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We often complain about what is being remade but are there anything you would actually like to see redone? Format isn't necessarily important i.e. doesn't have to be a movie remake.

The old Tom Sellek movie Runaway came up in discussion and I can actually see that being a good movie for a remake. The first was fun but limited by the technology of the time to make really menacing robots.

Oooh, Good topic Ahtman, and a big +1 to Runaway as good remake fodder ( this coming from the guy who normally rants against remakes..)
...I'll have to mull this over a bit.

2001: A Space Oddessy, Awesome book, rubbish film.

But Never Aliens, they'll just ruin it's Epicness.

Hey, I think I have one...
Night of the Comet..1988, the original film had an interesting premise ..but as anyone who's seen it can tell you the film itself is absolute gak.

JubJubMarine wrote:2001: A Space Oddessy, Awesome book, rubbish film.

Yeah, the screenwriter shouldn't have been allowed to write anything again. It's like he didn't even read the book.

JubJubMarine wrote:But Never Aliens, they'll just ruin it's Epicness.

Wrong thread. This is about movies (or other things) that should be remade. I thought the title was quite clear.

I have a list:

Seven samurai

What lies beneath

House of sand and fog

Metropolis

remilia_scarlet wrote:I have a list:

Seven samurai

What lies beneath

House of sand and fog

Metropolis

I think that What Lies Beneath was a fine movie just as it was.

I would remake High Plains Drifter, but make it post apocalyptic.

The blob!

Also Seven Samurai +1

The entire prequil trilogy of SW

the plot was silly and rushed and GL only cast the pretty faces. Ewan Mcgegor was good, so was Samuel Jackson.


but Hayden Christian and Natalie Portman?

I would like to see The Last Starfighter remade.

Since the topic is 'things' not 'movies' i would also like to see the following remade:

Baldur's Gate series

Mechwarrior 2

Internet Explorer 6

Chaos Space Marine Codex

Wheel of Time series with Brandon Sanderson redoing the first 11 books

the new WWz film. from the synopsis. it sucks poison sacs.

I wouldn't mind an updated version of The Running Man.

It seems like there was a little too much of an 80s sensibility ruining what could have been a much better movie. Don't get me wrong, though. I adore the original for that same awful 80s aesthetic.

They should remake all the new Spongebob episodes. The new ones are kinda creepy.

Monster Rain wrote:I wouldn't mind an updated version of The Running Man.

It seems like there was a little too much of an 80s sensibility ruining what could have been a much better movie. Don't get me wrong, though. I adore the original for that same awful 80s aesthetic.

Agreed. the 80's sensibility of that movie is the worst and best part of it.
Who would make a good killian? and who would make a good running man?

I think the best films for remake are the ones that were almost great the first time around, but just missed out on being decent for whatever reason.

I think Waterworld, stripped of the infamy of its terrible production and the blandness of its plot, is left with a story of people cast adrift on floating settlements, doing whatever they can to survive the inhospitable seas around them. That could make for a pretty good movie.

Proof of Life is about a dude getting kidnapped, an a specialist extraction team getting called in to get him out. Get rid of the awkward cheating subplot, and really, really get rid of the entirely unlikeable Meg Ryan, and I think you could have a pretty good movie.

SWAT is about a subject that's really just plain cool, cops geared up in tactical gear, engaged in shootouts with crims. The movie got mired down in its stars, embraced action movie logic and lost the thing that actually made the subject matter appealling in the first place. If they kept this real, and showed people operating like they really do in urban combat (only with the amount of gunfire amped up considerably) we could get a really cool movie.

JubJubMarine wrote:2001: A Space Oddessy, Awesome book, rubbish film.

I don't know, I really admire Kubrik's discipline in stripping away every extraneous detail, and leaving only theme behind. The interesting thing is that looked at in isolation, I would have thought aliens dropping off the monolith, or the literal description of becoming the Star Child would have been necessary, but Kubrik's discipline reveals how none of that is needed, and is fact distracting from the much bigger themes that were being explored.

2001 is epic and should be left alone, it is a tour de force of style over everything, where else do you get hours of spaceships slowly moving in silence?

I'd like to remake the 1957 film Hell Drivers, not that it wasn't good the first time around, but I'd make it for the modern age, instead of ex-soldiers and those struggling for post-war work driving trucks, I'd make it more modern. With the current economic climate a group of ex-convicts and illegal immigrants end up driving articulated lorries at high speed around country lanes. The original was excellent though if you haven't seen it, an all star cast with the likes of Stanley Baker and Patrick McGoohan.

Golden Compass.

Babylon Babies.

Every post-Pitch Black Riddick movie.

The great escape. Not because it needs to be, but because it deserves to be.

dogma wrote:Every post-Pitch Black Riddick movie.

What all one of them?

whatwhat wrote:

dogma wrote:Every post-Pitch Black Riddick movie.

