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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Originally Posted by iluv2viddyfilms (Post 492177)
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.
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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Originally Posted by n3wt (Post 492264)
Halloween Uncut
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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Originally Posted by martian leader (Post 491900)
The Italian Job - Remake is better! :D
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Originally Posted by WSSlover (Post 492648)
With the exception of Manchurian Candidate, no remake is better than the original, imho.
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Originally Posted by Sedai (Post 492203)
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 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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Originally Posted by jeff.is.sad194 (Post 491896)
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!:) 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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Originally Posted by Sinny McGuffins (Post 492650)
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. 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. |
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