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Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:14 pm
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:14 pm
Mrs. Vox and I ware talking about the unimaginative, rolling shitstorm that is Hollywood these days, and it took about 7 seconds for the subject of remakes to come up. Across the board, they're a bad idea and wholly inadvisable, to be sure.

Without going to Google as a crutch, I'm going to list all the remakes I can think of, and feel free to chime in with any I've missed. I get it that some of the ones out there took many generations to be remade, but I'm more thinking of the ones from films over the last 40 years. Recent enough to piss you off that it's being remade, if you follow. If there's one that hasn't been a wretched waste of celluloid, I'm curious to hear which one(s).

Ghostbusters
Footloose
Total Recall
Poltergeist
Arthur
The Bad News Bears
Nighmare on Elm Street
The Karate Kid
Carrie
Clash of the Titans
Day of the Dead
The Invasion (of the Body Snatchers)
Fame
Flubber
The Nutty Professor
Haloween


Submitted:
The Jungle Book
The Departed
The Thing

What else ya got? I can't think of a single one of those where the redux was better than the original.

This post was edited on 8/16/16 at 4:28 pm
Posted by TideSaint
Hill Country
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:15 pm to
The Jungle Book
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
116953 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:16 pm to
The Departed
Posted by Dire Wolf
bawcomville
Member since Sep 2008
36839 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:20 pm to
the thing
Posted by ipodking
#StopTalkingAboutWomensSports
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Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:21 pm to
Posted by OMLandshark
Member since Apr 2009
110063 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:26 pm to
Scarface
The Ten Commandments
The Departed
The Magnificent Seven
The Jungle Book
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35811 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:28 pm to
Ben-Hur (Heston)
Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caviezel)
Posted by Breesus
House of the Rising Sun
Member since Jan 2010
67023 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:28 pm to
True Grit
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Ocean's 11
This post was edited on 8/16/16 at 4:32 pm
Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
20462 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:34 pm to
The Flight of the Phoenix
Posted by monkeybutt
Member since Oct 2015
4583 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:36 pm to
quote:

Day of the Dead


quote:

better than the original.



It could be argued that the Dawn of the Dead remake was on par/better than the original.

But yes the Day of the Dead remake was crap.
Posted by Master of Sinanju
Member since Feb 2012
11374 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 4:37 pm to
Movies like Carrie or The Thing are not really remakes, but are adaptations of literary works.
Posted by StrongBackWeakMind
Member since May 2014
22650 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:14 pm to
True Grit
Italian Job
Ocean's 11
Count of Monte Cristo
This post was edited on 8/16/16 at 5:15 pm
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
20544 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:19 pm to
Amityville horror
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89792 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:27 pm to
The Italian Job
Posted by Pectus
Internet
Member since Apr 2010
67302 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:49 pm to
Evil Dead II
Posted by John Keating
College Green, Ireland
Member since Jan 2015
2593 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:54 pm to
Then...









Now...





Posted by FairhopeTider
Fairhope, Alabama
Member since May 2012
20866 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:56 pm to
The Bourne Identity
Red Dragon (Manhunter)
Posted by beauchristopher
new orleans
Member since Jan 2008
66575 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 5:58 pm to
oceans eleven.

original was not good even with star power
Posted by MasCervezas
Ocean Springs
Member since Jul 2013
7958 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 6:14 pm to
The Hills Have Eyes remake is light years ahead of the original
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51518 posts
Posted on 8/16/16 at 6:17 pm to
The 70s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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