What all one of them?

I was going to say the same thing.


I would love Escape from LA/New York to be remade, but I doubt I will enjoy them as much as the old cheesy ones. I bet they'd even get rid of his eye patch. Damn hollywood.

ChaosGalvatron wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:I wouldn't mind an updated version of The Running Man.

It seems like there was a little too much of an 80s sensibility ruining what could have been a much better movie. Don't get me wrong, though. I adore the original for that same awful 80s aesthetic.

Agreed. the 80's sensibility of that movie is the worst and best part of it.
Who would make a good killian? and who would make a good running man?

Absolutely seconded; I love that movie! Have to be honest though, after a good long think I'd be happy with some good actors in the roles rather than big name stars... bring on the unknowns! Also some elements closer to the book would be nice and would probably to be expected with any remake. Not sure the books ending would make it in though.

Most will cry heresy for my other suggestion though... I'd love to see Willow remade.

whatwhat wrote:The great escape. Not because it needs to be, but because it deserves to be.

Who does justice to Steve McQueen?

whatwhat wrote:

dogma wrote:Every post-Pitch Black Riddick movie.

What all one of them?

2.

Remaking Seven samurai and/or 2001 is just heresy. Leave classic cinema be.

Dambusters needs a remake because it will benefit from improved SFX, Seven Samurai however does not, in fact its black and whiteness is part of its charm, and there is no CGI fix needed for horses and bandits. 2001 is timeless, you simply cannot update it without running serious risk of failure.

The only films I would like to see remade are old action and war films that can benefit from new technology, Dambusters as mentioned above. However Dambusters is a rare film because it commemorates a rare type of battle, a true 'heroic' engagement of skill and ingenuity. Most war films lose out on the reduced number of extras compared to 30's and 50's epics where they would gain from CGI. I advocate very little science fiction retelling and would prefer fresh stuff instead because of the genre. Metropolis maybe needs to be redone because Metropolis needs to be properly finished. I consider that more a disjointed 1920's music video without the music than a film. Also most giant monster movies could benefit from a retelling, King Kong did, Godzilla and sequels deserves a re-attempt with full SFX, though it really ought to be set back in Tokyo where it belongs.

Instead I would be content for some olf films to be upgraded with CGI added in. Here I am looking at air combat films with Tora Tora Tora, Midway and Battle of Britain topping that list. Keep the film just consider it in 'post production' and add the CGI as if the orignal director had the technology to begin with.

dogma wrote:

whatwhat wrote:The great escape. Not because it needs to be, but because it deserves to be.

Who does justice to Steve McQueen?

Would be a dificult role to cast but would be based entirely on presence rather than acting ability, Mcqueen wasn't a great actor. You could certainly do ten times better than James Coburn and Charles Bronson.

dogma wrote:

whatwhat wrote:

dogma wrote:Every post-Pitch Black Riddick movie.

What all one of them?

2.

Really. I've only ever heard of one.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury was an animated dvd release.

dogma wrote:The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury was an animated dvd release.

I thought it was a half hour long cartoon.

I would still call it a movie.

They are apparently making a new Chronicles of Riddick movie also.

Seven Samurai arguably has been remade several times, most famously as The Magnificent Seven which keeps the plot and characters intact and merely substitutes swords for guns.

I'd second the prequel Star Wars trilogy. It actually had a very good basic plot with Palpatine's scheme for creating his Empire deviously played across the three films.

I think there's a better adaptation of Potter to be done at some point, though it really needs to be left alone for twenty years or so. It would work better on TV anyway (provided it had decent production values).

I'm also staggered given Hollywood's fondness for snapping up good fiction, that no-one has made a Flashman film since Royal Flash. The first three books in chronological order (Flashman, Flashman's Lady and Flashman and the Mountain of Light) would make a great trilogy.

whatwhat wrote:

dogma wrote:The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury was an animated dvd release.

I thought it was a half hour long cartoon.

Which is why it needs to be redone as a proper movie.

Although to be honest, I actually liked The Chronicles of Riddick. So there.

sebster wrote:I think Waterworld, stripped of the infamy of its terrible production and the blandness of its plot, is left with a story of people cast adrift on floating settlements, doing whatever they can to survive the inhospitable seas around them. That could make for a pretty good movie.

Also, blasphemy. Waterworld is a great movie and most definitely does NOT need to be redone.

I'm just going to leave this here. Blade Runner needs to be redone simply to take advantage of new special effects technology.

How about Flashman: The Dakka Years, more interesting than the books i'm sure.

Curiously enough I'm going to second The Last Starfighter, which was suprisingly entertaining a couple od Sundays ago, but the visuals were very dated.

The problem with some of these remakes is that there are some aspects that were of the time and unrepeatable. For example Flash Gordon, what would be the point without a Queen soundtrack. And what is the point of Queen without Freddie.