"Movies you do NOT want to see remade. " Topic

Not that we have any say in the matter.

You don't have to give any reasons, nor do you have to be consistent.

The Cruel Sea. The Battle of the Atlantic was so grim, it SHOULD be in bkack and white. And Jack Hawkins is perfect.

The Man Who Would Be King. Could the capstone any better?

Showgirls. It never should have been made in the first place, let alone a remake. This is possibly the worst big budget ever made. "It's so bad it's great!" Why tamper with perfection?

the Searchers

Kelly's Heroes

The Italian Job, The magnificent seven & The day the earth stood still (But sadly it's too late for these classics!!)

Cheers Roger.

Anything by Ed Wood,Jr.

They're all perfect.

The Princess Bride
Das Boot

Lawrence of Arabia.

I'm currently reading a seven hundred page biography.

Although the film conjoins a few separate incidents to further Lawrence's story and character (in the film the guy rescued from the desert is later executed by Lawrence for a blood feud murder – historically they were two separate guys and the incidents are in the wrong chronological order), I have to say that the film captures both the essence of the man, his contemporaries and the theatre of operations (one or two incidents are made up to capture the brutality of this war and the cruelty of the nature of the desert). I doubt, in a film of this length, more could be done to further our knowledge.

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Kelly's Heroes, Star Wars -a new hope, Highlander, Witness

All of them!

Begs the question, was a remake ever better than the original?

Special effects get better with time, but not always the writing. And cultural attitudes and prohibitions change; i.e. couldn't possibly remake Mel Brook's Blazzing Saddles in today's politically correct world.

So many – off the top of my head…

The Third man
Casablanca
Ice Cold in Alex
Kagemusha
House of the flying Daggers
Trumbo
Star Wars
The Day the earth caught fire
Modern Times
Way out West
Barberella
Zardoz
The Blues Brothers
Cabaret
Citizen Kane
Black Narcissus
A Matter of Life and Death
The life and Death of Colonel Blimp
American History X
2001
A Clockwork Orange
Birdy
The thief of Bahgdad
In The Heat of the Night
Psycho
Twelve Angry Men
Woodstock
Another Country
The Birds
Fistfull of Dollars
The man who would be king
Some like it hot
Almost Famous
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Devil Rides Out
Out of Africa
Brazil
Easy Rider
The Ipcress File
Serpico
Junior Bonner
Breaker Morant
Went the day well?
In the electric mist
This is…Spinal Tap
A Mighty Wind

All the Disney animated film being turned into live action. Do they not have any imagination left?

20000 Leagues….it's a classic. Leave it alone.

Re-imagining/re-booting/remaking doesn't bother me. I enjoyed the new BSG series, for example. It's when the story gets gutted, the themes diluted, the characters caricature-ized and the budget is blown on wizz-bang CGI rather than good writers that it's disappointing.

Lots mentioned above but would add; particularly citizen Kane and Kelley's heroes

But would add
Zulu
Paint your wagon
Gunga din
Mister Roberts
The Bedford incident

To name a few

Just wondering how many people who complain about the remakes have actually watched them. The Magnificent 7 remake is not that bad a movie, certainly better than the sequels. The Italian Job is entertaining, and if it hadn't used the same name it would not have attracted the level of hate it did. Some would benefit from being remade due to modern technology, and better writers/cast.

Maltese Falcon
Rio Bravo
13th Warrior
The Big Sleep
Vertigo
His Girl Friday
Magnificent Seven
Zulu
Split Second (The Rutger Howard one)
The Wind and the Lion
Patton (But someone might CGI in the right tanks.)
King Kong
Note that several of these WERE remakes. Once you get it right, stop. And I'll admit to watching El Dorado more often than Rio Bravo. But the current crowd has mangled too many movies for me to have any trust in their judgment.

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The Magnificent 7 remake is not that bad a movie

It's pretty good – saw it at the cinema.

After the not so great reboot the Planet of The Apes series has been very good – because it added a credible new level to the originals.

