Of your top 10 movies, choose one that can be remade
 

Each of us has listed on our profiles our personal favorites in film.

Remakes happening to your favorites is generally seen as taboo by fans; so if you had to choose one from the movies on your favorites list, which one would it be?


From my list, I could see an updated version of Little Shop of Horrors. Since it in itself is an interpretation of the play, it lends itself for a potential re-interpretation.

How about it? Could you stomach seeing one of your favorites get the remake treatment? If so, which one?

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Interesting thread. Uhhhmmm... Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

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none of them.... but Requiem For A Dream is the closest.

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Rosemary's Baby, it's the most accessible for audiences in the way of story and since the plot has kind of been replicated since then I wouldn't mind seeing it again. I also think if you changed a couple things the remake could make itself fresh, unlike others (Point Break).

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Did you not hear about the 2014 miniseries Cole? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosema...by_(miniseries)

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To answer the question, none of them from my top ten. I'm not someone dead set against remakes but i just don't think any of mine would work and they are certainly not needed. If there hadn't been The Exocist sequels/prequels and other exorcism movies i would have probably have said that. None of them are close though IMO, although i do really love The Exorcist III but that is quite a bit different.

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I think all of Camo's top 10 deserve remakes :D


I mean, they're remaking movies from only 5 or 10 years ago already... Taxi Driver, Godfather, Arabia and Eraserhead should at least be on their 14th or 15th iteration by now.

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I'd only watch a Taxi Driver remake if Shaquille O'Neal was cast as Iris.

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All-female remake of The Thing because why not.

i think the cast is part of what makes it so great,esp ellen burstyn so i think i would find a remake difficult.

as ive said in different posts i only want remakes of something where i can see an improvement happening.wether it be the cast-filming-editing or tweaks in the storyline.

for the top 10 i have right now theres actually a few:

irreversible- i thought it went too far trying to be shocking,the storyline of alex was already shocking enough without the whole tranny bar thing.

the cell- I love the setting and the scenery-ilove the look and feel of the movie but theres definitely room for some improvement *cough* vince vaughn *cough*

el crime del padre amaro-has a great storyline and great cast,but i think it could have gone further showing the love between them,the struggles of being together or not being together for that matter.not crazy about all of the characters in the movie either-some of them should have been left out and some of them need some work.

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:D


3 of my top 10 already have been remade... RoboCop, and the other 2 (The Thing and Predator) were marketed as prequels and sequels, but were really more cheapo remakes than anything.
2 of my top 10, The Thing and The Fly, are foolishly called remakes in their own right as well. But they're not.


Roger Rabbit might do good if it was redone, but I'd class it as like The Thing and The Fly, the new movie wouldn't be a remake... it would simply be based on the same book as the first movies.

was this any good?

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I watched The Thing From Another World last month and yeah it isn't a remake. Well Carpenter's The Thing isn't a remake i mean. I thought it was alright but the 80's one is one of my favourite Horror films.

Thinking on it, though I'd hate to lose the performances in Ink, I have to admit it'd benefit most from a remake.

That would be a far more entertaining movie.

Not seen it. I wanted to but just forgot or whatever. When i posted that i looked at the reception part and it seemed to have gotten bad reviews. Mostly because it was full of gore which is obviously the complete opposite of the original.

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Well, it's based on Campbell's book.


Calling The Thing and The Fly remakes, is like calling LOTR a remake of the 1978 cartoon, or Man Of Steel a remake of the George Reeves Superman show.
If they're based on books, they ain't remakes :D

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Haven't watched the original The Fly yet. Might do that soon actually.

8 1/2 remade by Woody Allen. Not really that would be horrible.

The only one of my top ten films that I could feasibly see being remade is Falling in Love.

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For me, it's The Dark Knight, since the story will always be adapted in a different way. Technically it's already a remake of the Burton film from 89.

Not really, considering the Joker and Batman had a very different relationship and link to their past in Burtons movie.

In terms of my list, I think Saving Private Ryan is the only one that can be remade and not absolutely destroyed by the internet. Can you imagine what would happen if The Godfather got remade?

Actually...The Godmother could be an all female remake :p

Yeah, I wouldn't call it a remake.

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A couple of mine have already been remade or are in that process. :sick:

I guess I'd choose Battle Royale though, but set in Britain instead of Japan.

...and Melissa McCarthy as Sport.

Just watch Hunger Games :D

NO. Watch The Condemned or The Running Man, just let Hunger Games bleed out and die already.

Hunger Games is so much better than Battle Royale










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"Ink" could receive different interpretation of the theme given that the movie is quite complex and multifaceted there's lots of room to tweak things.

Battle Royale may have been an exploitation movie, but at least it was honest about it's sick lust for gruesome teenage violence instead of gutting it and wearing it's skin to distract from the hack-written virgin romance underneath.

