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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 08:42 PM
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What was the least necessary remake?
I'm thinking in terms of songs, but feel free to include movies or any other form of popular culture that may occur to you. No points for saying "the Bush administration," though. Most evil remake is completely different from least necessary.

After little reflection, I go with Madonna's American Pie. Runnerups include Brooks & Dunn doing My Maria and some yahoo (presumably Travis Tritt from the tribute record) doing the Eagles' Take It Easy. Can you come up with something worse?
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alvis Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 08:44 PM
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1. Psycho
Gus Van Sant's shot by shot remake of Hithcock's.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 09:22 PM
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8. agreed
totally pointless
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 11:32 PM
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26. I'm very puzzled
How could a shot-by-shot duplication of one of Hitchcock's best turn out to be such a crappy movie?
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 08:45 PM
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2. "Psycho"
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 08:45 PM
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3. self delete
Edited on Tue Oct-05-04 08:46 PM by pduck
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 08:45 PM
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4. Casablanca
With David Soul????
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 02:05 PM
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15. WTF, they remade that!?
How fucking dumb!
Duckie
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 07:18 PM
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21. Would you believe a 1983 tv series with Ray Liotta and Scatman Crothers
as Sasha and Sam, respectively?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084994/
Hey, the two IMDbers who comment on it liked it. I'm afraid my comment would run along the lines of "Remake Casablanca?!!!!!"
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 08:53 PM
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5. The Longest Yard
Edited on Tue Oct-05-04 08:53 PM by EstimatedProphet
Seriously...it's coming out soon. It was the only Burt Reynolds movie I have liked, and it was good in its own right. It doesn't need to be remade.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 09:15 PM
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6. I agree. Why? WHY?
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 09:20 PM
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7. Any song ever butchered by Michael Bolton
and any Jaws sequel.
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MrSandman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 09:25 PM
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9. Cape Fear...nt
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:51 PM
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18. Same here and if they touch to kill a mockingbird
they'll be in big trouble.
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-04 09:30 PM
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10. Didn't I hear that Britney Spears just redid My Perogative?
Uhm .. . . . . . that would be it. LOL
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 01:45 PM
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11. Heck, that one wasn't necessary the first time either n/t
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 10:46 PM
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25. it was good the first time
:spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank:
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DelawareValleyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 01:48 PM
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12. Planet of the Apes
and Independence Day, which took almost its entire plot from War of the Worlds.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 02:03 PM
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13. Yes & No
I liked Independence day far more than WOTW. The original is so poorly acted and written and it's glacially paced. So, i think that's a remake that's WAY better than the original.

I agree on Planet. The first is poor and the remake is worse.
The Professor
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 02:04 PM
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14. The Shining...
WTF, dude...How do you Remake ANYTHING that Jack Nicholson is in and think you're going to make it better!?
Duckie
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:06 PM
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16. Well, maybe as a sitcom. Or a reality show
Can't you just see it? :evilgrin:
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:57 PM
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19. Stephen King didn't like the original,
because Kubrick basically used the novel as a stepping stone - then he went and made the kind of movie he wanted to make. So the remake is the King version.

Sorry, Mr. King, but I prefer the Kubrick/Nicholson version. :D
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 08:26 PM
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24. King is a hack when he does movies
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:49 PM
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17. The upcoming "Real Gilligan's Island"
Yes, they're going to strand seven real people on a real island (hopefully one with no real cannibals) and really hope they figure out a way to get off the island.

I really don't think I'll watch it.
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 05:58 PM
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20. Dawn of the Dead
Totally took the movie out of context and turned it into a splatterfest. No thanks.
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 08:05 PM
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22. It's not out yet, but the Producers and/or Hairspray...
Two great original movies, that became broadway plays, that are now becoming movies again. TO put it delicately, "What the fuck?!"
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-06-04 08:06 PM
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23. The Movie Version of "Lost In Space"
With Matt LeBlanc as teh fearless captain, acting just like Joey Tribbiani on "Friends".
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