Movies that Hollywood *should* remake

[pokerfan]

http://www.hecklerspray.com/top-10-movies-in-need-of-a-hollywood-remake/200812465.php#more-12465">10 Movies In Need Of A Hollywood Remake

From the article:
10. The Breakfast Club (1985)
9. Ghostbusters (1984)
8. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
7. Battle Royale (2000)
6. Weird Science (1985)
5. Outlaw (2007)
4. Risky Business (1983)
3. Waterloo (1970)
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978)
1. The Star Wars prequels (1999-2005)

[PBS Poll-435]

1. ...

OOPS, Dupe

[PBS Poll-435]

2. Yikes....Risky Business, Starring Justin Long

:puke:

[kat_kringle]

3. if anyone touches ghostbusters or weird science

I will get seriously serious. you know?

ouch.

this post hurt me.

but i think that, ummm....I think there needs to be a remake of 'christmas vacation' but instead of chevy chase, it's with john malkovich

[PBS Poll-435]

4. Nah....

Christmas Vacation, ....

Staring Christopher Walken and Virginia Madsen.

[kat_kringle]

5. NICE!

you kick ass. thank ya. :D

[begin_within]

6. By far the most important one of all is:

"Salt of the Earth" (1954)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7334797883480289161
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGgZRij1sWU
http://imdb.com/title/tt0047443/

"Salt of the Earth" was produced, written and directed by victims of the Hollywood blacklist. Unable to make films in Hollywood, they looked for worthy social issues to put on screen independently. This film never would have been made in Hollywood at the time, so it is ironic that it was the anti-communist backlash that brought about the conditions for it to be made. In many ways it was a film ahead of its time. Mainstream culture did not pick up on its civil rights and feminist themes for at least a decade.

"Salt of the Earth" tells the tale of a real life strike by Mexican-American miners. The story is set in a remote New Mexico town where the workers live in a company town, in company-owned shacks without basic plumbing. Put at risk by cost cutting bosses, the miners strike for safe working conditions. As the strike progresses, the issues at stake grow, driven by the workers' wives. At first the wives are patronized by the traditional patriarchal culture.

However, they assert themselves as equals and an integral part of the struggle, calling for improved sanitation and dignified treatment. Ultimately, when the bosses win a court order against the workers preventing them from demonstrating, gender roles reverse with the wives taking over the picket line and preventing scab workers from being brought in while the husbands stay at home and take care of house and children.

This film was selected for the National Film Registry in 1992 by the Library of Congress. It became public domain after its copyright was not renewed in 1982.

[Lethe]

7. man, i totally agree with you on number 1

don't get me wrong, i think Lucas has done some great things....but he needed to anticipate his audience as 30 year olds instead of 10 year olds.

Of course, he made the original trilogy for kids, which we all were when we saw them and fell in love with them.

But, 10 year olds don't know star wars, they dont care. We care. Just play another stupid Disney movie for the 10 year olds.

We wanted something substantial.

[Cant trust em]

8. Actually I hope no one ever remakes the Breakfast Club

It's a perfect time capsule kind of movie. All of the archetypes still exist so wouldn't we just be trading 80's music and fashion for modern stuff?

The only remakes I'm interested in would be ones that take advantage of modern special effects to better show a great existing story. In that mold, Clash of the Titans could use a redo.

[pokerfan]

9. Remake Independence Day but with more explosions

Hust kidding about the explosions. I would like for someone to take the basic idea and update it with real science and better developed characters.

[some guy]

10. 2

was just (2007) remade, as The Invasion w/ Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427392/

[Tabasco_Dave]

11. Westworld

We can probably build those robots now, so it would be more scary and realistic.:scared:

[timtom]

35. One of the most chilling quotes in filmdom

Yul Brynner turning to a shocked Richard Benjamin:

"Draw!"

[petronius]

12. The skeleton scene in Jason and the Argonauts is freaking stellar!

I haven't seen 4 of these entries, but this list is complettely wrong for the 6 I've seen - 5 of the originals can't be topped, and the 6th shouldn't have been made in the first place...

[Rhythm]

29. Ray Harryhausen was the god of stop-motion... n/t

[Tektonik]

13. I'd love to see Terminator 1 remade

[NewJeffCT]

19. who plays the Terminator? The Rock?

or somebody similar?

[Tektonik]

28. Ideally, Arnold

[Mr. Blonde]

14. I think they shouldn't go for these well known ones

why not remake crappy movies? Just say yeah these were awful give us a do-over. Remake Gigli or something.

[NJmaverick]

15. Well thanks for making me feel old

I saw most of those movies in the movie thearters. Of the list I think Jason and the Argonauts has the most potential.

[Blue_Tires]

16. i had always dreamed of making my own vision of "2001"

if i had like, an unlimited budget and resources (and of course I would tie in a lot of the events of that year into the movie)...

Its current pop-culture campiness aside, I'd LOVE to make an up-to-date "Scarface", too

[terrya]

17. NBC did a remake of "Jason and the Argonauts" several years ago.

Jeremy London played Jason. As I recall, Dennis Hopper was in it as well.

Bleh. Wasn't anywhere near as good as the original.

[NewJeffCT]

18. OK, who plays the Kelly LeBrock woman in the new "Weird Science"?

Jessica Alba?

[gmoney]

25. someone who will do a nude scene...

Gretchen Mol leaps to mind... if they can't get Charlize Theron.

[MrScorpio]

20. Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Jail Bait and Night of the Ghouls

Hell, why not? Ed Wood's dead.

[nuxvomica]

21. There was a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers recently

It was called "Invasion" and starred Nicole Kidman. It was terrible.

[DarkTirade]

24. And one back in '94 that was based on a Heinlein book

that was very similar, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111003/">The Puppet Masters.

Coincidentally also starring Donald Sutherland. :P

[JANdad]

22. How about Ben Hurr

????

For the time it was made, the special effects were good, but it could now be made a blockbuster I think...

[DarkTirade]

23. ... why the futz would they remake Ghostbusters?

The charm of the movie was because of the guys in it, not the story itself. You're not going to find another team that meshes that well on the same level they did.

[pokerfan]

30. The f/x sucked. Think what Lucas could do with the proton packs!

[DarkTirade]

31. Slimer shot first?

:shrug:

[Iggo]

26. NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!

Make new movies, you stupid fucking morons!

[Iris]

32. agreed.

Most of these are a nugget in time - the 80s! Yikes! Why would anyone try to duplicate that?

[RFKHumphreyObama]

34. Actually I agree most with this statement

It'd be good to have something new and creative for a change instead of remade drivel

[Lilith Velkor]

27. Mary Poppins, directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Ellen Burstyn

I'd be so there.

And people who think films less than a decade old should be remade are fucking imbeciles, IMO.

[Wetzelbill]

37. that would be freaking awesome!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

33. Haven't seen most of them

But please don't remake Ghostbusters. Just leave it as it is please.

[billyoc]

36. 5. Outlaw(2007)

:wtf:

[Wetzelbill]

38. I'd like to see "Giant" remade by Edward Zwick

[philosophie_en_rose]

39. The Golden Compass

The movie could have been grand, but it was a big disappointment.