One More Time: Movie Remakes I Would Like to See

[Nousemercenary]

One More Time: Movie Remakes I Would Like to See

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What are some of your favorites?

I know what you are thinking. I shouldn’t be encouraging Hollywood to make any more remakes. With the remake trend reaching an all out crescendo this year – was there any week that didn’t have a remake or reboot released into theaters – I know I probably shouldn’t talk of even more remakes. I don’t think remakes are the problem per se because, after all, if a story is good, it should be retold again and again (how many times has Shakespeare been rebooted and retold again?), but there should be a compelling reason to remake something and before you say it, making more money is NOT the compelling reason I am talking about.

The best remakes capture a particular moment with echoes of the original in the distance and keeping what was good about the original intact. For example, the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers made in 1958 reflected the paranoia of those early days of the Cold War, but it also was about the optimism that democracy and freedom would win the end. The 1978 remake still had the paranoia that made the original so good, but in a post-Vietnam era, it reflected the pessimism that, perhaps, the defeat of our way of life was inevitable.

Here is a list of ten films that I wouldn’t mind getting a remake. And, no, Dirty Dancing is nowhere on this list. What would be some of your picks for films you would like to see again … for the first time.

List includes...

Logan’s Run (1976)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
The Hunger (1983)
WarGames (1983)
The Big Easy (1987)
and a few others...

[Guydowood]

2001 - be a bold move and perhaps dated since we are 10 years past the actual year, but perhaps the entire series could be done. 2010, 2064 & 3001.

Dirty Harry
F/X
Raw Deal starring The Rock
Smokey and the Bandit

[Dubstar]

Ken Russell's 'The Who's Tommy' maybe one of the kookiest film musicals to ever grace the screen, but I'd love to see a remake done to the storyline of the Broadway musical version ... and in 3D ( )

[Mandalorian]

I feel like I don't care what they remake, as long as they never touch The Godfather Parts I and II.

[Samus Aran]

I personally didn't think the first Highlander movie was anything to write home about, let alone those godawful sequels. The TV show made the only attempt to delve into the mythology and actually try to do something with the concept, but even that had as many bad episodes as it did good. So a Highlander reboot with sequels in mind could have a lot of potential.

[bam777]

Watchmen...with the actual (Squid) ending from the graphic novel. Not the crappy ending Snyder came up with.

[Blu-Dog]

The Puppet Masters. The first one made an absolute mess of Heinlein's classic story.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by Nousemercenary

One More Time: Movie Remakes I Would Like to See

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What are some of your favorites?





List includes...

Logan’s Run (1976)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
The Hunger (1983)
WarGames (1983)
The Big Easy (1987)
and a few others...

Not The Big Easy - the original is too well done. Would like to see a decent dvd/bluray release of it though. Only way I would like that is if they were going to do a series of movies or something like that but I wouldn't care for them to do a remake if it was a one-shot deal.

A proper version of I Am Legend is the one I would like to see. Nothing wrong with Big Willie, but they totally missed the point of the story when they did that movie.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Nousemercenary

List includes...

Logan’s Run (1976)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
The Hunger (1983)
WarGames (1983)
The Big Easy (1987)
and a few others...

The others being...
- Nothing Sacred
- Meet John Doe
- Peeping Tom
- Alien Nation
- Glengarry Glenn Ross

Meet John Doe and Glengarry, of course, to cash in on "relevant Occupy-era" ideas about big business and the common man...
I dunno, we've got our own college town trying to bring back midnight revivals of "They Live"--with all the evil politicians and "Obey" signs--as some kind of Occupy-sympathetic stunt (get it, y'see, the homeless people were cleaned out of their settlement?), and it just seems kind of heretical to an 80's icon. (I was going to say "classic", but then I remembered that loopy ten-minute fight scene.)
That, or that Hillary Clinton and Gulf-vet version of "Manchurian Candidate", which, while it seemed like a nice mental exercise to update it on paper, just lost something in the cooking.

Nothing Sacred, I can see an exec thinking "George Clooney" for the Frederic March role before a word has been put on paper, and not only does that bring up "Intolerable Cruelty", but Clooney's been doing these roles in his sleep.
And while it's a nice theory to say "Alien Nation = Immigration/Muslim fear", let's face it, the TV series has beaten the original so far into the ground, it'll never resurface again....Like the "Highlander" poster suggested.

[Mahatma]

I think War games might be a good candidate for a remake...

[JB1986]

One horror film from the 1970s that I think is a prime candidate for a proper remake is "The Town That Dreaded Sundown." It is based on a true story. In 1946 a killer known as The Phantom Killer murdered five people in the space of a few months, and terrorized the town of Texarkana, Arkansas. The original movie was pretty good. The scenes with the Phantom Killer are extremely effective (except one murder scene was pretty hokey and was created specifically for the movie, according to what I've read about the case,) but what makes this one a prime candidate are the scenes involving the police investigating the murders. They are played WAY too much like a "Dukes Of Hazzard" TV episode. They almost destroy the film which is a shame since the murder scenes were so well done. If a proper remake were to be done, they should take the entire story seriously. They should not make a mockery of the police investigation, and they should also actually *SHOW* the small town resident's fear and paranoia, not just have a narrator mention it. Also, the Phantom Killer murder scenes should be a touch bit more realistic as to what actually happened. I know nobody knows for sure anymore, but I highly doubt anyone was murdered

[Show spoiler]by tieing a knife onto the end of a trombone and stabbing them while playing a little tune.

Anyway, done right, this could be a fantastic remake in my opinion.

[khan1670]

Umm.. no. That's a change I'm glad Snyder made.

Originally Posted by bam777

Watchmen...with the actual (Squid) ending from the graphic novel. Not the crappy ending Snyder came up with.

[Nousemercenary]

Originally Posted by Mahatma

I think War games might be a good candidate for a remake...

Especially with the idea of cyber-terrorism being pushed so much.

[Duffy12]

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Oh man...how I would LOVE to see them give 'Braveheart' another go since Gibson's version was a BIG disappointment for me.

This time they could make the story more accurate and with some CGI we could get a much better feel of the battles.

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[Tony208]

Saving Private Ryan
only this time Private Ryan doesn't laugh when he's reminiscing

Matrix 2 and 3
this time they don't suck

Alien 3 and 4
non suck versions

[Jennifer Lawrence Fan]

Waxwork.

A older 80's horror film.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

The Stuff
Soylent Green
DC Cab (Terry Crews would replace Mr. T's role)
The Thing
The Punisher (Every existing one sucks and needs to be redone the right way)

[fastburn430]

Cannonball Run

[Falconer]

I want to see bad/flawed/out-dated movies made into better ones instead of the other way around, which is how it is now, sadly.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a perfect example. Could have been updated into something just as good or even better, but instead we got one of the biggest insults to my intelligence I've ever seen. Easily one of the worst attempts at filmmaking in recorded history.

But the point is to make Hollywood money, not to give the audience something they will enjoy.

In Hollywood, it literally is all about the Benjamins.

[Il Cattivo]

Originally Posted by Guydowood

Dirty Harry

please god no.