The most recent version of Far from the madding crowd was very good indeed.

I admit that mostly I prefer new stories and new films – in recent years there have been some great films. Trumbo, Jackie, Arrival, Grand Budapest Hotel. And some pretty good films – Monument Men, Their Finest (both WWII movies, but from a different angle), Slow West ( a very different kind of western).

Some would benefit from being remade due to modern technology, and better writers/cast.

And if they redid good scripts that had originally been saddled with a bad cast then I'd have no problem with it. But salvaging a duff film is a harder task than reshooting an accepted masterpiece. Some remakes are worthwhile – and many more are "meh". IMHO.

I don't know. Maybe a musical production of Citizen Kane in living color with a CGI sled?

Generally, just about any movie, no. If your writers and producers can't come up with original works, fire them.

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Anything with Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson in it.

I don't know. Maybe a musical production of Citizen Kane in living color with a CGI sled?<q/>

Well..at least this would have the ambition to bring something new to the story.

There have certainly been instances of remakes that were better than the original. But, in those cases, the original was no better than mediocre, whether due to script, director, or the leading actors. When a movie is really great, an accepted classic, I prefer that it be left alone, as it is extremely unlikely that anyone can make a new version that is even acceptable, let alone improve on it. So, if somebody wants to try a remake of "Heaven's Gate," then go for it; but PLEASE, no more crap like the latest couple of versions of "The Three Musketeers."

Oh forgot to add Mad Max, yes I know a lot of people love the new one but I personally didn't (thanks Garrison Miniatures for mentioning Mel).

Cheers Roger.

USAFpilot--yes, certainly some remakes have been better. The Humphrey Bogart Maltese Falcon was the third. The trick is stopping once you get it right.

As for new technology--certainly for sound. Arguably for color. For special effects, I'm a harder sell. My working theory is that every million dollars in special effects reduces the writing budget by 1% until somewhere around $100,000,000 USD in special effects you have no plot, characterization or dialogue. True surprisingly often.

As for what OUGHT to be remade, top of my list is The Conqueror, where a very decent script was ruined by miscasting. I'd also love to see a Major Dundee closer to the original script, which was a lot more Peckinpah-ish than what Peckinpah actually filmed.

I've been seriously (?) thinking about this and there is one film I can imagine someone being tempted to do but which would be so, so wrong.

Metropolis.

No more remakes, please!

Dan

Casablanca for me. Surely one of the most quotable films of all time, it's close to perfect the way it is.

Don't give a rip. Only thing worse than a bad remake is people thinking that bad remakes cheapen the original in any way.

I mean – even bad remakes kept someone (a lot of someones) employed for a while.

Don'ts:
Wizard of OZ
The Birds
Lord of the Rings
The Longest Day
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The French Connection
The Godfather
Top Hat
Strictly Ballroom
Bringing up Baby
The Bishops Wife
Harvey
The Mummy(the original b&w with Karloff, truely scary)

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Die Hard, I will literally destroy the planet if they do a remake of it (yes I do have a doomsday device armed and ready to go)

Two girls and a cup. Ok not a movie, but that was the day I gave up on humanity. Wish I could un-see it.

"Kelly's Heroes" WAS remade- as "Three Kings" with George Clooney,
Ice Cube and Mark Wahlberg…

The African Queen. One of my personal favorites and THAT chemistry would never be duplicated.

Begs the question, was a remake ever better than the original?

Yes. The Bogart version of Maltese Falcon is far superior to either of the previous versions, one of which was silent.

A SILENT movie of a Dashiel Hammett story??? Isn't that akin to a silent musical or a silent Marx Brothers movie?

As for movies that should never be remade:
Cocoanuts
Animal Crackers
Monkey Business
Horse Feathers
Duck Soup
A Day at the Races
At the Circus
Go West
A Night at the Opera
Room Service
The Big Store
A Night in Casablanca

Thatsa no good.

When I was in Africa, I shot a remake in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I'll never know.

Well, I have to say that going for a remake of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' was completely pointless… couldn't be bettered.