What is the point of remakes?

[MifuneFan]

I don't really think about it, but two of my favorite films are actually remakes. Floating Weeds (1959) is Ozu's own remake of his 1934 silent A Story of Floating Weeds. And the other of mine is Chusingura (1968), which there's been numerous adaptations of.

I actually find it fascinating when a director remakes his own film. Ozu has done it several times, and Hitchock too. Cecil B Demille of course also remade his Ten Commandments film, and it's the remake that is the most widely known of the two. Someone mentioned Metropolis earlier, adn it's actually something I thought about recently . I would have loved to see Fritz Lang remake Metropolis. His career spans early German silents, into colorful Indian epics, westerns, and film noir. He was an incredibly visionary, and it would have been pretty great to see what he could do with color, and sound for Metropolis. I do consider the original to be a masterpiece, and so far ahead of its time.

[Lee A Stewart]

I do like and applaud a remake that takes advantage of advancements in movie theater presentation technology that wasn't available when the original was made. 1959's Ben Hur comes to mind with it's use of MGM Camera 65 (Ultra Panavision 70) and 6 track stereo.

[SilverFox84]

Was The Mummy a remake? It's completely different the only thing that's the same is the title

[spaceball-one]

The real question to me is when are we finally gonna get the friggin' Logan's Run remake?
If anything deserves a remake, it's that.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by SilverFox84

Was The Mummy a remake? It's completely different the only thing that's the same is the title

It (and the 1999 version) are different takes of the franchise that began with the 1932 film. Since it's the same IP owned by Universal all these years, it's probably more accurate to call them all reboots, but reboots are a type of remake.

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by spaceball-one

The real question to me is when are we finally gonna get the friggin' Logan's Run remake?
If anything deserves a remake, it's that.

In the mid-1990s, Warner Bros. began development of a remake.[59] In 2000, ideas for a film remake centred on a more faithful adaptation of the novel, restoring Crazy Horse Mountain and the sky gypsies.[59] In August 2010, Nolan confirmed that the long-awaited Warner Bros. remake would be on production in 2010–2011 and that producer Joel Silver announced that it [would] be shot in 3-D, and that Carl Rinsch [would] direct from a screenplay ([then still] in progress) from writer Alex Garland. The death age would be lowered to 21 to match the novel and the film would be much closer to the original book.[60] However, as of 2018, the film was still in pre-production.[61]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%..._(film)#Legacy

[Zivouhr]

What movie would you like to see remade with improvements?

There are some original films that had good concepts, but maybe the execution of the idea in the film was off. It's even possible the original film's creators missed the mark of what the concept was all about.

And instead of only remaking an entire film, what about re-editing certain films?

Like Taken 2 and 3 from Megaton the director who loves to showcase 100 cuts per every 10 seconds? Instead, hand it to a different editor and let the film's footage actually breathe. Those could've been better films with better editing.
I'd say the same thing about Paul WS Anderson's Resident Evil The Final Chapter. What a mess of fast cuts. It made the fight/actions almost unwatchable. Rapid fire editing stinks for most fight scenes. Slow it down to at most 1 shot per second, not 2 or 3 shots per second.

Same with the choppy as all hell fight scenes in a Jason Bourne film, the last one I think that Damon was in. The fight scenes were very difficult to tell what was going on for the several minutes the fight lasted. Not good, so re-edit them. But if there isn't any good footage, then there's not much hope.

And finally, if the studio/owner that released the film wants to just sit on the original cut, then there's nothing that can be done.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by spaceball-one

The real question to me is when are we finally gonna get the friggin' Logan's Run remake?
If anything deserves a remake, it's that.

Logan's Run was bad?

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

What movie would you like to see remade with improvements?

There are some original films that had good concepts, but maybe the execution of the idea in the film was off. It's even possible the original film's creators missed the mark of what the concept was all about.

And instead of only remaking an entire film, what about re-editing certain films?

Like Taken 2 and 3 from Megaton the director who loves to showcase 100 cuts per every 10 seconds? Instead, hand it to a different editor and let the film's footage actually breathe. Those could've been better films with better editing.
I'd say the same thing about Paul WS Anderson's Resident Evil The Final Chapter. What a mess of fast cuts. It made the fight/actions almost unwatchable. Rapid fire editing stinks for most fight scenes. Slow it down to at most 1 shot per second, not 2 or 3 shots per second.

Same with the choppy as all hell fight scenes in a Jason Bourne film, the last one I think that Damon was in. The fight scenes were very difficult to tell what was going on for the several minutes the fight lasted. Not good, so re-edit them. But if there isn't any good footage, then there's not much hope.

And finally, if the studio/owner that released the film wants to just sit on the original cut, then there's nothing that can be done.

As I recall from the DVD bonus features, Matt Damon confessed that he just didn't take with the fight training and likened how he learned the choreography to dancing. This might mean that there is no good footage. I hope that there is though, and it's a major pet peeve of mine how Paul Greengrass ruined the last ~20 years of action films with his shaky cam and spastic editing full of choppy quick cuts.

Frankly he should be given at least partial directing credit for Quantum of Solace as that infamous opening car chase might as well have been directed by him.

I would agree with any action film that has spastic editing of its fights being remade, though only so far as to incorporate the existing good footage. I wouldn't want a full remake with all the modern tropes (and different actors).

[BudBaxter]

Originally Posted by spaceball-one

The real question to me is when are we finally gonna get the friggin' Logan's Run remake?
If anything deserves a remake, it's that.

Michael Bay already did it. It was called The Island.

[mastadge]

Originally Posted by Smovies

my question is, why do we expect/demand remakes to be 100% faithful to the source material

We don't?