Films that should never, ever, EVER be remade by anyone, EVER

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Surely this is a very long list. But someone has to make it, because apparently Hollywood will not. Inspired by the "Night of the Hunter" thread.

1) Anything starring Humphrey Bogart.
2) Double Indemnity.
3) Vertigo (there is a risk of this, I fear).
4) The Searchers (OMG what would PC Hollywood do to this? I shudder).
5) any other movie that was already great, really, but especially ones that cannot translate from the time in which they were made, but are tempting.

I'm afraid this will become a "list your favorite old movies" thread, but I trust you get the idea.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

all of them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

That's not true. See the "remakes that are better than the originals" thread.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

breakin'

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

summer school

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

howard the duck

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

top gun

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

pulp fiction

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

on the waterfront

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

I think those are just "films you don't ever want to see again." Not the same thing.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

bmx bandits

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

tracy, we love you

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

short circuit 2

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Go to bed, you.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

river's edge

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

caddyshack

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

2001

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

muppets take manhattan

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

high society

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

I think, and I hope I implied, that these should be movies that someone shjould be tempted to remake. "Short Circuit 2" is not on the money.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

casablanca

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

cool hand luke

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

The Shining.

A Clockwork Orange.

Can you imagine?

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

There should be an abbreviation for that.

Oops NOTM!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

blood simple

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

trading places

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

fast times at ridgemont high

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

east rider

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

His mix of good and stupid answers leads me to believe that he thinks that my thread question is stupid. So, whatever. Eat shit, dude. And do please go to bed.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

also, easy rider

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

what is wrong with my answers?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

i'm for real

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

north by northwest

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

blackboard jungle

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

what is wrong with my answers?

They are obnoxious. You are being obnoxious. I will not defend my thread premise to the death or anything, but I will not thank you for shitting on it or anything.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

tootsie

because i can think of a shitload of ones they are obnoxious?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Alright, fine, point made, delete thread. Sorry i fuckin' asked.

I think a fine remake could be squeezed out of Blackboard jungle, BTW.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

tron

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

giant

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

well this is going well!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

because i can think of a shitload of ones they are obnoxious?

Oh, sorry, I forgot you're a moron and things have to be spelled out very carefully for you. If they were terrible, unmarketable failures of movies to begin with, it's a foregone conclusion that they will not ever be remade.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

any cheech and chong

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

the third man, definitely.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

these are all terrible, unremarkable failures??

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

airplane

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

enter the dragon

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

unmarketable too?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

beetlejuice

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Ok, look, I was wrong, ok? I WAS WRONG. Please someone spray some lysol on this stinky bacteria nest of a thread.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

ferris bueller's day off

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

best thread ever

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

real genius

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

footloose

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

I knew it. Oops is a virus! He cannot be killed by normal reasonable means!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

I hope you had fun, oops, because I now officially think you're an asshole.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

oh lighten up, poopypants

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

a night at the opera

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, dude. My real problem is that not a lot of thought went into those reponses. Footloose? Someone could someday make Footloose better, I'm sure. Nice archetypal Man_vs.-Society story structure, opportunities for great dance scenes. Why should no one ever remake that EVER? I think it's a prime candidate, if anything is.

So I will restate my earlier directive: go to bed. You're just being a dick, and apparently enjoying it immensely.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Footloose is inextricably connected in my mind with the 80s, kenny loggins, and kevin bacon. i feel any remake would take the ironic love, which is the only love this movie engenders, out of the equation.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

these were all thought about before submitting. it's not my fault there's many movies with seem to fall in this category for me.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

you're the grumpy one. perhaps you should hit the hay.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

beverly hills cop

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

That's possible, sure. Also possible: you're being a dick. Now I will not sleep until you admit that.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, please, someone delete this thread. Of all the embarrassing threads I have ever started, this is somehow the most shameful.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

i'm being a dick cause i am answering you thread question with abundance??

