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Ok,given Follywoods love of taking classic (or not so classic) films and "redoing" them,which films,in your opinion,should simply be"HANDS OFF!!"
I'll start the ball rolling with Two films that I pray Hollywood never decides to Re-make.
1. Blade Runner (I'd go on a fething rampage)
2. A Clockwork Orange

3. Anything larry the cable guy is in. So we don't have to experience them EVER again. (Like his stand up however.)
4. Citizen Kane
5. Seven Samuri
6. Star Wars series
7. Lord of the Rings
8. Fight club
9. Christmas Story
10. Vacation

Do Lucas' re-edits to Star Wars count as a re-make?

See, when I saw Star Wars, Han shot first...

JohnHwangDD wrote:Do Lucas' re-edits to Star Wars count as a re-make?

See, when I saw Star Wars, Han shot first...

Yep that counts,and yes,Han shoots first,period,he's a pirate,he shot first,Gredo never had a chance.

Caddyshack. They would replace the gopher with CGI and that would completely ruin it.

PeeWee hermans big adventure!!!!!!!

Tora Tora Tora oh wait...^%&&%! you Hollywood!

Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Forbidden Planet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Maltese Falcon
Das Boot
African Queen

Roadhouse, Patrick Swayze's chef d'oeuvre should never be remade--never f^%#@ing ever.

I can imagine the Das Boot remake.

Hollywood exec: The idea is cool but antiquated, we need more nowadays tension than a punny duel between a destroyer and a u-boat. How about adding a love story between the captain and the second officer to spice things. Also we´ll hire a token black guy for the kriegsmarine crew and because we´ll be rerating the movie 13 for the kiddies we need a little girl and her dog on the british DD. Can we add the Yamato in someplace btw?

Original scriptwriter: [shoots him/herself]

M.

Its too late but ...
... Flight of the phoenix (what the hell where did all these people with guns come from?)

...The Italian job (wait what does this film have to do with Italy ... its now set in NY)

...The Poseidon Adventure

...King Kong

ok i'm just renaming films that have been ... may be it should be no films should be remade if they can't be done better ... and better doesn't = Explosion, sex or CGI ... better = better acting, script, music

The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Every movie could always use a remaking. Movies go through movements like "more explosions" or "grittier feel" and it's always fun to see what happens. LOTR sucks. It made for an....eh, OK book...but it was like watching a documentary. I also enjoy the Star Wars movies and am a big fan, but it would be awesome to see redesigned armor for everyone and a deeper love interest story between Luke and Leia before the big reveal.

Miguelsan wrote:I can imagine the Das Boot remake.

Hollywood exec: The idea is cool but antiquated, we need more nowadays tension than a punny duel between a destroyer and a u-boat. How about adding a love story between the captain and the second officer to spice things. Also we´ll hire a token black guy for the kriegsmarine crew and because we´ll be rerating the movie 13 for the kiddies we need a little girl and her dog on the british DD. Can we add the Yamato in someplace btw?

Original scriptwriter: [shoots him/herself]

M.

This sounds like an excellent movie.

Frazzled wrote:Tora Tora Tora oh wait...^%&&%! you Hollywood!

Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Forbidden Planet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Maltese Falcon
Das Boot
African Queen

Sorry to tell you, but I've heard that re-makes of Creature from the Black Lagoon and Forbidden Planet are already in the works. Let the teeth-gritting begin.

I don't know. Seeing how crappy the remakes are lets us know just how far we've slid culturally.

But, all stories are just retellings of another prior story. Heck, A lot of the reality shows are just the Tempest rehashed.

Having said that there are 2 movies that I think should pretty much be untouchable and they are:

The Quiet Man-with John Wayne and Maureen O'hara

and

Casablanca- with Bogey

I can think of a very short list of actors that could pull these rolls off but could never see Hollywood doing them without giving them the "TREATMENT".

FITZZ wrote:1. Blade Runner (I'd go on a fething rampage)

Out of curiousity, which version are you taking to be definitive?
- the extra-talky theatrical version
- the semi-silent director's cut

JohnHwangDD wrote:

FITZZ wrote:1. Blade Runner (I'd go on a fething rampage)

Out of curiousity, which version are you taking to be definitive?
- the extra-talky theatrical version
- the semi-silent director's cut

I personaly like the directors cut better,although any version of the film is great IMO,I see it as one of the most beutifuly crafted sci-fi films ever,which is why it (along with A Clockwork Orange) are my choices for " NO REMAKE"

focusedfire wrote:I don't know. Seeing how crappy the remakes are lets us know just how far we've slid culturally.

