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By *inaTitz OP TV/TS
over a year ago
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Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.
What remakes are better than the original?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Was so disappointed in the clash of the titans remake... give me the cheesy claymation version every time. I hope the highlander remake will be good. I honestly can not think of a remake that is better than the original. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I watched that Ealing Studios Ladykillers last night as well. Unrivaled.
It's messed up because all these remakes are for younger generations that weren't even old enough to watch some of the originals (Robocop). If it made a lot of cash or if it's a cult classic, studios are certain they can make a trilogy out of it.
All the same, kids are spoiled now with remakes. All the greatest films were pushed to creative boundaries at a time when they didn't have the gadgets we do.
I also watched Quarantine last night, which was the American version of the Spanish [REC] made one year later. Was nowhere near as good! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A remake that's better than the original? Wow that's a tough one...here's a couple that come to mind...
Heat was essentially a remake of LA Takedown...Heat was amazing whilst LA Takedown was shit
Poseidon was a cheesy 70's disaster movie. I'm sure many people still have a soft spot for it...but in my mind the remake was a vast improvement
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How about true grit? Thought the remake was excellent.
Although on the whole remakes aren't very good, just cash cows living off the name of the past. "
Yeah that was a great film. Jeff Bridges can do no wrong by me, but the pure character he put into Rooster Cogburn was astounding. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How about true grit? Thought the remake was excellent.
Although on the whole remakes aren't very good, just cash cows living off the name of the past.
Yeah that was a great film. Jeff Bridges can do no wrong by me, but the pure character he put into Rooster Cogburn was astounding."
That's the only remake we can think of as a better film than the original. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Shining mini series is much better and truer to the story than the Stanley Kubrick film version.
Dark Castle did a few good remakes in the early 2000s - Thirteen Ghosts, Gothica, Ghost Ship, House on the Haunted Hill; there's probably more!
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'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.
The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.
Never cared for the sequels though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cape fear was an excellent remake.
I preferred the original. Mitchum was unsettling and sinister, whereas DeNiro just seemed like a nasty piece of work out for revenge. "
Fair point, but I have a bit of a thing for juliette Lewis and Jessica Lange. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There's quite a few that are better, or at least pretty close:
The Fly
The Thing
Scent of a Woman
Scarface
Insomnia
True Grit
Blow Out
A Fistful of Dollars
The Departed
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Kaufman version)
Heat
Sorcerer
The Maltese Falcon
Farewell, My Lovely
The Magnificent Seven
Ocean's Eleven (the original is awful)
Cape Fear (though Mitchum is the daddy)
Some like it hot
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Anybody mentions the cinematic whaleturd that was "The day the earth stood still" in a positive light and I'll eat my own liver with some favva beans and a nice bottle of chianti |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Italian Job remake oh dear and the Total Recall recall remake 
why can't these people come up with some new ideas
what they going to do next remake Harry Potter?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's quite a few that are better, or at least pretty close:
Insomnia"
The remake of Insomnia was totally shit compared to the original...Hollywood rarely remakes foreign films well...look at how they ruined The Ring and The Vanishing. The original Insomnia gets under your skin and unhinges you. The remake is just a dull by-the-numbers detective story. Sorry just had to speak up on that one  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think they're both above average but not much more. I'm quite fond of David Julyan scores, so if I had to sit and watch one, it'd be the US remake because of that.
The Vanishing & Ring remakes are bobbins of course. But then look at how wonderful Sorcerer is; it can be done. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Also watch the Stephen King remake of Salem's Lot with Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland. I loved it.
However, some pleb is remaking The Stand... as an hour and a half long movie...
1500 page novel. 6 hour long miniseries, 1.5 hour movie. Fuck right off! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.
The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.
Never cared for the sequels though"
hunt down the original, it has a very sinister, dark feel to it as it was made in the days when story ruled and fx were rare, expensive, usually poor quality so quite sparse- therefore the script needed to be good to carry the film |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.
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Anybody know which British comedian appeared in the original Ladykillers? No search engining. And yes Tina we know you know. |
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
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"'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.