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

No, because you're answering my thread question while ignoreing the spirit of the question, and willfully at that.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

wild bunch

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

Agreed on that one.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

how am i ignoring the spirit?? if you feel differently about any of these, then voice your opinion.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

i can't help it my list is so so much better than yours. ok now i'm being a dick.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

karate kid

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

Uh huh. Yeah, you're just answering the thread question, sure. And I'm supposed to take the defensive because you're posting more rapidly than me. Hey, eat a dick.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

This is all very silly. Is this about Aimee? Hey, take her, dude.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

you're cute when you're angry.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

whoah. what? left field, nice to see you.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Again I say, uh huh.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

the warriors

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

We really should get into a drunken fist fight sometime. Good for the soul.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

jeez i'll stop. sorry i had fun on your thread while before i was bored outta my skull.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

You were the very last one to get bored with your answers, I think.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

do you disagree with any of them?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

you ignored this:

5) any other movie that was already great, really, but especially ones that cannot translate from the time in which they were made, but are tempting.

So yeah, Muppets Take Manhattan should not be remade, strictly speaking, an no, not ever. But come on.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

so you're saying you covered it all in your post, and i shouldn't add to it?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to bed.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

you're weird.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

That may be so.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

I don't think Night of the Hunter should be remade.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

just trying to establish some common ground

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:36 (twenty years ago)

the pawnbroker

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

(The Shining was already remade)

Fight Club

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

flight of the navigator

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

I agree that Oops is ruining the spirit of the thread, intentionally or not. But what the heck has Luna to do with this? Is this some sort of internet cock fight?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

1) Anything starring Humphrey Bogart.

I disagree with this. I think there's a possible good remake of Sabrina out there somewhere. I think Harrison Ford was much better than Humphrey Bogart in the remake, but I also think that's because Humphrey Bogart was horrendously miscast in the original. Obviously Julia Ormonde is not a patch on Audrey Hepburn, but Greg Kinnear was a surprisingly good subsitute for William Holden.

Not that I want to interrupt the highly enjoyable fistfight or anything.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

so the spirit of threads is to not think up too many things that fit the bill?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Surely this is a very long list. But someone has to make it, because apparently Hollywood will not.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

I think there's a possible good remake of Sabrina out there somewhere. I think Harrison Ford was much better than Humphrey Bogart in the remake, but I also think that's because Humphrey Bogart was horrendously miscast in the original. Obviously Julia Ormonde is not a patch on Audrey Hepburn, but Greg Kinnear was a surprisingly good subsitute for William Holden.

I pretty much agree with all of this. I think Harrison Ford was "older," while Bogart at that point was unfortunately "old."

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

The spirit of the thread is to think of films that actually have a chance of being remade.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Indeed.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

these are all films which i feel have an acting performance, look, directing style, or a combination of the three which are both are central to the appeal of the film and would be near impossible to improve on.

xpost oh so you're both hollywood insiders and/or producers now?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

which of these films have no chance of being remade and why?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

' clockwork orange' was a remake of 'vinyl'.

― N_Rq, Thursday, 9 June 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Footloose

Despite the resurgence (or final acceptance) of its popularity, I think it's more likely that a sequel will be made, rather than a remake.

Fight Club

I disagree. Fight Club is one of those movies like Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. You could remake it every twenty or thirty years or so and as long as you did it well, you could actually get different nuances from it every time. It deals with so many fears and boogeymen that you could choose a different one to focus on in every age. For instance, if Fight Club had been made in the 50s, it would have been the underground, secret nature of it and the way it spread like communism that would have been the focus.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

what do you think would transpire in Footloose 2? would it be akin to Staying Alive?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

I guess the same sort of stuff that transpires in Dirty Dancing 2, which I have not seen. I don't remember what happens in Staying Alive either. I guess I just don't have the music in me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

OK Kenan, what is up your arse? If you ask a question, dont get upset if the replies arent to your specific tastes, jesus. And bringing personal shit onto the thread as an attack is pretty cunty. Bloody hell, I was gonna answer with "Withnail and I" but your 'tood ruined my fun.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

Also: Surely this is a very long list

Yes, it is, because as oops demonstrated, not everyone agrees on what films deserve to stand alone as they were first made. You dont like it, why ask?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

the concept 'remake' has always been loose; i think anything could, in theory, be remade.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

I agree. I thought the idea was more "gee, I'd hate to see a remake of X film", and surely thats personal taste, bugger the "canon".