This is more than needs to be said:

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Well, it's not a top 10, but I'd like to see another film version of Dracula, without the whole business about Mina being Dracula's wife reincarnated.

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^^ I love the story of Dracula,which one made about him is your favourite?

I get the impression that categorising Battle Royale as a straight exploitation movie just because of its extreme violence is doing it a serious disservice. That might have been the consensus when it first started gaining attention in the West thanks to an association with Tarantino (and citing it as an influence on an actual exploitation-style film in Kill Bill Vol. 1) but looking back makes that feels like a massive misinterpretation. At the very least, its concerns with untrustworthy adults forcing oppressive regimes onto inherently vulnerable teenagers has stronger development than people want to give it credit for (even those who like it).

Still multitudes better than Hunger Games, anyway.

The original.

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is that the one from 1931?

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I hope none!!

But with a gun to my head I'd say All Quiet on the Western Front.

Technically this was the first Dracula film - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula%27s_Death

It is lost now, also Nosferatu was before the 1931 one except that was unauthorized.

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hadnt heard of that one,Camo!
Nosferatu was the first one i thought of but i didnt realise it was that old

Yes, I have. I rate it 8. I think it's a beautiful movie. Improving production value could harm it's authenticity, I think. Whereas developing certain characters more would be one aspect of creating a different take on the same theme, if successful.





Your complaints about bad acting did not bother me at all. Sometimes good acting can create too much drama or in worse cases self indulgence, which I find problematic more often. "Ink" is more contemplative experience for me.


Drama as a genre often goes with realism and it is very hard to combine successfully when there are fantasy elements involved.


One of the things I enjoy in movies is their ability to transcend the mundane regardless if by use of fantasy or well done drama. "Ink" does it for me so that's why it is one of my favorites now, thanks to your recommendation. :up:

It's not just the extreme violence, it's also the fact that it's unapologetically against kids, which is a fairly prevalent trope in Japanese media and taboo in more Western countries.

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I've always viewed Battle Royale as a modern parable of sorts. I think it's a persuasive exploration into how people behave in extreme, life or death situations, and they applied it to 15 year olds superbly. In the book, manga, and film, they all felt real and authentic, and it was easy to connect to characters and determine which ones you wanted to see survive, and which ones you didn't. Even then, it threw in twists that made you completely question what you thought of characters i.e. Mitsuko. The romance in that actually worked as well, it wasn't forced or made the central focus, instead they developed it by having them act quite awkwardly around each other, so how young, inexperienced teenagers would probably act. The world in BR was developed poorly though, especially in the book.

As for THG, don't get me started, I got into so many arguments on IMDb :lol: to this day, I think Suzanne Collins straddles the line between straight off plagiarising BR, the similarities between the two are unbelievable, even the sequels share uncanny resemblances to BR and BR2. I don't think it has any serious points, or if it did, they were conveyed poorly. The romance was ridiculous as well, what 16 year old makes undying proclamations of love to people? What made it worse was not one of the 3 people involved in that triangle were particularly interesting or even nice. Yeah, I'm not a fan of it whatsoever, but I will say the films are significantly better than the books, they were horrendously boring and slow.

That sounds like a lot of movies.

Aside from all the stuff in the rest of that very large paragraph, of course.

I don't want any to be remade, but if I had to pick....

A Clockwork Orange

I really don't want to see any of mine remade either, though Mary Poppins has been adapted for the Broadway stage, but if I had to pick one, I think if it's properly cast, a remake of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? could be a viable project.

Yeah, but it's also a remake of the movie, too. And I'll take the original any day over the musical version.

Of mine, I know Rear Window has been remade as Disturbia and I believe as a TV movie with Christopher Reeves, the title of which I'm not sure of. My very favorite movie Unforgiven was recently remade as a Japanese movie starring Ken Watanabe, and I do want to see it, but I haven't yet.

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Hmm... There would be no point in trying to remake LOTR since it's only been 15 years since the first one came out. Also if it tried to copy The Hobbit's CGI-overload look then it would not be a pretty sight.

Fight Club and Office Space I think were fantastic for their time and would be completely ruined if set in today's age.

Silent Hill is only a decade old, and wasn't even that popular or well-received. So yeah no point in remaking that one.

No way should Full Metal Jacket be remade, no one could ever replicate R Lee Ermey's performance in that one.

The Killer is perfect as is and would be ruined by CG blood-effects.

I heard somewhere before that there were talks about re-doing Reservoirs Dogs with an all black cast. I actually wouldn't mind seeing that, no way would they let a bunch of white guys drop the N word like they did in '92 in today's world. :p

With that said, I would pick An American Werewolf in London to be remade out of my top 10. In fact I think they were planning on remaking it a few years back but those plans got scraped. I still think there aren't enough good werewolf movies out there and it would have the potential to be good.

