Remakes! A Discussion and Comparison (face palm in post #155) - Page 2

Cringe worthy: Eddie Murphy's The Incredible Shrinking Man comedy.

I think the movie Seconds with Rock Hudson could be updated and remade into a pretty good thriller.

I think the movie Seconds with Rock Hudson could be updated and remade into a pretty good thriller.

I still remember the sound of the drill at the movie fade out...

I'm not offended by remakes as a matter of general principle, but many of them do make me sigh..."Why'd they do that?"

Just goes to show people are different. Apple's Across the Universe is #1 on my "worst commercially released remake" list.

(Worst remake ever - not commercially released thankfully - is Celine Dion's "You Shook me all Night Long".)

Haha, a remake thread that has yet to mention the movie that may be the most remade in cinema (besides generic Dracula spam): Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That's been done what? Four times?

Ive never seen the original Italian job what did you think of the remake gwsat? I enjoyed the one with Donald Sutherland and Mark Walhberg.

I know you specifically asked gwsat, but my take is, the original is really a completely different movie. So I don't know that I would consider the newer one a true 'remake', as much as 'loosly based on the original.' In fact, the only real similarities are the mini-coopers (and the title of course.)

Thanks Rutgar.

I have no recollection of having seen the first version of The Italian Job, which starred the young Michael Cane, but I liked the 2003 movie of the same name a lot. It isn't great art but it is exciting. It is also filled with excellent performances, which depict interesting, quirky characters. The often underesstimated Jason Statham is a hoot. I've seen it a couple of times.

Thanks for the link. Still, just can't get excited about this one.

I can't get excited about a Red Dawn remake, either. I thought the 1984 original was a dog. Its premise, a surprise invasion of the United States repulsed by teenagers, was nonsense then and I can't imagine how a remake could make it any less so now.

LOL! Then it's not just me. I thought Red Dawn was a crap movie as well. And I was even it's target audience at the time. So yeah, I have no interest in a remake.

Yeah, I was part of the target audience as well (shows what the director thought of us), and the plot was even ridiculous to me back then at that age.

I liked Red Dawn at the time and although it doesn't hold up as well as it once did, I still like a lot of elements of it, like the choices the teenagers have to make (about torturing/executing) and being forced to grow up and deal with death and fighting a guerilla war.

Of course, the USSR is no longer a threat so it's a product of its time, but there's still a lot to like IMO, even if it's a bit ridiculous.

Not sure how they'd do a remake, unless they just set it back in the cold war days, but with hindsight being what it is, I'm not sure how that would come across.

North Korea invading US? Come on.

Well, it IS Hollyweird...

No more of a stretch than the first movie's plot was.

I like Poltergeist. A lot, actually. Still holds up today for me.

Aliens. Red Dawn meets Independence Day

Yeah, that would be the only scenario plausible.

It worked in 84 because of the paranoia from decades of the cold war.
Not even these dumb kids of 2009 would believe another earthly power could invade this country.

Did you really just imply that The Exorcist is "stupid and boring"?

The Exorcist. The Alpha and Omega of horror. But that Version You've Never Seen (and I wish I hadn't) takes a classic and nearly ruins it!

If only they'd have used a shaky cam

Anyone remember the Filthy Critic? I thought his EXORCIST review was memorable, and actually reminded me of opening night: http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/theexorcist.html

-Bill