One More Time: Movie Remakes I Would Like to See

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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...