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Fri Aug-18-06 05:30 PM
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List movies that are perfect as is, and should never be remade |
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Fri Aug-18-06 05:39 PM
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3. Jaws, The Warriors, Young Frankenstein, Slap Shot. |
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I could also name a bunch that have been remade that shouldn't have.
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Fri Aug-18-06 05:41 PM
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and Pulp Fiction
at least I hope they haven't done any sequels...
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Fri Aug-18-06 05:42 PM
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5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
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Fri Aug-18-06 05:51 PM
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But, they will do a remake (besides the many play productions). It's inevitable.
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Sat Aug-19-06 10:30 AM
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53. I'm just waiting for the remake with Ben Affleck and J-Lo as Ilsa |
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Of course, in the remake Ilsa won't end up going with Viktor, and Affleck and J-Lo will end up boffing on the airplane steps instead.
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Sat Aug-19-06 01:35 PM
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The furor was so great the (then) couple had to officially deny that they were going to remake one of the most loved of film classics.
Such arrogance to imagine that anyone could remake "Casablanca". As close to perfection as you could want in a film.
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Fri Aug-18-06 05:56 PM
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Jesus Christ Superstar
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Fri Aug-18-06 11:46 PM
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Anthony Quinn is the king
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Fri Aug-18-06 05:57 PM
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10. Also, "All About Eve" |
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Sat Aug-19-06 04:27 PM
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67. I Wouldn't Worry About An "All About Eve" Re-Make |
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No movie that well-written and intelligent could get the necessary financial backing, these days.....
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Fri Aug-18-06 06:05 PM
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11. Wizard of Oz...but I guess it's already been |
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remade as The Oz.
Lord of the Rings trilogy
It's a Wonderful Life
Grapes of Wrath...given the pro worker and pro government message in that movie I don't think there is a chance of it being remade today.
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Fri Aug-18-06 06:16 PM
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12. Baum himself wrote loads of sequels to "Wizard"... |
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...and the 1980s film, "Return to Oz", is one of the great fantasy films ever made, maybe the most underrated movie I've ever seen...anyone who loves Oz should see it...
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Fri Aug-18-06 07:25 PM
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13. Also reworked as "The Wiz" |
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Fri Aug-18-06 07:27 PM
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NO ONE can do a better Joker than Jack; and I am ROYALLY PISSED they are gonna try it. Dumbasses.
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Fri Aug-18-06 07:28 PM
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15. To Kill a Mockingbird n/t |
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Sat Aug-19-06 12:28 AM
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46. That was what i was going to say. |
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Flawless book, Flawless movie. Even the casting was flawless. I need to buy that one. That was a time when if they made a book in to a movie, they mess with too much, but just let it be.
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Sat Aug-19-06 02:31 AM
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47. you have not seen the sequel? |
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"Kill mo' mockingbird: Boo Radley loose in the 'hood"
Starring Bruce Willis as Atticus. Directed by Oliver Stone.
* This was from a Bloom County cartoon, or that other one by Berke Breathed.
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not that that anyone would ever want to make remake or sequel to it.
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Fri Aug-18-06 09:15 PM
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19. Wild Bunch; Brazil; All Marx Brothers, Brooks, Woody Allen, Welles movies |
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Hitchcock movies (so arrogant, that asshole who thought he could remake Psycho).
Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, Maltese Falcon, Breakfsat at Tiffany's... and the list goes on and on and on.
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Fri Aug-18-06 10:21 PM
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23. I thought the Psycho remake was supposed to be a shot-for-shot copy |
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and was sort of a tribute to the original - a pointless excerside, though, but still a tribute. I never did see it though. I don't see how they could have captured the same atmosphere.
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Fri Aug-18-06 09:18 PM
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20. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb |
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"You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
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Fri Aug-18-06 10:17 PM
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22. Ironic, Can anybody think of a better movie that SHOULD be re-made? |
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Fri Aug-18-06 10:13 PM
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21. Arsenic and Old Lace. |
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Bringing Up Baby
The Philadelphia Story
I second Casablanca and To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Fri Aug-18-06 10:24 PM
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24. Tootsie. The. Perfect. Comedy. Period. |
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"You slut." :rofl: I can't believe it's been 25 years and still just thinking of that line cracks me up.
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That movie was brilliant.
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Fri Aug-18-06 10:33 PM
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26. I didn't know until I saw Dustin Hoffman on Actors Studio last week |
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that the actor worked his butt off to develop that project. WTG "Dusty"
"You were a tomato! A tomato doesn't have logic! A tomato can't move!"
"That's what I said, George, so if he can't move how's he gonna siddown? I played a juicy, sexy beefsteak tomato. I did a whole evening of vegetables Off Broadway! I played the best tomato, the best cucumber -- I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass!"
OMG :rofl:
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Deliverance Frances Gloria (Should NEVER have been remade!) Rosemary's Baby
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Oh. My. God. What a heartbreaking film. Jessica Lange is a goddess.
