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So we've been dragging another thread offtopic with a subject that maybe deserves a thread of it's own.

What movies would you like to see remade with contemporary actors and technology?

As a side note, yes remakes in general are mindless and evil and hollywood is out of ideas and so on and so forth. So, if you feel that way, that's great! You don't even have to post that because I already posted it for you. On the other hand, if you have a different opinion about something someone suggested here, lets hear it!

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Movie: Terminator

What I'd like to see: Not an actual remake, per se, but redoing the stop-motion Terminator scenes in CGI. Possibly touching up the eyeball scene. Otherwise I'd change nothing at all.

WRONG! Terminator was perfect, as was Arnold's Conan.

I'd like to see Sergeant York get a remake.

A reboot of Blade Runner (with Lucas not allowed within 3 miles of the set) would be welcomed by me.

Judge Dredd but with Clint Eastwood from back-in-the-day, oh and since we are wish listing with a proper and more violent script.

Transformers.

Done properly.

The starwars prequel trilogy directed by anyone but Lucas and written by Timothy Zahn.

X-men without a dud Rogue and with Gambit.

Evil Dead done with an actual budget this time!

Event Horizon, set as 40k historical canon.

Hey, I can wish.

Now is verymuch the time for a remake of Meet John Doe, though I admit I've not seen it yet, only read synopsise.

An actual Lady Snowblood remake (as opposed to Kill Bill, which was a heavy homage, but not really a remake) would be cool.

Assuming we are pretending we are making this in the current environment, and not picking imaginary people I suppose I would try to do something like this:

Forbidden Planet

Commander Adams: Ryan Gosling
Dr. Mobius: Russel Crowe
Alta: Gillian Jacobs
Doc: Thandie Newton
Lt. Farman: Andy Samberg

The Robot would be voiced by Alec Baldwin.

Jurassic Park. Seriosuly. Make it more historical. Give the dinos feathers.

Godfather Part II with Vigo Mortensen as a young Don Corleone.

Ahtman wrote:Assuming we are pretending we are making this in the current environment, and not picking imaginary people I suppose I would try to do something like this:

Forbidden Planet

Commander Adams: Ryan Gosling
Dr. Mobius: Russel Crowe
Alta: Gillian Jacobs
Doc: Thandie Newton
Lt. Farman: Andy Samberg

The Robot would be voiced by Alec Baldwin.

I am now honor bound to hunt you down and beat you with hostess cupcakes until you repent for your sin. Verbotten Planet ist perfecto...HERETIC!

Frazzled wrote:Verbotten Planet ist perfecto...

When has that ever stopped a movie from being remade?

hotsauceman1 wrote:Jurassic Park. Seriosuly. Make it more historical. Give the dinos feathers.

YESyesyesyesyesyesyesyes. Then we can finally get over this naked-dino fetish every form of media seems endeared with.

Terminator 3 - showing the frigging Terminator Wars, not some arrogant, self indulged Arnie with a less than average looking Terminator and an utterly horrific portrayal of John Connor.

What a waste of potential :(
/shuddder

The Last Airbender and the live-action DB movie; both were great shows but had terrible live-action remakes.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Jurassic Park. Seriosuly. Make it more historical. Give the dinos feathers.

So you want to make the dinosaurs look ridiculous instead of intimidating?

Manchu wrote:Godfather Part II with Vigo Mortensen as a young Don Corleone.

Heresy.

Have you seen Eastern Promises? Viggo is excellent as a gangster.

Dune and Starship Troopers both need remakes that are faithful to the books.

Shredsmore wrote:The Last Airbender and the live-action DB movie; both were great shows but had terrible live-action remakes.

To be fair Dragonball Evolution was actually so bad it was good. I was cracking myself up throughout the whole movie with how dumb it wound up being.

Amaya wrote:Have you seen Eastern Promises? Viggo is excellent as a gangster.

Dune and Starship Troopers both need remakes that are faithful to the books.

Not better than Robert De Niro.
Agreed on Dune and Starship Troopers, though. A Dune movie that was actually true to the books (and the vision) would be awesome.

Coolyo294 wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Jurassic Park. Seriosuly. Make it more historical. Give the dinos feathers.

