd be great in the role of the cop who leads the people against their dark overlords.

Oh, just googled it and apparently there IS a remake! Hah!

But this time, we try cleaning out the outlying systems with GRENADE LAUNCHERS and HOWITZERS, not the same stupid-ass rifles that didn't work on Big K!