Posted on 08/23/2014 7:57:56 PM PDT by MNDude
Most people will always say that a movie that has been redone never should have been redone (the older someone is, the more they are apt to feel that way too). There are probably a few movies of course that is as good as better than the original (like True Grit?). There are also a few movies that might be nice to see remade if the original has a nice concept but was horribly directed or some movies might serve better updated for the times. What movie(s) would you like to see redone?
Forbidden Planet with maybe a Prequel. Not a remake but doing Asimov’s Foundation series, also the Mote in a God’s Eye!
I was perfect the first time. It was redone with Chritopher Reeve after his accident.
I Am Legend was done in the 70’s with Charleton Heston and it was called “The Omega Man”.
I’d like to see a remake of “The Steel Lady”, a 1953 film about plane-crash survivors finding an old Afrika Korps Panzer deep in the Sahara complete with stolen treasure. They had to fight off ragheads who knew they had the treasure.
I saw it as a kid in about 1958 on TV.
Hell, I’d just like to see the original again.
Grave of the Fireflies: The My Little Pony Version.
Once is fine.
It was redone.
Well for Richard Pryor's sake, they'd better have some n-----s in this one.
"White folks ain't planning for us to be here."
If only you can get him to Dallas.
Red Dawn, but true to the story and not with the PC “let’s include every kid of every color” nonsense.
Blue Max, with better scenery.
Sink the Bismark. We know more of the story now and it would a good one tell from both sides of the war.
We nix Episode I altogether.
We start with an outline of what was Episode II: Attack of the Clones, except we replace Christopher Lee’s Count Dooku with Darth Maul (he was the only decent thing about Episode I).
We forget the cardboard romancing of Anakin and Padme and simply leave Anakin being lustfully infatuated with her. Forget about Midichlorians - and focus on ‘the prophecy’ instead - some of whom do think Anakin fits the bill.
Yes, we have Yoda going toe-to-toe with Maul instead of Dooku at the end and the New Episode I, ends with the formation of a militarized “Republic” - no marriage ceremony…. yet. Padme has become smitten with the teenage Jedi with anger and possession issues who rescues her. But it ends with that fleet of Destroyers heading out to fight the Clone Wars.
Episode III becomes Episode II Clone Wars and we change a few things. More focus on the beguiling of Anakin by Palpatine, Anakin’s deceit to the Jedi by marrying Padme in secret and of course Anakin turning on the Jedi - not to save his new bride from a vision of death - but to stop the Jedi from forcing him to choose between his new bride and the Jedi Order. Episode II ends with the big duel between Obi-Wan and the Future Darth Vader and it ends on a cliffhanger - did Anakin die or did he live?
Episode III becomes something entirely new. Anakin is rescued by Emp who rebuilds him into a half machine provided he turns to the Dark Side. Darth Maul is none to happy at all the attention given Annie’ and a nice little rivalry forms between them. And the new Episode III becomes more or less Darth Vader exterminating Jedi and the birth of the twins after Vader chokes his wife with the force for joining the Rebellion against the new Empire. Amen.
So we remake the entire Prequel trilogy altogether - and find someone else to play Anakin/Darth Vader and Jar Jar ends up being a background character that exists on screen for maybe a tenth of a second.
“A Bridge Too Far” took pains to be historically accurate, to present both an accurate account of the battle, and to convey the mood and experience of the participants, on both sides.
I think “The Longest Day” profanes the event.
West Side Story, where Tony isn’t a big weenie.
As a kid, I always preferred it to the very dry and staid A Bridge Too Far, and young people are a big part of the audience for such movies.
Even now, the pleasure I get watching TLD and remembering is far greater than anything ABTF could ever possibly give me.
Plus, no Robert Redford ...
But to each his own ...
“A Place in the Sun”, more faithful to Dreiser’s novel.
...amen to that...has anyone in any movie been more pathetic looking than Montgomery Clift in that dog of a film...?
...sometimes it’s an issue of the movie being overdone...and wrong each time...
...Mutiny on the Bounty comes to mind...three different attempts, three messed up story lines...
...first off, forget the Marlon Brando effort ever existed...then, take Anthony Hopkins Bligh, weave in some of Charles Laughton’s over the top portrayal, and redo Fletcher Christian altogether (apparently impossible to get a fix on the guy)...and in the end, show some of what happened after the mutineers were captured in Tahiti, (shipwreck en route to England, and the subsequent trial) and some of what went on when they reached Pitcairn’s, and you’d have a great movie...
My wife said, imagine if Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor ever got married, their children would have incredible eyes. It’s not at all clear that Clift rolled that way. He made friends with women, but love with men.
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