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Fri Aug-18-06 11:16 PM
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30. It's A Wonderful Life (eom) |
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Fri Aug-18-06 11:33 PM
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31. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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absolutel perfection IMHO
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40. Did you know that Ken Kesey disliked the film? |
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I am a huge fan of the book, but they changed the perspective when they made the film. Chief Broom is only a minor character in the film, while he is the narrator of the book, and his progression from paranoid schizophrenic at the beginning of the book to sanity by the end is a major theme that was completely ignored by the filmmakers. Kesey did not like this and he did not like the casting of Jack Nicholson either, he said he did not look at all like how he pictured McMurphy. And the allegorical nature of the story seems to be completely lost in the film - the mental ward is a microcosm of society in general. The two main points of the book are not in the film! The film is fairly good, but the book is so much better and it is so much MORE than the film.
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Sat Aug-19-06 06:16 AM
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48. I read the book before I saw the movie |
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Mr. Kesey wrote a screenplay for the movie that was not accepted. I liked both the book and the movie!
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Fri Aug-18-06 11:34 PM
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32. Snakes on a Mutha Fuckin Plane..... |
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But why screw up a good thing....
It would be like remaking Rocky Horror Picture Show....
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Sat Aug-19-06 12:06 AM
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42. Oh, I wish someone had replied with RHPS. |
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Fri Aug-18-06 11:44 PM
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Anything by the Coen Brothers or Quentin Tarantino (except Kill Bill)
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44. yes, they better not ever mess with 'Easy Rider' |
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They'll talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom But if they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
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45. If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. |
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because it was perfectly awful. Even if they remade it with better actors, I'd want to puke, because I'd remember the original.
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36. I couldn't stand to sit through that one.... |
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Uggg....
The fake jingosim and the "encounter"....
What bull shit...
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38. And Love Story, Police Academys II-VI, Dukes of Hazard... |
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Fri Aug-18-06 11:59 PM
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41. Can I retroactively put Highlander on the no sequels list? |
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Casablanca
Rocky ;-)
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70. Lawrence After Arabia? |
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I think it was a made for TV movie. Of course it didn't hold a candle to David Lean's masterpiece.
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71. Lawrence the Cable Guy? |
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It was about Lawrence after he came home and ended with his motorcycle crash -- as did he. There was a hint of intrigue about it, suggesting that MI5 caused the accident.
Or were you kidding me?
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how 'bout those Bears yesterday! I love Urlacher!
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Sat Aug-19-06 10:26 AM
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50. Blazing Saddles; Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels; Victor/Victoria; |
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The Pink Panther--but alas, I'm too late (sigh).
Edit: I Love You To Death. the remake would be glammed up and the cast is just perfect.
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Sat Aug-19-06 10:32 AM
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54. You can't remake Blazzing Saddles. I mean it's physically impossible |
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Not without turning it into a completely different film.
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Sat Aug-19-06 03:11 PM
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65. Exactly, and so true of so many of the films in this thread. |
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Just a little upset to the chemistry and the whole things goes awry.
Witness another Mel Brooks gem--"The Producers." The musical remake sucked, IMHO--and Brooks had his hand way into that one.
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75. In the case of Blazing Saddles, I was thinking of all the racial epithets |
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You just couldn't make that film today, even though it isn't racist.
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76. True that; I was discussing that very topic with some others |
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this week.
Today, no studio would touch it with a ten-foot pole even with Mel Brooks behind it.
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Who can play Gloria Swanson better than Gloria Swanson herself?
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55. Gone with the Wind n/t |
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56. Frankly I'm amazed that there ARE movies that haven't been remade |
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and I'm sure Hollywood is working on it. :)
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62. It's a Wonderful Life--one of those movies that makes more sense |
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as you get older, just like you don't realize why Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy until you get older. At 15, you think it's perfectly natural to kill yourself when your true love has done the same. At 30, you know the correct response is to drink a lot or eat a gallon of ice cream.
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63. Any Movie Ever Directed By David Lean |
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"Bridge On The River Kwai," "Lawrence Of Arabia," "Dr. Zhivago," et al. No way they'll ever be improved upon, so why the hell try?
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64. All movies should be remade to have robots. |
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And those with robots should be remade to have velociraptors. It'll be awesome.
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but oh look, it's already happened...I was very close to fire-bombing the studio responsible for "remaking" that (I use quotation marks because as I understand it the actual piece was obliterated).
The Italian Job...but oh look, it's already happened...not quite so emotionally tied in to that one - but nonetheless didn't they get a slight hint from the title that it is supposed to be in Italy? Then they make a bloody sequel as well...just like Ocean's Eleven...I'm going to sit in a corner and be a total curmudgeon. :grr:
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68. I wasn't aware before but Casablanca has been made into TWO TV series. |
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69. Casablanca would be my #1 choice |
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Who but Ingrid Bergman could be Ilsa? And who but Bogart could be Rick?
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