Originals or Remakes?
 

Choose movies that have remakes and say if the original or the remake is BETTER!!!!

Dawn of the Dead- The remake!:)
War of the Worlds- The remake!:)

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The Italian Job - Remake is better! :D

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just thought of one gone in sixty seconds. Its very hard to choose cause i luv them both. but for now i would have to say the original. i watch the remake to many times!!!!!:)

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The Thing made in 1982 by John Carpenter is one of the first movies that comes to mind when I think of great remakes. The original by Howard Hawks was good too of course, but it didn't have the dark and somber atmosphere of Carpenter's version.

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There are so many cheap remakes around these days that it is hard to think of many where the original isn't the best, but I will confess I prefer High Society to The Philadelphia story. Maybe it depends which one you watch first.

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Sigh - I just lost a massive post...GRRRRRR

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In short - I am not re-doing my comments, sorry!

Lord of the Rings

The Ring

The Hills Have Eyes

The Ten Commandments

Casino Royale

The Thing

The Fly

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Omega Man / I Am Legend = Omega Man.

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Halloween Uncut

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Ditto.

The Thing is my personal favored remake. In my opinion The Thing 1982 blows The Thing from Another World out of the water. However, the original is still fantastic. To say that it is inferior to the remake is certainly saying much.

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With the exception of Manchurian Candidate, no remake is better than the original, imho.

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Yeah I'd watch Rob Zombie's Halloween over Carpenter's any day, which quite frankly bored the hell out of me.

And I don't care how much of a classic it is, Peter Jackson's King Kong is way, way better than the original, even if it has a few problems itself.

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The remake was entirely different from the original, which was actually an offbeat comedy. I prefer the original.

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You preferred the remake of The Manchurian Candidate??? Ah, WSSlover, say it isn't so!!!!:)

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That's happened to me twice in the last two days. Start to submit a lengthy reply and the system suddenly decides I'm not registered and dumps what I wrote. What's wrong and when will they fix it?

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I prefer the original versions of The Thing (shot on a small budget in black and white with virtually no special effects, yet superior to the remake because of the great dialogue, minimal special effects, and the fact that you never get a really good look at the monster), Casino Royale (A James Bond film as interpreted by Woody Allen! What's not to like!), The Italian Job (having seen the cars once, there's no point in a remake, and Michael Caine is enjoyable), Get Carter! (Caine is tougher than Stalone), The Haunting (scarest spook show ever because you never see the spook), 3:10 to Yuma (remake is a car-chase film without the cars, and Ford and Heflin are more entertaining than the whole cast of the remake), The Manchurian Candidate (the army squad is brain-washed in Manchuria; without the Korean War and the Russian-Chinese involvement, Manchuria is meaningless in the title), Ocean's 11 (The Rat Pack was the only reason for making that movie; no need for a plot), Stagecoach (it's the Duke's movie; don't mess with it), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), and A Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy). Gable was more believeable in the early Red Dust than he was in Magambo (did I get those titles right?). Death takes a Holiday had much more atmosphere than Meet Joe Black. And someone should have euthanized Lucille Ball before she trashed Auntie Mame in that remake. Mel Gibson couldn't fill Glenn Ford's shoes in Ransom.

But The Maltese Falcon remake was much, much better than Bette Davis's earlier Satan Met a Lady and the even earlier original film made from that book. And His Girl Friday is better than any other screen version of The Front Page, before or since.

Is there anybody who really prefers the lackluster remake of The Jackal over the taut and suspenseful original? DeGaulle in the original vs. some fictional First Lady as the target for the killer??? Com' on!

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damnit u beat me to it i was bout to post almost the exact same thing (well mainly bout halloween but ur tight bout king kong too)

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I prefer the 1994 version of Little Women to the '49 version with Elizabeth Taylor, but I haven't seen the '33 version which, as the earliest 'talkie' version, I'd consider the 'original'. Does that count?

The 1958 version of Dracula is also, far superior, to the 1931 version.

However, as these are literary remakes, I don't know if that's what we're looking for.

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The 1994 Little Women is also better than the George Cukor/Katharine Hepburn 1933 classic.

The Lugosi Dracula is just about the snooziest ever made, even with some of director Tod Browning's atmospherics, and remember, it's technically a remake of Nosferatu. What did you think of the Frank Langella and Gary Oldman Dracula films?

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"But I was haunted by the idea that I remembered her wrong, and somehow I was wrong about everything."

Solaris- I prefer the remake. It's not as good as the first one. I will admit that, but I found the second one more enjoyable/accessible for myself. Loved it.