Remakes You Actually Like

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Remakes get a lot of hate but some of them are surprisingly good.

I gotta say the Peter Jackson's King Kong is very good actually and probably my favorite remake ever and Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead is good as well...

The Departed is another one I think is fantastic, many don't know that it is a remake of Infernal Affairs.

any remakes you guys actually like?

I know I didn't mention Scarface but I just don't like that movie....
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High Society (1956) - Remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940)
An Affair to Remember (1957) - Remake of Love Affair (1939)
Move Over, Darling (1963) - Remake of My Favorite Wife (1940)
Heaven Can Wait (1978) - Remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Always (1989) - Remake of A Guy Named Joe (1943)

His Girl Friday (1940) - Remake of The Front Page (1931)
The Front Page (1974) - Remake of The Front Page (1931)

In the Good Old Summertime (1949) - Remake of The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
You've Got Mail (1998) - Remake of The Shop Around the Corner (1940)



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Casino Royale

The Dark Knight Trilogy



Dawn Of The Dead (2004)
The Ring (2002)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Crazies (2010)
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I know I didn't mention Scarface but I just don't like that movie....
I think Al Pacino did a great performance, but the movie itself wasn't as great as it's made out to be. Al Pacino is pretty much the reason to see it.



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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Dark Knight / Batman Begins
The Departed
Cape Fear (Scorsese)
A Fistful of Dollars
The Magnificent Seven
Dracula (Coppola)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Evil Dead II (Sequel? Remake? What ever, still awesome).



There's some good ones here already listed that I like. Big props to The Thing.

I enjoyed the remake of Fright Night, though it's not the greatest remake ever made or anything. And that's coming from a fan of the original.
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I like The Crazies remake better than the original. Bought both of them on DVD the other day.


However... Daniel mentioned The Thing... it is not a remake. Why do people keep classing it as a remake?



I like The Crazies remake better than the original. Bought both of them on DVD the other day.


However... Daniel mentioned The Thing... it is not a remake. Why do people keep classing it as a remake?
It's a remake of The Thing from Another World (1951) Dir: Howard Hawks.



No it's not.


It's based on the book Who Goes There? by John W Campbell.


It's like saying Jackson's LOTR is a remake of the 1978 cartoon.



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sorry about that, I looked for a thread but I didn't see one

The Thing isn't a remake but they did remake the 1982 Thing a couple years back with Mary Winstead and I actually enjoyed that.
WARNING: "spoilers" spoilers below
although some call it a prequel since the ending of the 2011 one is the beginning of the 1982 one. I was very confused why they gave them both the same name instead of just calling the new one The Thing 2


I also did surprisingly enjoyed The new Crazies movie



I'll agree that The Thing (2011) is a remake of the 1982 film. It's supposedly a prequel, but has several identical scenes, numerous dialogue lifted directly from the 82 film and has absolutely no continuity that matches the 1982 film as well, meaning saying it's a prequel has no basis.
The 2011 film is a remake, no matter what the filmmakers say.



The ship that was found in the ice the 1982 film... it takes off and flies away at the end of the "prequel", so shouldn't have existed in the 1982 film.



Drew McWeeny wrote this in Hitflix...


"In Carpenter's film, the Thing is defined by its desire to hide. It doesn't want to fight. It doesn't want to confront anyone. It just wants to blend in and get the hell out of there. It is desperate to become human and get somewhere it can vanish. It knows how vulnerable it is. And if it can't hide forever, at least it can hide long enough to build something it can use to escape. It is not a bloodthirsty mindless beast. It is alien. It is totally different than us, a long way from home, and terrified. It is equipped with an ability that is insane to us, beyond comprehension even when we're looking directly at it. But the glimpses we get are only when the Thing is backed into a corner. The changes are involuntary. Part of the process. Shock and reaction.


In the new film, the Thing is a monster all the way through. It's a monster so often, that for the few moments it tries to hide as a human being, it's not very good at it. If you took this creature out of the film and replaced it with Giger's Alien, this film would be just a forgettable sequel to Alien.


Carpenter's film film feels cold. Those people feel real. That place feels lived in. There's nothing extraordinary until they're confronted by the most unimaginable nightmare, and they respond the way real people would respond. When they break, they break the way real people would break. The most horrible scene in that film for me is when MacReady goes to speak with Blair, who's been locked up in his room away from everyone else. They speak through a small sliding window in the door, and Blair, played by Brimley, begs to be let back inside. It's a fairly unemotional conversation, but it's terrifying because of everything going on subtextual, and also because of what it means these men now must accept as normal and real, and also because of the noose hanging behind Brimley the entire time, unremarked upon but impossible to miss.


Carpenter's film is scary, this one is just loud.


This movie is too busy jumping out at the viewer and shouting BOOGEDY BOOGEDY!"



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I'll agree that The Thing (2011) is a remake of the 1982 film. It's supposedly a prequel, but has several identical scenes, numerous dialogue lifted directly from the 82 film and has absolutely no continuity that matches the 1982 film as well, meaning saying it's a prequel has no basis.
The 2011 film is a remake, no matter what the filmmakers say.
With the 2011 film, I think they started out with the intention of doing a straight remake of the 1982 film but at some point during pre-production decided to make it a prequel about the Norwegians while bothering to make only the slightest alterations to the best scenes (such as replacing the blood-test scene with a scene where everyone has to show off their fillings since the Thing cannot absorb metal), and adding in a couple of female characters to change things up. I wouldn't say that there is no continuity whatsoever, just that it is handled rather badly in almost every instances (such as explaining what few characters were found by the cast of the 1982 film e.g. the suicide, two-faced corpse, etc.) and that, if the ending of the prequel can be considered canon, then it does retroactively ruin the 1982 film.
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I really liked Scorsese's "Cape Fear". I actually liked it better than the original.

I also thought "His Girl Friday" was a fantastic movie. One of my favorites. I thought it completely outdid "The Front Page".
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