Movies That Actually WOULD Benefit from a Remake

[Josh]

Agreed 100% Cruise kept that movie from being a blockbuster.

Yeah. Its one of the better movies I've seen in years. What are you going on about?

[Advocate]

Carey Hayes and Chad Hayes, who penned the remake of House of Wax, have been hired to write the screenplay.

My hopes for this movie = -13.

[Port]

The original remake of the Blob was pretty good. I would give my hopes at -11, just because the two writers had the common sense to kill Paris Hilton.

[Dolemite]

The Last Samurai was good. There's nothing wrong with Tom Cruise as an actor, he's just a dildo in his personal life.

[MechDeus]

There's nothing wrong with Tom Cruise as an actor, he's just a dildo in his personal life.

Agreed.

[Mr-K]

2010: A Space Odyssee was a ground-breaking title in it's day, now it's kind of hard to take seriously. I'd like to see this one remade, with all the CGI it could muster.

Are you talking about 2001 or 2010? Because both are movies. 2001 does not need to be remade. At all. The special effects in it are amazing, especially for 1966, and the direction is spot on and it has the most fucked up, amazing, bull shit open text ending I've ever seen. Anybody trying to do 2001 again would ruin it, based solely on the fact that they would make the characters, I don't know, talk more than 45 minutes in a 2 and a half hour movie. It would be horrible and it would piss a lot of people off.

Now if you're talking about 2010, then fuck it, sure-it's not that great of a movie anyway.

Basically, if a movie is really good I don't think it needs to be remade. 2001 is too good to be remade (Frogacuda is wrong). Texas Chainsaw Massacre was too good to be remade. Hell, The Wicker Man was too good to be remade. Movies I'de like to see remade are movies that are almost good or have a major flaw. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, for example had a lot of potential but was ultimately a crappy movie.

Of course this mini-philosophy I just made up doesn't take into account good remakes of good movies like The Thing or The Departed, or Dawn of the Dead. But those remakes made so many positive changes to the original. Really, it's a pretty tough call on what should/shouldn't be remade, it's all based on if the remake is put in creative, competent hands.

[Changeling]

The Last Samurai was good. There's nothing wrong with Tom Cruise as an actor, he's just a dildo in his personal life.

QFT. He's not a bad actor at all. The Last Samurai was a pretty decent flick.

I know it has a thread, but It must be said, The WickerMan remake was the worst film I've seen in recent memory. How canshit like that get the green light? I knew this going into it, but morbid curiosity got the best of me.

[Dunlap]

The Last Samurai was good. There's nothing wrong with Tom Cruise as an actor, he's just a dildo in his personal life.

Meh, so's Watanabe, I hear.

[Advocate]

Dole - are you asking movies that were bad and need to be remade or like I think your asking movies that deserve to be remade due to back when they filmed it the tech and stories were too simplistic? IE: Manchurian Canidate. Sure the old movie rocked hard, but the remake tried to answer questions left unanswered. But at the same time left NEW questions.

[Dolemite]

Dole - are you asking movies that were bad and need to be remade or like I think your asking movies that deserve to be remade due to back when they filmed it the tech and stories were too simplistic?

Fantastic Voyage was a good movie, once you got past the fact that some of the sets looked like something out of a high school play. I think a modern remake with an accurate depiction of the inner working of the human body on a microscopic level would be fascinating.

Basically, I'm just talking about movies that had ambitions greater than then-current technology or budget constraints allowed.

But more money and better effects don't always justify a remake. It's tricky figuring out what movies actually deserve the treatment, and as far as I'm concerned 95% of all remakes don't deserve to exist. I've seen remakes with 100x the budget and tech that don't even come close to standing up the original.