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

I'd disagree with you on Fight Club. I think it's a film that applies specifically to a particular generation (the so-called X-ers). I don't think it could have been made at any point previously (and not just for technical reasons) because the whole issue of generational identity/purpose was not a point for the generations that came after the WW2 (up to the X-ers, obviously)
Wheher it could be made at some point in the future is doubtful; the whole idea that a generation could feel that they were missing a point compared to those that came before doesn't really come into play for the children of Generation X I feel, because Generation X (of which I'm a proud memeber)is the first generation since the WW2 to have nothing of any real importance to do.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

If it was redone for another generation it would be vastly altered to fit in with various political issues, social aspects, cultural changes etc, to the point that the film would just end up being something entirely different

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:04 (twenty years ago)

remaking 'fight club' would be stupid. but if you *really* remade it, it'd be a different film. it wouldn't make any sense if you literally resshot the same script in slightly updated locations and with different actors. but you could take the basic plot and characters and do something with it. but that would itself be an act of creation. after all, 'fight club' is a remake of bertolucci's 'partner', yes?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

4) The Searchers (OMG what would PC Hollywood do to this? I shudder).

actually the plot of the searchers has been reused in a bunch of other films (taxi driver, hardcore, a lot of westerns), didn't hurt them any.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

best thread ever!

i think slightly more subdued & Oops should get a room, hilarious argument.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

oh no i would wuv to see a Tron remake!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely. That's why I compared it to Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Fifties version is about the virulent spread of communism and the feeling that anyone in your neighbourhood could be lying to you about their political connections. Also fear of others due to a huge wave of post-war immigration, blah de blah, we all know these arguments, film is quite conservative and pro-American. Seventies version is about conspiracies, being spied on, having civil liberties curtailed, being trapped, etc. Film is quite anti-American. I think you could take the basic events and elements of Fight Club and do something similarly interesting with them.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Fifties version is about the virulent spread of communism and the feeling that anyone in your neighbourhood could be lying to you about their political connections.

really? i always figured the original body snatchers was about mccarthyism, the danger of enforced conformity, that kind of thing.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

yeahbut 'fight club' is about the double-faced coin of consumer/self-help culture. it's got jokes about starbucks and martha stewart. it's quite specific to the nineties. and quite obviously if you remade it post-9/11 a lot would have to change, the whole resonance of the thing. internal flights, terrorism, etc.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Lucas should remake Tron with his shitty digital technology, because at least that film is supposed to look like a computer game.

and Super Mario Bros, naturally. and Street Fighter. and Mortal Combat. and Final Fantasy. ok, maybe not any of those ones.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

The Third Man is the first one I thought of.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

i think a 'third man' remake would be fine. it could have car chases.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh, man, this is the weirdest thread I ever started.

I'm sorry, Mr. Oops. I don't like you much, but I'm sorry I said so, I guess.

Oh, what the fuck. I'm not sorry. You're an ass. Eat me.

No, really, I'm sorry.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

whoa!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry that I picked old movies to have my nerrvous breakdown about. I'm going away for a while, I think.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

If they were terrible, unmarketable failures of movies to begin with, it's a foregone conclusion that they will not ever be remade.

this is probably not true.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

"Tron" was remade, as "The Matrix."

Why has no one yet mentioned that "unremarketable" could be a very useful word, especially in pop culture parlance?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Hey, take her, dude.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Jesus. I'm out of my head.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

can I have her instead?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Alien

― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I would actually be really disappointed in any remake of Footloose - it's the first movie I really really loves (shut up, I was 12) and even if they remade it as the best movie ever in the history of ever, I would invariably be disappointed because it wasn't Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, SJP, Diane Wiest and Chris Penn. Lori Singer could be replaced, however.

And um, take her, dude?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

WINNERS

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 June 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

ROCKY I
ROCKY II
ROCKY III
If there was a ROCKY IV, that's okay to remake.

― PNS RNKL, Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

And um, take her, dude?

What, you mean you're not touched beyond words? Whyever not?

