Classic movie remakes
Classic movie remakes
Which classic movie would you like to see a modern remake of? For me it would be Battle of Britain. With modern movie techniques it would be superb. As long as the yanks don't take credit for it. Christopher Nolan as director.
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Dambusters (for similar reasons)
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Leave classic films as they are. Don’t rehash them and think of new ideas.
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Not a classic, but I think Honey, I Shrunk the Kids needs a new audience
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Rita sue and bob too
Id have rita ora and dua lipa playing the lasses
Id have rita ora and dua lipa playing the lasses
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Stephen Fry was trying to get a remake of this "off the ground" (pardon the pun) a few years ago...Vintage Claret wrote:Dambusters (for similar reasons)
Peter Jackson talking about it also....
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Last Man Standing. Starring Jack Cork.
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The Great Escape.
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Would that be the C.G.I. inflatable version in psychedelia-colour, you'd like to experience, told from the position of a bed-bug in the pilot's mess?
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Debbie Does Dallas.
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... In a C.G.I. inflatable version in psychedelia-colour told as a story from the microbe community around her knicker line?????
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Jaws, Police Academy and, of course,The Karate Kid.. I Just can't get enough!
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Hasn't "The Karate Kid" just had a remake recently?Gnulty wrote:Jaws, Police Academy and, of course,The Karate Kid.. I Just can't get enough!
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The Italian Job....
Oh hang on, they did a remake of this and it was bloody awful in comparison to the original.
The latest Superman films are dreadful too!
Oh hang on, they did a remake of this and it was bloody awful in comparison to the original.
The latest Superman films are dreadful too!
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Nobobinho wrote:The Great Escape.
No
No
There are classic films that should never be touched
Great Escape along with the Italian Job are two of them.
The only possible exception would be Escape to Victory l, but that would all depend on who was casted
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Agree with 'Jaws', but this time a real great white should be used.
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Have their been any remakes that were better then the originals?
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Ok Wilks.... fair enough.
Having seen the re-make of The Italian Job, i'd have to concur.
Just had a vision of Guy Martin chucking a CRF over a barbed wire fence....
Having seen the re-make of The Italian Job, i'd have to concur.
Just had a vision of Guy Martin chucking a CRF over a barbed wire fence....
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Just watched the 2016 version of the magnificent seven with Denzel Washigton, they shouldn’t have bothered, and neither should I
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None that come to my mind,but i'm willing to be proven wrong,it's like great music you can't improve on perfection.Hipper wrote:Have their been any remakes that were better then the originals?
My worry is any remakes will be PC rubbish for the millennial snowflake generation.
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The only good ramake that springs to my mind is King Kong the Peter Jackson one not the 70s crap one.Another Michael Caine classic they made a total balls up of was Get Carter
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I think they should remake Titanic, except this time, the ship sails into New York and everyone has a nice holiday.
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"A Star is Born" some say.....Hipper wrote:Have their been any remakes that were better then the originals?
But then again the Original with James Mason and Judy Garland was a great movie... So was the Streisand/Kristofferson version ... I've yet to see Ga-ga/Cooper's 2018 version but people say it is fantastic
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don't tell me the ending Ian!IanMcL wrote:I think they should remake Titanic, except this time, the ship sails into New York and everyone has a nice holiday.
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He just didclaretblue wrote:don't tell me the ending Ian!
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bobinho wrote:The Great Escape.
Should be an instant ban for that.
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Watching "The Man from Uncle" currently on Channel Five... not strictly a remake but well executed so far...
Guy Ritchie film and quite amusing
Guy Ritchie film and quite amusing
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All down to taste but think there have been a lot of remakes that are better than the original.Hipper wrote:Have their been any remakes that were better then the originals?
Star is Born is great but never seen the original.
The Fly was better than the original
One of my favourite films ever is Scent of a Woman - that was a remake.
I liked the remake of True Grit better than the original but I know many people would be appalled by that !
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I’d like George Romero dawn of the dead & day of the dead, we’ve had zombie films post this era but I don’t think they’ve captured the zombiness in it’s true sense.
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The remake of the Schwarzenegger film "Total Recall" with Colin Farrell wasn't bad either
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Remakes of classics are never better than the original, because it's hard to improve on the best, and because there two ways to do a remake are either to change what worked, or to try and repeat what worked. Imitation won't be better than the original.
They ought to remake the films that should have been classics, but weren't. South Pacific and Camelot would be my nominations.
They ought to remake the films that should have been classics, but weren't. South Pacific and Camelot would be my nominations.
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Peter Jackson had been working on Dambusters for a long time. At least 3 years ago a friend of mine who is working on it showed me video of several full size Lancaster bombers on a soundstage.
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The Mason/Garland version was actually a remake of a 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.Bosscat wrote:"A Star is Born" some say.....
But then again the Original with James Mason and Judy Garland was a great movie... So was the Streisand/Kristofferson version ... I've yet to see Ga-ga/Cooper's 2018 version but people say it is fantastic
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I'd forgotton that m8 ....BFCmaj wrote:The Mason/Garland version was actually a remake of a 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.
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"The 39 Steps" is another thats had many versions and none have really captured Hitchcocks original 1935 version with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll (which was extremely loosely based on Buchans novel).
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They'll have to rename the dog.Vintage Claret wrote:Dambusters (for similar reasons)
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The James Mason/Judy Garland version was itself a remake of the 1937 original. The latest version is the third remake.Bosscat wrote:"A Star is Born" some say.....
But then again the Original with James Mason and Judy Garland was a great movie... So was the Streisand/Kristofferson version ... I've yet to see Ga-ga/Cooper's 2018 version but people say it is fantastic
Edit - sorry didn’t notice some other smartarse had got in before me
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martin_p wrote:They'll have to rename the dog.
Digger apparently. Stephen fry writing the script.
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Any remake of a film starring John Wayne is automatically bound to be better as it wouldn't have his wooden acting in it!
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Scroll up m8martin_p wrote:The James Mason/Judy Garland version was itself a remake of the 1937 original. The latest version is the third remake.