Movies that should be remade.

Sorry, realised you were being ironic.

Was 3:10 to Yuma mentioned in this thread? It occurred to me yesterday that we got a good remake of 3:10 to Yuma, so it beat this thread to the punch. I think it fit perfectly; the 1957 original, while good, was rather loose. I feel the 2007 remake took everything the original did and left it intact else improve it, and then what didn't work it took and fixed it. I believe the 1957 version is an original non-adapted screenplay, so I think the 2007 remake really benefited the story by sprucing up a good idea not done great.

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Only smart people like Spider-Man?

Corax is a very intelligent and educated guy.

But I can see some potential problems with my comment, which I don't have time to consider further just at the moment, but I extent any necessary apology to anybody of any intellect or perceived intellect who may have taken exception to it.

Thanks to a deep dive into YouTube, I stumbled across a Joe Dante recommendation for:

Wrong is Right

And the film is interesting in how it tackles politics, news as entertainment, international affairs and a cult of personality involving a star reporter...it could be Network meets Bulworth meets Dr. Strangelove. But the writing was too shallow, too timid to go down the dark holes that the film could have gone.

A remake could go down those holes and turn into a dark comedy that the original should have if it had teeth.

Already made, The Social Network.

I'd love to have a great comedy/parody of the low budget Asian action movies from the 70s and 80s.

NOW I need to clarify that I'm putting this under 'remakes' because there are several great examples of Asian action/martial arts parodies, but NONE have aged well. They almost all star white guys in the main role, with plenty of jokes that skim just along the surface of 'racism' like a skipping stone across a pond.

In short, I want a less offensive version of Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist. Hopefully with an Asian main character.

None.

I don't want to see a movie I've already seen before. And I don't mean movies I like to rewatch.

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Hmm, what if we reboot Spiderman as a Replicant?

Examples please?

I’m open to the idea of remaking Natural Born Killers, I don’t know about the other two though

^I can't imagine that one. That movie is as Oliver Stone as it gets. You can't remake Oliver Stone at the height of his madness.

Remake All the President’s Men? Why?

^I agree. That wouldn't even make sense. That movie assumes you already know everything about Watergate which this generation is only mildly familiar with. They'd have to change the scandal that is being reported on and then it's not the same movie.

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)



Why? Today, the societal use of magic would be a good allegory for the use of AI to do everything (e.g., job loss, new hustles involving using a new form of leverage, the dangers of tapping new sources of power, the promise of abundance and ease). It's kind of cute to see a twist on a noir, but the original is quite dated now with vaseline-covered rubber puppets, bad matte paintings, and poorly executed forced perspective to sell the models. The original would also be cancelled if it were discovered for its casual violence against a transgender female. Fred Ward was solid in the original, but Clancy Brown and Julianne Moore were not so good in their roles. The script could use another pass or two to improve the writing and emplotment.

Which is precisely why it sucked in 1976. And the leads were horribly miscast (Robert Redford has never been a great actor, imo).
That's a very "netflix" point of view.
Of course they don't need to change the story, they need to tell it more compellingly to an audience who doesn't know or doesn't care.
I mean, it's not as if anyone cared about the 1950s quiz show scandal in 1994. But it's the characters as portrayed by the actors that makes the film interesting (and it also proved that Robert Redford was meant to be behind the camera, not in front of it).

If you're thinking that remakes should make sense then of course it makes sense to remake the popular brands over and over again.
I thought it was obvious that's not what we want.

It would be cancelled because the World is saved by a statutory rape by a married cop of a teenage virgin girl in the back seat of a car.

If I was a producer with a large bank roll I'd be remaking b-sci-fi movies with titles that the movie going public would recognize, giving a built in interest. I'd start with this:

The Day of the Triffids (1963) It has had two mini series with the same title since the original movie came out but never a movie remake/reboot.

Just update it. Cthulhu rejects the offering when it turns out the virgin girl has transitioned. Thus, the gag can be a safe joke about gender affirming care ironically saving the world. There's always a new way to stick the landing.

Love this, I thought Day Of The Triffids was aces and should be a much more well-known film.