I've been thinking about this and I can't pick anything from my top 10. For the movie closest to my top 10, I'll go with The Warriors.

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I have 44 movies rated 10, which means there's very little that could be done better. Of 9 rated movies that would be in my top 70, I'd pick the following two to be remade:


"The Island" (2005) could be made less of an action movie and more of a mystery or in more risky move a horror type of flick. Also, I thought second half and the ending were average, so that could easily be fixed in a remake. The difficulty for a remake would be to find charismatic lead actors to replace Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson.
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"Meet Joe Black" (1998) as fantasy has lots of room to be improved, because I appreciate the concept of death coming alive and man having to face his final hours, everything else in the movie is done professionally but I wouldn't say entirely spectacularly. It could go in so many directions, for example adding more torment for characters, but the risk with that would be to lose coldness of the presence of death.
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There's always this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspeHC7eoOI

Bit of a random one, I know it's only 12 years old now. But 50 Firsts Dates. I feel like a more serious remake could work, still keep it a comedy but go deeper into the real emotions you would face in a situation like it.

Out of your top 10 I can definitely see them remaking Lawrence of Arabia. Didn't hear about the mini-series, any good?

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Out of my Top 10 I would really hate to see anything remade, but if they had to, then I would say Possessed (1947) a film I doubt many have seen here and that's why it would be a likely candidate for a remake.

They've already remade 3 of my top 10
The Music Man
Of Human Bondage
Mildred Pierce

And all were pale compared to the original.

I doubt they'd better the 1980s movie tbh.
Along with Jurassic Park's CGI, the Animatronics in Little Shop is by far the best I've ever seen, and probably ever will.

I wouldn't call them "remakes". I never do when they were originally something else to begin with (a Broadway musical and novels). So part of me really doesn't have a problem with a new adaptation of a story. But it becomes an issue for me when they, as you say, pale in comparison to the original versions that were filmed. You would think that if they were going to make a new version, then they'd put a little effort into trying to make them better, but that is rarely the case.

I expected more from The Music Man remake with Matthew Broderick, but it was very underwhelming for me. I think it may be impossible to improve on the Robert Preston version just because he was so perfect for that role that I doubt anyone can top him.

I have to agree with you regarding Robert Preston. I really like Matthew Broderick, but he just wasn't right for that role. He seemed so different than the other one (which was probably why they cast him), but it just didn't work. I really didn't like anything about that version, to be honest. And I've never seen a live production of it. If I ever would, I wonder if I would be sitting there thinking the same thing while watching that person play Harold Hill. I just think Robert Preston ruined it for me because he was too perfect in that role. :)

I saw Hugh Jackman on a talk show a while back, and he said that he wants to star in a remake of The Music Man. While I don't think even he could live up to Robert Preston as Professor Harold Hill, he's probably the only person that I'd like to see try.

Oh, really? So he is into the idea of it? A long time ago I heard that they (whoever the producers were going to be :)) were thinking about casting him (I, too, thought he would be an OK choice - I think he could do a pretty good job as Harold Hill). But I didn't know if that was a "dream" casting choice, or if they were really considering him. I don't remember how long ago that was. I also don't know if it was the discussion about it being filmed for NBC (like those other musicals were). I figured, that if he did it, he would be more apt to do it if they made it as a feature film. But who knows?

Apparently he loves the classic musicals, and he wants to bring them back. He's currently working on a remake of the musical "Barnum". I can't wait to see it. I saw Jim Dale as Barnum on Broadway, and I have the DVD of Michael Crawford as Barnum from London, and they were both fantastic, so he has big shoes to fill there too. But from what I've seen of him in the London production of "Oklahoma!" and his Tony Award performances, I have complete confidence in him, and I think he will do an amazing job as Barnum.

I just know the music from the show. I've yet to even see the filmed version with Michael Crawford. But when you know of the show, and you know the kind of character that he will be playing, he will be good in it. I LOVED him as the Tony host. I always wish they say it will be him hosting again. He has by far been my favorite. I think that is because he seems to have old-time entertainer/song-and-dance man qualities about him.

I agree that Jackman is by far the best host of the Tonys. He's probably the best song and dance man today. I don't think there's anything that he can't do. He's funny, he's charming, and he's extremely talented.

BTW, the Michael Crawford version of "Barnum" is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6HC-p7wYnw

Am I not right in thinking that a series is being made based on The Warriors? It was a fantastic film.

A Nightmare on Elm Street or The Collector (the one with Terence Stamp).

damn, battle royale set in the west country???

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Battle Royale the english version; starring Kerry Katona and Jodie marsh.

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Even though it's been remade already, as well as being perfect itself, I would pick Lolita as It'd be interesting to see a different interpretation of it.

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Ahm shingeki no kyogin live action i hope they follow the storry and the characters i don't really like when they make the anime live action then change the storry for me it is ruining what I expect in the storry....