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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:39 PM
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Movies that should never have been remade.
My nominee?

The Day the Earth Stood Still.

No matter how much you tweak the script, the storyline just isn't going to resonate today like it did when the original was released.

Also, who the fuck thought Keanu Reaves could EVER match the performance of Michael Rennie?

They should have left a classic alone.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:43 PM
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1. The Taking of Pelham 123
I haven't seen the remake yet, but the original is brilliant. There's no way Travolta and Denzel can match Robert Shaw and Walter Matthau
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 04:27 AM
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32. I saw it; it was pretty good IMO
Modernized nicely. Different enough so that you can't be sure of more than the general flow of the movie.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:47 PM
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2. Psycho.
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:48 PM
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3. Indiana Jones #4
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:50 PM
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4. Manchurian Candidate
Poseidon
Rollerball
Shaft
The Wiz

and a bunch of others i can't remember right now
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 03:55 PM
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5. There are soooooo many bad remakes to choose from
top three in my book:

Planet of The Apes
The Stepford Wives
King Kong
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:05 PM
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7. I didn't mind Kong
but I hated Jack Black as Carl Denham
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 04:20 PM
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6. "Where the Boys Aren't XXIII"
They really said all there was to say in I-XXII.
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:10 PM
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8. I wish Gort would have come back to Earth to rain fire on the shitheads
who thought it would be a good idea to redo it
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EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:12 PM
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10. I hgeard through the rumormill that Bill and Ted is going to be remade
With fucking cell phones. Sometimes a classic doesnt need to be remade. I am however looking forward to seeing Seth Rogan's and Stephen Chow's remake of the Green Hornet
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:11 PM
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9. Psycho
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:12 PM
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11. I had the same answer.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:15 PM
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12. JINX!
btw -- we have someone PERFECT for you, if she breaks up with her current BF.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:17 PM
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13. Sweet.
:evilgrin:
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:59 PM
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16. She's a white chick
Smart and cute.

She doesn't like curry or nan, though (I made that part up).
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:02 PM
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17. Like I said -- Baskin-Robbins.
:evilgrin:
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:13 PM
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18. With sprinkles
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:17 PM
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14. Awesome question.
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 06:18 PM by Mike 03
Just off the top of my head:

Psycho
The Vanishing (in particular)
Insomnia

(those last two, especially, were ruined by remakes)
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 06:19 PM
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15. Dawn of the Dead.
The whole idea of fast moving zombies is ridiculous. And why fuck with a classic when it was perfect the way it was?

They're threatening to remake "The Warriors" which will also be a travesty.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 02:27 AM
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31. I thought Dawn of the Dead was a good stand alone movie.
If viewed as a separate entity from the original and the whole Romero franchise, it really is a good movie. The opening scene is probably the scariest and most suspenseful 10 minutes of film made in the last 15 years.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:16 PM
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19. how much time do you have?
Most of the remakes I have seen the last 10 years have been horrible - there was really no reason to remake them, other than greed and assuming younger people have no tolerance for older and black and white films...
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:22 PM
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20. Um............ a shitload.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:25 PM
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21. The Quick and the Dead
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:32 PM
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22. No argument: The Pink Panther
Steve Martin more or less pissed on Peter Sellars' grave
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nomorenomore08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 07:37 PM
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23. "Last House on the Left," and I haven't even seen the remake yet.
The original was one of the most groundbreaking, transgressive horror films ever made - I can only imagine watching it through 1972 eyes - and though I probably will rent the remake at some point, I dread the thought of it being turned into a "Hostel"/"High Tension" mish-mash. :(
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:02 PM
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24. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Now don't get me wrong: Charlie was a perfectly pleasant movie. But Willy...pure genius.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 09:34 PM
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25. Cheaper by the Dozen and Pink Panther
only one Clouseau.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 09:51 PM
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26. Lord of the Rings. Screwed up a perfectly good cartoon. nt
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 10:40 PM
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27. Rollerball
Not only was it a horrible idea to remake it, but it took a team of doctoral-level fuck-ups to make a movie as bad as they did.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 10:43 PM
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28. Poseiden Adventure....
...and many more that have already been mentioned.
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Tabasco_Dave Donating Member (744 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 01:46 AM
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29. Here's a list of new remakes
Movie corporations have no soul. :grr: http://www.themovieinsider.com/classic-remakeville/#
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 01:55 AM
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30. "Jar City"--a movie based on an Icelandic novel that is built around
uniquely Icelandic circumstances (I can't say more without giving the plot away)* is being remade as taking place in Louisiana? :wtf:

What did the producers say? "Let's set this movie in the place that is the least like Iceland in the whole world"?






*By the way, see if you can find Arnaldur Indridason's mystery novel Jar City, which is a fascinating look at Icelandic society. Yes, it has been translated into English, and there's a movie version (in Icelandic with English subtitles), which I saw at a film festival a couple of years ago.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 06:02 AM
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33. The Bush Presidency.....
...oh wait, you said movies.... (Ba-dump-dump!)
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lazyriver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-19-09 06:07 AM
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34. Planet of the Apes...pure blasphemy.
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