best? worst? what do you think of them overall? any movies you would like to see remade? any you would hate to see remade?
Well... I only saw parts of it, but I hated the idea of remaking "The Poseidon Adventure". Maybe just because all those disaster movies rub me the wrong way. (Like if they redo "Towering Inferno", ...*vague threat involving a gun*) Normally I'd say to leave old classics alone, too, but a remake of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" could be great. IF AND ONLY IF they did it by following the book more than the original movie did, like doing it from the Cheif's POV and everything instead of just hey look it's Jack Nicholson, he's so crazy and fun, oh he'll get everyone all riled up, and look here's this random Indian guy. (Holy crap, he can TALK! OMGWTFBBQ!) Even an animated version could be good, if they did it with Hayao Miyazaki or something.
i hate remakes...i also hate cover songs. I dunno. Im a purist in that sense. I think if it was great the first time, why try to redo it?
Here's an awesome one - The Fly. The 1986 remake by David Cronenburg is really, really disturbing, but has a good plot at its heart. The original 1958 film was done well too, but it takes a bit to get past the camp value.
I really want to see "They Live" remade and updated with better special effects. It kicks ass as it is, and seeing it with all of today's bullshit added into it would make it so much more amazing
How about John Carpenter's The Thing? That's a nice remake of the 1951 The Thing (Full title: The Thing from Another World, directed by Christian Nyby - his son is still active as an avid TV director). Kurt Russell and John Carpenter go well together. In a sense, Escape from L.A. was more a sort of remake of Escape from New York, than a sequel. I found Peter Fonda in the second one hilariously funny as the surfer dude. Speaking of Nyby's son, Christian I. Nyby II, Battlestar Galactica comes to mind. Not a movie, but still I'd say: the new version rocks! And not only because Starbuck is way sexier in the new series. :lol: ~*Ganesha*~
Oh yes, it was!! The original version from 1958 has Vincent Price as the brother-in-law of the unlucky scientiest, who had an accident when trying out his self-invented teleportation device. One of the best movies Vincent Price was in. ~*Ganesha*~
Guess you know your shit. Oh btw, have you seen cannibal holocaust? there is not very good acting involved but overall a good movie and very controversial for it's time. It is still banned in many countries today. although the bad acting, it really got me wondering if it all had really happened in the end. Turned out to be not luckily lol. Nevertheless they are planning to do a remake of this one somewhere around the year 2009. I doubt it would be as controversial as it was in those days (in someways it is still today), But i'm quite curious about the result of it. Guess i have to wait a few more years lol.
Guess I do. I got kind of an audio-visual memory... seeing a movie I like just sticks to my organic hard disk. Vincent Price also stars in the neat Roger Corman renditions of E.A. Poe stories and poems. Funniest of those: The Raven. Prica as a magician, battling with Boris Karloff. Co-Stars are Peter Lorre and a very young Jack Nicholson. I read some stuff about it, e.g. on the IMDb. I guess, it'd be quite difficult to get an uncensored version of it today, since it was discussed that this was more of a snuff than a simple horror movie. They might use the controversy about the original (including the real killing of animals) to advertise the new version, I guess. Also a point of remakes. At least the special effects today are easier made, so that hey don't have to kill real monkeys and turtles... ~*Ganesha*~
it has been going around that Will Smith is looking to help finance a remake of Karate Kid, and is looking to get his son the title role rumors are Jackie Chan is considered as the number one choice for Mr. Miyagi
