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!
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!