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Sploops

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Remakes
« on: October 19, 2006, 12:24:40 AM »
I just saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and it was awful.  Just pure shit.  Although technically it wasn't itself a remake but a prequel to a remake it made me think - are there any good remakes?  Well ofcourse there are but I can only think of two:

The Thing which is a remake of The Thing from Another World.  The remake is scary and cool looking while the original is basically just a campy 50's sci-fi matinee flick (well, maybe better than most from that time but still pretty lame and dated.)

The Fly is also far scarier and far less campy than the original.

um...there're been a rash of shitty horror remakes lately. 
The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake - sacrilegious pop garbage.
Dawn of the Dead - much more urgent and scary than the original but I wouldn't say it was better really.  I guess it's not really that shitty now that I think of it.

and a there are a bunch that I saw the original but have yet to see the remake.  but I hear they all suck -
Amityville Horror
The Hills Have Eyes
The Fog
House of Wax
When a Stranger Calls
The Wicker Man


So any others?  Horror or otherwise that are any good or have completely sullied the name of the original.

Jason

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Re: Remakes
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 03:56:07 AM »
Get Carter.
The Ladykillers.
Planet of the Apes.

These people should remake bad films that had the potential to be good.

Sarah

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Re: Remakes
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 11:29:48 AM »
All the following don't measure up to the originals:

Vanilla Sky*
Psycho
Ocean's Eleven
Solaris*
You've Got Mail
Miracle on 34th Street
Bedazzled (a true travesty)
The Vanishing*
Night of the Living Dead
Born Yesterday
Sabrina
The Haunting
The Parent Trap
Gloria
Village of the Damned
A Star Is Born
Insomnia*

The Magnificent Seven* is pretty good, though.

* I'm assuming that remakes of foreign-language movies count.

bruce

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Re: Remakes
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 11:45:55 AM »
The Kingdom which was ruined by Stephen King