Posted on 08/03/2012 12:29:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
With the opening Friday of "Total Recall," thoughts immediately turn to the subject of movie remakes...
Remakes are nothing new in Hollywood, although movie studios prefer to call them "reboots" or "re-imaginations." For some reason, the word "remake" has a negative connotation among moviegoers. Perhaps it's because it seems like a lazy and unimaginative way to make movies...
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True Grit, you do not REMAKE John Wayne movies.
The new Brady Bunch apparently doesn’t include any sons. As I understand it, its a mother we 3 daughters of her own and a 4th daughter with the second husband.
“I’m still waiting for the “reboot” of Rocky Horror...”
That has been made, It is called any Saturday night in the tenderloin district.
I had seen a preview months ago and the cast looked interesting (Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, the gal from “Fargo” named Francis). Seemed like it would be good. Checked out RottenTomatoes.com before I saw it and they gave it a 94 percent postive rating. This is a movie I will see again. There are so many details that you can’t even take them all in the first time. Highly recommend to one and all.
13 ghosts. Unrecognizable. I got the original and watched it with my husband, who was stunned it was so different.
It was kind of a sweet movie.
Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart are still champs. Tip to Hollywood: Don't try to remake Roman Holiday.
Would like to add, ‘The Haunting’. The original was so superb no remake should’ve been allowed to be made.
And whatever walked there, walked alone.
Alone, means ‘no remakes’!
I will have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. Having seen both in succession, I thought the remake was better. I will admit that I don’t care for John Wayne, although I believe True Grit was his best movie (for me the only tolerable one he ever made).
My 2 pennies anyhow.
I’m waiting for a remake of Gone with the Wind.......not
I hear the remake sucks so bad that we may luck out and it will never get released.
Just how does one mess up a movie starring Denzel? The original “The Taking of Pelham 123” was so unique because of the time period and it was fresh.
They are remaking it, but not with anybody you listed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz:_The_Great_and_Powerful
I totally recall the worst remake as being the remake of The Day of the Jackal.
The remake should have been called the day of the cackle since it laid such a huge egg.
Total Recall, the best that I can recall - was about the only commercially successful film involving Mars in my lifetime.
But they can only blame themselves for “John Carter” (of Mars). They tried to avoid the Mars movie curse by leaving Mars out of the title - they took the most simple plot ever devised by one of the greatest storytellers of all time (Edgar Rice Burroughs) and made a confusing mess of it.
I hope I live long enough to see someone do the ACTUAL story justice.
1945’s “And Then There Were None “ has been remade a half-dozen times and the original b/w still is far the best.
CGI and/or color can’t cover decay.
All I know about the new one (thanks but no thanks, Tom Hanks) is that it was rated R. That's all I needed to know.
The original was a great family movie, a slightly dark, but very droll British comedy from the mid-1950s.
A DEMOCRAT IDIOT GOES TO WASHINGTON, starring Jimmy Carter, was bad enough, but DEMOCRAT IDIOT II with Clinton was a real turkey. And why anyone thought that DEMOCRAT IDIOT III with Obama would be any different is beyond me.
Amen. Happy to see I’m not the only one who thought the remake of True Grit stunk. Made me appreciate the original that much more, despite Glen Campbell — actually, the only thing good about the remake of True Grit was the guy who had Glen Campbell’s part.
As a kid in the 1960’s, one of my favorite Sci-fi movies was “Robinson Caruso on Mars” They even used the leftover martian space ships from War of the Worlds. ;-)
Kids are easy to entertain, though.
Actually, it could be a good movie as a remake with plausible detials, weaving in what we now know about the moon.
I remember one of C. S. Lewis’ Sci Fi novels suggested HUGE trenches on mars that were so deep that there was a breathable atmosphere at the bottom.
The Moon = Mars
Oops.
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