But, all stories are just retellings of another prior story. Heck, A lot of the reality shows are just the Tempest rehashed.

Having said that there are 2 movies that I think should pretty much be untouchable and they are:

The Quiet Man-with John Wayne and Maureen O'hara

and

Casablanca- with Bogey

I can think of a very short list of actors that could pull these rolls off but could never see Hollywood doing them without giving them the "TREATMENT".

Forbidden Planet is The Tempest in space.

There was talk a few years ago of colourizing Casablanca.

Sha1emade wrote:5. Seven Samuri

?
Seven Samurai and Kurasawa's films in general have got to be the most re-made films ever, where have you been?

Indeed. Magnificent Seven anyone?

Downfall should never be remade. Ever. And indeed, everyone with even a passing interest in the Second World War should watch it. Like now. Well, go on.

Same goes for the Vietnam films. All extremely of their time, and are now more or less historical documents!

I'm in favour of remaking a film if the original was crap, but why remake a film which was great? Has it stopped being great because someone invented stereo sound?

Loads of remakes of great originals have been terrible.

I also acknowledge the idea that there are only 12 basic plots and all stories are reworkings of those plot ideas. Fair enough. Stories can be re-imagined in order to address the concerns and needs of a changing world.

There should be no reason to remake The Crow - too bad that's being talked about now.

Never mind the horrible Wings of the Crow ripoff from 2000...

Kilkrazy wrote:I'm in favour of remaking a film if the original was crap, but why remake a film which was great? Has it stopped being great because someone invented stereo sound?

Loads of remakes of great originals have been terrible.

I also acknowledge the idea that there are only 12 basic plots and all stories are reworkings of those plot ideas. Fair enough. Stories can be re-imagined in order to address the concerns and needs of a changing world.

Explosions sound and feel better with a 5.1/7.1 system. Also symphonies and club/dance scenes but those are less important.

I agree with the last part but nowadays you have people casually dismissing that with an insulting, "Pshaw, too much environmentalism and blah-blah in [Wall-E/etc.]" so I don't know if it's even worth it.

Night of the Living Dead. Oh wait...dammit.

Dawn of the Dead. Oh wait...dammit.

Day of the Dead. Oh wait...dammit.

Is anyone seeing a trend here?

Juice, Boys in the hood, . Anything from the 70s (dolomite, super fly, foxy brown). And debbie does dallas.

Recent/relatively recent films I don't want to see remade. They all exist on the extremes of like/dislike.

Let the Right One In
Ip Man
Assembly
Black Sheep
Children of Men
City of Violence
D-War aka Dragon Wars
anything by Johnnie To (Election and Election 2, Exiled, Triangle, Breaking News (already being remade by Russians), Mad Detective, Swallow)
Flashpoint
The Host
In the Name of the King
Kiltro
Mutant Chronicles
No Country for Old Men
No Mercy for the Rude
Oldboy (I think this is being remade by Will Smith)
Pan's Labyrinth

Older films I hope don't get remade

Apocalypse Now
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Lebowski
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bullet in the Head
City of God
The Deer Hunter
Godfather, Godfather 2
M
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Paths of Glory
The Princess Bride
Silence of the Lambs
Spartacus
Stalag 17
The Sting (was this remade for TV?)
Taxi Driver
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Wild Bunch

I'll stop before I pick more.

Yeah i would agree with the fact that they should never have remade the Flight of the Phoneix, the original was much better.

One thing I would say, is that I really quite enjoy the current string of 'reimaginings'.

For instance, Rob Zombie's take on Halloween was very well done, and genuinely quite scary.

It may not be a film per se, but Battlestar Galactica is also up there in terms of being worth while.

Any film or TV Series should only be remade if there is genuinely room for improvement, be it from modern effects, a more suitable budget, or even a greater audience tolerance for violence and that. But just don't remake it because it made money first time around!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Same goes for the Vietnam films. All extremely of their time, and are now more or less historical documents!

Like Apocalypse Now?!?

I fail to see that as particularly "historical".

Great adaptation of Conrad, but not historical.
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stonefox wrote:Explosions sound and feel better with a 5.1/7.1 system. Also symphonies and club/dance scenes but those are less important.

I don't think that 5.1 or 7.1 sound can save Matrix 2 or Matrix 3. The "rave" dance scene is when the series jumped the shark.

Also none of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. Nobody can stand around, glare and grind a cigar between his teeth like Clint Eastwood.

I would include Apocalypse Now, simply because of the setting, and they way it was applied to the Vietnam War.

Now, Heart of Darkness could be feasibly reinterpreted in more modern, historical or futuristic ways, but not Apocalypse Now!