Great Films You Would Like To See Remade Improved And How.

[norml]

Two Hitchcock films come to mind. The Birds,is one I would improve by having some of the people in the town fight back. I see a cluster of plaid wearing good old boys firing shotguns at the birds as a way of adding humor. Modern special effects wouldn't hurt either. Another Hitchcock film I'd improve is Marnie. I'd type cast Winona Ryder,as Marnie.

[blackcat77]

1. None.

If a film is "great," then it can only be dimished in a remake.

[cdsilv]

2. ...the original star wars trilogy with REAL special effects! <nt>

[norml]

16. Well,that's part of the controversy of this thread.

Thanks for being the first to notice,and the first to post on it with a contrary opinion. So many of my more logical postings sink like stones. I'm hoping this attracts a little controversy,while doing no harm.

[Ladyhawk]

18. Agreed. nt

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Citizen Kane

The Warner Brothers animated version.

--bkl

[Kenneth ken]

4. re: The Birds

I'd get rid of that awful squawking sound that is supposed to be the birds. It's the one thing I really can't stand about that film.

:hi:

[malatesta1137]

5. great topic

but you should be spanked for suggesting that any Hitchcock film should be remade. THE BIRDS is a masterpiece as it is. MARNIE I like less, I would re-edit it, but not re-shoot it.

The PSYCHO remake was the greatest disaster that ever happened to the United States after the theft of the election 2000 by The Bush Crime Family.

[norml]

17. The Psycho remake will be one of the least rented films of all time...

If they even bother having it in any video stores.

[bloodyjack]

6. Vertigo, with Tom Cruise in lead role

Another classic film I would like to see remade is Batman & Robin, only this time with Ben Affleck as Batman and Chris Rock as Robin.

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. Battlefield Earth remade with Colin Mochrie playing ALL the parts

improv style

[Kenneth ken]

9. Tom Cruise in the Kim Novak role?

:D

I don't think that would work very well. The film does revolve around her, so that must be the lead role, right?

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. split the lead between Kim Fields and Robert Novak

that should definitely improve things.

[Kenneth ken]

11. that could be done

spoiler:

because Kim Novak played two roles in that film. She played the woman who died, and also the role of the woman who had been hired by the husband to impersonate the wife. James Stewart encounters here after the wife has died, and eventually realizes she was playing the role of the wife and that the wife was already dead when she went off the bell tower.

:D

:hi:

[bloodyjack]

13. Yes

and Mandy Moore in Jimmy Stewart's role

[Kenneth ken]

15. wouldn't work

Tom Cruise can't act. The audience would know right away (spoiler again)

that the Tom Cruise character was an impersonation of the husband, and then when he showed up later, it would be obvious he had been impersonating the husband earlier.

:)

[edbermac]

8. Well, they're remaking King Kong...

The first remake with Jessica Lange was a pretty bad camp classic, but now Peter Jackson of the Rings trilogy is doing a Kong remake. If I were doing it I would not do a present day update. It would follow the original scene by scene set in the depression as closely as possible but using state of the art animation and CGI and shot in B&W. Compared to today the animation of the original is very crude. Also Jack Black has a role in this; I hope he doesn't camp it up like Charles Grodin in the remake.

[tjdee]

12. Naomi Watts is Fay Wray's character...

And my number one hottie Adrien Brody plays the other main guy. AFAIK, they're sticking to the correct time period (meaning, not today).

I don't see anything interesting about a giant gorilla. I wish Jackson (and my sweet baby Adrien) weren't doing it, but I imagine Jackson could want to do a film about cheese and studios would throw money at him to do it.

Supposedly, Jackson has been wanting to do King Kong for some time (for the love of Jeebus, WHY? I just don't get it. The place they found King Kong also had living dinosaurs...but they bring back the gorilla?! HellOOOOOO???).

[tjdee]

14. I used to say Charade, but they did, and it was a disaster.

Thandie Newton was stunning as usual, but they put her opposite Mark Wahlberg (after Will Smith turned it down/didn't do it for whatever reason).

Charade rocks. Partly because it's Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, but it was a great Hitchcock meets Rock Hudson/Doris Day (without that irritating irritating Doris Day) film.

[DrZeeLit]

19. It Happened One NIght

Gable and Claudette Colbert
GREAT movie... won a zillion Oscars.
Always wondered why it wasn't candidate for remake.
Need strong funny male newspaper guy
and spoiled sarcastic heiress....

Updated -- maybe swap the roles -- female as newspaper reporter or t.v. reporter and the male as spoiled heir

Who plays the parts? That's a tough one.
Not the obvious blondes.
Great this is now gonna make me nuts.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. That movie is SEVENTY years old this year, and it's still funny

:-)

[miss_kitty]

21. Tippi Hedren was pretty blah as a leading lady

but I like what she's doing to help wild animals.

[wickerwoman]

22. A Clockwork Orange

So I'm going to be massively flamed because it's Kubrick- but I really think he made the film before its time. The Moloko bar scenes and futuristic 70s cars are just embarrassing and the sex and violence are pretty tame by today's standards.

It's a great movie, but I think it could use some updating.