Movies you PRAY they never remake

As for Titanic, I think it would be incredibly hard to improve upon it. This is one where if a remake were done, if it were an improvement, I'd be ok with it, but it would be astoundingly unlikely IMO.

This is to contrast with other movies where even if it were redone to be 1000x "better", I would be pissed that someone dare defile them.

Another movie for me:

Forest Gump:

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I hope they never remake Bambi Meets Godzilla

Robocop... aw wait, they did... in all fairness, the remake was not as bad as I thought it was going to be and could have been, but still not a patch on the original.

The Godfather's an obvious pic, but to keep up originality I'd say Aliens, unless they reboot the whole series as a TV show.

LOL. Someone elsewhere in the forum pointed out "All roads lead to The Godfather".

Around here, that's true, and fine by me.

The Exorcist

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Fight Club
Dogma

Bullitt - please, keep your mitts off this movie.

Reservoir Dogs - ditto.

GWTW - ditto.

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any good movie. and most of the bad ones too...

Anything by Pixar probably ought to be left alone; they more or less invented a genre.


The Great Escape (1963)


Dr. Strangelove


6th Sense

I had a dream last night, that I watched a remake of The Third Man and it was reset in the modern Middle East. Would that be bad if they remade that?

I am soooooo tempted to bring in yet another Godfather reference to the forum....

That would be a money maker if they remake it and they probably will.

Horror movie+name recognition=profits.

Shawshank Redemption. It just perfect as is, no need to ever remake it.

As far as remakes go does anyone think that some remakes are actually done very well, and possibly better than the original such as King Kong, The Fly, and The Last House on the Left?

No it wouldn't. Anybody worth their salt as a horror fan knows there's no way they can remake that today with the same edge the original has. The remake would be some dumb PG-13 nonsense with James Wan's name attached to it. It's not mainstream appropriate for this day and age. These studios today don't have the balls to even consider remaking that, let alone the capability.

It will never be touched.

I totally agree it wouldn't be as good, but that's never stopped movie studios before.

It's certainly appropriate for an R rated movie. Today's R rated movies are impossibly edgy, graphic, gross, etc., etc.

Are you referring to something else?

Example? (Studio and movie) that got a wide theater release, and was a remake...

You were making a statement not confined to just remakes. I was responding to you saying this:

Gorescout: "It's not mainstream appropriate for this day and age. These studios today don't have the balls to even consider remaking that, let alone the capability."

What in The Exorcist applies to this:
1. Not mainstream appropriate for today
2. Studios today not having the balls
3. Studios today not having the capability

None of those make sense to me. If studios can produce super graphic movies, then why not a remake of The Exorcist?

Do you mean that the Exorcist was too tame, or the reverse? Or not PC enough?