The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.
Never cared for the sequels though"
laughable..
how can you have an opinion on a movei you saw a picture or two in a book... Baffoon |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"'never watched the original 1960's version of 'The Fly' but saw a few stills from it and thought it was naff.
The Jeff Goldblum version was a mixture of gross out comedy and sci fi horror.
Never cared for the sequels though
laughable..
how can you have an opinion on a movei you saw a picture or two in a book... Baffoon"
Judging by what he said, I'd say it was more a vote of non confidence than an opinion.
It's sad to me that he doesn't like old films like that because they're enjoyable, but he's allowed to not like that sort of thing. Wouldn't call that buffoonish though  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I really hope they never remake Big Trouble in Little China. I love little films like that.
Remakes are supposed to be for movies that had potential but weren't massively successful. Some films are ahead of their time.
George Orwell's 1984 deserves another go! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Be honest though, is it really ever hard to out act Sly? In Rocky wasn't he comprehensively out done by his own punchbag?
Though watching a Sly movie for anything other than fight scenes and explosions is like going to a club just to use the sauna lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like both a lot, and I'm a huge fan of HK gangster flicks (Milkyway Image stuff especially), but The Departed just has a little more meat on its bones. If it wasn't for the inclusion of the almost always awful Ray Winstone doing an utterly appalling American accent, I'd be even more in favour of it.
The Total Recall remake is typical Len Wiseman stuff - Hollywood sheen with zero brains - a travesty.
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By *iaFlashCouple
over a year ago
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the new release of The Thing although supposedly a remake its not it is in fact technically a prequel
*SPOILER ALERT*
At the end of the new Thing movie the dog that runs away from the base is the same dog that is being shot down from a helicopter at the start of the original Thing movie.
Therefore a prequel as nothing has been announced so far for a new release sequel 
also same can be said for the Evil Dead movies. In the new Evil Dead there are many elements left over from the previous movies like the abandoned car they sit on during the early part of the movie, also the fact that a lot of the cabin is already in bad condition when they get there plus the book of the dead is sealed in barbed wire. So really the new Evil Dead can be viewed as a sequel just a decade or so after the originals
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.
What remakes are better than the original? "
i just hope they leave our ealing cinima well alone x |
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By *xpresMan
over a year ago
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"dredd 3d tons better than sly stalones one"
wasn't realy a remake two totaly different stories with same character in the lead. That's like saying all Bond movies are remakes..
both wer good in own ways n both shit in other ways.. I AM THE LAW!! |
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"Yesterday I watched a bit of the Ladykillers whilst having some tea and I was really impressed with it. This was the original. The remake had the story, but none of the charm.
Anybody know which British comedian appeared in the original Ladykillers? No search engining. And yes Tina we know you know."
frankie howerd...
also heard theres a remake of :the man in the white suit , in the pipeline. |
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By *omMLMan
over a year ago
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"Casino Royale with David Niven versus Casino Royale with Daniel Craig. Remake wee wees all over the original. "
I had forgotten all about that once. The original was charming the remake grittier. I like em both. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Thing is one of my all time fav horror films ! And although technically a prequel the new version was very well done and a great homage to original
About the only remake / reboot etc i can think of really  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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While im on bed rest Mark's hooked me up with Netflix,Last night I watched Fright Night,and thought it was much better than the original version,in my opinion |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Was so disappointed in the clash of the titans remake... give me the cheesy claymation version every time. I hope the highlander remake will be good. I honestly can not think of a remake that is better than the original. "
dredd wasnt bad ) |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"the 80s thing is a remake of the original black and white 60s film"
I've not seen the original, but the 80's version is one of my favourites...
I see there's a series version of West World being made...J J Aabrams producing and Anthony Hopkins starring - I shall give that a go when it comes out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lord of the Rings, although the original live action traced over to appear animated versions weren't finished so I guess only the first of the new ones counts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"the 80s thing is a remake of the original black and white 60s film"
I know that's why i said The Thing.
I know the last film was a prequel. It wasn't too bad. Just a shame they were lazy and used cgi |
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