8mm Forum: What Remakes Are Better Than The Originals?

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Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on June 29, 2005, 04:58 PM:

This should be a fun subject. What movie remakes are better than the originals. Box office sales don't count longevity does(oh god! no puns please). A couple that come to mind are A Star Is Born with Garland, An Affair To Remember with Grant and Kerr. [Cool]

Also, which original are better than the remakes. Of course hands down are Invasion Of The Body Snatchers and King Kong. [Eek!]

Posted by David Michael Leugers (Member # 166) on June 29, 2005, 07:47 PM:

The remake that was better than the first, bar none IMHO

"The Thing" by John Carpenter. One of the all time great
scary movies.

"The Maltese Falcon" by John Huston with Bogart. So good
everyone has forgotten the original.

David M. Leugers

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on July 03, 2005, 09:55 AM:

Last of the Mohicans circa 92, the oldies were good but this was fantatsic and what a climax etc.
Best Mark.

Posted by Barry Attwood (Member # 100) on July 05, 2005, 09:27 AM:

Although technically a TV series (although extended editions were released to cinemas here in the UK in the early 60's) it has to be Brian de Palma's "Untouchables", with everyone on excellent form, this has to be my remake that bettered the original TV series by miles, but of course the original TV series was made in televison infancy, but what a film with the likes of Costner, De Niro and the marvelous Sean Connery.

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on July 05, 2005, 01:17 PM:

Your right there Barry, superb, you can at least get it on super 8 trailer wise.
Best Mark.
Wonder what king kong will be like, hope the female lead is nubile.

Posted by Barry Attwood (Member # 100) on July 05, 2005, 03:40 PM:

Dear Mark,

I saw the 1st trailer to Peter Jackson's "King Kong" and it looks excellent, it's set in the 1930's, and the trailer shows quite a bit of footage of "Kong" and it looks very good indeed. What I saw in the trailer some scenes have been virtually re-created from the 1933 original, and it looks brilliant, but we'll have to wait until December to really see.

Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on July 05, 2005, 08:42 PM:

Dare I say that War of the Worlds (2005) is better than the 1953 version?
I just think WOTW2005 is so much more realistic - and I don't mean the special effects, but the acting. The actors in the 1953 film were, at times, laughable... just reciting their lines in a way no normal person would have spoken them, were they under alien attack at that very moment!... But the people panicking and going nuts in the 2005 version... it's frightening... and so real!... It has flaws, for sure, and I know not everybody agrees with the dad-trying-to-save-kids take (apparently a lot of people were disappointed not to have seen more of the aliens/their machines)... but I love the 2005 version. It just makes a much bigger impact than the 1953 one.

I know I'm going to be shredded apart over this now... [Wink]

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on July 06, 2005, 11:58 AM:

I don`t know, you`ve got a point there, most films now if half good are great for details etc and the acting, just look at master and commander, superb.
I do like the old Moby Dick with gregory Peck mind, though the Patrick Stuart one was also very well done, obviously more realistic in many ways.
Kong sounds good Barry, wonder if the trailer will be out on 8mm, did you suss who the broad was in it, fingers crossed that the monkey does a bit of textile hassling if you will. Oh dear me, it must be my age.
Best Mark.

Posted by David Michael Leugers (Member # 166) on July 06, 2005, 03:15 PM:

"The Last of the Mohicans" = excellent choice!

I would give the all time "movie from a TV series" award to "The Untouchables". A great film so far ahead of the usual lame movies based on TV shows it is hard to believe.

Just a side note: "Batman Begins" is Batman finally done right! I just saw it in the IMAX version. Wow. This is the way to see movies!

David M. Leugers

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on July 08, 2005, 05:01 AM:

Ben Hur?

Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on July 08, 2005, 05:10 PM:

The Man Who Knew Too Much. [Cool]

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