So you want to make the dinosaurs look ridiculous instead of intimidating?

Feathered dinosaurs can still be scary.



I don't see what people's problem is with this, past fluffy memories of Jurassic Park. Owlbears and Thunder Birds are canon in real life now. This, in my book, is awesome.

Winterkit wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Jurassic Park. Seriosuly. Make it more historical. Give the dinos feathers.

So you want to make the dinosaurs look ridiculous instead of intimidating?

Feathered dinosaurs can still be scary.

*snip*
I don't see what people's problem is with this, past fluffy memories of Jurassic Park. Owlbears and Thunder Birds are canon in real life now. This, in my book, is awesome.

It looks like a multicolored chicken with teeth.

Hulksmash wrote:The starwars prequel trilogy directed by anyone but Lucas and written by Timothy Zahn.

X-men without a dud Rogue and with Gambit.

Evil Dead done with an actual budget this time!

I came in to post Evil Dead, but I agree with everything you posted; WHY OH WHY was Rogue so bad in the latest X-men series? Goth Rogue from X-Men Evolution was cooler, even...



Anyway.... I personally feel they should never make re-makes, but instead continue on with what happened before; Take Ghostbusters, for instance. Never touch Ghostbusters. Never try to remake Ghostbusters. But since Murray, Ramus, and Arkroyd are so old, do a new movie like how that one Ghostbuster TV show did; Egon (Though probably Ray, as Akroyd is the only one really on board with Ghostbusters 3) just can't give up Ghostbusting despite his old age, and he starts to train new recruits. Find the right people with the right chemistry, and that would be an awesome movie.

Equilibrium - Make it so it has a plot

Silent Hill - More psychological horror

Star Wars prequels - Without Lucas


I'd rather Evil Dead wasn't remade, especially with a budget. The lack of budget was what made it great, as it forced the actors and the directer to actually put some effort into the horror.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Equilibrium - Make it so it has a plot

Silent Hill - More psychological horror

Star Wars prequels - Without Lucas


I'd rather Evil Dead wasn't remade, especially with a budget. The lack of budget was what made it great, as it forced the actors and the directer to actually put some effort into the horror.

The evil dead was a horror movie? I thought it was a comedy

but its really great if you think about the entire series, movie 1, ash takes girl to cabin, and girl dies. movie 2, ash takes different girl to cabin, and is surprised the girl dies again

sirlynchmob wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Equilibrium - Make it so it has a plot

Silent Hill - More psychological horror

Star Wars prequels - Without Lucas


I'd rather Evil Dead wasn't remade, especially with a budget. The lack of budget was what made it great, as it forced the actors and the directer to actually put some effort into the horror.

The evil dead was a horror movie? I thought it was a comedy

but its really great if you think about the entire series, movie 1, ash takes girl to cabin, and girl dies. movie 2, ash takes different girl to cabin, and is surprised the girl dies again

The first evil dead movie is considered to be a horror film. The next two would take a more comedic approach. I prefer the comedic incarnation of the evil dead films; they are so much fun, in that delightfully dark way that you don't see that often in American film ^^

I think a good one to be remade would be Patton....

Maybe Ben Hur as well. (heresy on both, I know.. but still thats the point of this thread right?)


I would also remake Moneyball... without the stupid girl.. there is a huge rant floating around the interwebs about how horrible the daughter was in that movie, and how she was largely pointless.. ITS A BASEBALL MOVIE FOR FETHS SAKE!!!!!

I don't see how this could translate well into a remake, honestly:

deathholydeath wrote:

Amaya wrote:Have you seen Eastern Promises? Viggo is excellent as a gangster.

Dune and Starship Troopers both need remakes that are faithful to the books.

Not better than Robert De Niro.
Agreed on Dune and Starship Troopers, though. A Dune movie that was actually true to the books (and the vision) would be awesome.

I greatly preferred Godfather to the Godfather II. Godfather II is way up there on my overrated films list.

Amaya wrote:
I greatly preferred Godfather to the Godfather II. Godfather II is way up there on my overrated films list.

However, Godfather III is much much worse than II, so I would say that if any should be remade, its Godfather III.

Remake the Labyrinth, with twice the codpiece.