re: What are some older classic movies, you hope doesn't get remade?

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A more interesting discussion for me is what movies should be remade.

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There are so many movies that were promising and not any good. Studios are afraid to make mistakes and unwilling to take chances. Its a shame.


ETA: All of them, except the bad ones.

My favorite movie of all time - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

There is no way you can top that cast:
John Wayne
Jimmy Steward
Lee Marvin
Andy Divine
Vera Miles
Lee Van Cleef


That movie was magic in a bottle for me.

any mel brooks movie not remade by mel brooks

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Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

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Good God. I don't even want to think how Hollywood today would butcher that classic. It may be the first time a movie would actually make me vomit.

Don't remake anything that isn't true to the source. For example, in a remake of Casablanca, don't make half the cast minority transgenders on the run from Nazis, etc.

I prefer to leave all the great classic movies alone. I will admit, however, that I'd go see a remake of "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" starring Tom Hanks.

They probably couldn't do half the jokes though. "Look, Peg, its... its... its a white pygmy!" "Where's that albino kid?"

The Game.



It was one of Douglas’s best films. You’d have to change so much to bring it up with modern technology that it’d lose all of its luster. Watching it for the first time, without knowing what the game is, was amazing.

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I would prefer for no classic movies to be remade.

Why cant a movie just be great any more? And %99 percent of the time you remake a classic it ends up sucking anyway.

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Many famous classics are remakes. And movies can still be great. One of the best movies of the '50s, A Star is Born, is a remake of a remake. And the one last year was pretty good.

I would normally say only remake bad movies that wasted a good premise, but the first 3 versions of A Star Is Born are all classics, so hire talented people and do whatever the eff you want.