It seems a lot of movies are getting remade - or rebooted - these days. The Magnificent Seven is being remade. Every few years they make a new Spiderman or Batman movie but what about some of the classics?
It seems a lot of movies are getting remade - or rebooted - these days. The Magnificent Seven is being remade. Every few years they make a new Spiderman or Batman movie but what about some of the classics?
Originally Posted by Raisor
Yes. Most of them.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
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I'm still confused why Van Sant remade Psycho. Very much doubt anyone will ever attempt Citizen Kane.
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Shoot, I'd just like to see more original material. Use your imagination, already!
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This. And same goes for music.
There are always a few exceptions, in general, covers are a bad idea.
Has a remake ever been better than the original?
No doubt about that.
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Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light.
I do agree with your overall point, though.
Magnificent Seven being remade is a travesty. It's a near perfect movie. Absolutely no reason whatsoever to remake it.
Eh, I meant movies. I bounced around there. Sorry.
Are any movie remakes better?
No matter what, they can't take away the original.
It's just like when they butcher a book when they make the movie version - the book is still there.
This is what I tell myself anyway.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
True Grit was, apologies to any John Wayne lovers.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
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Dirty Dancing didn't even need to be made, much less remade, yet here we are.
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Nope. no, no no, nope.
As for remade movies that were better than the original, yes actually, several.
Ocean's Eleven
3:10 to Yuma
One could argue that The Magnificent 7, a remake of 7 Samurai is better.
Scarface
True Grit
The Thing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
His Girl Friday
High Noon is a great movie, But High Noon in space? With shotguns? I loved Outland.
Little Shop of Horrors.
Sometimes the remake is just better.
Except Manfred Mann sucks arse.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Not sure Miami Vice counts as a remake, but I think Mann's film version is an intriguing update of his original series.
I'd actually argue that The Force Awakens is, in many ways, a successful remake of A New Hope. Not completely so, but there is an argument there to be sure.
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
I like that your first example, The Magnificent Seven, is actually a remake itself.
While that's true, I'm basically talking about American and British movies. Movies like Three Men and a Baby, Scent of a Woman and The Birdcage were all remakes of foreign films. What if they remade Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter? Are you up for that or would your nerd heart break into a million pieces?
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