(ps I'm sorry everyone.)

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

high society

this was a joke, right?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Don't be sorry - I was a dick to mention it.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

haha Yes, clearly you are the dick around here.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

i just watched WarGames and rofled myself to death at the part near the end where the military guys are all gathered around Broderick who is presented with a tic-tac-toe grid on his computer screen. and the guy shouts from the back:

"PUT X IN THE CENTRE SQUARE!"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

and I think I've just posted that to the wrong thread

sorry :(

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

best thread ever

Disney is remaking Tron btw

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=30173

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory....oh wait!

― You fondle my trigger then you blame my gun / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

You know, I saw the trailer for that last week and I didn't think it was possible for me to not be turned on by Johnny Depp.

I was wrong.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

gabbneb OTM

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

also as long as people are up for grabs, I claim luna, and also Edward Norton.

― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Thursday, 9 June 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

The Amy Fisher Story
Hollow Man
Gangs Of New York

― Kurt Russell in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

the kenan & oops story

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

take me, dude

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 21 October 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

i'd say you were slipping rjg but...

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'd like to see the star wars OT remade - with current cgi that lucas would have used if it was a viable technology when he started the saga. the prequels more suit his vision and aesthetic for the saga.

lucas admits he would like to remake the OT. george lucas

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh sorry. that last part should say "george lucas hearts cgi"

btw i don't know any of you people so no offense, but this thread is hilarious. reminds me of the days when i used to frequent inbred, volitile message boards. carry on!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

They're remaking TRON?!

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

yes, this is exactly what the world needs

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 21 October 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

it doesn't matter what the world needs, it's exactly what lucas wants. i'm intrigued.

he won't do it though, he's also stated that. instead he's moving on to star wars television cartoons.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Night and Fog

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

shadows and fog

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

shadows

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

the fog (whoops)

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dancer In The Dark

― Kurt Russell in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am disappointed to find out that there is no movie called Og.
xpsot

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

The amazing part is that some of these are in the process of being remade, which only ends up making oops look better in retrospect.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Zulu

― Kurt Russell in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Rounders

― Kurt Russell in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Amelie

― Kurt Russell in the Chinese Quarter (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe they're remaking shoah

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

birth of a nation

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dolemite

― Keith C (lync0), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hell Comes to Frogtown.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

cabin boy

― dan (dan), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

There's an interesting article about Cabin Boy in the Onion

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 21 October 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Bladerunner

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Friday, 21 October 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

slipping?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 October 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Rocky II

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a hard time imagining the size of the testicles on the person who decides to remake Blade Runner. It's like trying to think in five dimensions.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Saturday, 22 October 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Classic animation remade in CG
Classic animation remade in live action

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Citizen Kane, pretty much. I mean, it'd update really, really well for modern times (media mogul with political ambitions brought down into spiral of infidelity and seclusion!) but even if they changed the title and/or the character's name/persona somewhat it's a pretty ridiculously huge and beloved thing to try and replicate.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 22 October 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

velvet goldmine's probably the closest we'll get to a CK remake.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 October 2005 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

a totally difft. adaptation of the "do androids" would be a great idea tho, in the right hands (cronenberg!)

meanwhile tho, they should abs. not remake "the longest yard (2005)"

speaking of which, has there ever been a remake of a remake? was it good?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well there's this King Kong movie coming out soon...

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

wouldn't it be great if it were a remake of the dino de laurentiis version?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that's... um... really all that possible.

― disco violence (disco violence), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Kong gets to the lower part of the island, has this confused "Huh?" look on his face, and then sits down in the empty space and has a big cry.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Alien. Though people have been unofficially remaking it since it came out!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

oh snap!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

i'm seriously worried though that in the next ten-twenty years someone is going to remake Alien. "We're re-imagining it for a new generation!"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

it'd be funny if people talked about peter jackson's lord of the rings as if it were a remake of ralph bakshi's lord of the rings.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

entertaining thread

― Evan, Monday, 4 August 2014 03:43 (ten years ago)

Forgot this is where take her, dude came from.

― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 4 August 2014 03:48 (ten years ago)

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