Great films you just can't re-make

Damn, you've just dashed my hopes for a CUCKOO'S NEST remake starring Johnny Knoxville!

Not so commonly none battle royale this is a wonderfull asian film which is unfortunatley i think is being remade as we speak by the americans.

Even though Burton's chocolate factory was nowhere near as good as the original I liked it.

That's kinda the way I am, after a certain period of time any film can be remade. The better the film the longer the wait. Example:

Hot Fuzz: 25 years
Fantastic Four: 10 years

course ther's always your "politely ignoring-osity" á la Incredible Hulk ignoring Hulk and Superman Returns ignoring Superman III and IV.

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Citizen Cane, Lawrence of Arabia, Godfather, Casablanca

battle royale and oldboy were pretty funny ideas for remakes

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They probably wouldn't "remake Citizen Cane", but they could put out a Christmas version: Charlie Sucked My Christmas Cane Until It Was Gone With the Wind.

They do have these ridiculously long titles nowadays.

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I would die if they re-make
The Adventures Of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, something that perfect should never be messed with. Ghost busters? rocky?

But then some movies are way better when they're re-made... like little shop of horrors, i loved the original, then i saw the re-make and i loved it even more.

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I was going to say Casablanca was well, that one never should be remade. Even though they try and remake parts of it in the movie Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, and they fail miserably. MST3K couldn't even save that movie from being a terrible film. I would recommend painful surgery before that film. I think that remakes of Godfather and Citizen Kane would be hard to do as well, simply because of their being so iconic in the film industry. Films like: Alone in the Dark, Welcome to the Jungle, Epic Movie, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Santa Conquers the Martians also should never be remade, but they don't qualify as great films. But a sort of great, and generally odd films, that shouldn't be remade is Ary of Darkness, just for the fact that it is a cult classic and any new version of it, even if done by the same director, couldn't really do it justice. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is another film in which that would be true as well.

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I am surprised no one has mentioned films like Monty Python & the Holy Grail or Army of Darkness. They are far too perfect and campy just the way they are to ever be messed with!

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Great movies like Casablanca, The Sound of Music, and of course, Gone With The Wind. No one ever dared to have a remake for definitely, critics and viewers will bash them if they can't come up with the public's expectations.

Err...the post above you mentions Army of Darkness!

Any and every horror movie ever made...nothing sucks worse than a big budget horror movie remake

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Actually, Sergio Leone reportedly wanted to remake Gone With The Wind. I would love to have seen his version.

That's what I get for not reading the whole post, my bad

i think they should never try and remake 'Public Enemy' its just too good and different(for its time) to be remade

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Nothing can beat Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory...I much prefer the first than that Charlie and the baddest part of it was they made it a Gothic type of movie....

which alice in wonderland? have u ever seen the 1939 version with wc feilds and cary grant and lots more from that era??? i saw it when i was a little girl and spent the last few years trying to find it on dvd.. lucky for me, i found it on ebay. i hope u will try out this version

The Disney 1951 version. I have seen the 1933 version you mentioned, but I thought it was a mess. It's true that I saw it about 30-35 years ago on commercial TV, but it seemed like they really blew it, although there were some decent surrealistic touches for a '30s American film. I will give it another shot if I can ever find a way to watch it again.

I agree generally about Kubrick films. Just think about Spartacus and the battle scene. CGI cannot compensate for a cast of thousands and a meticulous, control freak director. I would also add to the list El Cid for similar reasons (although not a Kubrick film).