Remakes are they ever any good?

[*Felicity* 10]

The 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street is better than the original. Richard Attenborough is an extremely convincing Santa .

[TYPS 10]

The 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street is better than the original. Richard Attenborough is an extremely convincing Santa .

 

I was thinking this as i was watching it the other day, Richard Attenborough is santa!

[Rich 12]

Last year's remake of Hairspray was definitely better than the original 80s movie starring her out of Blondie IMO.

 

I want to go and see the Stage version in London next year if I can save up the £50 a ticket plus the price of a Travelodge accomodation for me, Mum and Dad.

[TYPS 10]

My OH says that, but the orignal one has Rikki Lake of day time TV talk show fame in it and the new one has Zac Efron who i cannot stand!!

[goldenfleece 11]

As a remake i think it's not a scrach on the orignal! But as a film in it's own right i enjoyed it and i agree that it was closer to the book and heres it comes......

BUT the orignal is just pure class in a glass!!!! the acting, the FX, sound track all just pure class!

 

Agreed....a total classic that could never be done better.....the cylinder unscrewing and the emerging Martian electronic Eye are probably the most iconic events ever in cinema history.........OK so not in the original book I think, hence not in the modern film, but so much better a concept.......still scares the pants off me...

[EdnaKrabappe 14]

I liked Vanilla Sky but I also liked Abre los ojos. Cape Fear and The Fly I also preferred. Surely it's like records though, it's usually the one you watch/listen to first you prefer.

[shlg 10]

I finally saw the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still this weekend, and it's a completely different film from the original (different characters, and some of the characters that stayed had very different moral positions; some very different plot elements, etc.), but it is a pretty good film. My girlfriend hadn't seen the original and thought the remake was excellent.

 

I haven't dared watch the remake of The Italian Job.

[Dude111 10]

Usually remakes suck..... NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD!!!

 

I will say "Night of the living dead" (1990) is BETTER than the 1968 original however! (I saw that one first and thought THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL than I discovered the real original and saw that and thought it was stupid )

[Charters 10]

Neither of the two remakes of The Lady Vanishes are any good in my view. The original Hitchcock version released in 1938 is far superior to either the 1979 version starring Cybil Shepherd and also the recent BBC remake.

 

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[Weslar 10]

Off the top of my head...

 

Scarface

Dawn of the Dead

The Fly

Twelve Monkeys

Magnificent Seven

Cape Fear

Cyrano De Bergerac

Heat

Ocean's 11

Casino Royale

Little Shop Of Horrors

The Departed

Vanilla Sky

Fistful of Dollars

1984

3:10 To Yuma

The Birdcage

Bourne Identity

 

Some are remakes of Tv to movie (Bourne), some short film to feature (Twelve Monkeys), and some cross translation (Birdcage), and whilst only a few are actually better than their original versions, all are decent remakes in my opinion. I'm sure there are more, but that was all i could come up with at present.

 

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